Professional Development

Join acclaimed poet Colm Keegan for a 2-hour workshop and unlock the power of creativity to support your community.  Colm Keegan is an award winning writer and poet from Dublin. He judges the Waterford Poetry Prize and was guest editor of Poetry Ireland Review in 2022. His debut collection “Don’t Go There” was released to […]

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Chiamaka Enyi-Amadi and Páraic Kerrigan join writer Aoife Martin in conversation about their writing, and the challenges and obstacles faced by writers from minority groups when writing and publishing with mainstream press. Enyi-Amadi, a commissioned poet on the Poetry as Commemoration project, is also a published writer, editor, arts facilitator, and cultural consultant. Kerrigan’s Reeling […]

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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 […]

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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 […]

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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 considering Chekhov and what we can learn from his genius. This […]

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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 […]

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Play It Forward Fellowships, delivered by Skein Press and supported by The Rowan Trust, nurture and amplify the talents of writers whose voices and stories have traditionally been underrepresented in Irish literature and publishing. Join us as this year’s fellows – Sara Chudzik, Helen Hutchinson, Emer Lyons, Roxana Manouchehri, Aoife Martin, Sadhbh Moriarty, Chandrika Narayanan-Mohan and […]

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Join us for a series of readings from the Festival’s Foundation writers, a programme led by the Irish Writers Centre. Come along and discover some incredible new voices in Ireland’s literary scene! The six emerging writers who will take to the stage are Aoife Horan, Declan Jones, Clíona Malin, Catriona Murphy, Ifunanya Ogochukwu and Khaled […]

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Tá Takin’ the Mic ag Féile Leabhar Bhaile Átha Cliath le hghaidh sár-oíche filíochta, focal labhartha agus grinn i mBéarla agus i nGaeilge. Arna óstáil ag M.C. Zainab Boladale le léamha ó aoi speisialta Soula Emmanuel chomh maith le ‘mic oscailte’ do scríbhneoirí, filí agus ceoltóirí. Fáilte roimh chách! Takin’ the Mic returns to Dublin […]

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The Irish Writers Handbook 2025 is your essential guide to writing and getting published, with contributions from acclaimed authors and book industry professionals. To mark the launch of this year’s expanded and updated edition join the handbook’s publisher Ronan Colgan (Wordwell), Deirdre Nolan (Eriu), Ruth Hegarty (Royal Irish Academy), and Patrick O’Donoghue (Gill Books), as […]

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The Dublin Review asked three brilliant contributors – Sam Bungey, Brenda Romero and Jessica Traynor – to choose an essay they especially love from the journal’s nearly twenty-four years of publishing. In this year’s Dublin Review Conversations event, the three will talk about what they love about these essays, how they relate to their own […]

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