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- Nora by Nuala O’Connor is the 2022 One Dublin One Book
- 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
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- 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
- 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
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- 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