Limerick Writers' Centre and delighted to announce their 'Great Poets and Great Poetry' series of talks. Kicking off the series is writer Kathryn Guille who will give a talk on Shakespeare's Sonnets entitled: Characters in love: How Shakespeare's Lovers influenced the Sonnet.

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).

Tim Cunningham and Richard W Halperin are this month’s guest poets at The Limerick Writers' Centre August 2016 'On The Nail’ Literary Gathering at The Buttery, 10 Bedford Row, Limerick.

A new bi-monthly poetry reading series starting in Limerick aims to bring to Limerick poets from mainland Europe and the UK to read with local and national poets, in keeping with the strategy of having a more European outlook when it comes to the arts in Limerick.

The April 2016 'On The Nail' Literary Gathering takes place on Tuesday 5 April 2016 at The Buttery in Bedford Row, Limerick, starting at 8pm, with this month guests poet Daragh Bradish and poet and author Gerry Hanberry.

Saved to Memory: Lost to View is a memoir written in prose and verse by Michael Durack and the book is to be launched on Friday 11 March in Quay Arts, Killaloe.

The Limerick Writers' Centre is hosting an intensive one-day guide to getting published, facilitated by Sunday Times best selling author John Stack.

The January 2016 'On The Nail' Literary Gathering takes place on Tuesday 12 January 2016 at The Loft Venue at The Locke Bar, Georges Quay, Limerick, starting at 8pm sharp, with this month guest readers Jennifer Matthews and Louis Mulcahy.

This months guests at Limerick's On The Nail literary gathering are Cork poet Patricia Walsh and poet Mícheál O'Siochrú.

The January 2015 'On The Nail' Literary Gathering takes place on Tuesday 13 January 2015 at The Loft Venue, the Locke Bar, Georges Quay, Limerick. This month guest readers are short story writer Eddie Stack and poet Margaret M Glasgow, who will be launching her new poetry collection.

Graham Allen and Joe Sweeney are the guest authors at the next The Limerick Writers' Centre  'On the Nail' Literary Gathering on Tuesday 2 Dec 2014 at The Loft Venue, The Locke Bar, Georges Quay, Limerick.

The second in a series of public talks on Great Irish Writers organised by the Limerick Writers' Centre in association with the Department of English Language and Literature at Mary Immaculate College takes place on Thursday 4 Dec 2014.

Limerick Writers' Centre is holding a workshop with poet John Liddy on the poets of the Spanish Civil War this Saturday, 13 September, from 10.30 to 12.30pm.

The Limerick Writers' Centre brings to the Lime Tree Theatre for the first time an exciting literary live review featuring guests, expected and otherwise, for a night of music, readings, poetry and sometimes the weird and wonderful - an evening of mellow musings at the cutting edge of performance.

The Limerick Writers' Centre presents the August 2014 'On the Nail' Literary Gathering on Tuesday 5 August 2014 at The Loft Venue, The Locke Bar, Georges Quay, Limerick at 8pm  guest readers this month are Limerick's own Mae Leonard, County Clare writer Eddie Stack and Carolina African American Writers Collective member Raina J. León.