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Creative Comforts Festival: Poetry Retreat with Molly Twomey
Enjoy a day of reading, writing and celebrating poetry with Molly Twomey. Following the Creative Comforts theme, Molly will guide participants through a gentle and inspiring workshop. A special lunch will be provided by Pretty Baked Bakery.
Molly Twomey grew up in Lismore, County Waterford and now lives in Cork. Her first collection, Raised Among Vultures was published in 2022 by The Gallery Press. It was shortlisted for the Seamus Heaney Poetry Prize for Best First Collection and won the Southword Debut Collection Poetry Award. She was awarded the 2023 Ireland Chair of Poetry Bursary and an Arts Council Literature Bursary in 2024. Her second collection, Chic to be Sad, was published in July 2025.
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