The festival’s literary curator, Denise Blake, will host an afternoon of readings by three of the North West of Ireland’s brightest new literary talents – Séamas O’Reilly, Emily Cooper and Jess McKinney – at the Abbey Arts Centre on Sunday afternoon at 3.00pm, for the final event of the festival. Séamas O’Reilly’s memoir, Did Ye Hear Mammy Died?’, was published earlier this summer and sits at the top of most best-selling Irish book lists. Jess McKinney, a poet and Irish Chair of Poetry Award winner, has had her poetry appear in The Moth, The Stinging Fly and Banshee. Her debut pamphlet, Weeding, will be published soon. Emily Cooper, writer and poet, whose work has also been published in The Stinging Fly, Banshee and Poetry Ireland Review, was a 2019 recipient of the Next Generation Award from the Arts Council of Ireland and her poetry debut, Glass, was published this summer.