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MY CULTURAL LIFE: Felicity McCall
The Derry~Londonderry author on her Young Adult debut, social networking and the benefits of a Donegal beach -
RISING STAR: Annemarie Neary
Newry author talks about her debut novel, Venice and 'a mad robin who gets going around midnight' -
Why Are We Interested in Titanic?
Fionola Meredith talks to her father, Titanic author Michael McCaughan, about our continued fascination with the doomed liner -
Claire McGowan, the Accidental Crime Writer
Debut novelist takes on the tough topics of race, murder and class in The Fall -
My Cultural Life: Malachy Doyle
The children's author on button boxes, reading in public and living on an island 'off the edge of Donegal' -
Poet Miriam Gamble on New Beginnings
After the move to Glasgow the self-confessed perfectionist on political poetry and the allure of debut collections -
Armagh Writer Launches New Novel
Darran McCann on the increasing popularity of historical fiction and hearing stories in pubs -
Blackbird Book Club: Bernard MacLaverty
Watch video of the Belfast-born author reading from his novel The Anatomy School -
Colin Bateman, Class Clown
The crime author has re-published a children's novel and plans to tour schools throughout Northern Ireland -
Dickens 2012 NI Festival Launch
Listen to a podcast featuring performances by the Belfast Pickwick Players and actress Rosie Pelan -
Literary Lunchtime Readings at The Ulster Hall
Four lunchtime readings showcasing works by celebrated Irish writers -
Sam Burnside MBE
Poet and founder of the Verbal Arts Centre receives New Year honour -
Charles Dickens in Belfast
In the author's bicentenary year, John Gray looks back on his visits to Ireland -
2011: A Year in the Arts
Fionola Meredith looks back on a successful funding campaign and a whole host of stand out events -
Author Tara West: I Relent, I Want an E-Reader For Xmas
Technophobe author bows to the inevitable and sets aside her paperback -
Neil Powell's Search Dogs and Me
New book charts rescue expert's extraordinary missions, from Lockerbie to the Mourne Mountains -
Crime Writer Gerard Brennan is a Wee Rocket
Belfast author Gerard Brennan sells two books to Blasted Heath e-publisher. Listen to a reading here -
Derry Says Hi to Zombies
Issue four of Derry-Londonderry's newest cult comic launches at the Verbal Arts Centre -
CS Lewis Centre Opens in Belmont Tower
The creator of the Narnia series is celebrated with permanent exhibition -
Blackstaff Launch eBook List
The Belfast-based publisher celebrates their 40th anniversary by joining the ebook revolution -
Blackbird Book Club: Carlo Gebler
Watch video of the author reading from his latest novel, The Dead Eight, at Queen's University -
May, Lou & Cass: Jane Austen's Nieces in Ireland
Author Sophia Hillan on the three women whose lives repeated the passions and travails of their aunt's novels -
PODCAST: Children of the Revolution
John Gray talks with author Bill Rolston about interviewing the children of paramilitary combatants -
Belfast Launches TitanCon
Fantasy authors, comic artists and Game of Thrones actors 'aren't the geeky things they used to be' -
Northern Ireland's First Discworld Board Game
David Brashaw on the process of turning Terry Pratchett's Guards! Guards! into a game -
My Cultural Life: Nick Laird
'A Cookstown skinnymalink mumbling for a bit' - Nick Laird warns his Aspects audience what to expect. -
The Sexual Stereotyping of the Heterosexual Male Part II
Malachi O'Doherty gives his views ahead of the Belfast Festival debate. -
The Sexual Stereotyping of the Heterosexual Male Part I
Carlo Gebler gives his views on the modern man ahead of the Belfast Festival debate -
Heroes in the Dark House
Curator Terry Sweeney brings great writers and great artists in this celebration of writers past and present -
Medbh McGuckian on Sex Appeal and Poetry
Before her Aspects reading, the poet seeks inspiration from Beyoncé -
Blackbird Book Club Returns to Queen's
Northern Ireland literati set to read for students on the Open Learning course -
Leontia Flynn's Profit and Loss
The poet talks about her latest collection, gothic madness and celebrating ordinary things -
Literary Bangor Audio Tour
Listen to expert Kenneth Irvine trace the literary history of the town by the lough as the 2013 Aspects Irish Literature Festival approaches -
Literary Belfast Launches With Gala Evening
New website, iPhone app, tours and exhibitions to be launched in the Ulster Hall -
Michael O'Loughlin, In This Life
The poet on democratic impotence, filial piety and being critical of everything -
Derry Illustrator Launches Digital Kids Book
Illustrator Trisha Deery's Miss Rosie Red goes interactive -
Sebastian Barry on Being Nominated for the Booker
History and the creative contest continue to inspire the Dublin author -
Nicola Pierce is No Ghost Writer With Spirit of the Titanic
Children's author had prior experience with ghosts. Listen to a reading from chapter one below -
Long Time, No See, Dermot Healy
It's been 11 years since his last book – are you up to the challenge? -
Kei Miller's Glaswegian Adventure
Ahead of his appearance at the John Hewitt International Summer School, the Jamaican author on plantains and poetry
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