1. what's on

Come on in to the 15th 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: 5 – 12 June



ALL
Throughout Festival
Thurs 5 Jun
Fri 6 Jun
Sat 7 Jun
Sun 8 Jun
Mon 9 Jun
Tues 10 Jun
Wed 11 Jun
Thurs 12 Jun


Show me

Exhibition

Art of Translation: Exhibition Curated by Anna Morrison

Thursday 01 May 2025
until Monday 30 June 2025

Development

1:1 Headshots with Neil Hainsworth

Thursday 05 June 2025

Development

1:1 Portfolio Review: Illustration with Anna Morrison

Thursday 05 June 2025

Development

Managing Your Creative Collaborations: Society of Authors

Thursday 05 June 2025

Development

Pathways to Publication: Panel Discussions for Writers

Thursday 05 June 2025

Late Night Art

Late Night Art: Drink & Draw

Thursday 05 June 2025

Celebration

Mairtín Crawford Awards - Winners Announcement!

Thursday 05 June 2025

Non-Fiction

Kristian Nairn: Beyond the Throne

Thursday 05 June 2025

Fiction

Short Stories from the North: Martin Doyle, Declan Meade & Tara McEvoy

Thursday 05 June 2025

Development

1:1 Portfolio Review: Illustration with Anna Morrison

Friday 06 June 2025

Development

1:1 Headshots with Neil Hainsworth

Friday 06 June 2025

Development

1:1 Quick Pitch with Agent Christabel McKinley

Friday 06 June 2025

Workshop

Write So! with The Stinging Fly

Friday 06 June 2025

Fiction

The Stories We Tell: Kathryn Scanlan & Wendy Erskine

Friday 06 June 2025

Panel

Writing & Animation: Books & Screen

Friday 06 June 2025

Non-Fiction

Luke Harding: Ukraine & the New World Order

Friday 06 June 2025

Poetry

Poetry Slam!

Friday 06 June 2025

Non-Fiction

Sam McAlister & Lucia Osborne-Crowley: Speaking Truth to Power

Friday 06 June 2025

Family

When Circus Came to Belfast! A Storytelling & Circus Skills Workshop

Saturday 07 June 2025
Workshop

Poetry

Reframing Ekphrasis with Padraig Regan

Saturday 07 June 2025

Family

Peachicks & Elephants! With Clive McFarland & Ellan Rankin

Saturday 07 June 2025

Family

Fighting Words NI: Showcase

Saturday 07 June 2025

Family

Supertato Silliness with Paul Linnet

Saturday 07 June 2025
Workshop

Development

Starting your Substack newsletter with Seán Óg Ó Murchú

Saturday 07 June 2025
Workshop

Fiction

Reading Elizabeth Bowen with Tessa Hadley

Saturday 07 June 2025

Fiction

Hidden Depths: Writing Male Characters with Garrett Carr & Michael Pedersen

Saturday 07 June 2025

Family

A Special Event with Oliver Jeffers

Saturday 07 June 2025

Poetry

Celebrating the work of Michael Longley: Hosted by Paul Muldoon

Saturday 07 June 2025

Non-Fiction

Mind Your Language! Jan Carson & Clara Ministral in conversation

Saturday 07 June 2025

Fiction

An Evening with Tessa Hadley: Hosted by Lucy Caldwell

Saturday 07 June 2025

Non-Fiction

How to Raise a Viking with Helen Russell

Saturday 07 June 2025

Non-Fiction

Belfast Zine Fair In partnership with Paperxclips

Sunday 08 June 2025

Non-Fiction

Wild Stories: Why Nature Needs you - Ruby Free & Guests

Sunday 08 June 2025

Development

Irish Writers Centre: Information Session

Sunday 08 June 2025

Non-Fiction

Rethinking the Swinging Sixties with Peter Doggett

Sunday 08 June 2025

Non-Fiction

Page to Screen: Kathryn Ferguson, Wendy Erskine & Stacey Gregg

Sunday 08 June 2025

Readings

Irish Writers Centre Showcase: Young Writer Delegates & New Voices: North 2025

Sunday 08 June 2025

Panel

In the good seats: Michael Magee, Susannah Dickey & Darran Anderson

Sunday 08 June 2025

Fiction

An Evening with Joseph O’Connor

Sunday 08 June 2025

Non-Fiction

A Flat Place: Noreen Masud in conversation with Suad Aldarra

Sunday 08 June 2025

Fiction

The Literary Legacy of Edna O’Brien

Sunday 08 June 2025

Non-Fiction

Beatlemania: The best books about The Beatles

Sunday 08 June 2025
Workshop

Fiction

Seeing the World as a Writer With Eoin McNamee

Monday 09 June 2025

Family

Rhythm & Rhyme With Libraries NI

Monday 09 June 2025

Fiction

Life on the Fringes: Eoin McNamee & Darran Anderson

Monday 09 June 2025

Fiction

An evening with Eimear McBride

Monday 09 June 2025

Fiction

Agatha Christie’s Marple: Mark Aldridge with Jan Carson

Monday 09 June 2025

Fiction

Roddy Doyle: In conversation with Glenn Patterson

Monday 09 June 2025

Family

Priya Mistry & the Lost Treasure with Babita Sharma

Tuesday 10 June 2025
Workshop

Fiction

Editing & revising short stories with Thomas Morris

Tuesday 10 June 2025

Poetry

Writing for our Times: Hannah Lavery, Wayne Miller & Róisín Lanigan

Tuesday 10 June 2025

Non-Fiction

Robert Fisk: Reporting from the Frontline - Nelofer Pazira-Fisk

Tuesday 10 June 2025

Fiction

Family Matters: Claire Lynch & Roisín O'Donnell

Tuesday 10 June 2025

Fiction

Page-turning Thrillers: Andrea Carter & Brian McGilloway

Tuesday 10 June 2025

Fiction

Writing Belfast: Stories of a Changing City - Paul McVeigh

Tuesday 10 June 2025

Family

Rhythm & Rhyme With Libraries NI

Wednesday 11 June 2025

Family

Fane Street Primary School Performance inspired by Ashwin Chacko Wild City

Wednesday 11 June 2025
Workshop

Development

Reading Your Work Aloud With Paul McVeigh

Wednesday 11 June 2025
Workshop

Non-Fiction

Time to Thrive with Ross White

Wednesday 11 June 2025

Poetry

Harbour Doubts: Hands-On! Bebe Ashley & Anthony Sinclair

Wednesday 11 June 2025

Fiction

Craving Connection: John Patrick McHugh & Thomas Morris

Wednesday 11 June 2025

Non-Fiction

The Brighton Bomb: Narrative Approaches

Wednesday 11 June 2025

Poetry

Macha Press: Experimental Poetry - Sam Furlong & Susanna Galbraith

Wednesday 11 June 2025

Readings

The Crescent Writers Read

Wednesday 11 June 2025

Fiction

Wendy Erskine: The Benefactors

Wednesday 11 June 2025

Family

Priya Mistry & the Lost Treasure with Babita Sharma

Thursday 12 June 2025
Workshop

Fiction

Speculative Fiction With Rosemary Jenkinson

Thursday 12 June 2025
Workshop

Non-Fiction

Unconscious Bias With Livingstone Thompson

Thursday 12 June 2025

Non-Fiction

Over the Top Under the Radar: Gary Younge & Carys Afoko

Thursday 12 June 2025

Non-Fiction

Celebrating ‘Art of Translation’

Thursday 12 June 2025

Fiction

Gráinne O’Hare: Thirst Trap

Thursday 12 June 2025

Panel

An evening with the Seamus Heaney Centre Fellows

Thursday 12 June 2025

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