An Opportunity for Australian writers?

The following appeal for participation in a worldwide event will no doubt resonate with local writers. 3am on 16  June is  12 noon here. Any (Irish?) writer who can cite an ISBN can respond to Irish Writers' Centre by phoning ( 0011 353 8721302) or email info@writerscentre.ie



                             Dear (Contact First Name),


                             The Irish Writers' Centre is celebrating
25 years since its founding with a world-beating public reading. Over
100 of our leading writers will participate in a marathon public
reading which will commence at 10.00 am on Friday June 15th and finish
at 2.00 pm on Saturday, June 16th - Bloomsday. If we succeed we will
wrest the Guinness World Record for such an event from the Berlin
International Literature Festival who managed to muster 75 writers. It
will be launched by the great Joycean, Senator David Norris and the
readers will include our Nobel Laureate, Seamus Heaney.


                             This extraordinary programme of readings
will continue for 28 hours continuously, and will be open to the
public. It will also be live-streamed - a webcam will transmit it to
the Internet so that it can be accessed around the world even as it
takes place in the Centre. We will be reading for the world in every
sense. Our record attempt will be monitored by the accountancy firm,
KPMG, and by the university, American College Dublin.



                             We can accommodate about five more
readings in the middle of the night, so if any writer would like to
participate and is happy to read at 3.00 or 4.00 am (when the American
Continent will be tuned in) let us know straight away - send the title
of your book that you would like to read from, and most importantly
the ISBN. Only authors reading from their own books are recognised by
Guinness World Records.:

 Help the IWC break a Guinness World Record!!



                             Dear (Contact First Name),


                             The Irish Writers' Centre is celebrating
25 years since its founding with a world-beating public reading. Over
100 of our leading writers will participate in a marathon public
reading which will commence at 10.00 am on Friday June 15th and finish
at 2.00 pm on Saturday, June 16th - Bloomsday. If we succeed we will
wrest the Guinness World Record for such an event from the Berlin
International Literature Festival who managed to muster 75 writers. It
will be launched by the great Joycean, Senator David Norris and the
readers will include our Nobel Laureate, Seamus Heaney.


                             This extraordinary programme of readings
will continue for 28 hours continuously, and will be open to the
public. It will also be live-streamed - a webcam will transmit it to
the Internet so that it can be accessed around the world even as it
takes place in the Centre. We will be reading for the world in every
sense. Our record attempt will be monitored by the accountancy firm,
KPMG, and by the university, American College Dublin.



                             We can accommodate about five more
readings in the middle of the night, so if any writer would like to
participate and is happy to read at 3.00 or 4.00 am (when the American
Continent will be tuned in) let us know straight away - send the title
of your book that you would like to read from, and most importantly
the ISBN. Only authors reading from their own books are recognised by
Guinness World Records.

(Thanks to Lily O'Shea and Philip Harvey for the alert).