It was a privilege to read tonight for the #OpenMicForGaza . Thank you for creating this space to raise funds @fionaowriter! You're an absolute force 💪🇵🇸🍉

From the river to the sea!

Another highlight of #OpenMicForGaza was Damien Donnelly Damien Donnelly's ALL OUR PAIN and his generous sharing of context. Thanks, Dami for your solidarity 🍉🙏🍉

A highlight from #OpenMicForGaza thanks to Belfast writer Niamh McNally Niamh McNally for your solidarity and reading of LIFELINES🍉🍉🍉
Thanks too for the photos ♥️🖤🤍💚

Thanks to #OpenMicForGaza special guests for your solidarity readings💫
🍉Walaah Sabah We Are Not Numbers
🍉CatherineDunneAuthor Irish PEN
🍉Paula Meehan
🍉Theo Dorgan

Huge congratulations to Fiona O'Rourke 🍉 & Denise on this extraordinary event tonight #OpenMicForGaza
A room of sanctuary,
to shelter so many incredible voices
🤍🤍🤍

Honoured to have the opportunity to read from #TheMaidenofFlorence at #openmicforGaza #globalpayitforward Ghassan Abu Sitta tomorrow Fiona O'Rourke 🍉 Starry line-up CatherineDunneAuthor ✨ Michelle Gallen ✨ Fairlight Books Sign up for Zoom by Sunday lunchtime: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAI…

Tomorrow Juvens Nsabimana is reading from Kill the Devil at #OpenMicforGaza

This Friday #OpenMicForGaza fundraiser with special guests organised by Fiona O'Rourke 🍉

Another highlight from #OpenMicForGaza was Katherine Mezzacappa's reading from her latest novel #TheMaidenOfFlorence Fairlight Books Looking forward to Katherine's book launch 👏
Thanks, Katherine for your solidarity 🍉🙏🍉

And rock n roll you did, Tony 🎙️👏 🍉
Thanks to A. Joseph Black (Tony) star of #OpenMicForGaza taking us back in time... the Falls Road bus fare costs 5p, a haircut 40p, and yer Ma's scarier than the Ra😉

Juvens Nsabimana read from our novel ‘Kill the Devil’ at the #OpenMicforGaza fundraiser to help injured children in Gaza through the Ghassan Abu Sittah Children's Fund Check out Belfast Paperboy's video! #TikTok vm.tiktok.com/ZGexFjFtS/

An #OpenMicForGaza star 💫 ✨ Michelle Gallen ✨ read from #FactoryGirls which paired brilliantly with historian-in-residence Elizabeth Kehoe's 14 Henrietta Street Three Days In Belfast, The Falls Curfew 1970. Big thanks to Michelle for your support and solidarity🍉🙏🍉

Big thanks to stars of #OpenMicForGaza
💫Dan McPartlin for The Foggy Dew 🎶
💫Juliana Adelman for The Grateful Water 🎙️
Dan's recording here➡️ instagram.com/reel/C6UYzwiRU…

A highlight of the solidarity at #OpenMicForGaza thanks to co-authors Juvens Nsabimana & Tony Macaulay for a reading from Kill The Devil, A Love Story from Rwanda 🙏🍉

Save the date #OpenMicForGaza

Jennifer Lynn 🍉 Yes, will be another #OpenMicForGaza in the summer 🍉

Fiona O'Rourke 🍉 This was such an incredible, emotional evening of voices and connections. Thank you so much Fiona for bringing us all together #OpenMicForGaza 🤍