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Come on in to the 14th edition of The Belfast Book Festival - we’d love to see you in our beautiful South Belfast home - The Crescent Arts Centre. Click to explore the Festival by day: 6 – 13 June



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Development

1:1 Illustrator Clinics with Emma Layfield

Thursday 06 June 2024
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Development

Headshots @ The FunFair

Thursday 06 June 2024

Workshop

Tell it Slant: Magpie Techniques to Deepen & Layer Flash Fiction

Thursday 06 June 2024

Development

The Children’s Book Industry: How does it Work?

Thursday 06 June 2024

Panel

Literary Journals: A Panel Discussion

Thursday 06 June 2024

Development

The FunFair

Thursday 06 June 2024

Readings

Serendipity: A Reading with Bebe Ashley

Thursday 06 June 2024

Readings

Resilience: A Reading with Lucy Sweeney Byrne

Thursday 06 June 2024

Celebration

Mairtín Crawford Awards: Winners Announcement!

Thursday 06 June 2024

Non-Fiction

Womanhood & Experience: Eimear Ryan & Caroline Magennis

Thursday 06 June 2024

Words & Art

Late Night Art: Our Queer Lives: Katherine O’Donnell & Diarmuid Hester

Thursday 06 June 2024

Non-Fiction

AC Grayling: Who Owns the Moon?

Thursday 06 June 2024

Fiction

You Spin Me Round: Essays on Music: Wendy Erskine & Aingeala Flannery

Thursday 06 June 2024

Development

Society of Authors: Making a Living as a Writer

Friday 07 June 2024

Development

Society of Authors: The Business of Writing

Friday 07 June 2024
Online

Partner Event

Imagined Spaces Workshop Comes to Belfast: Writing Lands, Rivers & Seas

Friday 07 June 2024

Workshop

The Art of Poetry with Marie Howe

Friday 07 June 2024
Online

Partner Event

Pretty Ugly: Pretty Good Fun!

Friday 07 June 2024

Poetry

Belfast Invites: Scott McKendry & Rachael Allen in conversation

Friday 07 June 2024

Fiction

An Evening with Margaret Drabble: Hosted by Wendy Erskine

Friday 07 June 2024

Fiction

Colm Tóibín in conversation with Lucy Caldwell

Friday 07 June 2024
BYO

Poetry

Poetry Slam

Friday 07 June 2024

Family

Story Building Workshop with Paul Howard

Saturday 08 June 2024

Storytime

Little Fables: Storytime

Saturday 08 June 2024

Family

Facepainting

Saturday 08 June 2024

Family

Jacqueline Wilson

Saturday 08 June 2024

Write

Irish PEN/PEN na hÉireann

Saturday 08 June 2024

Workshop

Stories From The Periphery

Saturday 08 June 2024

Family

Fighting Words: Sharing of work

Saturday 08 June 2024

Family

New Picture Books: Colleen Larmour & Ashling Lindsay

Saturday 08 June 2024

Family

Martin Waddell: Exhibition Launch & Readings

Saturday 08 June 2024

Poetry

Marie Howe: Reading & Drinks Reception

Saturday 08 June 2024

Non-Fiction

Cocaine Cowboys: Nicola Tallant

Saturday 08 June 2024
Online

Partner Event

Exploring Oona: Alice Lyons

Saturday 08 June 2024

Book Club

Silent Book Club: Lit( erature) to the Tit

Sunday 09 June 2024

Write

Irish PEN/PEN na hÉireann

Sunday 09 June 2024

Partner Event

Accidental‘s Writers Corner

Sunday 09 June 2024

Music & Words

RTÉ Sunday Miscellany Live at Belfast Book Festival

Sunday 09 June 2024

Panel

Nature Writing & Creativity: M. Cannon, L. Parikian & C. McKinney

Sunday 09 June 2024

Partner Event

Accidental Artists Get Together

Sunday 09 June 2024

Fiction

Belfast Invites: Dawn Watson & Martina Evans

Sunday 09 June 2024

Readings

Irish Writers Centre: Young Writer Delegates Showcase

Sunday 09 June 2024

Fiction

Lucy Caldwell: Openings. In conversation with Kathy Clugston

Sunday 09 June 2024

Poetry

Moya Canon & Milena Williamson: Readings & Conversations

Sunday 09 June 2024

Non-Fiction

Suzi Ronson: My Life with David Bowie Hosted by Aine Cronin McCartney

Sunday 09 June 2024

Fiction

Belfast Invites: Jan Carson & Sophie White

Sunday 09 June 2024

Workshop

When Crime Pays with Martina Evans

Monday 10 June 2024

Write

Irish PEN/PEN na hÉireann

Monday 10 June 2024

Fiction

Debut Novels: Aimée Walsh & Niamh Mulvey

Monday 10 June 2024

Non-Fiction

Martin Doyle: The Troubles in My Home Place

Monday 10 June 2024

Fiction

Cecelia Ahern: In A Thousand Different Ways

Monday 10 June 2024

Fiction

Short Fiction: Maggie Armstrong & Thomas Morris

Monday 10 June 2024

Poetry

Belfast Invites: Miriam Gamble & Padraig Reagan

Monday 10 June 2024

Write

Irish PEN/PEN na hÉireann

Tuesday 11 June 2024

Fiction

Motherhood, Love & Identity: Pallavi Padma-Uday & Catherine Dunne

Tuesday 11 June 2024

Fiction

Sinéad Gleeson & Roisin Maguire in conversation with Henrietta McKervey

Tuesday 11 June 2024

Fiction

Agatha Christie’s Marple: Expert on Wickedness with Mark Aldridge

Tuesday 11 June 2024

Partner Event

Novels-in-the-Pipeline Series

Tuesday 11 June 2024

Celebration

The Crescent Writers Read

Tuesday 11 June 2024
BYO

Fiction

Agatha Quiztie: An Agatha Christie Trivia Night Hosted by Jan Carson

Tuesday 11 June 2024

Write

Irish PEN/PEN na hÉireann

Wednesday 12 June 2024

Celebration

Fighting Words Zine Launch: Happiness!

Wednesday 12 June 2024

Fiction

Elaine Feeney: How To Build A Boat

Wednesday 12 June 2024

Fiction

Kurdistan +100: Q&A hosted by Luciana De Mello

Wednesday 12 June 2024

Partner Event

Mexico & Below Book Group

Wednesday 12 June 2024

Poetry

Belfast Invites: Victoria Kennefick & Mícheál McCann

Wednesday 12 June 2024

Fiction

Sin Blaché & Cathy Sweeney: The Real Thing

Wednesday 12 June 2024

Write

Irish PEN/PEN na hÉireann

Thursday 13 June 2024

Fiction

Kevin Barry: The Heart in Winter. In conversation with Lucy Caldwell

Thursday 13 June 2024

Book Club

Silent Book Club: Lit(erature) to the Tit

Thursday 13 June 2024

Panel

Seamus Heaney Centre Fellows: Stacey Gregg, Lisa O’Neill & David Park

Thursday 13 June 2024

Non-Fiction

The Madness: A Memoir of War, Fear & PTSD Fergal Keane

Thursday 13 June 2024

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