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 Places are limited to the first fifty applicants, strictly on a
first come first served basis.
 Complete and return this brochure with fee before 23rd
 February 2010
 Application forms and payment should be forwarded to:
Hazel Percival
Wexford Town Library
McCauley’s Car Park
Wexford
Co. Wexford
053-9124922
Readers' Day is organized by Wexford County Council
Public Library Service
Should you require additional supports to enable you fully
participate in this event please contact Wexford Town
Library
Featuring American and Irish writers
Wexford Library
Sunday February 28th 2010
10.30am – 4.00pm
Booking is essential, see form on back
PROGRAMME
10.30 am:
Registration with Tea/Coffee
11.00 am:
Stanley van der Zeil
Ireland, Europe and the World in
21st Century Irish Fiction
11.45 am:
Mia Gallagher
Outer Worlds: Inner Lives
12.30 pm:
Adam Kelly
Revisiting the Radical Years in
21st Century American Fiction
1.15 pm:
2.30 pm:
Lunch
Workshops

Stanley van der Zeil
Reading Joseph O’Neill’s
Netherland

Mia Gallagher
Storytelling & Improvisation for Writers

Adam Kelly
Literature and Protest:
Read the Book, Eat the Document
3.30-4.00pm Final discussion and conclusion
CONTRIBUTORS
Stanley van der Ziel has recently completed a doctoral thesis on
the works of John McGahern at the School of
English, Drama & Film, University College Dublin,
where he also teaches English literature at the
Adult Education Centre. He is the editor of John
McGahern’s Love of the World: Essays (Faber &
Faber, 2009) and author of a number of essays on
several aspects of McGahern’s work.
Mia Gallagher is a writer of literary fiction and a theatre-maker
based in Dublin. Her debut novel ‘HellFire’,
received international critical acclaim. Her short
stories have been published in Ireland, the UK and
the US and have won the 2005 START short
fiction award and been shortlisted for Fish and a
Hennessy New Irish Writing Award. As a theatremaker, Mia has devised/performed widely in
Ireland and Europe and has facilitated workshops
in performance, storytelling & creative writing since
1999. She is currently Writer-in-Residence with the Institute of Art,
Design and Technology (IADT) and Dun Laoghaire Rathdown
Arts Office. Mia is a member of the Irish Playwrights and
Screenwriters Guild.
Adam Kelly holds a BA from UCD and an MA in Modern
Literature and Culture from the University of
York. He is currently completing a PhD
thesis entitled “Moments of Decision in
Contemporary American Fiction” in UCD.
He is an IRCHSS Government of Ireland
scholar, and has taught courses on
American literature, as both a tutor and a lecturer, for a number of
years. His work has appeared or is forthcoming in the journals
Critique, Philip Roth Studies, Irish Journal of American Studies,
and Phrasis, and in the collection Consider David Foster
Wallace: Critical Essays. He is also a regular theatre reviewer for
Dublin City FM