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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 -
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 -
Six Book Challenge
Valerie Nicholson of Libraries NI encourages 'lapsed, reluctant or struggling' readers to pick up a book – or six -
E-Publishing With Rebecca Reid
The Bangor-based model turned author enlisted the help of painter Neil Shawcross for first e-book release -
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 -
The Decline of the Irish Murder
Musician and writer Reggie Chamberlain-King has fun with intellectuals at the Ulster Hall -
A Dark Dawn in Belfast
Author Matt McGuire might have moved to Australia, but his debut novel is rooted in his home town of Belfast -
The Busts and Bonces of Belfast's Buildings
Author Daniel Jewesbury's Talking Heads 'walking narrative' is part of the 'Poets and Players, Dockers and Dreamers' festival -
David Park and the 'Post-Troubles' Novel
The author of The Light of Amsterdam says he'll never write anything on the Troubles again -
Sinéad Morrissey, A Giant of Poetry
Receiving the Major Individual Artist Award from the Arts Council of Northern Ireland has allowed the poet time to dream -
My Cultural Life: Barry Cassin
The actor, director and now memoirist on his long career, his family and the one role he'd still love to play -
Lucy Caldwell is a Major Artist
An award from the Arts Council let the Belfast author write her new book in six months, not six years -
The Hay Festival In Belfast
Authors Martin Amis and David Grossman are coming to the Lyric Theatre to talk about their very different novels -
The Writer Who Could See Demons
Carolyn Jess-Cooke's books are full of angels and demons, but the writer rejects being pigeon-holed as 'strictly' a fantasy author -
Anne Tannahill Judges Michael McLaverty Competition
The former Blackstaff Press managing director on keeping an open mind and looking for the unexpected -
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' -
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' -
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 -
Blackstaff Launch eBook List
The Belfast-based publisher celebrates their 40th anniversary by joining the ebook revolution -
Northern Ireland's First Discworld Board Game
David Brashaw on the process of turning Terry Pratchett's Guards! Guards! into a game -
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 -
Aspects Irish Literature Festival Launches
Authors prepare for a week of words in Bangor -
Anne-Marie Quigg on Art Bullies
A new book from Gower Publishing uncovers the seedy underbelly of art bullies -
Martin Mooney Launches a New Poetry Collection
The poet talks about the dearth of paper publishing, his unseemly interests and masochistic radio habits -
Americana and Anne-Marie Fyfe
Listen to two poems from Fyfe's new collection, Understudies, and discover how America has shaped her work -
Sheena Wilkinson Wins Literary Gong
Northern Irish author scoops two awards in the Bisto Children's Book of the Year Awards -
The Belfast Blitz from the Bottom Up
Stephen Douds writes a history of the Belfast Blitz using the 'voices of ordinary people' -
CS Lewis: Beginnings in a Belfast Garden
Listen to a podcast featuring Lewis expert Sandy Smith and discover the iconography of Narnia inspired by Belfast landmarks -
CS Lewis: It All Began With a Picture
Listen to a podcast featuring Lewis expert Sandy Smith and discover how Lewis’s Belfast homes influenced his writing career -
The Early Life of CS Lewis
Listen to a podcast featuring Lewis expert Sandy Smith and discover how Lewis’s early life in Belfast influenced the Narnia works -
An 'In-Life Sat-Nav', Anyone?
Listen to a reading by author Amanda Brobyn and find out why she doesn't need a psychic to tell the future is bright -
American Artist Asks: Why Belfast?
Watch an online exhibition featuring photographs and testimonies from emigrants in the city, from Why Belfast? -
Maria Fusco and The Mechanical Copula
Author and Director of Art Writing at Goldsmiths enjoys the art of book publishing, but remains wary of the e-reader revolution -
Free The Irish Giant!
Poet Moyra Donaldson's new collection takes inspiration from the freaks and geeks of the 18th century -
Moyra Donaldson's Miracle Fruit
Poet explores 'freakery' and loss in new collection -
Colm O'Gorman
The campaigner against institutional abuse prepares for his Amnesty International lecture -
Chris Binchy
Maeve Binchy's nephew claims that being a writer is a lot like being a chef -
Colin Bateman
The crime writer turns his hand to theatre writing and releases a new novel. Watch an interview, featuring a reading from Dr Yes, below -
Taking Flight
Sheena Wilkinson writers Young Adult, but she doesn't do pink, soppy, girly or undead in her latest novel -
Benedict Kiely Literary Weekend
Anthony Glavin remembers the author, his friend, and talks about this year's theme 'The Shortest Way Home' -
RISING STAR: Jamie Guiney
E-published author Jamie Guiney says that e-books are the 'wave of the future' -
Queen's University Open Learning
Read with the Blackbird Bookclub and celebrate contemporary Northern Irish work at Queen's -
INTERVIEW: Damian Smyth
'There is no I in poet,' says the scribe from County Down -
BooksNI
A new website selling books from Northern Ireland online -
Joan Lingard
The Linen Hall Library marks the 40th anniversary of Joan Lingard's The Twelfth Day of July with an exhibition of her work -
INTERVIEW: Margaret Irish
Award-winning writer takes a gothic turn in Ravine, but don't call it horror -
INTERVIEW: Chris Agee
For Chris Agee artistic success meant Next to Nothing after the death of his daughter, but the habit of poetry supported him through his loss -
INTERVIEW: Jaki McCarrick
Gothic playwright Jaki McCarrick turns a childhood memory of a brutal murder into an award-winning play -
The Life and Times of the Living Dead
Zombie horror author Wayne Simmons and Susan Picken of QFT discuss their favourite genre ahead of The Life and Times of the Living Dead weekend at Queens Film Theatre -
My Cultural Life: Brian McGilloway
Author of The Rising on Tom Waits, The Great Gatsby and overcoming rejection -
Tim Brannigan
When Tim Brannigan was a year old he was adopted by his birth mother. In Where are you Really From? he talks about jail, growing up in Belfast and his mother's audacious plan to keep him -
INTERVIEW: Gerard Brennan
Does the webmaster of Crimescene NI have a dark side? Find out as he collaborates with some of Northern Ireland's biggest crime-writers in the anthology, Requiems for the Departed -
INTERVIEW: Michael Shannon
The Theatre might be Accidental but writer Michael Shannon's success isn't -
My Cultural Life: James Gracey
The Belfast author on schlocky horror, 'torture porn' and his new book on the Godfather of Gore film-maker Dario Argento -
Paul Kearney
Ballymena-born fantasy author Paul Kearney's Spartan inspired military fantasy keeps marching on -
John Thompson's Desert Island Texts
A literary afternoon delight, if not quite what Glenn Patterson was expecting -
INTERVIEW: Bernie McGill
The Portstewart playwright turns novelist, with a debut novel The Butterfly Cabinet. Click play for an exclusive reading. -
Garbhan Downey - The American Envoy
'Ireland is full of greasy little bagmen, posing as consultants, who’ll get you a face-to-face with a minister for twenty grand... Politics here is crooked and criminal, and it’s why I write fiction'
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