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Real talk on sustainable events 🌿🎭 Hear first-hand from Culture Night organisers, ask questions, and get practical ideas. Free webinar — 📅 8 July | 🕒 12pm 🔗 culturenight.ie/organiser-reso… #SustainableEvents #ClimateAction #CultureNight 📸 Niall P Foley

Our (big) sister festival West Cork Chamber Music Festival is celebrating its 30th anniversary this week and you can catch all the magic of West Cork Chamber Music Festival in #Bantry until Sunday 6 July ❤️🎻 irishexaminer.com/lifestyle/arts…

We're huge fans of the poet Thomas McCarthy here in WCLF HQ and we know that his reading from his latest Carcanet Press collection Plenitude on 18 July will be such a joy. Thomas will read alongside the equally brilliant Ruth Padel 🎟️ westcorkmusic.ie/events/2025/th… independent.ie/business/money…

We are now accepting applications for the Arts Centres Partnership Funding scheme. This scheme supports the year-round production and presentation of high-quality arts experiences in arts centres throughout the country. More info: artscouncil.ie/funding-opport… 📸 Kate Bowe O'Brien

Ross Raisin won the BBC National Short Story Award in 2024 for his story Ghost Kitchen and he'll chatting about it in a #FreeEvent alongside Paul McVeigh Writer at WCLF Thursday 17 July #BantryLibrary. You can listen to Ross' award-winning story on BBC Sounds bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/p0…

All roads lead to #Bantry at the moment. West Cork Chamber Music Festival runs until Sunday and then WCLF from 11-18 July. Such a thrill seeing our billboard in Innishannon and another in Dunmanway 😍 The WCLF image is a detail from a drawing by Bernadette Cotter

Looking forward to sharing the stage with Ross Raisin at West Cork Literary Festival July 17th talking all things short story.

The Wainwright Prize longlists are an incredible source of inspiration for nature writing. Delighted to see 4 WCLF 2025 authors longlisted - Polly Atkin & Seán Ronayne, Nature Writing; Helen Scales, Conservation Writing & E.R. Murray, Children's Fiction wainwrightprize.com/longlist-2025/

Claire Connolly will be at WCLF on Sunday 13 July to tell us all about Somerville and Ross’s Experiences of an Irish RM and The Real Charlotte. Claire has written the prefaces to new editions of these classic books Quercus Books m.independent.ie/entertainment/…

Did you catch Raphael Olympio on Ray D'Arcy Radio this week? Raphael Olympio, Jim Crickard, Kemi George Simpson, Shaunna Lee Lynch are 4 amazing spoken word artists from Cork who will perform in the Irish Writers Centre Word on the Street showcase at WCLF 15 July rte.ie/radio/podcasts…

Ireland's Laureate na nÓg Patricia Forde Patricia Forde is bringing her new book Letters To A Monster to WCLF. Book your free tickets to her event on Monday 14 July. Ages 5-8. Children's Books Ireland Bloomsbury Kids & YA UK 🎟️ westcorkmusic.ie/events/2025/pa… m.independent.ie/entertainment/…

I've wanted to attend WCLF for ages and now I'm going there to interview Zainab Boladale about her novel, 'Braids Take a Day', details below. Hope to see you there! 🦋 westcorkmusic.ie/events/2025/za…

👉Call for Artist Care Exchange Bursary 📍The Cork County Council Artists Care Exchange (ACE) Bursary is intended to help artists develop their skills to work with older people in a care setting. ⏰Deadline to apply is 5pm, 14 July. ☎️Contact [email protected] for more info

Meet Zainab Boladale and Kevin Moran - The Doomsday Club out now! in July during West Cork Literary Festival and learn more about the stories each has created. westcorkmusic.ie/literary-festi…

TO ALL SUBMISSIONS/WOULD BE AUTHORS LOOKING FOR REPRESENTATION - I would love to find the following for my list as an agent: 1 - A big expansive love story that is both sexy but also insightful in characters; their arc; the complexities of love and romance with sharp writing.

CALL OUT FOR SUBMISSIONS: 3) Literary fiction that entertains as much as it edifies with strong plotting but the kind of writing that makes you look at the world anew. It can be sparse or lush - it just has to feel like an authentic voice to you.

Did you hear Will Sliney, the marvellous Marvel comics artist from Cork, on The Hard Shoulder NewstalkFM this afternoon? Will will be at WCLF on Tuesday 15 July 10am for a Coffee & Chat with Cristín Leach 🎟️ westcorkmusic.ie/events/2025/wi… link.goloudplayer.com/s/pGcHBlP7YRxK

If you are not lucky enough to be in Bantry tonight, you can tune into West Cork Chamber Music Festival West Cork Chamber Music Festival live on RTÉ lyric fm right now. westcorkmusic.ie/events/2025/47… rte.ie/radio/lyricfm/…

Summer catch-up: 20 of the best non-fiction books so far in 2025 via Irish Examiner irishexaminer.com/lifestyle/arts…

Looking forward to the West Cork Literary Festival!