Conor Montague in Conversation with Dorothy Allen – UK Book Launch of “Capital Vices”

The ICC is delighted to present the UK Book Launch of “Capital Vices”, stories written by the ICC’s Playwright In Residence, Conor Montague. Conor is a hugely gifted writer who has been leading playwriting and creative writing workshops at the ICC since 2017. Conor will be in conversation with broadcaster Dorothy Allen.

Capital Vices

“A capital vice is that which has an exceedingly desirable end so that in his desire for it, a man goes on to the commission of many sins…”

– St. Thomas Aquinas

A backpacker in India discovers the integrity of cockroaches. An amputee dwarf hustles bikers in the last chance saloon. A young girl’s belief in magic is restored through distilling poitín. Bat Man saves lives on a Thai beach. Santa Claus punches a child on Christmas Eve. A US marine slaughters Donald Duck to save America.

Capital Vices is a collection like no other. An exhilarating journey in the splendid company of outlaws, chancers, rogues and vagabonds.

Author Bio

Conor Montague is from Galway. A graduate of the MA in Writing at NUIG, Conor facilitates workshops for London Writers Eclective and is resident playwright at the Irish Cultural Centre, Hammersmith.

His fiction has been published in Shooter Literary Magazine, The Lonely Crowd, HOWL: New Irish Writing, Galway Stories (Doire Press), Noir by Noir West: Dark Tales from the West of Ireland (Arlen House), and placed/shortlisted for The Bridport Prize, the V.S. Pritchett Award, Fish Prize, the Bath Flash Fiction Award, The Writers Bureau Flash Fiction Comp, Hammond House International Literary Prize, Oxford Flash Fiction Prize and Reflex Flash Fiction Comp.

Capital Vices (Reflex Press) is his debut collection of short fiction.

About Dorothy Allen: 

Dorothy is an award winning journalist, currently the London correspondent of Swiss magazine Tierwelt. She is a former BBC reporter, working in documentary programmes for television (Brass Tacks; Panorama) and radio (File on Four). As a print journalist, she won a Feature Writer of the Year award while reporting for the Burton Daily Mail. She has also written a weekly television review column for The Tablet magazine. Dorothy is a former Vice Chair of the Irish Literary Society. Dorothy is also a key member of the ICC Irish Literature Programming team.