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23 FEB, Look North Festival, BELFAST
11 Nov, Chairing: Our Stories: A Conference Celebrating LGBTQ+ Books and Publishing
12 Oct, Interviewing Bryan Moriarty, Belfast
24 July, In Conversation with Billy O’Callaghan, Armagh
17 June, Lit Books, Kuala Lumpur
24 Feb, Presenting: Look North! North Belfast Festival Short Story Awards
24 Feb, Chichester Library Event about Bernard MacLaverty
SOLD OUT! 11 Nov, Writing History: Dublin Book Festival
27 Oct-13 Nov, Big Man opens Lyric Theatre, Bellfast
13 Oct, Panelist on Shared Island Dialogue, Belfast
8 Oct, Chairing Darran Anderson & Wendy Erskine Birmingham Lit Fest
8 Oct, Chairing Julia Armfield & Paul Mendez at Birmingham Lit Fest
7 Oct, Birmingham Literature Festival with Kit de Waal & Osman Yousefzada
26 Sept, RSL Event w/ Bonnie Greer, Finn Kennedy, Stacey Gregg & Me, Belfast
31 Aug, BOOK LAUNCH: A Little Unsteadily Into Light, Belfast
12 Aug, Féile an Phobail, Free Event, Belfast
29-31 July, Primadonna Festival with Joanne Harris & Kit de Waal, Suffolk
27 July, Chairing Wendy Erskine & Bernie McGill at JHISS, Armagh
15 June, ‘The 32’ Event, Belfast
8 June *NEW DATE*, Interviewing Armistead Maupin, Belfast
2 June, Kit de Waal, Donal Ryan and me at Listowel Writers’ Week
24 May, Interviewing Damon Galgut, Dublin
9 May, Jamie Attenberg, Cate Kennedy, Rosie Schaap and me, Belfast
4-6 May, Leuven and Kortrijk, Belgium
27 March, Imagine Festival: Why We Need More Diversity In Publishing
9 March, Understanding the Industry: PROPHETS, MAKERS AND RISK TAKERS, Belfast/Online
8 March 2022, Jaipur Literature Festival
6 Nov, Australian Short Story Festival, Online
8 Nov, Dublin Festival presents Queer Love w/ Emma Donaghue and Neil Hegarty (online and podcast)
16 Oct, Chairing Lucy Caldwell & Jan Carson at Cork Short Story Festival (online)
14 Oct, Queer Love: Emma Donoghue, Declan Toohey and Shannon Yee with me at Cork Short Story Festival (online)
24 Sept, Keynote at Short Story Festival (online)
12, 19, 29 June LGBT Events For Pride Month
29 July, The 32 at West Cork Festival (online)
26 July, In Conversation with Billy O’Callaghan (online)
19 June, I join Mary Dorcey in event for Carlow University
18 May, Talking to Colm Toibin & Shannon Yee for Belfast Book Festival
24 April, Interviewing Bryan Washington, Cuirt Festival
23 April, Free Event: In Conversation Australian Writers Cate Kennedy and Paddy O’Reilly, Cork World Book Festival
20 April, Queer Love panel event at West Cork Literary Festival
23 March, Royal Society of Literature & Arts Council NI Writers Day
21 Feb, Interviewing Booker Prize-Winner Douglas Stuart at Jaipur Literature Festival (Online)
16 Feb, Reading and Q&A for Uni of Worcester
14 Jan ’21, Belfast (online) PROMOTING WRITERS IN NORTHERN IRELAND INTERNATIONALLY
18 Dec, Listen Share Change Xmas Reading, Derry (Online)
11-14 November, Cúirt International Festival of Literature, Your Local Arena presents: Three Irish Writers
5 November, Podcast: Interviewing Kit de Waal for Birmingham Literature Festival
10 Oct, Cork Short Story Festival 2020: Niamh Campbell & Kit de Waal
8 Oct, The 32: Cork Short Story Festival, Online
15 Sept, Reading for Alliance Française Live Series
26 March, Mountains to Sea Festival, w/ Wendy Erskine & Lucy Caldwell
12-14 Dec, JLF Doha, Qatar
9 Nov, Appearing at NAWE Conference
19 Oct, Salisbury Literary Festival
17 Oct, Ardoyne Library, Belfast
6 Oct, Durham Book Festival
27 June, Irish Embassey, London, Me, Kit de Waal, Lucy Caldwell & Eimear McBride
16 June, JLF London at British Library
15 June, John Boyne, Kit de Waal, Roddy Doyle & Me, Belfast
15 June, Belfast Book Festival, W/ Nicole Flattery, Lucy Caldwell & Lisa McInerney
14 June, Belfast Book Festival w/ Louise Doughty & Kit de Waal
9 June, Belfast Book Festival, Belfast Stories Anthology
11 May, Maria Edgeworth Festival
7 May, Crossways Festival, Glasgow
3-5 May, Stockholm Writers Festival 2019
26 April, Cork Word Book Festival w/ Kit de Waal & Anne Griffin
23-27 April, Cork World Book Fest
13 March, London Book Fair
5 March, chairing Iain Archer, Lucy Caldwell, and ‘Derry Girls’ writer Lisa McGee, Belfast
23 Feb, Barbican OpenFest: Art 50, London
9 Feb, Interviewing Anne Enright, Seamus Heaney HomePlace
24-28 Jan 2019, ZEE Jaipur Literature Festival
23 Jan, Jaipur Book Mark
22 Nov, Interviewing Sarah Perry, Belfast
SOLD OUT! 3 Nov, Paul Muldoon’s Literary Picnic
12 Oct, Gavin Corbett, Lisa McInerney & Éilís Ní Dhuibhne, Dublin
10 Oct, Red Line Book Festival, Dublin
26 Sept, John Minihan Book Launch
22 Sept, Milton Keynes Literature Festival
14 Sept, Interviewing Chris Power, Cork Short Story Festival
14 Sept, Presenting Seán O’Faoláin Prize, Cork Short Story Festival
13 Sept, Interviewing Kit de Waal, Belfast
14 Sept, Seán O’Faoláin Prize Reading
27, June: International Conference on the Short Story in English, Lisbon
25 May, International Literature Festival, Dublin
23-25 March 2018, FRANCO-IRISH LITERARY FESTIVAL, Dublin
16 March, Interviewing Anne Enright, London
15 March, Irish Cultural Centre, London
19 Feb, Writers in Conversation, Southampton
15 Feb, Event for Royal Society of Literature, London
25–27 Jan 2018, #BRITLITBERLIN, Germany
2 Dec, Readings@Seksan, Kuala Lumpur. Malaysia
30 Nov, Irish Embassy, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
24-26 Nov, George Town Literary Festival, Penang, Malaysia
SOLD OUT! Nov 16, Teeling Tales: Literature & Whiskey Tasting in Melbourne
3/4/5 Nov, w/ Julian Gough & Claire Keegan, Singapore
26/27/28 Oct, Ubud Writers & Readers Festival, Bali
15 Oct, Chairing: Ciaran McMenamin, Sally Rooney & June Caldwell
29 September, Goethe-Institut Irland, Dublin
19 Sept, Enniskillen Library
13-16 Sept, Cork International Short Story Festival
3 Sept, Me & Kit de Waal, Morges
1 Sept, w/ Donal Ryan & Anne Enright, Morges
1-3 Sept, Le livre sur les quais
11 Aug, Féile an Phobail, Belfast
24/25 June, Flash Fiction Festival, Bath
16 June, Polari at Belfast Book Festival
7 & 14 June, Interviews at Belfast Book Festival
SOLD OUT: 27 May, Talking Translation: International Literature Festival Dublin
SOLD OUT! 26 May, Taking the Mic, Belfast
Courses/Teaching
30-31 May, Teaching 2 Day Workshop, Listowel Writers Week
21 Oct, That Killer First Page, Dublin
Spanish Writing Retreat Sold Out!
*SOLD OUT* July :Teaching at John Hewitt Summer School
19-24 June, Teaching in Singapore
SOLD OUT, 8 Oct, That Killer First Page at Birmingham Lit Fest
2-4 Sept., Jericho Writers: Festival of Writing, York
21 July, Masterclass on Place for TLC, London/Online
*SOLD OUT* 2-4 June, Listowel Writers’ Week
25-27 Feb 2022, Teaching at Look North Festival, Belfast
SOLD OUT! 4-10 Sept. TLC Spanish Writing Retreat
SOLD OUT! 26/27/29 July, John Hewitt Summer School
27 Mar, Mairtín Crawford Award: Preparing Short Stories For Submission (Online)
SOLD OUT! 23/24 Oct, Writing a Character Worth Reading About, Writers Victoria, Melbourne
SOLD OUT! 22 Oct, That Killer First Page, Birmingham Literature Festival
SOLD OUT! 22 Sept, MAKE ABANDONED IDEAS WORK, Word Factory
SOLD OUT! 5-12 Sept, Literary Adventure Retreat, Spain 2020
SOLD OUT! 13-17 July, West Cork Literature Festival
SOLD OUT! 20 Oct, Salisbury Literature Festival
SOLD OUT! 7-14 Sept, Writing Retreat in Tuscany
6 July, That Killer First Chapter, Seamus Heaney HomePlace
8 June, How To Get Published, Belfast
11 May, Short Story Workshop, Maria Edgeworth Festival
3-5 May Creating A Platform & That Killer First Page, Stockholm
27 April, Cork World Book Festival
10 Nov, The Allingham Arts Festival, Donegal
Online: Advanced Short Story Clinic
SOLD OUT! 4 Nov, Teaching at Seamus Heaney Homeplace
SOLD OUT! 3 Nov, Step Into Writing Fiction, John O’Connor Writing School
13 Oct, That Killer First Page, Dublin
SOLD OUT! 4-8 June, Flash Fiction Course, Athens, Greece
SOLD OUT! 31 May – 2 June, Listowel Writers Week, Ireland
SOLD OUT: 28 April, World Book Festival, Cork
21 March, Swansea University – Invite Only
SOLD OUT: 17 March, That Killer First Page, Lewes
15 March, Social Media Class, London
SOLD OUT! 2&3 Dec, That Killer First Page, Kuala Lumpur
SOLD OUT! 20 Nov, What Every Debut Novelist Needs to Know, Melbourne
SOLD OUT! 20 Nov, That Killer First Chapter, Melbourne
SOLD OUT! 19 Nov, Writers Centre Victoria, Melbourne
SOLD OUT – Nov 2, Singapore Writers Group Workshop
SOLD OUT! 26 Oct, A Competitive Edge, Ubud – Bali
24/25 June, Flash Fiction Festival, Bath
5 Aug, That Killer First Page, Belfast
SOLD OUT! 17 Oct, ‘That Killer First Page’ Bath – Sold Out
5 August That Killer First Page, Belfast
31 Jul – 2 Aug Aperture Festival Corrymeela Centre, Ballycastle
28 June, Belfast – NFFD Writing Workshop
SOLD OUT: 17-21 June, Retreat West
SOLD OUT: 12 June, That Killer First Page, Belfast Book Festival
7 May, That Killer First Page, Lancaster
7 March ’17, Huddersfield Literature Festival
Feb 6, London, ‘Those Killer First Chapters’
SOLD OUT! 16 Jan Kinvara Co Galway
SOLD OUT! 26 Nov, That Killer First Page, Shrewsbury Lit Fest
SOLD OUT: 10 Oct, ‘That Killer…’, Brighton
5 August, Social Media for Writers, Belfast
Sold Out: 7 Nov, That Killer First Page, London
2 July, London – Those Killer First Chapters
Non-Fiction
I Review Patrick Gale’s New Novel in The Irish Times
Writing My First Short Story & Working Class Fiction
My Essay on Northern Ireland
The Good Son in Short Story to Novel Essay
Is it better to be a short story writer or a novelist?
The Irish Times: The Buzz of Live Literature
My First Travel Writing
Watch Me
Reading from The Good Son
Video: Reading & Talking ‘The Good Son’ in Berlin
Watch ‘Tickles’
Writing Emotional Fiction
What is Not Said at Jaipur
Beginnings and Endings: A video from Jaipur Literature Festival
Latest TV Interview
Naomi Wood, Evie Wyld, Cynan Jones and me
Latest TV On City Reads
Found In Translation
Guter Junge – The Good Son, Germany
Celebrating the German Translation of The Good Son
French: Un bon garçon (The Good Son)
The Good Son Goes to Russia!
Spanish: ¡Cava! (Dig)
Turkish: Kaz (Dig)
Polish: Łaskotki (Tickles) A short Story
Spanish: Mi tía Maggie
Polish: Ciocia Maggie (My Aunt Maggie)
Polish: Kop (Dig)
On Writing & Interviews
‘The Gloss’ Interview Feb 17
Secret Library Podcast
An Interview in Die Welt
Podcast: Can Literature Solve Poverty
Irish Times Book Club Podcast
Irish Times Q&A
Emotional Fiction – Interview
Litro Magazine Interview
Wales Arts Review Interview
Interview in Structo Magazine
The Incubator Journal Interview
Interview in The Honest Ulsterman
Storgy Monthly Master Interview
‘Writing a Difficult Setting’ on Isabel Costello’s blog.
A short interview in Structo Magazine
Bath Short Story Award Interview
Interview in Culture Northern Ireland
Short Interview with Vanessa Gebbie
Writers Victoria Q&A
Interviews
Kevin Barry
George Saunders
George Saunders 2: The Irish Times Interview
Elizabeth McCracken
Lisa McInerney: The Irish Times x 2
Garth Greenwell for The Irish Times
Patrick Gale for The Irish Times
Donal Ryan for The Irish Times
Anakana Schofield Interview: The Irish Times
Cate Kennedy
Lucy Caldwell for The Irish Times
Laura van den Berg
Mary Costello
KJ Orr – The Irish Times
Sarah Butler: Before the Fire
Sinéad Gleeson Interview
More Reviews
Edel Coffey on RTE Arena
Review: Brighton & Hove Independent
Book of the Month: Ulster Tatler
Writing.ie Review
A Case for Books
Review in Pank Magazine
Book of the Month: The Tablet
Savidge Reads Reviews The Good Son
Review in Culture Northern Ireland
Review: Bare Fiction Magazine. November 2015
Leanne Wain reviews The Good Son
Pam Reader Review
Jen Harvey reviews The Good Son
Joe Cushnan Review
Review: Colin Garrow
News
Radio 3’s Free Thinking Festival w/ George Saunders
Winner of McCrea Literary Award
Judging Dylan Thomas Prize 2018
Shortlisted for Irish Short Story of the Year 2017
The Guardian on my Polari Prize Win
The Good Son: Now in Hungarian!
Lisa McInerney, winner of The Bailey’s Prize raves about The Good Son
The Good Son at The Brighton Festival 50th Anniversary
The Bookseller ‘The Good Son’
If you liked The Loney & The Essex Serpent
RTE Radio: Me & Eimear McBride
Chosen for The UK-Russia Year of Language and Literature 2016
The Good Son in Gay Literature Celebration
Trip to Turkey with The British Council
The Good Son in WHSmith Fresh Talent
My New Story on BBC Radio 3 – Hurry!
The Irish Times: on The Good Son
We Love Books pick for April
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