The London Irish Centre have teamed up with Counterparts: Explorations In Irish Culture to present an Emerging Irish Writers Night on Saturday April 25th.

Admission is free but registration is required. Readings begin from 6pm.

Reading on the night are:

David McGrath

David McGrath won the Bare Fiction Prize 2014, the Peirene Press Story Competition, placed in the Words with Jam Short Story Competition and was highly commended in the Manchester Fiction Prize 2013. He received MVP for Liars’ League London in 2013, and has been published inLitro, Open Pen and several anthologies. He has won a StorySlam at the Royal Festival Hall and has performed at London LitCrawl, Wilderness Festival, Open Pen Live, Rattle Tales, Story Sessions & several Liars’ League events. His debut novel, Rickshaw is due for release later in the year with Thistle.

Annemarie Neary

Annemarie is an Irish-born novelist and short story writer, now living in London. Her awards for short fiction include the Bryan MacMahon and Michael McLaverty short story competitions (Ireland) and the Columbia Journal fiction prize (US). She has also been a prizewinner in the Bridport, Fish, UPP Short FICTION, and KWS Hilary Mantel short story prizes, amongst others, and her stories have been published in journals in Ireland, the UK and the US and broadcast on RTE radio. Her novel Siren is forthcoming from Hutchinson (Penguin Random House UK) in Spring 2016. www.annemarieneary.com / @AnnemarieNeary1

Danny Denton

Danny Denton is from Cork, Ireland, and has published fiction in various journals, including The Stinging Fly, as well as in the Irish anthology Let’s Be Alone Together. He has been awarded three arts bursaries for his work, and won a Faber Academy fellowship in 2009.

In the hours beyond day jobs, he is finishing a novel set in an Ireland where it always rains, a sort of fallen Ireland, on the verge of a catastrophic digital collapse. In the novel [from which he will read] an ethnographer tries to piece together the last days of that Ireland’s history, thus producing a book of fragments, compiled of: the transcript of a data terrorist’s confession; excerpts from the unfinished novel of an alcoholic reporter; the testimony of a 120-year old former policeman; a crucial account of the tedious life of a data input clerk in a government quorum department.