Roscommon Arts office announces details of two literary awards to be judged by Lepus Print authors.
Roscommon New Writing Award
The Arts Office at Roscommon County Council has announced details of this year’s Roscommon New Writing Award and the Roscommon Chapbook Bursary The Roscommon New Writing Award 2024 (for short fiction and poetry) is organised as part of the Arts Office’s Literary Development Programme. This is the twelfth year of what is now an established event in literary calendars. It is funded by Roscommon County Council and the Arts Council of Ireland and supported by the Roscommon Herald.
This year, with the introduction of a poetry category, two winners will each receive a monetary prize of €500 for short fiction or €500 for poetry and will have their winning entries printed in the Roscommon Herald. Two runners-up will receive €100 each for short fiction or for poetry.
The adjudicator for this year’s competition is Mary Branley - a poet, writer and musician based in north Sligo. She is the author of three collections of poetry, most recent A Pinch of Snow in a Black Velvet Glove Lepus Print 2021.
Roscommon Chapbook Bursary
The Roscommon Chapbook Bursary is to the value of €600 and will go towards the cost of publishing what is known in the trade as a ‘chapbook’, i.e. a literary pamphlet. The award is aimed primarily at emerging writers in Roscommon who have not had a book published. The award is for a collection and will be about thirty pages in length, from cover to cover. It will typically contain between fifteen and twenty-five poems or three to six short stories, depending on the length of each story.
The 2024 competition will be adjudicated by Brian Leyden whose new novel is Love These Days.
The deadline for receipt of applications for each of the award categories is 5 p.m. on May 20th. Application forms and further information are available at http://www.roscommoncoco.ie/en/services/community/arts-office/literature.html or from SColeman@roscommoncoco.ie.
Mary Branley.
Brian Leyden
Launch of Sparks From The Flagstones.
Pictures from the launch of Sparks From The Flagstones at Lough Rynn Castle on Brigid’s Day, February 1st 2024.
Photos by Brian Farrell.
Edwina Guckian.
Aoife Granville, University College Cork, Folklore Department.
Brian Leyden, Carmel Jennings, Edwina Guckian and Vincent Woods.
Dancing with the Biddy Boys.
Indie Afternoon with Lepus Print
Pictures from the Indie Afternoon book launch in the Hawk’s Well Theatre on Sun 8 Oct, 2023. (photos: Carl Brennan & Cara Roughan).
Brian Leyden, Mayor of Sligo, Cllr. Declan Bree, Edwina Guckian.
Cara Roughan, Brian Leyden, Carmel Jennings.
Leslie Ryan in conversation with Brian Leyden.
Brian Leyden, Michael Harding.
Edwina Guckian and Áirc Damhsa Culture Club and musicians Ava & Aaron Glancy.
Leslie Ryan, Una Mannion, Nora McGillen.
Mary Branley, Edwina Guckian, Brian Leyden, Carmel Jennings.
Culture Companions at King House
Lepus Print author Brian Leyden will be reading in King House, Boyle Co. Roscommon on the 18th October 2023 @ 2pm.
An Indie Afternoon with Lepus Print
To celebrate the launch of two new titles Lepus Print welcomes everyone to our third Indie Afternoon with the Hawk’s Well Theatre. Book launch details and the full programme of special guests and performers to follow.
Date Sun 8 Oct, 2023, 2pm
Location Hawk's Well Theatre
Price Free
New Title Coming February 1st 2024
SPARKS FROM THE FLAGSTONES
Irish Folk Traditions & Celtic Calendar Customs
Text: Edwina Guckian
Ilustrations: Andrea Rossi
Dancer Edwina Guckian vividly brings to life the world of Strawboys, Mummers and Biddy Boys, Crossroads Dances, Cake Dances, Nollaig na mBan feasts, folk traditions and calendar customs of the Ireland in which she grew up in rural County Leitrim. Every page of Sparks from the Flagstones fabulously and joyfully illustrated by Andrea Rossi.
Arena RTÉ Radio 1
Sean Rocks talks to author Brian Leyden about the work of John McGahern and upcoming titles from Lepus Print, including Love These Days by Brian Leyden and Sparks From The Flagstones - Irish Folk Traditions & Calendar Customs by Edwina Guckian.
Listen at: https://www.rte.ie/radio/radio1/clips/22300317/
Lepus Print at Iron Mountain
Lepus Print are delighted to part of the Iron Mountain Literature Festival this October. Friday the 6th of October will see the Book Launches of ‘Love These Days’ by Brian Leyden and ‘A Children’s Treasury of Irish Folk Tradition’ by Edwina Guckian.
Please see https://www.ironmountainfestival.ie/2023-programme for more details.
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Burn by Libby Hart launched at the Model Sligo, at the Single Rose festival on Saturday November 12th, 2022.
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Libby Hart
Libby Hart is an Australian poet and the author of three previous collections of poetry. Wild was shortlisted for the Kenneth Slessor Prize (New South Wales Premier’s Literary Awards) and named one of the books of the year for theAustralian Book Review, The Age and The Sydney Morning Herald. This Floating World was shortlisted for the Victorian Premier’s Prize for Poetry (Victorian Premier’s Literary Awards), Dinny O’Hearn Poetry Prize (The Age Book of the Year Awards) and longlisted for the Prime Minister’s Literary Awards. Fresh News from the Arctic won the Anne Elder Award and was shortlisted for the Mary Gilmore Prize.
Libby lives as a guest on Wurundjeri land in Naarm/Melbourne (Australia). She also calls Maugherow (north Sligo) home.
www.libbyhart.net