The Belfast Book Festival is Northern Ireland’s leading literary festival, featuring a unique, diverse and highly creative programme. This year’s programme gathers together speakers on a range of themes: the climate emergency; explorations of girlhood; and the power of translation to create new worlds.
Belfast Book Festival 2023
Welcome to the 13th edition of the annual Belfast Book Festival, run by the Crescent Arts Centre, South Belfast. From 13 – 18 June 2023, they invite you in to meet, watch and listen to storytellers; to write your own stories; to get crafty; to build, borrow or buy your summer reading list.
Belfast Book Festival
Deirdre Madden In Conversation With Wendy Erskine
The Belfast Book Festival is honoured to welcome Deirdre Madden to a special event at The Crescent. Join…
Artists: Estates, Legacy, Money, Control with Eamonn Forde, Conor Mitchell & Charlotte Dryden
Join Eamonn Forde and Conor Mitchell, for a conversation about estates, control, access to information….and money! Hosted by…
The Book Who Wanted To Be Loved with John Bittles & Rebecca Elliott
Join for the launch of a new children’s book. There will be a storytelling session by the authors,…
Writing Home with Jane Clarke, Eoghan Daltun & Sally Huband
Belfast Book Festival welcomes Jane Clarke, Eoghan Daltun and Sally Huband to a discussion with Anja Murray on…
![Salon: ‘His [Sic] Art’ with Tara Bergin, Leontia Flynn & Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin](https://aws.visitbelfast.com/app/uploads/2023/06/06165629/Salon-480x270.jpg)
Salon: ‘His [Sic] Art’ with Tara Bergin, Leontia Flynn & Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin
Don’t miss an evening with two of Ireland’s leading and most accomplished poetic voices at the apex of…
If The River Is Hidden
Join writer Craig Jordan-Baker, musician Eimear McGeown and poet Cherry Smyth for a unique evening performance based on…
Writing Girlhood with Maureen Boyle, Parwana Fayyaz & Rachel Long
Join for an intimate reading event with Maureen Boyle, Parwana Fayyaz and Rachel Long, with chair Shannon Kuta…
Queer Connections: Toby Buckley, Mary Montague & Leeanne Quinn
Join for poetry readings that celebrates the growing connections between different queer writers across generations.
Feelgood Feminist Fiction with Anne Booth & Sheena Wilkinson in conversation with Sue Leonard
Come along to this lively celebration of feelgood fiction, featuring authors Anne Booth and Sheena Wilkinson in conversation…
Memory, Regrets & Disputed Facts with Sarah Gilmartin & Kathleen McMahon
Join Sarah Gilmartin and Kathleen McMahon as they discuss their new, gripping and finely observed novels with Andrea…
Cracking The Menopause Alice Smellie, Marie Louise Connolly & Ciara Geraghty
Join for frank and honest chats about a topic that half the population will experience, but barely anyone…
Love Poetry Today with Bebe Ashley, Leeanne Quinn & Stephen Sexton in conversation with Mícheál McCann
Come along for a conversation on the ever-present and ever-changing nature of love poetry as part of Belfast…
Worlds Of Motherhood with Doreen Cunningham & Kerri Ní Dochartaigh in conversation with Alice Kinsella
Belfast Book Festival are delighted to welcome you to a discussion, featuring special guests, on the relationship between…
Translations & New Worlds with Maylis Besserie, Olivia Fitzsimons & Ilaria Oddenino
How does translation transform a novel? They welcome a panel teaming writers and translators to discuss the reimaginings…
The Belfast Book Festival FunFair
Join for the first Belfast Book Festival FunFair; a social afternoon with and for folks active and interested…
Belfast Book Festival 2023
Welcome to the 13th edition of the annual Belfast Book Festival, run by the Crescent Arts Centre, South…
