Travel writer Rosita Boland, who's hosting a Literary Breakfast at this year's Immrama Festival in Lismore

The seventeenth annual Lismore Immrama Festival of Travel Writing gets underway on Wednesday June 12th, with another jam-packed line up of  internationally renowned writers and broadcasters. This year's keynote address is from the first woman and youngest person to solo-row the Indian Ocean and also the Pacific Ocean  - adventurer and author Sarah Outen. There will also be a talk by the presenter of the BBC programme Coast, Neil Oliver.  Also in the mix this year is  Rosita Boland, who will host a Literary Breakfast at 8.30am on Sunday June 16th in Lismore Golf Club. You'll find out more here. 

Rosita Boland has had a huge writing career

Rosita is senior features writer, specialising in human interest stories. She was a 2009 Nieman Fellow at the Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard University. She's also the author of two collections of poetry and two non-fiction books about Ireland along with her newest book Elsewhere: One Woman, One Rucksack, One Lifetime of Travel which has just been published.

From her first life-changing solo trip around Europe as a young graduate, Rosita has been in love with travel. In the last thirty years, she has visited some of the most remote parts of the globe carrying little more than a battered rucksack and a diary, where she chronicled everything from death defying bus trips, to breath-taking scenery in Pakistan, to the wondrous remotes of Antarctica.

If you enjoy hearing from writers On the Fringe have a listen here to local author Karen Power, who's running workshops at Curraghmore over the summer.

And below is a link to my interview with Rosita Boland...

https://soundcloud.com/wlrfmwaterford/travel-writer-rosita-boland-speaks-to-mary-ahead-of-immrama