Gina Moxley

MUNSTER LITERATURE CENTRE
IONAD LITRÍOCHTA an DEISCIRT

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Founded in 1993, the Munster Literature Centre (Ionad Litríochta an Deiscirt) is a non-profit arts organisation dedicated to the promotion and celebration of literature, especially that of Munster. To this end, we organise festivals, workshops, readings and competitions. Our publishing section, Southword Editions, publishes a biannual journal, poetry collections and short stories. We actively seek to support new and emerging writers and are assisted in our efforts through funding from Cork City Council, Cork County Council and the Arts Council of Ireland.Originally located in Sullivan's Quay, the centre moved to its current premises in the Frank O'Connor House (the author's birthplace) at 84 Douglas Street, in 2003.

In 2000, the Munster Literature Centre organised the first Frank O'Connor International Short Story Festival, an event dedicated to the celebration of the short story and named for one of Cork's most beloved authors. The festival showcases readings, literary forums and workshops. Following continued growth and additional funding, the Cork City - Frank O'Connor International Short Story Award was introduced in 2005, coinciding with Cork's designation as that year's European Capital of Culture. The award is now recognised as the single biggest prize for a short story collection in the world and is presented at the end of the festival.In 2002, the Munster Literature Centre introduced the Seán Ó Faoláin Short Story Prize, an annual short story competition dedicated to one of Ireland's most accomplished story writers and theorists. This too is presented during the FOC festival. The centre also hosts the Cork Spring Literary Festival each year, at which the Gregory O'Donoghue International Poetry Prize is awarded (established 2010).

Workshops are held by featured authors in both autumn and spring, allowing the general public to receive creative guidance in an intimate setting for a minimal fee. In addition, the centre sponsors a Writer in Residence each year. We invite you to browse our website for further information regarding our events, Munster literature, and other literary information. Should you have any queries, we would be happy to hear from you.

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GINA MOXLEY

Gina Moxley

Gina Moxley was born in Cork where she studied painting at the Crawford School of Art. Her plays are Danti-Dan (Dublin, The Project/London, Hampstead Theatre, 1994, Rough Magic Theatre Company); and Dog House, which was specially commissioned, along with Liz Lochhead’s Cuba, by the Royal National Theatre (UK) for the BT National Connections Scheme for young people. Danti-Dan is included in The Dazzling Dark: New Irish Plays, selected and edited by Frank McGuinness (London, Faber & Faber, 1996). Dog House is included in Cuba / Dog House: Two Plays By Liz Lochead and Gina Moxley (UK, Nelson Thornes, 2000).

She has appeared in numerous plays, including Sebastian Barry’s Boss Grady’s Boys and Prayers for Sherkin (Dublin, The Peacock Stage, Abbey Theatre); Declan Hughes’ I Can’t Get Started; Digging for Fire (Dublin, The Project/London, Bush Theatre, for Rough Magic); and Stitch That (New York, Irish Arts Theatre); and in a solo performance in Jacqueline Harpman’s Mistress of Silence. In her role as Jocasta, she has toured internationally in Oedipus Loves You, with Pan Theatre. She is often involved in Corcadorca productions, performing in plays such as Woyzeck and MedEia.

Her numerous television credits include Lapsed Catholics for Channel 4 and RTÉ; the six-part RTÉ drama series Molloy; and the Irish-Australian mini-series Act of Betrayal, starring Elliot Gould. She has appeared in many feature films, including The Butcher Boy and Hear My Song, and has had lead roles in Snakes and Ladders, and The Sun, the Moon and the Stars. She won the Stewart Parker Trust Award for new writers in 1996 and also a literature bursary from the Irish Arts Council. She lives in Dublin.

Gina Moxley