Listowel Writers’ Week Fringe

A man walks past me just as I get set to write up the Rebecca Miller reading, stops, comes back, and asks “Are you one of the bloggers?”. Thus begins a short, but interesting conversation with Noel Keenan of the Writers Week Committee. I answer his questions about the blog. He tells me the technology nowadays is amazing (I think that is the word he used), and we talk briefly of the festival. He is a teacher who lives in Kilmorna across the river from my home village of Duagh. He tells me that not many people realize that the committee are all volunteers, giving of their time, energy, and talents throughout the year so that the festival can happen. I tell him that is what makes Writers’ Week such an amazing place.