Winter Miscellany - an eclectic and bold collection of new work - Kilkenny Live

Despite the inclement weather, there was a good attendance at the launch of the Tipperary/ Kilkenny based collective The Southeast Scribes fiction and poetry anthology, Winter Miscellany last Tuesday night in Pat Carroll’s Bar.

Noted writer and playwright John McKenna launched the eclectic collection on the night and Mark Turner of Marble City Publishers acted as a stellar and witty MC.

The writers and poets read aloud extracts from the anthology and Maura Barrett and Brian Clancy said a few words regarding the origins and the trajectory of the project.

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Maura Barrett and Brian Clancy are both NUIG Kilkenny writing programme graduates.
Like many good ideas, publishing a winter anthology was stimulated by strong caffeine as two writer friends shared a coffee in late August. Maura and Clancy have traversed the difficulties of that oft time solitary vocation.

The pair also know that sometimes the best way to get work out there is to take a DIY approach. The NUIG Kilkenny writing programme graduates turned to a trusted mentor in John McKenna who eventually acted as editor to Winter Miscellany, a fine new collection of short stories and poetry. The pair also know that sometimes the best way to get work out there is to take a DIY approach. They reached out to others from the Tipperary and Kilkenny region and in addition to their own work, fiction and poetry from Paul Maher, Pat Griffin, Jasper Murphy and Paul Keating complete the line up for this collection.

The stories and poems are all winter themed and are wide-ranging in their variety and narrative approaches. These deftly crafted stories are complimented by haunting winter themed artwork by the students of CTI in Clonmel.
Winter Miscellany is available online and in The Book Centre on High Street and Bargain Books on the Butterslip. The anthology is the first of four seasonal editions and was published by Kilkenny-based Marble City Press.

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