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Translink Haiku Competition
Travel network invites commuters to submit miniature poems for nationwide writing competition -
Dave Duggan Publishes Verse Drama Denizen
Derry writer's ambitious new work is a written response to the dissident philosophy from a citizen’s perspective -
Write Fight at Belfast Book Festival
Paul Doran and Ray McGahan, editors of The Bear literary website, square up for a brawl at the Black Box -
Bernie McGill Shortlisted
Portstewart author nominated for Edge Hill Short Story Prize for recent collection Sleepwalkers -
Poetry NI Online Resource Launched
Founder Colin Dardis on providing a platform for new writers and launching Pen Points Press at Belfast Book Festival -
Writers on Writers Festival
Belfast's Linen Hall Library presents inaugural four-day festival featuring playwrights, novelists, poets and more until May 15 -
One City One Book 2014
Author David Park on the 'feminist impulse' behind The Poets' Wives, the focus of a month-long reading initiative -
Extract: Martha's Girls
Author Arlene Hughes's semi-autobiographical novel recalls Easter in Belfast during the Second World War -
Sam McAughtry: An Appreciation
Anne Tannahill, former managing director of Blackstaff Press, remembers the warmth and wit of the late writer -
My Bookish Friends Reading Initiative
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' -
Queen's Commemorate Heaney
Four-day conference features readings and more to mark the late Nobel Prize-winner's 75th birthday -
Humdinger! Children’s Book Festival
Dog Ears' second festival of storytelling in Derry~Londonderry has a new focus on outreach -
Seamus Heaney's Five Fables
BBC Two Northern Ireland to screen series of animated translations voiced by Billy Connolly -
Investigating Brian McGilloway
Creativity Month writer-in-residence on writing crime fiction, reading habits and being inspired by knock backs -
Michael McLaverty Short Story Award
Linen Hall Library launch biennial literary competition worth £2,000 -
Creativity Month: Libraries NI
An exciting and diverse range of free events in Libraries across NI -
What's Your Perfect Library?
Libraries NI seeks nominations from readers to compile a collection of the country's best-loved novels -
And The BAFTA Goes To...
Glenn Patterson on being nominated for Good Vibrations and writing his new novel The Rest Just Follows -
Meeting Author Jan Carson
One of 15 recipients of the Arts Council of Northern Ireland's ACES awards on writing for the love of it -
John Hewitt's A North Light Extract
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) -
360º Script Writing Festival
Tinderbox and BBC Northern Ireland collaborate to give aspiring writers free advice from January 22-24 -
Sinéad Morrissey Wins TS Eliot Prize
The Belfast poet laureate is awarded the prestigious prize for her latest collection Parallax -
Burns: The Belfast Connection
Belfast's Linen Hall Library celebrates the famed Scots poet Robert Burns ahead of Burns Night on January 25 -
Video: Vincent Dargan's 'The Falls'
Watch video as the writer and photographer discusses his new visual history published by Blackstaff Press -
Out To Lunch 2014
The affordable art festival returns to Belfast's Cathedral Quarter from January 2 - 26 -
Wireless Mystery Theatre's A Christmas Carol
Reggie Chamberlain-King of Wireless Mystery Theatre on reprising Dickens' story for the Island Arts Centre -
Publishing Pure Derry
Founder Keyser O'Shea on the importance of satire, social media and publishing a book with Blackstaff Press -
Belfast Central Library Celebrates 125th Birthday
The august institution celebrates a landmark anniversary with year-long programme of events -
Collecting Owen McCafferty
As Faber & Faber publish five of his greatest plays, the Belfast native looks to the future -
CS Lewis Festival Launches
East Belfast Partnership and Belfast City Council celebrate the acclaimed author from November 11 – 18 -
Literary Lunchtimes Continue
The Ulster Hall plays host to a wide variety of authors in the run up to Christmas 2013 -
Stewart Parker Retrospective
Queen's University host a series of talks, readings and performances dedicated to the acclaimed Belfast playwright -
The Mildly Erotic Poetry Tour
Publisher Emma Wright promotes her new anthology of erotic verse at Bookfinders Café -
Belfast by Moonlight
Author Carlo Gebler on evocking bygone Belfast for a new play debuting at the Belfast Festival at Queen's -
Libraries NI Festival of Words
19 libraries across Northern Ireland hold a wide variety of free events aimed at increasing library memberships -
Roald Dahl Day Comes to Omagh
Omagh's Strule Arts Centre celebrates the childrens author with a new production of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory -
Canal Laureate Jo Bell Reads 'Lighter'
Canal Laureate Jo Bell helps Lagan Canal Trust to celebrate Northern Ireland's disused waterways -
The Return of the Buffalo
Moy poet Deirdre Cartmill releases a new collection partly inspired by the Native American experience -
Seamus Heaney (1939 – 2013)
Lee Henry recalls spending time with the poet in his Dublin home, and learning of a Mournes connection -
Meeting at Menin Gate
Martin Lynch discusses his changing technique and 'intensely personal' new play, the third and final part of the Ulster Trilogy
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