Welcome to Siarsceal Festival 2024. The aim of our festival is to showcase the
amazing creativity of young people and bring their work and voices into public
spaces.. If you are a creative being age 10 to 18, looking for an exciting
opportunity to explore writing in any genre, there are numerous workshops
happening in libraries in Roscommon, Leitrim and Sligo starting in June. In a
supportive encouraging environment, with a professional writer, unleash your
creativity, share your work with other likeminded people, and have your writing

included in a brand new online publication.

Siarsceal Festival 2024 is building on last year’s celebration of young people’s
writing. We will gather in Roscommon Library on September 14 th where our
young participants will read or perform their work, alongside professional
musicians Cliodhna Quinlan and Mark Murphy, (members of Greenbirdflying). We
also hope to build on our association with ROS FM Arts Program, presenter Ursula
Ledwith, to broadcast these performances to the wider public.

SiarScéal is an arts and literary festival for young people
aged 10-18 celebrating creativity. This year the festival will
be held on Saturday September 14th at Roscommon Library.
Participants, friends, and family will be joined by writer and
Creative Coordinator Mary Branley, facilitators Sarah
O’Keeffe and Fergal Brennan, and musicians Cliodhna
Quinlan and Mark Murphy.

In lead up to the festival, a series of workshops will be held in
Sligo Library, Drumshanbo Library, and Roscommon Library.
The workshops will be an opportunity for participants to
create a wide range of literary and illustrative work resulting
in a collaborative digitally published e-zine.

The event is an initiative funded by Creative Ireland, in
partnership with Sligo County Council, Leitrim County
Council, and Roscommon County Council.