Writer-In-Residence
Sligo Libraries second Writer-In-Residence, Mr Brian Leyden, was appointed in December 2009, vacating the post left by Mr Niall Williams. Brian was born in Roscommon in 1960. He has published a book of short stories, Departures (1992); and a novel, Death and Plenty (Dingle, Brandon, 1996). He has devised and performed a one-man stage show on W.B. Yeats called Experiments in Magic, and his RTÉ documentary, No Meadows in Manhattan, won a Jacobs Award in 1991, while his short stories won the RTÉ Francis McManus Short Story Award in 1988. He has also published a memoir, The Home Place (Dublin, New Island Books, 2002).
Brian will be conducting a series of writing workshops and literary appreciation courses with writers, overseeing volume two of the electronic journal The Cathach and running a writing competition for Secondary School Students. The aim is to try and encourage students in all manner of creative writing, from poetry and fiction to short film scripts and song lyrics. The goal will be to help students find their voice in whatever form.
To contact Mr. Leyden, please telephone 071 9111680 or email bleyden@sligococo.ie
