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  • Scroobius Pip

    The Poetry Chicks' Abby Oliveira supports the London-based poet and hip hop artist at Out To Lunch. 'Think Hemingway in a hoodie'

  • To Publish Fiction, or Not to Publish Fiction?

    Literary agent Susan Feldstein laments the lack of opportunities for new writers in a celebrity-obsessed industry

  • Painting Meets Poetry

    A forthcoming afternoon poetry reading at the Ulster Museum, featuring Michael Longley, is inspired by artist John Luke and poet John Hewitt

  • Changing Times

    Peter Smyth fails to confront the political inequalities that characterised our wee country during the 1950s

  • Stewart Parker A Life

    Marilynn Richtarik's definitive biography pays tribute to the 'greatest playwright the city of Belfast has ever produced'

  • Selecting Moyra Donaldson

    At what stage in a career is it prudent to publish a retrospective of your work? The poet from Newtownards let others decide

  • Ciaran Carson

    The multilingual poet, author and musician describes surviving a stray bullet as 'happenstance' and muses on aislings, Asimov and other worlds

  • Belfast The Emerging City

    15 academics explain the city's rise to industrial prominence, but author Glenn Patterson's contribution wins out

  • A Verse to Murder

    Belfast's salacious literary scene provides the backdrop for Tony Bailie's latest crime story, which is short, sharp and sleazy

  • To Call Myself Beloved - Eina McHugh on a Very Personal Memoir

    Following the bombing of her family home during the Troubles, Eina McHugh spent years in therapy. Her new memoir details a very personal journey

  • Lionel Shriver: 'I Find Solace in Physics'

    The author of We Need to Talk About Kevin on Raynaud's disease, what happens when we die and being humbled by the writers on Breaking Bad

  • Belfast 400: People, Place and History

    Read an extract from the glossy new history and discover how visual artists, playwrights and authors depicted the city up until the 1960s  

  • Stewart Parker: A Life - Listen to a Reading

    Listen to academic and author Marilynn Richtarik read from her 'definitive' biography of the late Belfast playwright

  • Tony Bailie's A Verse to Murder

    The Belfast-based poet and crime writer ventures away from Lagan Press to dip his toe into self-publishing

  • Carlo Gebler: My Desert Island Book Collection

    Author Carlo Gebler intuitively choses fiction as a mirror unto the self as the World Literature series continues at Queen's University

  • A Sudden Sun

    A 'poignant and powerful' examination of bereavement in a changing Derry City by author Dave Duggan

  • In The Light of Ciaran Carson

    The Belfast poet on etymology, translations and his new collection of poems after the French master Arthur Rimbaud

  • Be My Enemy

    The second instalment in Ian McDonald's Infundibulum series for young adults is a riveting ride through time and space

  • The Art of Historical Fiction

    After Hilary Mantel scooped the Booker Prize for the second time, author Andrew Pepper considers the form that continues to intrigue

  • Gerald Dawe on Jazz and the Belfast Festival

    The Belfast writer and poet recalls falling in love with the form and seeing the stars perform at Queen's University

  • Kicking the Black Mamba

    Robert Welch's moving account of his alcoholic son's death 'should be on every school curriculum'

  • Paper: An Elegy

    In his new book, author Ian Sansom explores the history of paper – and gives a talk on the subject at PRONI on October 30 for the Belfast Festival at Queen's

  • Belfast Festival: Peter Hitchens

    The veteran rightwing journalist on abortion, Direct Rule and the perceived lack of drug law enforcement in the UK

  • From Farquhar to Field Day

    Nuala McCallister Hart recalls three centuries of music and theatre in Derry~Londonderry

  • Six Book Challenge

    Valerie Nicholson of Libraries NI encourages 'lapsed, reluctant or struggling' readers to pick up a book – or six

  • Poets Are Eaten as a Delicacy in Japan

    Read an extract from Belfast author Tara West's new ebook, the story of 'one woman’s struggle to stop falling apart'

  • The Third Policeman Comes to Bangor

    Belfast composer Colin Reid scores Flann O'Brien's surreal masterpiece. Listen to an extract narrated by Stephen Rea

  • Belfast Taxi

    A cast of colourful characters feature in Lee Henry's 'brilliantly researched root and branch history of taxiing in Belfast'

  • E-Publishing With Rebecca Reid

    The Bangor-based model turned author enlisted the help of painter Neil Shawcross for first e-book release

  • Fifty Shades of Red, White and Blue

    Leesa Harker's Ulster parody of the EL James bestseller has been snapped up by Blackstaff Press

  • Continuing Communities

    The 'significant contribution' made by artists to life in Belfast celebrated at Queen's University with new series of courses

  • Benedict Kiely Literary Weekend

    Jenny Cathcart meets the authors scheduled to read at the 11th edition in the Strule Arts Centre in Omagh

  • Happy Days

    Enniskillen is 'enriched, educated and entertained by the spirit and the words' of Samuel Beckett

  • The Decline of the Irish Murder

    Author and performer Reggie Chamberlain-King on crime and punishment in fiction and song

  • Orion

    Rosie Johnston's story of Orion the hunter is 'an epic poem in the classical tradition', writes Louise Richardson

  • Damned to Fame

    Biographer James Knowlson, whom Samuel Beckett described as 'the one who knows my work best', prepares to read in Enniskillen

  • Pass It On Belfast Encourages New Readers

    The book sharing programme – initially started as a waste reduction scheme – has expanded to venues across the city

  • Disappeared

    Crime author Gayle Curtis is shocked and informed by Anthony Quinn's journey into the dark heart of the Troubles

  • The Decline of the Irish Murder

    Musician and writer Reggie Chamberlain-King has fun with intellectuals at the Ulster Hall 

  • On My Own Two Wheels

    Diagnosed with diabetes at 60, Malachi O'Doherty returned to cycling. His thoughts on the subject are inspiring

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