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Martina Devlin
Out To Lunch festival goers come out in force to hear the story of Ireland's final conviction for witchcraft -
Malcolm Orange Disappears at Brussels Platforms
Novelist Jan Carson and singer-songwriter Hannah McPhillimy collaborate for Arts Council of Northern Ireland showcase -
The House Where It Happened
Martina Devlin spins an eerie tale around Ireland's last witchcraft trail -
Construction Begins on Seamus Heaney Centre
£4m development offers creative haven for the arts in Bellaghy, birthplace of the famed poet -
Colin Bateman
Crime writer, screenwriter, children's author – Bangor's finest delivers words of wisdom in Ballycastle -
11,500 Signatures for the Arts
Deputy First Minister receives 13p For The Arts petition, while business leaders voice their support -
Lines of Vision
Writers respond to paintings in the National Gallery and reveal true value of the arts -
Eimear McBride on A Girl Is A Half-Formed Thing
'Publishers should stop patronising readers.' The new author on the remarkable success of her experimental debut novel -
Mickey Finn's Air
Gerald Dawe's new collection takes the reader on flights of nostalgic fancy -
Support the 13p For The Arts Campaign
Culture NI urges users to back Arts Council of Northern Ireland's 'No More Cuts to the Arts' campaign -
Sam Burnside Publishes Mrs Nettlebed's Year
Derry author encourages intergenerational reading with new book based around the seasons -
Annemarie Neary Scoops Award
Newry writer wins 2014 Michael McLaverty Short Story Award, and a cheque for £2,000, with 'Upstairs' -
Poetry Ireland Review
Latest issue sees a range of contemporary poets writing about their favourite Seamus Heaney poems -
Jane Hardy Attempts Writing for Children
Our reporter takes practical tips from author Sheena Wilkinson at an eye-opening workshop at the CS Lewis Festival -
Open Mic for Young Writers at Ulster Hall
Author Jan Carson encourages a new generation of aspiring scribes to take the plunge -
Belfast Days
Excerpts from Eimear O'Callaghan's teenage diary written at the height of the Troubles in 1972 -
Bard of Armagh Returns on November 21
Poets from Ireland and beyond limber up for the annual festival of humorous verse at Armagh City Hotel on November 21 -
New Book Tours Weird Belfast
Reggie Chamberlain-King's new book, published by Blackstaff Press, is chock-a-block with odd adverts, sensational songs and all manner of ghosts -
The Stairwell
Michael Longley considers mortality in his new collection shortlisted for the TS Eliot Prize -
The Man, The Myth & The Wardrobe
Filmmaker Moore Sinnerton dissects the life and work of the iconic author at the 2014 CS Lewis Festival -
Michael Longley Shortlisted for TS Eliot Prize
Belfast poet makes the cut with 2014 collection The Stairwell -
The Simpsons & Mathematics
Ahead of his lecture at the Black Box, author Simon Singh writes about secret equations in Halloween episodes -
Stewart Parker Memorial Lecture
Award-winning actor Adrian Dunbar commemorates the late playwright at the Belfast Festival -
The Goose Tree
Moyra Donaldson takes stock of a life in letters and finds solace in nature -
Where They Lie
Mary O'Donnell's fourth novel is a darkly passionate tribute to the Disappeared -
Considerations #1
Poet and playwright Damian Gorman begins new nine-part video series featuring readings of new poems -
The Wide Justice at NI Mental Health Arts Festival
Greek myth inspires collaborative poetry and painting exhibition at the Linen Hall Library in Belfast -
Flann O'Brien Literary Festival
Strabane honours its most famous son, the certified comic genius, with a series of events from October 3 - 4 -
Martin Bell
Acclaimed war correspondent on learning his craft in Troubles-era Northern Ireland -
Bangor Literary Tour
Kenneth Irvine traverses the 'Cradle of Modern Irish Literature' with poetry, song and not a few tenuous links -
Finding Finaghy Memoir Reveals Bygone Belfast
Artist David Gepp embraces prose in this intensely visual memoir of life growing up in post-Second World War Belfast -
My Heaney
'When terrible things happen, we go to the poets.' Broadcaster Seamus McKee reads at On Home Ground -
On Home Ground
Claire Savage takes in poetry, music and the debut public reading by children's author DD Everest -
Milltown Cemetery
Tom Hartley writes a richly complex history of the Belfast graveyard -
Tony Macaulay on Writing All Growed Up
Ahead of his appearance at the Aspects Irish Literature Festival, the Belfast author considers the process of writing memoir -
The Blame
Michael Nolan's novella in and about modern Belfast is satisfyingly ambiguous and hints at greater things -
Aspects Irish Literature Festival 2014
Terry Blain takes in the 2014 programme from a deckchair overlooking Bangor marina -
On Home Ground Festival Commemorates Seamus Heaney
Nuala McAllister Hart peruses the literary festival programme dedicated to the late Seamus Heaney -
War Words
Genevieve Swift and Andrew Eaton read original compositions and archived material at PRONI -
Drinking Becomes Sport in New Novel
Enniskillen-born author Jason Johnson publishes allegorical novel with Liberties Press -
Bathed In Lightning
The life and legacy of guitarist John McLaughlin explored in Colin Harper's monumental new biography -
Pick ’n Mix Fiction
Award-winning writer Caroline Healy on her debut novel Blood Entwines and ‘writing about everything’ -
John Hewitt
Maureen Boyle attends a range of events at the International Summer School in Armagh -
Miriam Gamble's Nature
As the John Hewitt International Summer School continues, the poet discusses her latest collection, The Squirrels Are Dead -
Creggan Writers' Showcase
Guildhall Press invite a diverse range of writers to read in Derry~Londonderry -
Home Words
The Public Record Office celebrate the life and work of poet, activist and mentor John Hewitt -
Malcolm Orange Disappears
Jan Carson's debut novel is a magical realist adventure that fizzes with life -
Leon McCarron Follows The Road Headed West
The filmmaker and adventurer's thrilling memoir describes his bicycle road-trip across North America -
Seamus Heaney's Five Fables App Launches
New iPad app makes an interactive experience of the late Nobel laureate's sparkling translations -
Romancing Ireland
Paul Clements' biography of Richard Hayward reveals a forgotten renaissance man -
Paula Cunningham's Heimlich’s Manoeuvre
The poet's latest collection is a meditation on the joys of dentistry and her Omagh upbringing -
Breaking the Silence
Former Israeli soldier turned peace campaigner Yehuda Shaul speaks from the heart at the Black Box -
Jonathan Meades
The inimitable architecture and food critic revels in language and sardonic wit at the Crescent Arts Centre -
The Pigeon Men
Felicity McCall bravely tackles the subject of child abuse in this compelling but disturbing novella -
The Incubator
New literary journal launches at the Black Box in Belfast with readings from featured writers -
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 -
PJ O'Rourke
American conservative satirist holds court on the baby boom generation at Ulster Museum for the Hay Festival of Literature -
Bernie McGill Shortlisted
Portstewart author nominated for Edge Hill Short Story Prize for recent collection Sleepwalkers
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