For the 10 Days in Dublin festival, the best Dublin indie arts festival with an incredibly packed programme (see here), I’m organising a series of readings together with the HQ of Emerald Island-scribblers, the Irish Writers’ Centre. The idea was to have both expat writers and poets who live abroad and in Dublin reflect on the importance of place (and home) in these globalised times.

I’ve asked a few talented writer friends of mine, and they all agreed to participate. So we’ll have a great bunch of inkslingers either at the centre or skypeing on from wherever they live in Europe, among them Kit Fryatt (Aberdeen), Christodoulos Makris (Dublin/Nicosia), Anna Byrne (Cork/Berlin), Nuala Ní Chonchúir (Galway/Dublin), Stu Anderson (Edinburgh), Au Ngog Dung (Dublin) and many more. Also have the good guys at Storymap Dublin agreed to participate, so each reading will feature a curated story from storymap.ie with added commentary by story/filmmakers Tom and Andy. If you’re in Dublin at the time, why not pay us a visit? There’s more info to come about the individual readings over on our Facebook-page.