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The Literary Capital of the South East The Wexford Literary Festival, founded in 2013 as the Focal Festival, is now in its 8th year and aims to attract national and international poets, playwrights, writers and readers and lovers of literature to gather and enjoy its eclectic programme of readings, workshops and awards, as well as unique fringe events including exhibitions, music and drama performances set around the picturesque historic town of Enniscorthy. The Wexford Literary Festival seeks to shine a light on, and increase awareness of, our many successful and well-known Wexford Literary talents naming Awards in their honour. The Colm Toibín Short Story Award The Anthony Cronin Poetry Award The Billy Roche Short Play Award The Eoin Colfer Children`s Short Story Award The Peter Murphy Spoken Word Award The Denis Collins Visual Story Award The Eileen Gray Window Display Award. We are delighted to announce that we received submissions right across the globe, from all parts of Ireland, England, Scotland, Wales, New York, California, Florida, Philadelphia, Denmark, Germany, France, and Canada. This year we added yet another Award and another genre to our amazing list of competitions, with famous Wexford children’s author Eoin Colfer agreeing to his name on an Award for our new category Children’s Short Story Award. We would like to take this opportunity to thank Eoin and tell him that we were delighted with both the response and the standard of the submissions. The Festival continues to grow and prosper with each passing year, and we are extremely proud to say that we took on the Covid challenge last year and going digital managed not only to
Playwright Billy Roche with Wexford Literary Festival’s Maria Nolan.
attract a greater global audience but produced the only festival in County Wexford during the pandemic. Our vision is to be recognised as a leading International Literary Festival delivering a unique bespoke programme in the inspiring environment of Enniscorthy and Wexford, and it gives us great pleasure to announce that this year we have gone a step further down that global literary path and established literary links with our close connections in both Newfoundland and Savannah, and we are delighted to have author and poet Andrea Callanan from St. John’s, Newfoundland, on this year’s Festival programme, very much in keeping with our mission is to deliver an International Literary Festival with emphasis on promoting and awarding new and existing writing across many genres. The Festival Committee is dedicated to the promotion of reading and writing through our extensive programmes with special emphasis on social inclusion and contribute to cultural tourism in Enniscorthy and Wexford through our promotion of Wexford as the Literary Capital of South East Ireland. Pre-Covid: Launch of Wexford Literary Festival in 2019.
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