Part of Between The Lines 2009 During the festival ten readings and workshops will be undertaken by the writers Paul Grattan, Anita Robinson and Liz Weir in prisons and schools. In the week of Between the Lines Festival the writer Paul Grattan will visit two of Northern Ireland’s prisons to read and perform workshops. The writers, [...]

The Point Bar, Magilligan Part of Between The Lines 2009 Ballycastle Writers was formed in 1990 by poet and publisher Joan Newman who taught the group until 1996 before moving from Ballycastle with her daughter Kate to live in Donegal. Subsequent course tutors kept the creative flame alive; the group currently has 20 active members who [...]

Queen’s University, Lecture Theatre G9 Part of Between The Lines 2009 Hugo Hamilton Hugo Hamilton was born in Dublin in 1953 after his mother came to Ireland from Germany. His first three novels – Surrogate City (1990), The Last Shot (1991) and The Love Test (1995) – were set in central Europe.Headbanger (1996), a darkly comic [...]

Fenderesky Gallery, 105 Royal Avenue Part of Between The Lines 2009 Kevin Barry Kevin Barry was born in Limerick in 1969 and now lives in Dublin. He writes sketches and columns for the Sunday Herald in Glasgow and the Irish Examiner in Cork. He has written about travel and literature for The Guardian, The Irish Times, [...]

The Black Box, 18 – 22 Hill Street, Belfast Part of Between The Lines 2009 Bernard MacLaverty Born in Belfast in 1942, Bernard MacLaverty moved to Scotland in 1975. He has been a Medical Laboratory Technician, a mature student, a teacher of English and, for two years in the mid 1980s, Writer-in-Residence at the University of [...]

The Black Box, 18 – 22 Hill Street, Belfast Part of Between The Lines 2009 Janice Galloway Born in Ayrshire (1955), Janice Galloway ’s first novel, The Trick is to keep Breathing (1990), was shortlisted for the Whitbread First Novel Award; its stage adaptation was widely performed. Her short stories Blood (1991) was a New York [...]

Queen’s University, Lecture Theatre G9 Part of Between The Lines 2009 Lavinia Greenlaw Born in London, where she has mainly lived, Lavinia Greenlaw’s poetry collections include Night Photograph (1993), A World Where News Travelled Slowly (1997) and Minsk (2003). Her first novel, Mary George of Allnorthover (2001), won the Prix du Premier Roman Etranger; her [...]

No Alibis Bookshop, 3 Botanic Avenue Part of Between The Lines 2009 Peter Rosser  Peter Rosser is a Belfast-based composer and music journalist. His music has been performed at the Belfast Festival at Queen’s, the Sonorities Festival, the Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival and the Spitalfield’s Festival in London. His short ten minute composition, Pied, for [...]