West Cork Literary Festival (WCLF) is presenting their online Literary Advent Calendar for the second year.
2021 was another wonderful year for Irish writing and so many incredible books by Irish authors and authors living in Ireland were released this year. Even though festivals returned in-person and online not every author had the opportunity to launch their books with a public celebration or to engage with audiences in the “usual” way.
WCLF is delighted to bring you a small selection of these authors and they’ve invited twenty-four Irish writers to submit a short video reading from their new books. The selection is an attempt to show the wide range of Irish writing and in particular to focus on writers whose books they feel deserve more attention and those who were not previously featured in WCLF 2021 events.
WCLF reveals a new author and reading each day from 1 to 24 December and all of these videos have closed captions/subtitles available. Join WCLF for a daily celebration of new Irish writing with extracts from novels, short stories, memoirs, poetry, children’s books, YA novels, nature writing, non-fiction, historical fiction, debut authors and Irish-language writing. Writers featured in this year’s Literary Advent Calendar include Lynn Buckle, Luke Cassidy, Adiba Jaigirdar, Rob Doyle, Eleanor Hooker, Jarlath Gregory and many more westcorkmusic.ie/adventcalendar
Many of the festival’s previous events from the past year are also available to watch for free on their YouTube channel: westcorkmusic.ie/WCLFYouTube
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