When & Where: UL Creative Writing festival takes place over three evenings (Wednesday 9th April, Thursday 10th April, Friday 11th April 2025) and one full day, Saturday 12th April, at UL.
How to book: Choose the Day or Days you wish to attend, and book at uch.ie. There is no one ticket that covers all three evenings and the Saturday.
Day Three and Four
The only ticket offered for Days Three and Four is a combination ticket, covering all events on the evening of Friday 11th and all-day Saturday 12th.
Venue: Irish World Academy of Music and Dance.
Day 3 and 4 ticket:35 euros/20 euros. Book at https://www.uch.ie/show/day-3-4-weekend-festival-ul-creative-writing-festival-2025/ Day 3 and 4 combination ticket covers admission to as many of the following as you wish.
Friday:
5.30pm to 6pm: Kerry Neville in Conversation with Eoin Devereux. 6.30 pm to 7.30 Booker Prize-winner PAUL LYNCH and SARAH GILMARTINreading from their work.
Saturday:
11am - 12pm: An Island of many Nations: Afric McGlinchey, Cauvery Madhavan and Suad Aldarra, MC’d by Tapasya Narang. With emerging writers in Ireland from various birthplaces and backgrounds, we celebrate our literary island of many nations.
12.30pm to 1.30pm: Poets Annemarie Ni Churreain, Nandi Jola and Ciaran O’Rourke presented by Emily Cullen.
2pm to 3pm: The Alumni Readings: UL Creative Writing MA graduates Sharon Guard, Neil Tully, Grainne O’Brien, Noelle Lynskey, June O’Sullivan, and family of the late Patrick Kelly, read from their debut published works, with Q-and-A on our Creative Writing MA and getting published.
3.30pm to 4.30pm: The Word on the Street:Cormac Mac Gearailt, winner of the international UNESCO City of Literature Slamovision 2024), Sheila Ryder (winner of the Cúirt International festival), Lauren McNamara (two-time Munster slam champion), Kev Kennedy (winner of 2024 Fingal Poetry Slam). From Electric Picnic to Kneecap, Spoken Word has moved into the spotlight. An exploration showcasing four performers, with Q&A.
5pm to 6pm: Former Poetry Editor of The New Yorker, Pulitzer prizewinning poet, PAUL MULDOON in his first ever reading at UL Creative Writing.
6.30pm to 7.30pm: Closing event: International bestseller LIZ NUGENT
Admission: FREE but booking is required at: https://www.uch.ie/show/day-1-opening-event-ul-creative-writing-festival-2025/
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- DAY 3-4: Weekend Festival – UL CREATIVE WRITING FESTIVAL 2025
- 11 Apr 2025
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