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• Monthly Newsletter – Dublin UNESCO City of Literature – SIGN UP HERE
• Dublin UNESCO City of Literature Small Grants Scheme 2023
• CASELBERG TRUST MARGARET EGAN CITIES OF LITERATURE WRITERS RESIDENCY – NEW ZEALAND
• 2023 One Dublin One Book Programme Announced – The Coroner’s Daughter by Andrew Hughes
• Call for UNESCO City of Literature Wonju Residency 2023
• The National Mentoring Programme Open for Applications
• Call for a Writer-in-Residence in Leeuwarden
• Longlist for the 2023 Dublin Literary Award is Revealed
• 2023 TARTU UNESCO CITY OF LITERATURE – RESIDENCY PROGRAM FOR WRITERS AND TRANSLATORS
• Translation residency Slovenia 2023
• Message from Director of Dublin UNESCO City of Literature
• New City of Books Podcast Featuring Jan Carson
• Ljubljana UNESCO City of Literature International Literary Residency
• New City of Books Podcast Featuring John Boyne
• Irish Authors Selected for International Residency Programmes
• New City of Books Podcast Featuring Andrew Meehan
• The Coroner’s Daughter by Andrew Hughes Chosen as 2023 One Dublin One Book
• Nanjing International Writers Residency 2022 – Open Call
• City of Books Podcast Featuring Emily Hourican
• Applications open for DCU Writer-in-Residence opportunity
• Local Writers selected for the Irish Writers Centre’s National Mentoring Programme
• City of Books Podcast featuring Cristín Leach
• Virtual Writer In Residence
• Heaney-Milosz Literary Residency in Krakow, Poland
• City of Books Podcast Featuring Catherine Dunne and Lia Mills
• Granada UNESCO City of Literature International Writers in Residence Programme 2022
• Writer in Residence Opportunity in Prague
• Bloomsday: Ulysses Readings and Songs
• Make everyday a Bloomsday – 28th International James Joyce Symposium
• Special Episode – City of Books Podcast with Martina Devlin
• WORLD ENVIRONMENT DAY 2022
• The Art of Losing by Alice Zeniter Wins 2022 Dublin Literary Award
• City of Books Podcast Featuring Sara Baume
• 2022 QuietManDave Prize is open to entries. Flash Fiction and Flash Non-Fiction Prizes
• Call for UNESCO City of Literature Wonju Residency 2022
• Gothenburg City of Literature Writers in Residence
• Virtual Writer Residencies at the Manchester Festival of Libraries 2022
• Bucheon City of Literature Writers in Residence Opportunity
• Dublin City Council announces the 2022 DUBLIN Literary Award Shortlist
• Máire Mhac an tSaoi – Poetry In Irish Award
• City of Books Podcast Featuring Rosemary Jenkinson
• Submissions Sought for Michel Déon Prize for Non-Fiction
• 2022 One Dublin One Book Programme Announced – NORA by Nuala O’Connor
• City of Books Podcast Featuring Edel Coffey
• Call for Submissions – Dedalus Press – A New Anthology of Love Poems
• Dublin City Council announces the longlist for the 2022 DUBLIN Literary Award
• New City of Books Podcast Featuring David Rothenberg
• The Arts Council announces Colm Tóibín as the Laureate for Irish Fiction 2022-2024
• SEODA – Irish Short Stories in Translation
• International Writer‘s Residence Reykjavík UNESCO City of Literature
• Barcelona City of Literature – Grants for Writers
• Bronnadh Cónaitheachtaí ar bheirt Scríbhneoirí Gaeilge
• Dublin UNESCO City of Literature Small Grants Scheme 2022
• City of Books Podcast featuring JR Thorp
• Writer in the Park – Ljubljana UNESCO City of Literature International Literary Residency
• Dublin Art Book Fair 2021: Manual Guest Curator Dr Lisa Godson
• New City of Books Podcast Featuring Carlo Gébler
• 49 new cities join UNESCO’s Creative Cities Network
• Nora by Nuala O’Connor is the 2022 One Dublin One Book
• New City of Books Podcast Featuring Sarah Webb
• 10th Anniversary of ISLA Festival
• FOUR SEASONS OF COMIC BOOK RESIDENCIES IN QUEBEC
• City of Books Podcast with Diarmaid Ferriter
• Baile Átha Cliath – Cathair Litríochta UNESCO Scríbhneoir Cónaitheach (Dublin UNESCO City of Literature Irish Language Residency)
• Citywide Read for Children: Animal Crackers by Sarah Webb and Alan Nolan
• New City of Books Podcast with Rosaleen McDonagh
• New City of Books Podcast with Paul Perry
• Open Submissions Call – Dedalus Press – LOCAL WONDERS: Poems from Our Immediate Surrounds
• Departures by Dublin Book Festival
• New City of Books Podcast Featuring Evelyn Conlon
• Literature Mentorships Available
• City of Books Podcast featuring Lisa McInerney
• Lost Children Archive by Valeria Luiselli wins the 2021 Dublin Literary Award
• Wonju UNESCO City of Literature Residency Opportunity
• City of Books Podcast Featuring Nuala O’Connor
• Look! It’s a WOMAN Writer! Dublin, Arlen House, 2021
• Manchester Festival of Libraries UNESCO City of Lit Virtual Residency
• City of Books Podcast Featuring John Banville
• Dublin City Council announces the 2021 DUBLIN Literary Award Shortlist
• City of Books Podcast Featuring Neil Jordan
• One Dublin One Book Launches Full Programme of Free Online Public Events
• New City of Books Podcast featuring Danielle McLaughlin
• New City of Books Podcast featuring Louise O’Neill
• Dublin City Council announces the 2021 DUBLIN Literary Award Longlist of Library Nominations
• City of Books Podcast – A POETIC LICENCE EARNED with Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin
• Cúirt International Literature Festival – Common Currency Writer in Residence
• Doireann Ní Ghríofa featured in International Literary Ice Rink in Ulyanovsk City of Literature
• WB Yeats “Michael Robartes and the Dancer” Celebrating the Centenary
• Tolka Journal Submissions
• Leonard and Hungry Paul is 2021 One Dublin One Book
• Nollaig na mBán
• City of Books Podcast with Louis de Bernières – New Episode
• City of Books Podcast with Doireann Ní Ghríofa
• Marian Keyes in Conversation with Róisín Ingle at Dublin Book Festival
• “The Truth About Secret and Lies” City of Books Podcast with Eoin McNamee
• Dublin Book Festival 2020
• HOW RULE-BREAKING LED TO THE OSCARS – City of Books Podcast with Emma Donoghue
• UNESCO City of Literature Virtual Residency Opportunity
• Irish Author Anna Burns wins the 25th International DUBLIN Literary Award for Milkman
• Senior Times Podcast Series
• International Dublin Literary Award Winner Event – 22nd October 11am
• Verzet: New Dutch Writing Chapbooks Launch – Tuesday 22 September Online 7pm
• You Will Remain – Cities of Literature Creative Response to Covid-19
• CELEBRATING IRELAND’S CULTURAL BRIDGE – City of Books New Episode
• CALL OUT FOR YOUNG PEOPLE FOR THE RAINBOW LIBRARY LGBTQ+ PROJECT
• Dublin City Council announces The International DUBLIN Literary Award 2020 Shortlist
• Christine Dwyer Hickey in Conversation at Dublin Book Festival
• New Episode – City of Books Podcast with Lemn Sissay
• 100th birth anniversary of the celebrated American writer Ray Bradbury
• International Dublin Literary Award and ILFDublin partnership
• ILFU Utrecht International Story Contest 2020
• Words Ireland National Mentoring Programme 2020
• New Episode – City of Books Podcast with Richard Ford
• Words Ireland National Mentoring Programme 2020
• A City as a Writers’s Workplace Online Photo Exhibition
• Christine Dwyer Hickey and Sinéad Gleeson win Dalkey Literary Awards
• New Episode City of Books Podcast with Liz Nugent
• Ireland Chair of Poetry Trust Opens Call for Submissions to Special Commemorative Anthology
• Spotlight on Irish Writers
• New Episode – City of Books Podcast with Colum McCann
• James and Nora: Portrait of a Marriage by Edna O’Brien
• Correspondences – A Call to End Direct Provision in Ireland
• New Episode – City of Books Podcast with Margaret Kelleher
• UCD Festival 2020
• Book Reviews – My Pear-Shaped Life and Hitching for Hope
• City of Books – New Episode featuring Joanna Trollope and Colum McCann
• New Books by Irish Writers
• A City as a Writer’s Workplace: Photos Sought
• Red Line Book Festival Writer-in-Residence Sought
• Seána Kerslake – Reading Tatty by Christine Dwyer Hickey
• Words Ireland – National Mentoring Programme
• City of Books Podcasts
• So you want to be a writer……..
• Dublin One City One Book – Postponed
• St Patrick’s Festival
• Dublin One City One Book Programme 2020
• “City of Books” Podcast Episode 2 with Marian Keyes
• Junior Juries
• “City of Books” Podcast with Martina Devlin
• Ulyanovsk UNESCO City of Literature announces the International Literary Residency
• City of Books Podcast hosted by Martina Devlin
• MILAN RESIDENCY – BOOK OPERATORS
• Reykjavík – Gröndal’s House UNESCO Cities of Literature Residency
• 2020 International Dublin Literary Award Longlist Announced
• 11 New Cities of Literature Join UNESCO Creative Cities Network
• Boot Shane Hegarty is 2020 Citywide Reading Choice
• Iris Murdoch: Philosophy by Postcard
• Prague UNESCO City of Literature Writers‘ Residencies 2020
• Idaho by Emily Ruskinovich wins the 2019 International Dublin Literary Award
• Iris Murdoch Centenary
• INTERNATIONAL DUBLIN LITERARY AWARD – Stand by for the winner announcement at 7:00pm on Wed the 12th June!
• WORDS ON THE STREET – Celebrating European Literature in Translation
• Save the Date! Words on the Street 9th May around Merrion Square
• OUR THOUGHTS ARE WITH NEW ZEALANDERS
• INTERNATIONAL WRITER‘S RESIDENCE IN REYKJAVÍK
• It’s All About Books Exhibition
• Notes to Self by Emilie Pine named as the An Post Irish Book of the Year 2018
• The Words That Bind Us Poetry Project
• 2019 International DUBLIN Literary Award Longlist Announced
• FREE WRITING WORKSHOP
• Books on Writing Book Club
• Murder One Crime Writing Festival
• Dublin One City One Book 2019 Choice: The Country Girls Trilogy
• Books on Writing Book Club with Elizabeth Reapy
• GRANADA WRITERS IN RESIDENCE PROGRAMME
• Recent Newsletters – What we’ve been up to!
• Metro Éireann | Duke University Kenan Institute for Ethics Fourth Annual Intercultural Writing Competition 2018
• BOOKS ON WRITING Book Club with Elizabeth Reapy
• Prague UNESCO City of Literature Writers‘ Residencies 2019
• Waterford Poetry Prize 2018
• Hinterland Festival of Literature and Arts
• Solar Bones by Mike McCormack wins the 2018 International DUBLIN Literary Award
• Poetry Day in Pearse St Library
• International Dublin Literary Award Shortlist Announced
• Ljubljana International Literary Residency
• Dublin One City One Book Programme 2018 Launched
• Beckett in Foxrock – First Love
• Maeve Brennan: From New York to Shanghai
• Tara Westover in Conversation with Róisín Ingle
• Laureate for Irish Fiction 2018–2021 Sebastian Barry
• TARTU UNESCO CITY OF LITERATURE RESIDENCY PROGRAM FOR WRITERS AND TRANSLATORS
• New Crime Writing Festival for Dublin
• Writer of the City of Graz – Scholarship
• Hot Press Writing Competition for Students
• Patrick Kavanagh
• Jonathan Swift 350th Anniversary
• Dublin City Writers in Residence
• New Cities of Literature
• Irish Writers of the Fantastic celebrated in new poster – available free in Dublin City Library branches
• The Long Gaze Back is 2018 Dublin: One City One Book Choice
• Making Millions by Erika McGann is 2018 Citywide Reading Choice
• Dublin City Writer in Residence Position
• Dublin in the Coming Times: Completed work now available
• Poet Michael O’Loughlin to be Writer in Residence of Prague UNESCO City of Literature
• Read All About Our Readers in Residence Programme
• Metro Éireann, Kenan Institute of Ethics Announce 3rd Annual Intercultural Writing Competition
• Dead in Dun Laoghaire Crime Writing Festival
• Nick Laird in conversation with Rick O’Shea
• The Winner Is ……. A General Theory of Oblivion by José Eduardo Agualusa
• International Dublin Literary Award – Winner Announcement
• Howth Literary Festival
• International Dublin Literary Award Shortlist
• George Russell: Literary Witness to Irish History Lecture
• Children’s Literature, Building Resilience
• Book Launch: An Leabhar Liath, Gaelic Love Poetry
• International Literature Festival Dublin’s Date With An Agent
• International Women’s Day – Writers’ Voices
• Audi Dublin International Film Festival Literary Strand
• Galway Film Centre & RTÉ Short Film Commission – calling Writers, Directors & Producers!
• Citywide Reading Campaign for Children 2017
• The 3rd JLPP Translation Competition
• Michael Chabon Event
• Maeve Brennan Centenary Events
• Seven Irish novels on the Longlist for the International Dublin Literary Award 2017
• How to Publish Independently Event
• Irish Authors longlisted for Republic of Consciousness Prize
• Glen Hansard Receives DIT Brendan Behan Award
• Something Wicked Crime Writing Festival
• Echoland by Joe Joyce is the choice for Dublin: One City One Book 2017
• September’s poem for A Year in Words
• Emma Donoghue Event
• Jack Harte Bursary 2017
• Emma Donoghue Event
• Dublin A Year in Words
• 2017 Citywide Reading Campaign for Children – Knights of the Borrowed Dark
• Prague Writer-in-Residence programme 2017
• Short Story Competition
• What Would I Do Without This Silence in the Samuel Beckett Theatre, TCD
• Poetry Readings in Pearse St Library
• Cancellation of Ron Rash event
• The ITT Short Story Competition
• Poetry Reading in Pearse Street Library
• Summertime Reading from the UNESCO Cities of Literature
• Red Line Book Festival Poetry Competition
• The Dublin Book Festival is hiring
• The 2nd Annual Metro Éireann-Kenan Institute for Ethics Intercultural Writing Competition
• Melbourne Digital Writers’ Festival
• Writers’ Centre Norwich – Brave New Reads Project
• International Dublin Literary Award 2016
• Shortlist Announced for International Dublin Literary Award