For the Irish Program, The Limerick Pub presents...
Alice McDermott
12:30-12:45 | Location: Howard Ave. at Armory Ave.

Alice McDermott was born in Brooklyn, New York, and raised in the suburban community of Elmont, Long Island, New York. Her first novel was 1983's A Bigamist's Daughter, followed by 1987's That Night, which was a finalist for the National Book Award, the PEN Faulkner Award and the Pulitzer Prize. 1992's At Weddings and Wakes was also a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize as well as her first novel to be a New York Times bestseller. That was followed by 1998's Charming Billy, which won the National Book Award for fiction. After This (2006) was also a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize. Her most recent work, Someone, was a finalist for the National Book Award and the National Book Critics Circle Award. Ms. McDermott has written for The New York Times, The New Yorker, and The Washington Post. Her articles range from personal essays to book reviews. She is now the Richard A. Macksey Professor of Humanities at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, Maryland, and in the past she has taught at University of California San Diego, American University, Lynchburg (VA) College and Hollins College in Virginia. She has three children and lives in the Washington, DC area with her husband.

Terence Winch
11:30-11:45 | Location: Howard Ave. at Armory Ave.

Terence Winch, originally from New York, has lived in the Washington, DC, area for many years. The son of Irish immigrants, he has long been part of Irish-American cultural life, both as musician and writer. Some of his poetry and other writing takes its subject matter from his upbringing in a Bronx immigrant neighborhood.
His seventh book of poems, This Way Out (2014), includes work of the last few years. In 2013, Salmon Poetry, based in county Clare, Ireland, published Lit from Below, a collection of 10-line poems. Falling Out of Bed in a Room with No Floor (2011), includes recent work along with some of Winch's best-known poems from earlier chapbooks, while the work in Boy Drinkers (2007) centers around religion and Winch's New York brand of Irish-Catholicism. That Special Place: New World Irish Stories is a collection of non-fiction stories that come out of his experiences playing traditional Irish music with Celtic Thunder, a band he started with his brother Jesse in 1977. Many of the songs he wrote for Celtic Thunder recount the story of New York's Irish community, with "When New York Was Irish" the best-known of them. Winch’s collection Irish Musicians/American Friends (1986) won an American Book Award. He is also the recipient of a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship in poetry and other awards. In 1992, Winch was one of Irish America magazine’s "Top 100 Irish Americans."

John Aloysius Farrell
12:15-12:30 | Location: Howard Ave. at Armory Ave.

Mothership: Tales from Afrofuturism and Beyond
Rosarium Publishing is a brand new, local publishing company helmed by Bill Campbell, specializing in speculative fiction and comic books.
1:00 - 1:45 | Location: Howard Ave. at Armory Ave.

The Talk:
Mothership: Tales from Afrofuturism and Beyond sets a bold new course for anthologies by showcasing the work from some of the most talented writers inside and outside speculative fiction. The authors in this anthology have earned such literary honors as the Pulitzer Prize, the American Book Award, the Hugo, the Nebula, and the Bram Stoker, among others. They have garnered numerous accolades and have sold millions of books around the world. Many of their names are likely to be new to you; Mothership is your invitation to get acquainted with them and their writing.

Join co-editor and publisher, Bill Campbell, along with Mothership contributors, Carmen Maria Machado, Ran Walker, and C. Renee Stephens as they discuss the anthology, Afrofuturism, the state of science fiction, and writing.

Steampunk Literature and its Roots
2:45 to 3:30 |Location: Howard Ave. at Armory Ave.

Readings by Steampunk Author Heather Hutsell
2:30 to 2:45 |Location: Howard Ave. at Armory Ave.