Over the course of one weekend, Saturday 11 April at the Seamus Heaney Centre in Belfast, and Sunday 12 April  at the Irish Writers Centre in Dublin, Words, In Other Places will showcase a range of form, talent and diversity in today’s literary scene, looking to the north and south of Ireland while welcoming international writers.

Saturday 11 April, the Seamus Heaney Centre, Queen’s University, Belfast

12.00-1.00pm; Inside Out, Telling Tales Elsewhere
A panel discussion hosted by author and journalist, Martin Doyle, featuring three contemporary writers from the south of Ireland, Louise Nealon (author of Snowflake and Everything that is Beautiful), Patrick Holloway (author of The Language of Remembering and editor of The Four Faced Liar) and Rob Doyle (author of Threshold, This is the Ritual and Cameo). 

1.30-3.30pm: Creative Writing workshop
Facilitated by Sarah Moore Fitzgerald (author of seven novels and  the director of University of Limerick's Creative Writing winter school.)

4.00-5.00pm: Literature in Translation / Words Beyond Borders
A panel discussion hosted by the author of Paris Syndrome and Let's Dance and Irish Times reviewer, Lucy Sweeney Byrne, with Csilla Toldy (Hungarian writer and poet whose books include The Emigrant Woman’s Tale and Bed Table Door), Enrica Maria Ferrara (Italian writer, translator, and scholar and Trinity College Teaching Fellow) and Rafael Mendez (Brazilian Irish Immigrant, co-winner of the Ireland Chair of Poetry Pamphlet Series 2025 with The Migrant Dictionary). 

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