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Linen Hall Library celebrates a century of women writers in memory of Christina Reid with this year's series of talks, workshops and performances
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Linen Hall Library launch the biennial competition offering writers the chance to win one of Irish literature's top prizes
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Paul McVeigh's debut novel The Good Son will be the literary focus of the milestone 50th Brighton Festival
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A round-up of the best literary events, readings and festivals taking place throughout the next month
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New memoir tells of late actor Jimmy Ellis' fight against theatre censorship in 1950s Belfast. Listen to an extract read by longtime friend Adrian Dunbar
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Round-up of the best literary events, readings and festivals taking place throughout the next month
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'The Snowdrops' is taken from the award-winning Belfast poet's new illustrated collection Sea Asters
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The celebrated festival returns to Derry with illustrator Nick Sharratt, comedian David O'Doherty and more hosting fun family events from March 23 - 28
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One-day literary celebration encourages aspiring writers of all ages in Derry
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A century after his birth, a new biography and exhibition of artefacts will give a definitive account of the celebrated singer's life in show business
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Glenn Patterson, Jan Carson and Colin Dardis imagine life as displaced people around the world, as part of Oxfam Ireland exhibition touring NI libraries
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Give the gift of reading as Damian Smyth selects some of the best works published by local writers over the past 12 months
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Derry writer produces new limited-edition novelette in the space of a month, making for a perfect last-minute stocking filler
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Linen Hall Library names Cork writer Kevin Doyle as biennial competition winner with runners up Ciarán Folan and Sinéad Slattery
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Bellaghy's newly opened literary centre will follow this year's national celebration with three days of classical music, talks and recitals
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Red Barn Gallery exhibition traces the origins of Ireland's famous moniker through the poetry of William Drennan
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A round-up of the best literary events, readings and festivals taking place throughout the next month
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A round-up of the best literary events, readings and festivals taking place throughout the next month
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A round-up of the best literary events, readings and festivals taking place throughout the next month
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One of Ireland's leading contemporary poets, Paul Muldoon is back in Armagh for prestigious John Hewitt International Summer School
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Get an early taste of the Irish literary journal's new issue with an exclusive piece of flash fiction by Dublin writer Nollaig Rowan
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Huge numbers of artists, cultural organisations and users call for funding to be reinstated to Culture NI website – we hand over your views
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Award-winning novelist and playwright 'dismayed' to hear of popular arts website's imminent closure, and rues the loss of 'an invaluable resource'
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Acclaimed novelist praises popular arts website for 'energetically highlighting the work of new artists across all genres... I am personally indebted to it'
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Paul Hippsley, managing editor of the Derry-based publishing house, releases statement following news that the Arts Council of Northern Ireland have withdrawn its funding
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Novelist Jan Carson and singer-songwriter Hannah McPhillimy collaborate for Arts Council of Northern Ireland showcase
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£4m development offers creative haven for the arts in Bellaghy, birthplace of the famed poet
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Deputy First Minister receives 13p For The Arts petition, while business leaders voice their support
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Newry writer wins 2014 Michael McLaverty Short Story Award, and a cheque for £2,000, with 'Upstairs'
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Belfast poet makes the cut with 2014 collection The Stairwell
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Poet and playwright Damian Gorman begins new nine-part video series featuring readings of new poems
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Travel network invites commuters to submit miniature poems for nationwide writing competition
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Portstewart author nominated for Edge Hill Short Story Prize for recent collection Sleepwalkers
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Four-day conference features readings and more to mark the late Nobel Prize-winner's 75th birthday
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BBC Two Northern Ireland to screen series of animated translations voiced by Billy Connolly
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Linen Hall Library launch biennial literary competition worth £2,000
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An exciting and diverse range of free events in Libraries across NI
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Libraries NI seeks nominations from readers to compile a collection of the country's best-loved novels
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One of 15 recipients of the Arts Council of Northern Ireland's ACES awards on writing for the love of it
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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)
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The Belfast poet laureate is awarded the prestigious prize for her latest collection Parallax
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The affordable art festival returns to Belfast's Cathedral Quarter from January 2 - 26
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East Belfast Partnership and Belfast City Council celebrate the acclaimed author from November 11 – 18
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The Ulster Hall plays host to a wide variety of authors in the run up to Christmas 2013
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Queen's University host a series of talks, readings and performances dedicated to the acclaimed Belfast playwright
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Publisher Emma Wright promotes her new anthology of erotic verse at Bookfinders Café
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19 libraries across Northern Ireland hold a wide variety of free events aimed at increasing library memberships
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Canal Laureate Jo Bell helps Lagan Canal Trust to celebrate Northern Ireland's disused waterways
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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
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Lord Mayor unveils Queen's University professor as the inaugural poet for the city
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Belfast-based poet Sinéad Morrissey's Parallax is one of five books shortlisted for best collection
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The festival dedicated to Samuel Beckett returns to Enniskillen from August 22. View the full programme
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View the 2013 festival programme and plan your literary wanderings this June
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Innovative new digital publishers releases Bernie McGill short story collection, Sleepwalkers, as ebook
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Author Lucy Caldwell curates a week of screenings at Queen's Film Theatre that explore the connection between film and literature
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The Australian-born director of the Prison Arts Foundation passes away suddenly aged 60
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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
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Novelist Lucy Caldwell discusses her latest novel, chosen as the focus for the One City One Book Belfast reading initiative
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Australians Alison Lester and Boori Monty Pryor give workshops in Belfast and Derry~Londonderry during Easter for the Story, Book, Grow initiative
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Watch video featuring the Belfast author reading from the follow-up to his tremendously successful 2010 memoir, Paperboy
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