Hot Press’ contributing editor and ‘writer-at-large’ Olaf Tyaransen will be making two appearances at the Cuirt International Festival of Literature in his hometown of Galway this coming weekend.

On Friday at 4.45pm, he will be reading an extract from his short story ‘Don’t You Know Who I Am?’ (published in full in our current issue) in Neachtain’s Pub on Quay Street. Admission is free and all are welcome. The story is published in a new tome, Galway Stories.

The reading is part of the ‘Galway Stories Literary Walk’, a Cuirt event celebrating the publication of the new Doire Press short story collection edited by Lisa Frank. The event will see Olaf and fellow contributors - Celeste Auge, Jim Mullarkey, Shaun Leonard and John Walsh – reading from their stories at various locations featured in the book. The walk begins at Il Vicola wine bar on Augustine St. at 4pm and will stagger to the finish line in Monroe’s Bar, Dominick St., where Galway Advertiser arts editor Kernan Andrews will officially launch the book.

On Sunday night, Olaf will be reading on the main stage of the Roisin Dubh as part of 'Far From Literature We Were Reared', a night of song, satire, fiction, comedy and theatre hosted by songwriter Seamus Ruttledge and playwright Conor Montague.

Amongst the writers, comics and musicians performing will be stand-up John Donnellan, former Saw Doctor Pearse Doherty, multi-instrumentalist Willow Sea, Michael Durham of Galway Gospel Choir, Connacht Tribune columnist and memoirist Charlie Adley, and members of the literary collective Abandoned Darlings.

Doors open at 8pm, admission is €8. Galway Stories is available in all good bookshops, priced €13.99. Check out the story in tomorrow's issue of Hot Press.