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US author to give reading and question and answer session in Limerick
11 Jan 2017: posted by the editor - Local, Ireland

American award winning short story and essay writer Kerry Neville is to give a free talk in Limerick, followed by a question and answer session on creative writing (fiction and non-fiction).

Kerry Neville is an American author (with ancestors from Limerick) of the award-winning (Independent Press Gold Medal) short fiction collection, Necessary Lies, and the forthcoming collection, Remember to Forget Me (Summer 2017). Her fiction and essays have been Pushcart Prize nominees, as well as the recipients of the Texas Institute Prize in Fiction and the Dallas Museum of Art Fiction Prize. She is currently working on a memoir, sections of which appear in her regular column for The Huffington Post, which contends with mental health, recovery, sexuality, and feminism.

She is professor of Creative Writing at Georgia College and State University.

The reading will be introduced by writer and teacher Sheila Quealey.

The event is being presented by the Limerick Writers' Centre and takes place at Narrative 4, 58 O'Connell Street, Limerick on Thursday 19 January from 8pm.

Admission is free.

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