Words, In Other Places. Inside Out, Telling Tales Elsewhere, Dublin

Founded in 1991, theIrish Writers Centre's mission is tosupport and promote writers at all stages of their developmentby offering a diverse programme ofwriting courses and workshopsled by established writers across a range of genres includingmemoir, poetry, playwriting, short-stories and the novel. The Centre runsseminars, lectures and readingsrelated to the art of writing and welcomes writers, readers and international visitors.

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An hour-long panel discussion, featuring three contemporary writers from the north of Ireland.

Inside Out, Telling Tales Elsewhere, an hour-long panel discussion, featuring three contemporary writers from the north of Ireland, Jan Carson (author of three novels, three short story collections and two micro-fiction collections), Leontia Flynn (Professor at the Seamus Heaney Centre, Queen’s University, Belfast with five collections of poetry including Taking Liberties) and Wendy Erskine (author of the novel The Benefactors, and two short story collection). This discussion will be hosted by the author of the novels The Jewel, Inch Levels and the editor of Impermanence, Neil Hegarty. Jan Carson is a writer based in Belfast. She has published three novels, three short story collections and two micro-fiction collections. Her novel The Fire Starters won the EU Prize for Literature for Ireland, 2019. Jan’s novel, The Raptures was shortlisted for the An Post Irish Novel of the Year and Kerry Group Novel of the Year. Her writing has been aired on BBC Radio 3 and 4 and RTE. She has been translated into almost twenty languages worldwide. She was the Seamus Heaney Centre Fellow at Queen’s University Belfast in 2025 and is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature. Her first stage play, an adaptation of the children’s classic, The Velveteen Rabbit was produced by Replay Theatre Company at the Lyric Theatre, Belfast in March 2025. Her next novel, Few and Far Between is forthcoming from Doubleday in early 2026 and will be published by Scribner in the US. Wendy Erskine is the author of two prize-winning short story collections, Sweet Home and Dance Move. She edited the anthology well I just kind of like it about art in the home. She is a frequent broadcaster and interviewer, and works as a secondary school teacher in Belfast. Her debut novel, The Benefactors, was longlisted for the Gordon Burn Prize, and shortlisted for best novel at the Irish Book Awards, and best audio novel at the British Audio Awards. It was awarded Waterstones Best Irish Book of 2025. A film based on the short story Nostaglie was recently shortlisted for a BAFTA and won an IFTA.Leontia Flynn’s fifth collection of poetry, Taking Liberties, was published in 2023. Her previous collections have won the Forward prize for best First Collection, the Rooney Prize for Irish Literature, the Lawrence O’Shaughnessy award for Irish poetry, the Irish Times Poetry Prize, and twice been shortlisted for the T.S. Eliot prize. A Selected Poems will be published by Carcarnet Press later this year. Flynn was made a fellow of the Royal Society of Literature in 2022 and received a Cholmondeley Prize in 2023. She is a Professor at the Seamus Heaney Centre, Queen’s University, Belfast.Neil Hegarty grew up in Derry. His novels include The Jewel; and Inch Levels, which was shortlisted for the Kerry Group Novel of the Year award. His short fiction and essays have appeared in the Dublin Review, Stinging Fly, Cyphers, PVA, Tangerine, Banshee, and elsewhere; and he is co-editor of the essay collection Impermanence.Words, In Other Places, an Irish Writers Centre Literary Festival, in partnership with the European Parliament Liaison Office in IrelandOver the course of one weekend, Saturday 11 April at the Seamus Heaney Centre, Queen’s University in Belfast, and Sunday 12 April at the Irish Writers Centre in Dublin, Words, In Other Places will showcase a tri-lateral range of form, talent and diversity in today’s literary scene, looking to the north and south of Ireland while welcoming international writers.

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