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Jane Hardy Attempts Writing for Children
Our reporter takes practical tips from author Sheena Wilkinson at an eye-opening workshop at the CS Lewis Festival -
Open Mic for Young Writers at Ulster Hall
Author Jan Carson encourages a new generation of aspiring scribes to take the plunge -
Bard of Armagh Returns on November 21
Poets from Ireland and beyond limber up for the annual festival of humorous verse at Armagh City Hotel on November 21 -
New Book Tours Weird Belfast
Reggie Chamberlain-King's new book, published by Blackstaff Press, is chock-a-block with odd adverts, sensational songs and all manner of ghosts -
The Man, The Myth & The Wardrobe
Filmmaker Moore Sinnerton dissects the life and work of the iconic author at the 2014 CS Lewis Festival -
Michael Longley Shortlisted for TS Eliot Prize
Belfast poet makes the cut with 2014 collection The Stairwell -
The Simpsons & Mathematics
Ahead of his lecture at the Black Box, author Simon Singh writes about secret equations in Halloween episodes -
Considerations #1
Poet and playwright Damian Gorman begins new nine-part video series featuring readings of new poems -
The Wide Justice at NI Mental Health Arts Festival
Greek myth inspires collaborative poetry and painting exhibition at the Linen Hall Library in Belfast -
Flann O'Brien Literary Festival
Strabane honours its most famous son, the certified comic genius, with a series of events from October 3 - 4 -
Finding Finaghy Memoir Reveals Bygone Belfast
Artist David Gepp embraces prose in this intensely visual memoir of life growing up in post-Second World War Belfast -
Tony Macaulay on Writing All Growed Up
Ahead of his appearance at the Aspects Irish Literature Festival, the Belfast author considers the process of writing memoir -
Aspects Irish Literature Festival 2014
Terry Blain takes in the 2014 programme from a deckchair overlooking Bangor marina -
On Home Ground Festival Commemorates Seamus Heaney
Nuala McAllister Hart peruses the literary festival programme dedicated to the late Seamus Heaney -
Drinking Becomes Sport in New Novel
Enniskillen-born author Jason Johnson publishes allegorical novel with Liberties Press -
Pick ’n Mix Fiction
Award-winning writer Caroline Healy on her debut novel Blood Entwines and ‘writing about everything’ -
Miriam Gamble's Nature
As the John Hewitt International Summer School continues, the poet discusses her latest collection, The Squirrels Are Dead -
Leon McCarron Follows The Road Headed West
The filmmaker and adventurer's thrilling memoir describes his bicycle road-trip across North America -
Seamus Heaney's Five Fables App Launches
New iPad app makes an interactive experience of the late Nobel laureate's sparkling translations -
Paula Cunningham's Heimlich’s Manoeuvre
The poet's latest collection is a meditation on the joys of dentistry and her Omagh upbringing