DBF After Dark Festival Club: Greatest Story Ever Told

What story would you tell people if asked to deliver your best? What yarn or anecdote from your own life are you certain would captivate an audience? Join Holy Show’s Brendan MacEvilly and Peter McNamara as they invite three writers, including Jess Raymon and Emily Cooper, to tell their greatest true story in roughly 5 minutes […]

DBF After Dark Festival Club: Greatest Story Ever Told

Published on 10 September 2024.

Join us for this pinnacle event for publishers in Ireland, featuring keynote speakers and industry professionals, offering valuable networking opportunities and insights into the world of publishing in Ireland. Topics covered will include sustainability, accessibility, market trends, equality, diversity, and inclusion, and the potential of adapting books for movies. Additionally, expert 1:1 clinics will be […]

“Future, Now” Annual Irish Publishers Conference 2024

Published on 10 September 2024.

This engaging event, which encourages participation and discussion, is for professionals creating literature events at festivals, venues, libraries, or any organisations, to share experiences, gather information and try to explore how we can work together. The event will be facilitated by Julianne Mooney Siron, Director of Dublin Book Festival, with contributions from others working in […]

Literary Producer Event

Published on 10 September 2024.

You spin me round (PVA) is an illuminating collection of essays, a mixtape that takes elements of music – songs, performances, albums, gigs – as points of departure. Some of today’s finest writers reflect on what music has meant to them at different moments in their lives. Immerse yourself in an evening of conversation and […]

You spin me round

Published on 10 September 2024.

Sarah Webb and a team of professional authors and illustrators are currently setting up a guild for Irish or Irish based professional children’s authors, illustrators and creatives (children’s script writers etc are included) called Cruthú/Create. One of the aims of Cruthú/Create: The Irish Children’s Writers’ Guild is to host regular meet ups where professional children’s […]

Let’s Talk Children’s Books

Published on 10 September 2024.

This event is now booked out with a waitlist in place. In this session, join acclaimed short story writer Wendy Erskine, where you’ll be looking at how pop videos on YouTube – and the ways people respond to them – generate so many possibilities relating to how short stories can be constructed. And, you’ll be […]

Writing Fiction Workshop with Wendy Erskine – BOOKED OUT

Published on 10 September 2024.

Deepen your relationship with the wild, sensual landscape of your body through breath, word, sound, poetry and restorative yoga. Through a series of restorative yoga poses, Paul Donnelly will guide participants into resting intervals of the shapes accompanied by Lani O’Hanlon reading from her poetry collection Landscape of the Body (Dedalus Press). This melting of […]

PROSE & POSE: Poetry Yoga: Landscape of the Body

Published on 10 September 2024.

All aboard the Dublin Book Festival book train from Cork to Dublin! Cork Stories (Doire Press), edited by Madeleine D’Arcy and Laura McKenna, is a collection of short fiction set throughout Cork by writers who live or have lived there. Join the editors, and contributor Danielle McLaughlin, for this unique reading and writing train journey. […]

Fiction on the Rails

Published on 10 September 2024.

Rough Beast (Apollo) is Máiría Cahill‘s harrowing story, told here for the first time in full detail and with unsparing honesty. It is a story of unimaginable trauma and political corruption, but above all it is the story of one young woman’s defiance of those wielding power to inspire fear and silence, and their influence […]

Rough Beast

Published on 10 September 2024.