2024 festival runs 27-29 September. Programme will be announced later this summer! Get on the mailing list to find out first!

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Claire is pleased to announce a new course on fiction writing, which will be held over two half-days in Wexford Town in September 2025. If you’d like to attend, please send an email to clairekeeganfiction@gmail.com requesting a place.
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31 Mar 2025
IT’S PUBLICATION DAY!!
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Attention people of LEEDS! We are going on the road with our new @ParachuteTester songs, sights and sounds! See you in Nov? @HPBCLeeds 23rd. Tickets on sale 9am tomorrow from @seetickets #leeds #livemusic #theparachutetesters
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It’s an exciting day at the Irish Writers Centre! Our twelve #NovelFair winners are pitching their novels to top publishers and agents in our Dublin headquarters.
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Pick yourself up a copy and check out the winning pieces from our 2024 Writing Competition! (Plus, a whole load more 😀)
Waxed Lemon Issue 8 retails at The Book Centre, Waterford and online at shop.thebookcentre.ie/Produc…
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Delighted to be appointed Cork Co Council's Reader in Residence. The brief merges my skills in writing, facilitating, coaching, mindfulness, as well as my love of reading. It's an honour to be part of a programme that connects all ages to creativity in a calm and safe environment
😀We are delighted to welcome Marie O'Halloran author and mindfulness coach as Cork County Council's 'Reader in Residence'. 📚The programme aims to inspire a lifelong positive relationship with reading and stories. 🤝Mary will be encouraging pupils in Charleville CBS Boys School and Doneraile National School to seek out stories, poems, scripts, jokes, picture books, audiobooks and songs in areas that interest them. ▶️ To find out more information, visit corkcoco.ie/en/news/cork-aut…
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Thrilled to see my winning flash fiction, 'After My Father', published in this beautiful issue of The Waxed Lemon in Ireland. Thank you again, @write_KQ and @TheWaxedLemon
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decided that this week’s column for @RTE_Culture was going to be all about ireland’s literary journal infrastructure. big props to @stingingfly @bansheelit @ThePigsBack1 @tolkajournal & others for their continued support of the arts here! rte.ie/culture/2024/1027/147…

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**ISSUE 8 COVER REVEAL** We are excited to reveal this cover by Cork-based Brazilian artist, Silvio Severino. Issue 8 will be launched as part of Waterford Writers Weekend on Sunday 27th Oct at 11am in the Waterford Gallery of Art @TheWaterfordGOA @WaterfordWrite1 @WaterfordArts
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There is a limited number of free seats available on the door for our short story event, ‘Outlasting’ with Sylvia Cullen in the Old Market House Arts Centre, Dungarvan this evening. Doors open at 6.45pm.
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This will be a fantastic night out :)
Poetry Lounge is happening this Saturday 14th Sept in Waterford 🙌
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COVER ART WANTED!! The Waxed Lemon is looking for cover art for its upcoming eighth issue. Send your art to waxedlemonsubs@gmail.com BEFORE SEPT 15th.
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"If there was ever a crucial book for our current times," The Guardian has written, "it’s #PaulLynch’s Prophet Song." This September, the Laureate's #ArtofReading pick is the Booker Prize-winning #ProphetSong! So, pick up a copy and join us in reading this powerful novel!
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Write By the Sea KQ Literary Festival retweeted
𝘐𝘛'𝘚 𝘕𝘌𝘝𝘌𝘙 𝘛𝘖𝘖 𝘓𝘈𝘛𝘌 - 21° degrees in Wexford today and here are a couple of the jaw-droppingly beautiful, beaches dotted around the 250km of coastline in Wexford 🏝
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Issue 7 of the Waxed Lemon is on sale now - Packed full of fabulous writers and artists!!🍋 shop.thebookcentre.ie/Produc…

Waxed Lemon 7 is on sale at the Book Centre, Waterford. Pick up your copy here : shop.thebookcentre.ie/Produc… With thanks to the Arts Office, Waterford City and County Council.
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Delighted to announce the winners of our 2024 Writing Competition. The quality of submissions was outstanding this year. Congratulations to all 12 writers! The complete list of winners is available at: writebythesea.ie/writing-com…
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Inspirational #Wexford author will discuss the world of fostering at upcoming Write by the Sea Festival @write_KQ independent.ie/regionals/wex…
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20 Aug 2024
‘Eilish lives a life that all of us in this country can recognise, and therefore what happens to her suddenly doesn’t seem far away. It’s something we can conceive of and imagine… Prophet Song is a wake-up call to all of us.’ Nicola Sturgeon @paullynchwriter @OneworldNews
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