Writers Showcase: The Out of Towners
Join us at the Irish Writers Centre on Wednesday 18 June at 6.30pm for the first of our Writers Showcases, an event series spotlighting newly published writers across the island of Ireland.
The theme for our first Writers Showcase is The Out of Towners which features five poets from various parts of Ireland. Joining us from the south of Ireland are Afric McGlinchy and Lauren O’Donovan. From the south west we have D’or Seifer and from the west we have Luke Morgan. We are also delighted to welcome S. C. Flynn who recently moved to Ireland from Australia.
The five writers will be reading from their new collections and chapbooks. The publications will be on sale after the readings. Tickets are priced at €5 and will be available on Eventbrite.
S.C. Flynn was born in a small town in Australia of Irish origin and now lives in Dublin. His first collection The Colour of Extinction (Renard Press, October 2024) was The Observer Poetry Book of the Month. His poetry has been published in more than a hundred magazines around the world. He has been highly commended in the Erbacce Prize and nominated for Best of the Net.
Afric McGlinchey most recent poetry collection is À la belle étoile – the odyssey of Jeanne Baré (Salmon Poetry). Her hybrid memoir, Tied to the Wind (Broken Sleep Books, 2021), follows her nomadic African/Irish childhood and was translated into Macedonian. Her previous Salmon collections, The Lucky Star of Hidden Things and Ghost of the Fisher Cat were both translated into Italian. Two surrealist chapbooks, Invisible Insane and The Throat-Bird have been published by SurVision. Among other honours, Afric is a recipient of two Arts Council Literature bursaries, an Agility award, a Hennessy award and the Patrick and Katherine Kavanagh Fellowship. She lives in West Cork.
Luke Morgan is the recipient of the Lawrence O’Shaughnessy Award 2025, an award given by the University of St. Thomas, Minnesota, to an Irish poet. Blood Atlas, his eagerly awaited third collection from Arlen House, was completed with the assistance of a bursary from The Arts Council | An Chomhairle Ealaíon. As well as poetry, Luke is also part of an award-winning Irish filmmaker duo, “Morgan Brothers”, with his brother, the composer Jake Morgan. He lives and works in Galway, Ireland.
Lauren O’Donovan has won the Patrick Kavanagh Poetry Award, the Cúirt New Writing Prize, the Southword Subscriber’s Poetry Prize and, most recently, the Fool for Poetry Chapbook Competition. Her debut chapbook Taxidermy Heart and Fool for Poetry winner Superposition were both published in 2025. She lives in Cork with her family.
D’or Seifer is a poet living in Limerick. Her work has been published and anthologised in Ireland and abroad. D’or’s debut collection, On Being Un/Able to Walk Through Walls was published by Revival Press earlier this year. She founded and runs the online poetry series Lime Square Poets, and co-hosts the First Wednesday Series in Limerick. D’or also co-edits Skylight 47 magazine.
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Please note that this conference will be held in-person at the Irish Writers Centre (19 Parnell Square, Dublin 1). For information on accessibility, please see the ‘venue’ section of the Irish Writers Centre website.
