Drumshanbo-A small country town who reads & writes

The festival originally started in 2009, called “The Written Word Weekend” and ran for three years. During that time we had guest writers such as Dermot Healy, Ita Daly, Eoin McNamee, Belinda McKeon, Tony Curtis, Marsha Mehran, Alice Lyons, Gerry Boland, Seamus O’Rourke,The Pig Executives, Wayne Frankham, The Poetry Chicks, Natalia Beylis.

In 2022 we revived the festival as  “Drumshanbo Written Word”  with a COVID 19 grant.  It was held in the Mayflower Ballroom/ Disco. We had our inaugural Poetry Film Competition  at this festival with eighty entries world wide. Our writing guests included, Claire Keegan, Nuala O’Connor, Kevin McManus and Charlie McGettigan. Our moderator was Gerry Boland

2025 August 22nd & 23rd

at the Methodist Church, Carrick Road Drumshanbo, Co Leitrim

Drumshanbo Written Word

Drumshanbo Written Word Weekend 2022 Poetry Film Shortlisthttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eK8Chw2KbH8&t=33s

Contact our Event Manager

for the festival Eileen O’Toole or Colm Scully for the film festival

+353 (0)87 0976994