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Derry writer's ambitious new work is a written response to the dissident philosophy from a citizen’s perspective
Paul Doran and Ray McGahan, editors of The Bear literary website, square up for a brawl at the Black Box
Portstewart author nominated for Edge Hill Short Story Prize for recent collection Sleepwalkers
Founder Colin Dardis on providing a platform for new writers and launching Pen Points Press at Belfast Book Festival
Belfast's Linen Hall Library presents inaugural four-day festival featuring playwrights, novelists, poets and more until May 15
Author David Park on the 'feminist impulse' behind The Poets' Wives, the focus of a month-long reading initiative
Author Arlene Hughes's semi-autobiographical novel recalls Easter in Belfast during the Second World War
Anne Tannahill, former managing director of Blackstaff Press, remembers the warmth and wit of the late writer
Author Jan Carson on blogging about the joys and pains of attempting to read 100 books in a year. 'For anyone taking up the mantle of prolific reading, I’d recommend it'
Four-day conference features readings and more to mark the late Nobel Prize-winner's 75th birthday
Dog Ears' second festival of storytelling in Derry~Londonderry has a new focus on outreach
BBC Two Northern Ireland to screen series of animated translations voiced by Billy Connolly
Creativity Month writer-in-residence on writing crime fiction, reading habits and being inspired by knock backs
Linen Hall Library launch biennial literary competition worth £2,000
An exciting and diverse range of free events in Libraries across NI
Libraries NI seeks nominations from readers to compile a collection of the country's best-loved novels
Glenn Patterson on being nominated for Good Vibrations and writing his new novel The Rest Just Follows
One of 15 recipients of the Arts Council of Northern Ireland's ACES awards on writing for the love of it
From John Hewitt’s A North Light. Twenty-five Years in a Municipal Museum. eds. Frank Ferguson and Kathryn White (Four Courts Press, 2013; pp. 236-8)
Tinderbox and BBC Northern Ireland collaborate to give aspiring writers free advice from January 22-24
The Belfast poet laureate is awarded the prestigious prize for her latest collection Parallax
Belfast's Linen Hall Library celebrates the famed Scots poet Robert Burns ahead of Burns Night on January 25
Watch video as the writer and photographer discusses his new visual history published by Blackstaff Press
The affordable art festival returns to Belfast's Cathedral Quarter from January 2 - 26
Reggie Chamberlain-King of Wireless Mystery Theatre on reprising Dickens' story for the Island Arts Centre
Founder Keyser O'Shea on the importance of satire, social media and publishing a book with Blackstaff Press
The august institution celebrates a landmark anniversary with year-long programme of events
As Faber & Faber publish five of his greatest plays, the Belfast native looks to the future
East Belfast Partnership and Belfast City Council celebrate the acclaimed author from November 11 – 18
The Ulster Hall plays host to a wide variety of authors in the run up to Christmas 2013
Queen's University host a series of talks, readings and performances dedicated to the acclaimed Belfast playwright
Publisher Emma Wright promotes her new anthology of erotic verse at Bookfinders Café
Author Carlo Gebler on evocking bygone Belfast for a new play debuting at the Belfast Festival at Queen's
19 libraries across Northern Ireland hold a wide variety of free events aimed at increasing library memberships
Omagh's Strule Arts Centre celebrates the childrens author with a new production of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
Canal Laureate Jo Bell helps Lagan Canal Trust to celebrate Northern Ireland's disused waterways
Moy poet Deirdre Cartmill releases a new collection partly inspired by the Native American experience
Lee Henry recalls spending time with the poet in his Dublin home, and learning of a Mournes connection
Martin Lynch discusses his changing technique and 'intensely personal' new play, the third and final part of the Ulster Trilogy
Poet and the UK's official Canal Laureate Jo Bell to perform as part of a series of events celebrating the Lagan Canal's 250th anniversary
Lord Mayor unveils Queen's University professor as the inaugural poet for the city
Ahead of her reading at Eason's, Belfast, the author discusses her acclaimed debut short story collection
A new book by musician and amateur historian Nigel Boullier documents the county's little-known musical heritage
The Belfast-based youth worker writes about her own experiences with suicide in a new play for Féile an Phobail
Belfast-based poet Sinéad Morrissey's Parallax is one of five books shortlisted for best collection
Read a short story from a new anthology inspired by music and written by students from Derry~Londonderry
The festival dedicated to Samuel Beckett returns to Enniskillen from August 22. View the full programme
Tom Thompson on how the Belfast shipyards informed the work of Thomas Carnduff, Sam Thompson and Wilson John Haire
Deirdre Madden explores how old photographs can stir long-forgotten memories in her latest novel. 'It really challenged ideas I had about the past'
View the 2013 festival programme and plan your literary wanderings this June
Derry~Londonderry's Joe Campbell retells the aviator's story in comic book form. 'These stories can now emerge'
Kerouac, Ginsberg, Borroughs and others are the focus of a series of film screenings as part of the Belfast Book Festival
The County Tyrone author talks about her latest novel, juggling jobs and using Northern Ireland as a literary backdrop
Innovative new digital publishers releases Bernie McGill short story collection, Sleepwalkers, as ebook
Author Lucy Caldwell curates a week of screenings at Queen's Film Theatre that explore the connection between film and literature
The Australian-born director of the Prison Arts Foundation passes away suddenly aged 60
100 copies of All the Beggars Riding, have been hidden around the city as Belfast gears up for the One City One Book reading initiative
Derry Journal reporter Julieann Campbell discusses her Ewart-Biggs Prize-winning book about the Bloody Sunday Justice Campaign
Novelist Lucy Caldwell discusses her latest novel, chosen as the focus for the One City One Book Belfast reading initiative
Australians Alison Lester and Boori Monty Pryor give workshops in Belfast and Derry~Londonderry during Easter for the Story, Book, Grow initiative
