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Announcing that Laganside Lights, my new short story collection, will launch at the American Bar Belfast on Weds 4th June 6pm with Celia de Fréine’s Even Still - please come along! Alan Hayes : Arlen House Waterstones Belfast PAGE & STAGE NI Arts Council of Northern Ireland

The Arts Council / An Chomhairle Ealaíon Arts Council director & chair to appear before Public Accounts Committee this Thursday 29 May. It's time the AC account for almost €7 million scandalous waste on mismanaged project. Plus ALL the other waste, incompetence & surreal decision-making. Patrick O'Donovan

You are warmly invited to a group reading of poetry from the best-selling anthology: Washing Windows V Women Revolutionise Irish Poetry, 1975-2025 Deansgrange Library Wednesday 28 May at 6pm Kindly supported by DLR Libraries EithneHand Eilín de Paor

The Belfast launch of Even Still will take place at the American Bar on Wednesday 4th October at 6 p.m. alongside Rosemary Jenkinson's Laganside Lights. Alan Hayes : Arlen House Publishing Women PAGE & STAGE NI Arts Council of Northern Ireland Rosemary Jenkinson

Yes, Wednesday 4 June at 6pm

The Board of the Arts Council announces, with deep regret, that Maureen Kennelly will step down as Director of the Arts Council in June. Read the full statement: artscouncil.ie/news/statement… 📷 : Ruth Medjber

The Arts Council / An Chomhairle Ealaíon Best of luck to Maureen. When is the Board going to resign, with regret? Congrats to Minister Patrick O'Donovan for decisive action as revealed in The Irish Times today

Kudos to Maureen Kennelly for honesty & integrity at tough PAC hearing. But The Arts Council / An Chomhairle Ealaíon requesting extra funding from Govt Patrick O'Donovan demonstrates how clueless the Board/executive are. There’s a price to be paid for incompetent wasting of millions of public funding. The AC

Signing fresh copies of my new short story collection, Laganside Lights, in No Alibis Bookshop today - the launch is 6pm Wednesday 4th June at the American Bar! ⁦Alan Hayes : Arlen House⁩ ⁦Publishing Women⁩ ⁦Royal Literary Fund⁩ ⁦Arts Council of Northern Ireland⁩ ⁦PAGE & STAGE NI⁩

Really enjoyed Rosemary Jenkinson's novel The Memorisers. Packs in loads of brilliant observations on language control, identity and our estrangement from history. Find out more here ⤵️ .. and get your order in now!

My debut novel ‘The Memorisers’ is published by Alan Hayes : Arlen House and inspired both by contemporary language control and by visits to Ukraine Arts Council of Northern Ireland PAGE & STAGE NI Royal Literary Fund Academy of Ideas Alastair Donald

The Memorisers available now Blackwell's! Alan Hayes : Arlen House Publishing Women

Join us in Dublin at the Irish Writers Centre, 18th June at 6.30pm! Register here. Thanks to Damien B. Donnelly for organising this. irishwriterscentre.ie/whats-on/write…

Rosemary Jenkinson (Rosemary Jenkinson), author of 'The Memorisers', criticises the publishing industry’s obsession with choosing works based on someone's identity rather than the quality of the work. 'Diversity' is in, diversity of opinion is out. academyofideas.uk/p/the-memorise…

The Memorisers is inspired by authoritarian control of language and visits to Ukraine. Available now from blackwells.co.uk Alan Hayes : Arlen House Publishing Women Tom Cull Academy of Ideas

Some fascinating reads for my Book Club Picks for June's Ireland's Big Issue 🙏 sarah maria griff Titan Books John Connolly #HodderBooks Barbara Leahy Eriu Jo Kerrigan Richard T. Mills The O'Brien Press Alan Hayes : Arlen House Nuala O'Connor Ciara Geraghty Ahmed Alnaouq Pam Bailey Hutchinson Heinemann

Wonderful night last night at the Belfast launch of Washing Windows V from Arlen House. It was beautiful to hear such powerful and moving poems from such a wide range of voices. Thank you Alan Hayes and Nuala O’Connor for this powerful anthology. Publishing Women PAGE & STAGE NI

My new short story collection Laganside Lights launches tonight 6pm American Bar Belfast with Celia de Fréine and Even Still - all welcome! To celebrate, here is the full version of All About Erin. Alan Hayes : Arlen House Publishing Women PAGE & STAGE NI booksirelandmagazine.com/all-about-erin….

I really enjoyed listening to the writers Rosemary Jenkinson and Celia de Fréine as they read extracts tonight from their new collections of short stories at The American Bar in Belfast

Alan Hayes : Arlen House PAGE & STAGE NI Publishing Women Rosemary Jenkinson