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Submissions close in 3 HOURS! 🤩 The deadline to submit to #BelfastBookFestival 2025's Mairtín Crawford Awards closes TODAY, Wednesday 9 April at 12pm📚 If you're a writer with an unpublished Short Story or Poetry collection, don't miss your chance to enter your work! For more

Did you know that The Crescent is home to 1 of the largest colony's of Swifts on the island of Ireland? & for week 1 of Spring Term, not only are we welcoming lovely folks back into the building for creative activity 🩰🎨🎸 but the Swifts have returned to the building too 🤩

The Belfast Book Festival Crescent Arts Centre is one of my favourite events. Taking place this June 5-12. 2025 marks its 15th year. I will be interviewing Nelofer Pazira-Fisk Nelofer Pazira-Fisk about Night of Power The Betrayal of the Middle East and her late husband Robert Fisk’s legacy.

Delighted to attend Crescent Arts Centre today for a soft launch of Belfast Book Festival 2025! The programme looks INCREDIBLE! Thanks, as ever, to the brilliant team; they even managed to have the swifts back in time to greet us! #BelfastBookFestival Belfast BookFestival Arts Council of Northern Ireland 📚

Delighted to attend the pre-launch for Crescent Arts Centre 2025 Belfast Book Festival. Lots of great conversation & schmoozing - and a fabulous line up for this year. More detysoon on our blog on The Belfast Review

Great breakfast preview of #BelfastBookFestival at Crescent Arts Centre and a wonderful programme in store for book lovers this year. I’ll be talking writing for radio, how to read your work out live and about my collection ‘I Hear You’. Have a look here belfastbookfestival.com/whats-on

Calling all Escape Line Trilogy fans... Fancy joining me for an evening with Joseph O'Connor on June 8th? belfastbookfestival.com/whats-on/an-ev… now booking Crescent Arts Centre Congrats #BelfastBookFestival on a great 2025 line up

I’m very excited to be doing a talk at the lovely Belfast Book Festival on 5th June Crescent Arts Centre 📖 I’ll be talking about my career and my book ‘Beyond The Throne’. The Crescent is a wonderful arts charity so you can donate what you want for tickets 🫶 Photo by Charles

Delighted to announce that I’ll be speaking at the Belfast Book Festival with Lucia Osborne-Crowley ❤️ about “Speaking Truth to Power” Friday June 6th at 8pm Crescent Arts Centre #BelfastBookFestival belfastbookfestival.com/whats-on/sam-m…

Make sure you check out Clive McFarland’s event on Saturday, 7th June!

It’s official, the #BelfastBookFestival 2025 programme is now live 🥳  I’ll be taking part in this year’s festival delivering the ‘Time To Thrive With Ross White’ workshop on Wednesday 11 June 2025, which delves into some of the insights and techniques from my book

Since moving back home, it’s been so amazing being a spectator at these amazing festivals! A dream to be participating this year alongside such incredible writers! The Language of Remembering is on the road again! époque press International Literature Festival Dublin West Cork Literary Festival Crescent Arts Centre Writers' Week

Six ⁦Belfast BookFestival⁩ authors share one book that has a permanent place on their bookshelf - you can read which one I chose in ⁦The Irish Times⁩ hope to see you at ⁦Crescent Arts Centre⁩ for the festival next month irishtimes.com/culture/books/…

It’s official, the #BelfastBookFestival 2025 programme is now live 🥳 I’ll be taking part in this year’s festival at the Pathways to Publication: Panel Discussions for Writers on the 5th June Crescent Arts Centre. You can get your tickets here: BelfastBookFestival.com

What could be nicer than coffee and a cinnamon bun Crescent Arts Centre before an art class?

The #belfastbookfestival 2025 printed programme is has arrived! 🤩🤩🤩🤩 You can pick up a copy from The Crescent, a Libraries NI branch or from various bookshops, venues and cafes across Belfast. Design by UsFolk Illustration by Sonny Ross

Drumroll please... We're delighted to reveal the Mairtín Crawford Awards shortlisted writers for 2025! ⭐️ 🥁 Our judges Kathleen McCracken Dawn Watson & Lucy Caldwell Wendy Erskine had their work cut out for them this year with so many incredible submissions in both

The Brighton Bomb: Narrative Approaches 💥 Join us for a fascinating discussion with journalist & production heavyweights Mary McKeagney Rory Carroll Owen McFadden Tara Mills as we dive into the media coverage of one of recent history's most shocking events ⚡️ 🗓️ Wednesday

Find artistic inspiration in the world around you 🌍 Ekphrasis uses the description of a visual object or art piece as a literary device. Led by local poet Padraig Regan, explore natural objects as artworks in their own right. All you need to do is bring a small object with you