The Short Attention Span Storytelling Hour

This is Orlando's premier literary open mic, where writers, poets and storytellers can take the stage and share their material with a group of supportive, positive people.

Our featured presenter is Lianne O'Hara.

Lianne is a poet and playwright.

The Patients All Seemed Happy (2025), a ‘powerful evocation of forgotten voices from Grangegorman asylum’ is published by Writing Ireland|New Dublin Press. Other writing is published in Poetry Ireland Review, Winter Papers, The Rialto, The London Magazine, and elsewhere.

Her play Baby (2024) won the Bewley’s Café Theatre ‘Little Gem’ Award. Fluff (2022) had a sell-out run at Dublin Fringe. Lianne is a participant on Irish Theatre Institute’s Six in the Attic programme. In 2024 she received the Mairtín Crawford Award for Poetry and a Theatre Bursary from the Arts Council of Ireland.

She is the current writer in residence at the Kerouac House.

More info: https://www.kerouac-project.com/writers

Here's the rest of the scoop...
*Please keep your reading/presentation to a MAXIMUM of 6- 8 minutes (or about 1,000 words). After that, we throw things. (No, really.)
* Admission is free. There is no cover charge or fee of any kind.
* Newbies or seasoned veterans are welcome. There's no
experience or skill level required.
* A sign-up sheet is available starting at 7:00 PMish. Mingle for a few minutes, and grab some beverages if you like. You can even get dinner or a snack.
*If you don't want to read, you don't have to — you can chill and listen and support your fellow writers.