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Are you ready to Drop Everything and Read at noon today? It's a great incentive to pick up a must-read book from our displays in Cregan Library or O'Reilly Library as chosen by Dublin City University Writer in Residence Sarah Gilmartin. View the full booklist: tinyurl.com/3natmmr8

2025 Dublin Literary Award Shortlist  The 30th winner will be announced by its Patron, Lord Mayor of Dublin, Emma Blain on Thurs 22nd May, as part of International Literature Festival Dublin Read more: writing.ie/news/2025-dubl… Novels nominated & shortlisted are available from public libraries around Ireland

🎤 I’m excited to share my upcoming tour details, with more to announce soon... 17 dates, 6 countries, 5 counties, and 3 continents! 🎟️ For more details and ticket links, visit: 👉 linktr.ee/sjswords See you along the road! 💚 Poetry Ireland / Éigse Éireann #Poetry

✨For our 20th anniversary celebrations Michael Pedersen wrote his marvellous ‘Be More, Edinburgh’ and the students of Edinburgh College of Art turned it to brilliant animation. 🖌️ It's in the The Scotsman Scotsman Arts for you all to see 👀 scotsman.com/arts-and-cultu…

Join us for a Q&A with Gerda Blees, author of We Are Light, as she reflects on being nominated for the 2025 Dublin Literary Award, discusses the inspiration behind the novel, and reads an excerpt from the book.

The Marriage Vendetta by Caroline Madden: A charming and original debut irishtimes.com/culture/books/… ⁦Caroline Madden⁩ ⁦Eriu⁩ ⁦Bonnier Books UK⁩ ⁦EDEL COFFEY 👩🏼‍💻⁩ ⁦Irish Times Books⁩

Join us in an ‘In Conversation’ with Dublin Literary Award winner, Mike McCormack & Rooney Prize Winner, Caitríona Lally in Pearse Street Library hosted by Professor of Irish Writing, Chris Morash on 7 May, 6.30pm. Click to register: dublincity.spydus.ie/cgi-bin/spydus…

Delighted to perform to a full house last night at The James Joyce Centre for our Anna Livia Creative Homage to Lorca whose incredible poetry and songs packed an emotional punch. The Arts Council / An Chomhairle Ealaíon Dublin City Council Royal Academy of Music Royal Irish Academy RIAMDublin

Celebrating 50 Years of Arlen House *Washing Windows V* First launch on Saturday 3 May at 14.15 Strokestown International Poetry Festival The most comprehensive anthology of contemporary Irish women poets ever published with over 300 contributors BUY: booksupstairs.ie/product/washin…

Today is Bealtaine & #poetrydayirl & our friends in Poetry Ireland / Éigse Éireann are bringing people together across the island of Ireland. Aduke Gomez

Mother Tongue: A Night of Spoken Word, Music, And Matriarchy At International Literature Festival Dublin. ✨ Find out more: districtmagazine.ie/news/mother-to…

Submissions for Tolka Issue Ten are now open, and will close at midnight on Wednesday 21 May 🌼

#ALS Open Mic returns this evening at Hilton Abuja 7pm. Come listen or share😊.

It’s already been a big busy beautiful week and we’re going to squeeze this into it now too… Here comes our Summer 2025 issue… looking mighty fine. You can pre-order it now and join us for launch International Literature Festival Dublin on May 17th. stingingfly.org/product/summer…

Looking forward to chatting to these two great new writers at IDLF next Saturday 17th @1pm. Love to see you there. International Literature Festival Dublin Patrick Holloway Dedalus Press Irish Writers Centre Dublin UNESCO ilfdublin.com/whats-on/festi…

Celebrating 30 years of the Dublin Literary Award across the city as we count down to the announcement of the 2025 winner next Thursday! Photos by Ana Duca. Dublin City Libraries

⁦RTÉ Nationwide⁩ ⁦⁦Dublin City Council⁩ ⁦Galway County Council⁩ ⁦Zainab Boladale⁩ Meet two former winners of ⁦Dublin Literary Award⁩ Colum McCann and Mike McCormack and hear how libraries shaped their writing journey.!7pm RTÉ 1

🏆 The Adversary by Michael Crummey has won the 2025 Dublin Literary Award! 🏆 Nominated by Newfoundland & Labrador Public Libraries and published by Knopf Canada, this powerful novel takes the top honour in the award’s 30th year. 🎉 #DublinLitAward #DLA30yrs

Dublin is a city of Literature with stories in the air. We’ve been busy at the Irish Writers Centre with Dublin UNESCO producing Dublin, One City, Many Stories, a 6-part video series featuring 20+ writers sharing tales of literature & legacy in the city & across the island.