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My interview with WLRfm, talking about my new book ‘The Literary Manager’s Toolkit’.

Scroll down to Deise Today 11.00-12.00, 44 mins in.

TFW your book is on sale in your hometown’s iconic book store. The Literary Manager’s Toolkit available from Waterford’s

@TheBookcentres.

Essential for anyone who works in the arts – brimming with advice and info on jobs, access, funding, residencies. Hope it goes down well in my hometown.

Thank you to the Munster Express and Matt Keane for this piece on my upcoming guidebook, published by Routledge:

My Routledge book is out next month and is available on pre-order on December 5th (also with this 20% discount code). It’s a practical guide to theatre literary management and a necessary addition to your theatre library. And, as a key responsibility of the literary manager is to foster, nurture and encourage the early career writer, this book is brimming with direction, advice and resources for all writers, from every discipline. There is a wealth of interviews with key industry figures, and lists of funding opportunities, residencies, payment advice, employment tips and direction on getting your play commissioned and thoughts on how a writer can improve their work and make it more appealing to theatres, and other gatekeepers of the wider writing world and as such is a useful tool for playwrights, screenwriters, novelists and non-fiction writers. So now you all know what you really want for Christmas!

The Literary Manager’s Toolkit

Excited to be invited again to deliver a workshop for Proud Haddock Theatre. An informative, fun and very useful event for all playwrights. Do sign up:

Here

My forthcoming guidebook is currently with production at Routledge, but a description is now up on their site. Exciting!

ROUTLEDGE.COM

https://www.routledge.com/The-Literary-Managers-Toolkit-A-Practical-Guide-for-the-Theatre/Healy/p/book/9781032005140

The Literary Manager’s Toolkit: A Practical Guide for the Theatre

The Literary Manager’s Toolkit is a clear and comprehensive guide to the role of the literary manager in theatre and beyond, focusing on the key skills, networks and processes that underpin a successful career in this and associated roles.

This book outlines the tasks and responsibilities of a literary manager in the selection, development, and production of new plays.

In the first part, it outlines the how, when and why of the literary manager’s main activities, equipping the reader with everything that they will need when approaching this role’s central challenges.

The second part provides a selection of practical, accessible and easy-to-follow materials and workshop suggestions for literary managers who will work with playwrights as they develop their creative writing and dramaturgy skills. This is the go-to resource for the working professional literary manger or dramaturg, and for students on dramaturgy courses in theatre degree programmes.