It’s finally here! You can now view, save or download the Allingham Festival Brochure for 2022, with all the events listed on one page. For more information and booking links, please visit our website allinghamfestival.com.
Download the 2022 Allingham Festival Programme.
All Secondary School Writers, Poets & Teachers:
Deadline Extended for Allingham 2022 Fiction & Poetry Competitions
New Deadline: October 13th
The Allingham Arts Festival is once again running the annual Poetry, Short Story and Art Competitions for secondary schools, sponsored by Donegal ETB.
We've received some fantastic entries over the years, covering every style and genre of writing!
Entries can be sent in via schools, by post or using our online entry form on our website (https://form.jotform.com/212513672254350).
Competition Info:
- Entries must not have been previously published.
- Title/Theme is open
- Each entry must be typed.
- Maximum 800 words for Flash Fiction.
- Entries will not be returned.
- Indication of name or identity should not appear on the story or poem.
If you have any further queries, email allinghamfest@gmail.com.
Please make sure all entries include at least one way of getting in touch, by phone or email, so we can notify winners. All shortlists and winners will be announced on our website and social media shortly before the festival begins.
"Keegan is measured and merciless as she dissects the silent acquiescence of a 1980s Irish town in the Church's cruel treatment of unmarried mothers - and the cost of one man's moral courage."
So said the Booker Prize judges when shortlisting Claire Keegan's wonderful novel 'Small Things Like These' for this year's prize.
We are honoured to have Claire at this year's Allingham Festival. Though publication of her works are rare events, four in 23 years, each one is a gem. One cannot think of any other writer who can manage the feat of creating a completely imagined, structured and sustained world with the brevity we find in her books. The real life situations she writes about are wonderfully evocative and the reader is captured from the beginning. We are in for a fascinating afternoon.
Sunday 6th November @ 3.15pm €10
We're looking forward to meetig Ian McElhinney, best known for his roles in Derry Girls (Granda Joe), Game of Thrones (Ser Barristan Selmy), Rogue One: A Star Wars Story (General Dondonna), not to mention Superman's great great grandfather in Krypton.
With over 140 films, television shows and stage performances to his credit, Ian McElhinney was also nominated for Best Director for Stones in His Pockets, a play written by his wife, Marie Jones.
McElhinney will share highlights of his career in an interview at the 2022 Festival on Saturday 5 November.
The interviewer's chair will be taken by Sinéad Crowley, Arts and Media Correspondent with RTE News, who is also the author of The Belladonna Maze, One Bad Turn and other novels.
There has already been a lot of interest in this and booking is now open.
