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Well-known Westmeath actress Mary McEvoy has been nominated for an award in the Bord Gáis Energy Irish Book Awards 2011.

Castle Book and Card Centre Ltd in Castlebar is the only store in Mayo to be nominated in the Connacht category of the 2011 Bord Gáis Energy Irish Book Awards for Irish Bookshop of the Year. The winning retailer will win a prize fund of €5,000 worth of free electricity. The award is designed to recognise the vital role Irish booksellers play in connecting writers and readers.

If your local bookshop holds a special place in your heart, now is the time to show your appreciation as the search for the Bord Gáis Energy Bookshop of the Year begins. The award aims to recognise those retail stalwarts who connect readers and authors on a daily basis and provide us with endless hours of entertainment.

Athlone’s Literary Festival has announced its 2011 line-up, and among the highlights is a creative writing workshop with Big Smoke Writing Factory, a renowned organisation run by writers for writers. They provide a platform for writers to not only improve their work but to share it with others. The festival takes place from October 7 to 9.

A city primary school was the only school in the Galway West region selected to take part in a pilot literacy summer programme.

Graffiti can be an art form but it can also be plain vandalism, and where it is art it should be encouraged and where it is vandalism it should not be tolerated.

A Garda presence is needed on a regular basis in Gort na mBro to both deter and catch who is daubing walls in the area with racist graffiti according to local resident John Connolly.

ARE YOU a budding writer for film? Do you have a script but know it needs work? Well, help is at hand.

Creative writing classes will commence in the Le Chéile Family Resource Centre, Linenhall Street on Thursday February 3 from 4.30pm to 6.30pm.

BUDDING ARTISTS and people with creative urges take note, the Galway Arts Centre’s programme of winter classes starts this month.