Explore The Festival By Day | Belfast Book Festival

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

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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

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