Doire Press Evening
With Stephanie Conn , Simon Lewis & Michael J . Whelan
Crescent Arts Centre Tuesday 14 June – 6:45pm Tickets : Free
Stephanie Conn was shortlisted for the Patrick Kavanagh Award ( 2012 ) and Anam Cara Competition . The following year she was shortlisted in the Red Line Poetry Competition with work selected for the Poetry Ireland Introductions Series . In 2015 she was awarded the Yeovil Poetry Prize and the Seamus Heaney Award for New Writing .
Simon Lewis won the Hennessy Prize for Emerging Poetry and was runner up in the Patrick Kavanagh Poetry Award in 2015 . He has been shortlisted for the Listowel Poetry and Bridport Prizes and received commendations in the Gregory O ’ Donoghue Prize and Dromineer Literary Prize .
Michael J . Whelan is an award winning poet , writer and historian . He was 2nd Place Winner in the Patrick Kavanagh International Poetry Awards 2011 ( shortlisted 2012 ), and 3rd Place Winner in the Jonathan Swift Creative Writing Awards 2012 . His books The Battle of Jadotville & Allegiances Compromised examine Irish military history . Michael ’ s poetry has been widely published .
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