Moloch showcase update

An Evening of Poetry and Music

We are pleased to announce that Noel Harrington will also be joining us tomorrow night, July 31st, to read at the Moloch showcase.    

The showcase will start at 7pm, in The Winding Stair, Ormond Quay, Dublin 1.  We will have music and poetry from a few of our lovely talented crew, namely Kevin Higgins, Alan Jude Moore, Noel Harrington, Stephen Kelly, and The Perfect Consonants. 

Drinks, cake, poetry, and music are all free but we do encourage you to leave a small contribution (if you can) so we can afford to bring you more nights like this, and more editions of the journal.

A recap of the line up

Kevin Higgins will be joining us from Galway. Kevin’s first collection of poems, The Boy With No Face, was published in February 2005. The collection was shortlisted for the 2006 Strong Award for Best First Collection by an Irish Poet. The Boy With No Face was Salmon Poetry’s bestselling book of that year and has recently been reprinted. Kevin’s second collection of poems, Time Gentlemen, Please, was published this year.

“His is a committed, engaged poetry, shot through with both humour and melancholy.”

– Juliet Wilson, in New Hope International Review.

http://www.myspace.com/poetkevinhiggins

Alan Jude Moore is a Dubliner whose poetry has been published in a wide range of journals here and abroad, including Poetry Ireland Review, The Stinging Fly, Kestrel (USA), Jacobs Ladder (USA), Pelagos (Italy) – and, of course, Moloch. He took part in the Poetry Ireland Introductions readings in 2001.

Alan’s collection, Black State Cars, was published by Salmon Poetry, and was the recipient of a Salmon Poetry Publication Prize for a first collection.

 "What is necessary is to seek new forms and new language to express new ideas and experience. Moore is doing so, and that is what makes Black State Cars an important and essential collection."

- Michael S. Begnal, in Poetry Ireland Review.

http://www.myspace.com/alanjudemoore

Noel Harrington lives in Tulla, Co Clare. The White House Poets published a chapbook of his poems 'Trio' in 2007. He has also been published in The Stinging Fly, Revival, Moloch.ie, The Stony Thursday Book, Crannóg and the joint Limerick/Newcastle publication, Two Rivers Meet. A prose piece was short-listed for the Flosca Short Story Prize, appearing in the 2008 Anthology, and another was published by Mike Scott on the Waterboys website. He has been writing a novel for five years now and will let you know when it's finished.

http://www.myspace.com/noelharrington

Stephen Kelly is a talented poet and songwriter from Drimnagh, Dublin. He has been published in Watermarks and entertained the masses with wonderful readings in a variety of Dublin venues. His poem 'Ladybird' featured in the first issue of Moloch. One of his songs 'David' is currently featured on the Moloch myspace pages

http://www.myspace.com/molochjournal

The Perfect Consonants consist of Mark Noonan, Darran Kelly and Aoife McGrane. The band have been writing and playing songs together for the past two years. The Moloch night will be their last blast for the summer season. You can download a couple of their songs at

http://www.myspace.com/theperfectconsonants

Mark's series of City poems makes an appearance in the current issue of Moloch, while Darran's plays have been hailed by Irish play-writing legend Frank McGuinness

 "that rarest of theatrical joys - the real thing!"

The Open Wall

creative writing workshop,

Cassidy's on Westmoreland street,

July 30th @ 7.30pm.

The Open Wall






Spoken word begs for an audience to receive and participate in it, and with a good performer, the result can be wonderful.

The written word, however, is a solitary being. It is silently digested, there is no direct interaction with the author, and the voice is imagined.

While most writers workshops offer writers the floor after exercises so that they can read pieces aloud, writing intended for the page loses something essential.

The Open Wall is a creative writing workshop which offers a forum for writing and sharing words bound in ink. After each exercise participants are invited to stick any work they are happy to share onto 'The Wall'.

'The Wall', a simple notice board with simple pins, is a medium for presenting work to others, and it is open to everybody.

The Open Wall begins it’s creative writing workshops tomorrow night in Cassidy's on Westmorland Street.

Wednesday the 30th of July, at 7.30pm.

Workshops will take place every second Wednesday at 7:30pm, i.e. August 13th, August 27th…

Do check out their myspace pages for more information http://www.myspace.com/theopenwall

Succour call for submissions!

Succour journal is accepting submissions for Autumn/Winter issue, the theme is Icons. So do send them any poetry, fiction and art you have floating about on that theme or create a new piece!


Succour is a great publication, its design and production are very high quality with very original material from talented writers and artists inside. You can pick up a copy in Books Upstairs or The Winding Stairs if you would like to read it first - below are the submission details.

Succour is the UK and Ireland's most exciting journal of new fiction, poetry and art. We have editors in London, Manchester, Brighton, Exeter and Dublin who are committed to seeking out and publishing the very best new writing.

We habitually set a title for upcoming issues, which we then ask contributors to respond to in their work. The theme for the Autumn/Winter 2008/2009 issue will be Icons. Potential contributors are invited to respond to the titles we suggest in as wilful or oblique a manner as they desire. Bear in mind that Succour is a journal that publishes original, ambitious writing, and tries to avoid anything clichéd or self-indulgent.

The Autumn/Winter 2008/9 issue is due for publication on 1 November 2008. Deadline for submissions is 20 August. Please send your work in Word or Rich Text format documents, with a limit of 3,500 words (fiction) or 250 lines (poetry), to new Dublin editor Christodoulos Makris at succourdublin@gmail.com.

If you are thinking about submitting your work, we strongly recommend that you read one or more of our back issues, to get a feel of how previous writers responded to the titles. In Dublin, Succour is available from Books Upstairs, The Winding Stair and the IFI Bookshop. You can also purchase copies of back issues or take out a subscription at www.succour.org.

The editors welcome comment and questions on any subject. We look forward to reading your work."

Moloch Showcase Night on Facebook!

You can let us know you're coming along on July 31st (if you like!) by joining the Facebook group, here:

http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=21906678199

Moloch Showcase Night, 31st July

Just a reminder about the Moloch Showcase Night, at Dublin's Winding Stair bookshop on Thursday 31st July.

As well as poetry from Kevin Higgins and Alan Jude Moore, we'll have music from:

The Perfect Consonants
Mark Noonan, Darran Kelly and Aoife McGrane have been writing and playing songs together for the past two years. This summer they've been gigging like nobody's business, and the Moloch night will be their last blast for the season. You can download a couple of their songs at http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewprofile&friendid=83473089
Mark's series of City poems makes an appearance in the current issue of Moloch, while Darran's plays have been hailed by Irish play-writing legend Frank McGuinness as "that rarest of theatrical joys - the real thing!"

and

Stephen Kelly
Stephen Kelly is from Drimnagh, Dublin. He has been published in Watermarks and entertained the masses with wonderful readings in a variety of Dublin venues. His poem 'Ladybird' featured in the first issue of Moloch.

Plus cake and wine! Doors open at 7pm. Admission is free, donations voluntary.

Dublin: Stinging Fly reading

There’ll be a reading from the summer issue of The Stinging Fly on Thursday July 24th in the Winding Stair Bookshop, Lower Ormond Quay, Dublin 1 (across from the Hal’penny Bridge).

Grace Wells, the featured poet in the summer issue, will read alongside fiction writers Jennifer Brady and Orlaith O’Sullivan and poets Richard W. Halperin and Paul Perry.

The reading is at 7 p.m — all are welcome.

The Stinging Fly is a Dublin-based magazine of poetry and prose, established in 1997 to seek out, publish and promote Irish and international writing. They have a particular interest in encouraging new writers, and in promoting the short story form.

London: Shuffle

The Shuffle in the Studio

26 July, 7.30pm

Valerie Josephs,
Ailbhe Darcy,
Richard O'Brien
and Karen McCarthy

with support from Inua Ellams, Kirsten Irving, Sandeep Parmar and Lin Sagovky

At the Poetry Café, Betterton Street, London (Covent Garden tube)