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  • Forward Prize for Poetry Nominees Announced

    Belfast-based poet Sinéad Morrissey's Parallax is one of five books shortlisted for best collection

  • Short Story: Soundtrack to Our Lives

    Read a short story from a new anthology inspired by music and written by students from Derry~Londonderry

  • Happy Days Beckett Festival Launches

    The festival dedicated to Samuel Beckett returns to Enniskillen from August 22. View the full programme

  • The Yard Playwrights

    Tom Thompson on how the Belfast shipyards informed the work of Thomas Carnduff, Sam Thompson and Wilson John Haire

  • Jay Rayner

    The restaurant critic holds court in Belfast's Crescent Arts Centre. His style is not to Fionola Meredith's taste

  • Author Deirdre Madden Releases Time Present and Time Past

    Deirdre Madden explores how old photographs can stir long-forgotten memories in her latest novel. 'It really challenged ideas I had about the past'

  • Belfast Book Festival

    View the 2013 festival programme and plan your literary wanderings this June

  • Grounded

    Sheena Wilkinson's award-winning novel is 'devastating and beautifully written'

  • The Story of Amelia Earhart Retold in Graphic Novel

    Derry~Londonderry's Joe Campbell retells the aviator's story in comic book form. 'These stories can now emerge'

  • The Beats at QFT

    Kerouac, Ginsberg, Borroughs and others are the focus of a series of film screenings as part of the Belfast Book Festival

  • Jon Ronson

    The acclaimed author and 'chronicler of the human condition' waxes lyrical in Derry~Londonderry

  • One Night Only with Author Emma Heatherington

    The County Tyrone author talks about her latest novel, juggling jobs and using Northern Ireland as a literary backdrop

  • TransAtlantic

    Colm McCann's epic new novel spans generations, focusing on historic crossings between Ireland the USA

  • One City One Book

    Composer Philip Hammond struggles to relate as Glenn Patterson spins vinyl from the Good Vibrations soundtrack

  • Whittrick Press Launches

    Innovative new digital publishers releases Bernie McGill short story collection, Sleepwalkers, as ebook

  • Will Self

    Absurdist jokes, ruminations on rambling and 'dizzying, synaesthetic' descriptions of London are the order of the day

  • Kerry Hardie

    County Down poet confronts death and embraces nature in a prose and poetry reading at the Crescent Arts Centre

  • One City One Book at QFT

    Author Lucy Caldwell curates a week of screenings at Queen's Film Theatre that explore the connection between film and literature

  • Obituary: Mike Moloney (1953 - 2013)

    The Australian-born director of the Prison Arts Foundation passes away suddenly aged 60

  • 100 Lucy Caldwell Books Hidden Around Belfast

    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

  • Julieann Campbell Sets the Truth Free in Derry~Londonderry

    Derry Journal reporter Julieann Campbell discusses her Ewart-Biggs Prize-winning book about the Bloody Sunday Justice Campaign

  • One City One Book: All the Beggars Riding

    Novelist Lucy Caldwell discusses her latest novel, chosen as the focus for the One City One Book Belfast reading initiative

  • Children's Laureates Tour Ireland

    Australians Alison Lester and Boori Monty Pryor give workshops in Belfast and Derry~Londonderry during Easter for the Story, Book, Grow initiative

  • The Lifeboat Readings

    Leontia Flynn and Sophie Collins continue a series of free readings on the Belfast Barge

  • Video – Author Tony Macaulay Reads from Breadboy

    Watch video featuring the Belfast author reading from the follow-up to his tremendously successful 2010 memoir, Paperboy

  • Author Sheena Wilkinson's Winning Ways

    The County Down author on writing dialogue whilst mucking out the horses and being indebted to the Arts Council of Northern Ireland

  • Humdinger!

    Quercus Ensemble and Roddy Doyle perform at the inaugural children's book festival in Derry~Londonderry
  • World Book Day 2015

    World Book Day: My Favourite Book

    A host of arts sector luminaries, including Lucy Caldwell, Ralph McLean and David Park, reveal their all-time favourite reads, from 'How Music Works' to 'David Copperfield'

  • Humdinger! Children's Book Festival in Derry~Londonderry

    Derry~Londonderry plays host to Roddy Doyle, Julia Donaldson, Rasta Mouse and many more from March 7 - 9

  • Medbh McGuckian, The High Caul Cap

    Belfast poet Medbh McGuckian came to terms with her mother's demise by writing her latest collection. Despite the limitations of the English language, she found catharsis in creativity

  • Libraries NI Celebrate Creativity Month

    Browse the full programme of events taking place in libraries across Northern Ireland during March 2013

  • Free Derry Protest and Resistance

    Adrian Kerr's history of protest and resistance in the maiden city 'is a valuable addition to the Troubles canon'

  • All the Beggars Riding - One City One Book Belfast

    Lucy Caldwell on her new novel, being the focus of the One City One Book Belfast reading initiative and steering clear of surgical procedures

  • Plath – A 50 Year Retrospective

    Academics commemorate the life and work of prolific writer and poet Sylvia Plath

  • One City One Book Belfast 2013

    Lucy Caldwell's new novel, All the Beggars Riding, will be the focus of a series of talks, tours and events to get people reading this May

  • The Loughsiders

    Shan Bullock's 1924 novel is republished by Turnpike Books, but is Bullock really 'the Thomas Hardy of Fermanagh'?

  • A Twisted Root

    Patricia Craig delves into her mixed Irish ancestry to discover Republican activists and the founder of the Orange Order

  • Reviving Shan Bullock

    James Doyle, founder of Turnpike Books, on reprinting the Fermanagh writer's final novel and his hopes to do the same with other 'lost' authors

  • Tom Paulin

    Initially hesitant, the once 'notoriously combative' critic, essayist and poet eventually finds his voice on a return visit to Belfast

  • Jenni Doherty's Rain Spill

    The Derry poet mines her love life, and stands up for the Northern Irish weather, in her latest collection published by Guildhall Press

  • 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

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