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the JohnHewitt Society International Summer School

A Festival of Culture & Creativity

“Coming to terms: learning to live with difference”

Monday 27th – Friday 31st July 2015 The Market Place Theatre & Arts Centre, Armagh www.johnhewittsociety.org Booking Information Book online: www.marketplacearmagh.com

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Box Oﬀice Opening Hours: Monday – Saturday 9.30am – 4.30pm. Open until 7pm on performance nights.

Tickets : Individual events: £6-£7 or otherwise speciﬁed Daily ticket: £45 (includes lunch) Weekly ticket: £195 (includes lunch) Three-day creative writing workshop: £40

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www.facebook.com/john.hewitt.3158 @The_JHS #JHISS “Coming to terms: learning to live with difference” I would be neighbourly, would come to terms with your existence, but you are so far – John Hewitt, O Country People , 1949

Welcome to the 28th John Hewitt International Summer School, a five-day celebration of culture and creativity through talks, readings, theatre, writing workshops and disussions. This year’s event is themed ‘Coming to Terms: learning to live with difference’, with the aim of exploring politically and culturally challenging issues of religion, race, and gender within our society. Daily news reports highlight our need to come to terms with difference, in everyday life in Northern Ireland and on the world stage. 2015 has seen the continued rise of right wing political parties, clashes between religious fundamentalism and an increasingly secular society, and attacks on freedom of speech, such as the Charlie Hebdo shooting in Paris this year. Can writers only speak up for their ‘own sort’? Or can art help to see another side, to come to terms with difference? CREATIVE WRITING WORKSHOPS

Monday 27th, Tuesday 28th & Thursday 30th July 2.15pm – 3.45pm | 1 hour 30 mins £40 for three-day workshop

Memoir Crime Fiction Prose Fiction Scriptwriting Maureen Boyle Anthony J. Quinn Mary O'Donnell Daragh Carville Maureen Boyle won the Anthony J. Quinn’s debut Mary O’Donnell is an award- Daragh Carville is a playwright Ireland Chair of Poetry Prize novel Disappeared was winning poet and prose writer and screenwriter. His ﬁlms are and the Strokestown shortlisted for a Strand whose best-selling novels Middletown and Cherrybomb International Poetry Prize in Literary Award in the US. Two include The Light-Makers, and TV credits include Being 2007, and in 2013, she was more of his Celcius Daly Virgin and the Boy, The Human (BBC3), 6Degrees awarded the Fish Short novels, Border Angels and Elysium Testament and Where (BBC NI) and The Smoke Memoir Prize. Silence , are to appear this year. They Lie. (Kudos/Sky One). CREATIVE WRITING WORKSHOPS

Develop your writing skills under the direction of one of our seven tutors who are all experienced facilitators and published authors. Each workshop runs over three days, and each intensive session lasts for 1hr 30 mins, with six genres to choose from. Spaces are limited – advance booking is essential.

Supported by the Open University

Poetry Poetry Short Story Niall Campbell Siobhán Campbell Heather Richardson Niall Campbell has been Siobhán Campbell is an Heather Richardson is the recipient of an Eric Gregory award-winning poet whose author of Magdeburg , a Award and a Robert Louis collections of poetry include novel, and Chilled , a short Stevenson Fellowship. His The Permanent Wave (1996), story collection. Her short collection, Moontide , was The Cold that Burns (2000) ﬁction and poetry have been given a Poetry Book Society and Cross-Talk (2009). published widely in the UK Recommendation. and Ireland. ART EXHIBITION

Belfast Print Workshop The Life and Times of an Armagh Response - Eight Poets - Eight Artists Writer: John O'Connor (1920 – 1959) Foyer Walls, 27th July – 15th August Upper Foyer, 27th July – 15th August

Belfast Print Workshop invited eight poets to submit To complement the presentation of John O’Connor: A a poem that they thought would elicit a visual Celebration at JHISS, the author’s nieces have put response from a Belfast Print Workshop artist. Poets together an exhibition of original manuscripts, Ciaran Carson, Michael Longley, Paul Muldoon, magazines, letters, photographs, recordings and other Sinead Morrissey, Leontia Flynn, Alan Gillis, Miriam items featuring the work, life and times of the locally Gamble and Medbh McGuckian accepted the celebrated Armagh writer. [Recording of John Hewitt invitation and Belfast gallery owner, Jamshid reading a John O'Connor Mirfenderesky, selected the artists to respond. short story by kind permission of BBC.] ART EXHIBITION

Rita Duﬀy The Thaw Factory Exhibition The Gallery, 27th July – 29th August

Rita Duﬀy is one of Northern Ireland’s most groundbreaking artists. Her art is often biographical, including themes and images of Irish identity, history & politics, paying homage to magic realism and including elements of the surreal. Here she previews The Thaw Factory project for 2016, a year of remembering wars and revolution, presenting the work in galleries and museums in Berlin, London Belfast and Dublin. Monday 27th July

OFFICIAL OPENING FICTION Lord Rana Ian Sansom 10:45am FREE 1:05pm £7 The 28th Summer School is opened Death in Devon by Lord Rana MBE, Baron of Malone. is the second instalment of OPENING ADDRESS Ian Sansom’s The County Lord Steel of Aikwood Guides, a series Towards a federal United of detective novels set in 1930s Kingdom? England. A prolific writer, Sansom’s essays and reviews have appeared in 11:15am £8 numerous magazines and journals, Lord Steel was Leader of the Liberal including The New York Times . A Party from 1976 until its merger with regular broadcaster on BBC Radio, he the Social Democratic Party in 1988 teaches on the English and to form the Liberal Democrats. As Comparative Literary Studies David Steel he served as Member of programme at University of Warwick. Parliament from 1965 to 1997 and as a Member of the Scottish Parliament from 1999 to 2003, during which time he was the parliament's first Presiding Officer. Since 1997, he has been a member of the House of CREATIVE WRITING WORKSHOP Lords. Introduced by Lord Rana. 2:15pm Three day course: £40 www.johnhewittsociety.org RECEPTION BOOK LAUNCH Hosted by the North South Northman: John Hewitt, (1907- Ministerial Council 1987) An Irish Writer, His Opening of The Thaw Factory World, and His Times Exhibition By W.J.McCormack 5:30pm 7pm Free See Exhibitions for more details. The Oxford University W. J. Mc Cormack LECTURE Press, in association The Heaney O’Driscoll with No Alibis Memorial Lecture Bookstore, is Bernard O’Donoghue pleased to launch the first Northman Distraction as Inspiration complete life of John Hewitt, 1907-1987 An Irish Writer, 4:15pm £7 John Hewitt, His World, and His Times The second in a three year series of written by the lectures dedicated to the memories highly regarded of two of Ireland’s foremost poets of academic, W.J. McCormack. The the 20th century and friends of the book will be launched by Chair of the John Hewitt Society, Seamus Heaney Arts Council of Northern Ireland, Bob and Dennis O’Driscoll. Bernard Collins. This book was commissioned O’Donoghue is a poet, academic and by the John Hewitt Society with the literary critic. He is the author of financial assistance of the Arts Seamus Heaney and the Language of Council of Northern Ireland. Poetry (1994). Monday 27th July

POETRY Gallery Goes…to the John Hewitt International Summer School Sara Berkeley, Alan Gillis & Eamon Grennan 8:30pm £9 The Gallery Press provides us with a rare treat to hear from three remarkable Irish poets as they return to home soil from life abroad for this special event. Sara Berkeley has published poems, stories and a novel and has published three poetry collections with The Gallery Press, most recently What Just Happened (July 2015). Alan Gillis released Scapegoat in 2014, the year he was chosen as one of the PBS Next Generation Poets. Eamon Grennan has published ten collections with The Gallery Press, including Still Life with Waterfall, which won the Lenore Marshall Prize, and There Now (July 2015). Supported by Arts Council Ireland Touring and Dissemination Scheme www.johnhewittsociety.org Tuesday 28th July

TALK POETRY READING C.L. Dallat Bernard O’Donoghue & Yasmin Alibhai-Brown The Other Sort Hannah Lowe 1:05pm £7 9:45am £6 11:15am £7 Yasmin Alibhai- Poet, musician Bernard O’Donoghue is an Emeritus Brown is a and critic Fellow of Wadham College, Ugandan-born Cahal Dallat University of Oxford, where he British journalist reviews taught Medieval English and Modern and author, who literature and Irish Poetry. He has published six describes herself the arts for collections of poetry, including as a "leftie liberal, several Gunpowder , winner of the 1995 anti-racist, publications Whitbread Prize for Poetry, and feminist, Muslim, including The Farmers Cross (2011). Hannah part-Pakistani, Guardian and Lowe's ﬁrst collection Chick and ... a very Times Literary (shortlisted for the Forward, responsible person". Currently a Supplement and has been a regular Aldeburgh Best First Collection regular columnist for The contributor to BBC Radio 4’s Prizes and Seamus Heaney First Independent and the London Saturday Review . In this talk he Collection Prize) was published by Evening Standard, she is a well- discusses how John Hewitt dealt Bloodaxe in January 2013. In known commentator on issues frankly, and tentatively, with September 2014, she was named as relating to immigration, diversity and diﬀerence and shared one of 20 Next Generation poets. multiculturalism. Yasmin will read neighbourliness within a divided Supported by Poetry Ireland from and talk about her recently community in Northern Ireland. published book, Refusing the Veil .

Box Office: 028 3752 1821 Tuesday 28th July

CREATIVE WRITING WORKSHOP BOOK LAUNCH 2:15pm Three day course: £40 Gael Linn: Aspects of a Shared Heritage DISCUSSION 5:30pm FREE The launch of a new Aspects of a Shared Heritage Learning to Live With publication of a Essays on linguistic and cultural crossover in Ulster Diﬀerence collection of essays on 4:15pm £7 linguistic and cultural Broadcaster crossover in Ulster. ‘Not C.L. Dallat, to learn Irish is to miss author Yasmin the opportunity of Alibhai Brown understanding what life & poet Hannah in this country has meant Lowe discuss and could mean in a diﬀerence and better future.’ – Seamus diversity in the Heaney UK and Ireland. Has the shifting demography of UK & Ireland helped us to see that there are other ‘others’ in our neighbourhoods now, Bangladeshis, Vietnamese, Romanians, Syrians, Latvians, Somalis? And does that diversity change things? Or are we still stuck in the binary oppositions of 1690 & 1916, of Paisley vs the Pope?

www.johnhewittsociety.org Tuesday 28th July

STUDENT SHOWCASE and Colum combine their considerable talents for this hybrid Plays, Prose & Pictures storytelling event, blending readings inspired by Northern Ireland and music. 7pm FREE The culmination of a month-long READING residency in Armagh by a group of North American students, exploring After Hours their place in the world through The Squat Pen fiction, playwriting and images. A 10pm FREE wine reception will follow. The first of three late-night informal Supported by ieiMedia Armagh readings in The Market Place Bar. The Squat Pen presents an evening of FICTION & MUSIC poetry, music and prose. Special guests include Howard Wright, twice Patrick McCabe and Colum winner of the Frogmore Poetry Prize, Sands novelist Jan Carson, poets Tory Songs and Novels from a Two Campbell and Colin Hassard, and Storey Bungalow singer/songwriter Hannah McPhillimy. Poet Anne-Marie Fyfe 8:30pm £12 will choose a favourite poem for the Patrick McCabe is an inimitable voice Desert Island. The Squat Pen is in Irish literature, known for his dark hosted by poets Ray Givans and Paul characters situated in small-town Jeffcutt. Facebook.com/squatpen Ireland. Joined by acclaimed songwriter, storyteller and broadcaster Colum Sands, Patrick

Box Office: 028 3752 1821 Wednesday 29th July

TALK Snakeskin FICTION Stilettos and Dr Myrtle Hill Miracle Fruit Christine Dwyer Hickey 9:45am £6 from Lagan 1:05pm £7 Press. Her most 'Women, War and Welfare: The Co- recent Christine Operative Crusades of Margaret commission was Dwyer Hickey Taylor McCoubrey, 1880-1956'. Dis-Ease for has Dr Myrtle Hill was formerly a Senior Abridged 0-36 published Lecturer at the School of Sociology, magazine, a seven novels, Social Policy, & Social Work, Queen's collaboration with photographic one short University Belfast. Previously artist Victoria J Dean. story collection Director of the Centre for Women's Iggy McGovern Studies, she specialises in history, and a full is Fellow length play. gender studies, disability studies, Emeritus in and approaches to the NI Conﬂict. Her short Physics at stories have been published in Her research has focused on social, Trinity College. religious, and gender history in anthologies and magazines world- His poetry wide and have won several awards. Ireland, and she has published widely collections in these areas. The Cold Eye of Heaven (Atlantic include The Books UK) won the Irish Novel of the King of POETRY Year 2012 and was nominated for the Suburbia, Safe IMPAC award. Her ﬁrst play Snow House and A Mystic Dream of 4 , a Angels premiered at the Project Arts Moyra Donaldson & sonnet sequence based on the life of Iggy McGovern Centre in March 2014. She is a the Irish mathematician & poet, member of Aosdana. Her latest 11:15am £7 William Rowan Hamilton. novel, The Lives of Women was Moyra Donaldson is the author of six published in April 2015. collections of poetry including

www.johnhewittsociety.org Wednesday 29th July

TALK INTERVIEW PRESENTATION Ian Knox Paul Muldoon in Conversation John O’Connor, A Celebration subVersions 4:15pm £8 7pm £10 2:15pm £7 Now based in A contemporary and friend of Sam Ian Knox has been the editorial USA, Co Hanna Bell and John Boyd along with cartoonist for the Irish News for 26 Armagh-born many of the leading Northern Irish years. He has cartooned for BBC poet, Paul writers of his time, John O'Connor Northern Muldoon, is a was a significant writer whose life Ireland’s Fellow of the was cut tragically short and whose Hearts & Royal Society of work has been unfairly eclipsed. A Minds, Literature, the group of Armagh writers and actors, Newsnight, American including Daragh Carville, John Paul Channel 4 Academy of Arts Connolly, Karl O’Neill and Paul News, and and Sciences Muldoon, along with two of John made two and the O'Connor’s nieces, join to celebrate films for Sky American his life in his home town and to News, The Academy of Arts and Letters. Some introduce his writing to a whole new Downfall of of his many accolades include the generation. Tony Blair Pulitzer Prize, an American Academy and The Downfall of Gordon Brown. of Arts and Letters award in This illustrated talk looks at the literature, the 1994 T. S. Eliot Prize, attempts at cartoonists to subvert and the 2006 European Prize for the status accorded to violent Poetry. He has been described by The actions and undo the visual bypass Times Literary Supplement as "the that Irish people display towards the most significant English-language natural and built environment. poet born since the Second World War."

Box Office: 028 3752 1821 Wednesday 29th July

THEATRE who had six children by a married man who lived around the corner with Green Shoot Productions present his other family. The play explores the Two Sore Legs pain, the joy and the fall-out from this extraordinary family arrangement. In by Brenda Murphy an absolute tour de force, acclaimed Directed by Martin Lynch actress Maria Connolly purrs, struts, Original Direction by Noreen Kershaw weeps and explodes around the stage 8:30pm £13 in equal measure. This story will stay with you long after you’ve left the theatre.

POETRY After Hours The Lifeboat 10pm FREE The second of our three late-night informal readings in The Market Place Bar, join us for a drink and a chat and hear some new writing. The Lifeboat is a monthly reading series hosted by Stephen Connolly and Manuela Moser in The Sunﬂower Bar, Belfast Set in Belfast in the 1950s and 60s, that pairs an established poet with a Brenda Murphy's powerful, new poet. lifeboatbelfast.co.uk autobiographical play is based on the experiences of her mother, Bridie,

www.johnhewittsociety.org Thursday 30th July

TALK readings and FICTION workshops at Professor Paulo de Medeiros London's Mary Costello 9.45am £6 Troubadour 1.05pm £7 Coffee-House ‘Mare Mortis: The Shipwrecking of since 1997. Her Mary Costello’s collection of stories, Europe on the Rocks of Difference’ new collection The China Factory , was nominated Paulo de Medeiros is Professor of is House of for the 2012 Guardian First Book Modern and Contemporary World Small Absences Award. Her first novel, Academy Literatures, and teaches at the (Seren). Street , won the Eason’s Novel of the University of Warwick. His field of Year Prize at the Bord Gais Awards Tess and was named overall Irish Book of study is Post imperial Europe. This Gallagher’s talk will examine changing attitudes the Year 2014. It was also shortlisted Midnight for the 2014 Costa first novel prize, towards Europe and the identity of Lantern: New being European. and featured on BBC Radio 4’s Book and Selected at Bedtime. Supported by the Centre for Cross Poems, from Border Studies Bloodaxe Press in England is POETRY her ninth volume of Anne-Marie Fyfe & poetry. Most Tess Gallagher recently she 11.15am £7 has been involved in the film Birdman with director Alejandro Former Chair of the Poetry Society, Inarritu, since it presents both a CREATIVE WRITING WORKSHOP Anne-Marie Fyfe has been awarded poem and a story from her late the Academi Cardiff International husband, Raymond Carver. 2:15pm Three day course: £40 Poetry Prize and has organised the Coffee-House Poetry series of

Box Office: 028 3752 1821 Thursday 30th July

POETRY RECEPTION THE SIXTH ANNUAL IRISH Hosted by Irish Pages PAGES LECTURE 5.30pm John F. Deane Too Christian For His Own Good: THEATRE Reﬂections on a Faith in Poetry 4.15pm £7 Newbliss John F. Deane is the author of eleven One-man play written and books of poems, most recently Snow performed by Keith Donald Falling on Chestnut Hill: New and 7pm £10 Selected Poems (2012) and A renowned saxophone and clarinet Semibreve (2015), both from player, Keith Donald has played with Carcanet Press. He is also the author some of the biggest names in Irish of two novels and a memoir, Give music, including Van Morrison, Dust a Tongue (Columba, 2015). In Ronnie Drew, The Moving Hearts and 1979, he founded Poetry Ireland, the Christy Moore. Through poetry, national poetry organisation, and storytelling and music, Keith Poetry Ireland Review . recounts the highs and lows of a Irish Pages is the island’s premier career in the music industry literary journal, combining spanning six decades, half of which outstanding writing from Ireland and was spent under the shadow of overseas. Its annual lecture alcoholism. alternates between an Irish and an international writer, and is published in the subsequent issue of the Supported by Irish Pages journal.

www.johnhewittsociety.org Thursday 30th July

MUSIC POETRY A Not-to-be-Missed Music After Hours Event! Purely Poetry Holy Ghosts, Some Horslips 10pm FREE and Special Guests: Belfast’s premier open mic poetry Barry Devlin, Jim Lockhart, Johnny night comes to Armagh for the first Fean, Paul Muldoon & Paul Brady time. Purely Poetry welcomes readers 8.30pm £16 of all styles, backgrounds and A rollicking evening with a difference experiences, fostering an open, as poet Paul Muldoon returns to his friendly and encouraging atmosphere first love and straps on a guitar to for people to read their work and to join a star-studded pickup band that listen, in the comfort of the augments Paddy Goodwin’s Holy downstairs bar in the Market Place. Ghosts with Barry Devlin, Jim Sign up to read will be available Lockhart and Johnny Fean of during the festival and at the start of Horslips for a night of blues classics, the night. All names are drawn out of Celtic rock anthems songs co-written the hat at random, and then we hand with people such as Warren Zevron the mic over to YOU, for your poetry and Paul Brady, with special guest on to be a part of this year’s Summer the night … Paul Brady! A truly School. unique one-off performance that’s poetryni.com unlikely ever to happen again. Proceeds from this event will go towards an initiative to publish the short stories of Armagh writer John O’Connor.

Box Office: 028 3752 1821 Friday 31st July

TALK POETRY Alistair Moffat Colette Bryce & Niall Campbell The DNA of a Nation 11:15am £7 9:45am £6 Colette Bryce is currently based in From a simple saliva sample, the North of England where she scientists can trace your genetic works as a freelance writer and ancestry across continents and over editor. Her new collection, The Whole many thousands of years. & Rain-domed Universe , which draws BritainsDNA combines historical on her experience of growing up in analysis and DNA testing to provide Derry during the Troubles, was new insights into the tremendous shortlisted for the Forward and diversity of our genetic history. Costa poetry awards in 2014. Founder Alistair Moffat will be Niall Campbell’s first collection, talking about the fascinating Moontide (Bloodaxe, 2014), won the research behind the Saltire First Book of the Year Award project and the in 2014. It was also shortlisted for innovative tests the Aldeburgh and Forward Prizes available to answer a for Best First Collection. Last year he fundamental was named inaugural winner of the question – where do Edwin Morgan Poetry Award. we come from? Supported by Poetry Ireland britainsdna.com

www.johnhewittsociety.org Friday 31st July

FICTION CREATIVE WRITING SHOWCASE Dermot Bolger 2.15pm Free 1:05pm £7 Hosted by poet and workshop leader Dermot Bolger is one of Ireland’s Niall Campbell, this showcase best known poets and playwrights provides an opportunity for some of those attending the Summer School and the author of eleven critically acclaimed novels including The creative writing workshops this week Journey Home and New Town Soul . to read their work in front of an His numerous awards include the audience. Samuel Beckett Award for his play, The Lament for Arthur Cleary , and he was named Commentator of the Year at the 2012 Irish Newspaper Awards. Dermot will read from his recently published novel, Tanglewood .

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Friday 31st July

DISCUSSION Can we live with difference? 4pm £7 Journalist and commentator Malachi O’Doherty discusses with the panel whether we can really live with difference. Linda Ervine is Irish Language Development Officer in East Belfast, Gearóid Ó hEára was Lord Mayor of Derry City Council, and Rev Brian Kennaway is a former Presbyterian minister and member of the Orange Order, who continues to comment on politics, orangeism, and religion.

CLOSING RECEPTION

Close of Summer School 5:45pm A reception hosted by the Lord Mayor of Armagh City, Banbridge and Craigavon Borough Council brings the Summer School to a close.

www.johnhewittsociety.org The John Hewitt Society

About Us The aim of the John Hewitt Society is to promote literature, arts & culture inspired by the ideas and ideals of John Hewitt. Hewitt’s work and writings transcended traditional societal divisions in Northern Ireland, and The Society’s role is to bring diﬀerent identities together in safe circumstances via literature and creative writing. For almost thirty years, The John Hewitt Society has developed a range of literary and cultural activities to break down parochialism, narrow, exclusive concepts of identity, and hostility towards the ‘other’.

DayD TTours to Ireland’s ArmaghA Ancient Cathedral City £15.00pp Return coach trip Departs Visit Belfast Welcome Centre @ 10.00am

Places to visit include: • Apple Juice & Cider Tours • Armagh Gaol • Armagh County Museum EVERY FRIDAY • Armagh Observatory • Armagh Planetarium • Armagh Public Library • Cardinal Tomás Ó Fiaich Library • Lough Neagh Discovery Centre & SATURDAY • Navan Centre & Fort • No5 Vicars’ Hill • Royal Irish Fusiliers Museum • Saint Patrick’s Cathedral [Catholic] • Saint Patrick’s Cathedral [Church of Ireland]

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More to Experience in Armagh!...

This is Armagh... a story of our city and area that has a place in Ireland with a significance and influence felt across the island for 6500 years...

We are at the heart of celebrating the life of Saint Patrick and a major destination on the Saint Patrick’s Trail. There are many special things to experience in Armagh ranging from the historically unique Navan Fort, Ireland’s only Planetarium, stunning National Trust properties, unmatched Georgian architecture, two Saint Patrick’s Cathedrals, the amazing green space of the Mall and the chance to indulge in all manner of activities in a beautiful natural environment.

For further information contact Armagh Visitor Information Centre 40 English Street, Armagh, BT61 7BA t: +44 [0] 28 3752 1800 | e: [email protected] www.armagh.co.uk Once Alien Here “As native in my thought as any here” - John Hewitt

Coming Autumn 2015: a community outreach scheme to promote equality and address social exclusion by exploring issues of identity through literature and creative writing. For more information on The John Hewitt Society’s community engagement initiatives, please contact us: [email protected]

In association with Eastside Arts Festival & East Belfast Partnership Once Alien Here is supported by Belfast City Council Good Relations Fund Upcoming Events Literary Lunchtime Wednesday 23rd September 2015 | 1pm The Ulster Hall, Belfast Literary Lunchtime with Donal Ryan Wednesday 9th December 2015 | 1pm The Ulster Hall, Belfast blank page Banbridge Autumn Arts 14th – 24th October 2015 Old Town Hall, Banbridge The John Hewitt Birthday Poetry Reading Wednesday 28th October 2015 | 8pm The John Hewitt Bar, Belfast

For further information call 028 9032 4522 or click on www.johnhewittsociety.org Sign up to our mailing list on our website to keep updated on upcoming John Hewitt Society events and writing workshops

Registered address: The John Hewitt Society, 7 North Street, Belfast, BT1 1NH Company No NI 41294 Charity Reg No XR 52617

Monday 27th Tuesday 28th Wednesday 29th Thursday 30th Friday 31st

10.45am Talk Talk Talk Talk 9.45am Oﬀicial Opening Professor Paulo de C.L. Dallat Dr. Myrtle Hill Alistair Moﬀat Lord Diljit Rana Medeiros

Poetry Poetry Poetry Poetry Opening Address 11.15am Bernard O'Donoghue Moyra Donaldson Tess Gallagher Colette Bryce Lord Steel of Aikwood Hannah Lowe Iggy McGovern Anne-Marie Fyfe Niall Campbell

Fiction Reading Fiction Fiction Fiction 1.05pm Ian Sansom Yasmin Alibhai-Brown C hristine Dwyer Hickey Mary Costello D e r mot Bolger

Creative Writing Creative Writing Talk Creative Writing Creative Writing 2.15pm Workshops Workshops Ian Knox Workshops Showcase

Talk Panel Discussion Talk Interview Panel Discussion The Heaney O’Driscoll Yasmin Alibhai-Brown The 6th Annual Irish 4.15pm Paul Muldoon 4pm Memorial Lecture Hannah Lowe Pages Lecture The Idea of Region Bernard O'Donoghue C.L. Dallat John F. Deane

5.30pm NSMC Reception 5.30pm Reception 5.30pm Reception Lord Mayor’s Presentation Gael Linn Book Launch Reception 7pm Book Launch & John O’Connor: a Theatre Newbliss Close of Summer Reception Northman: iei Media Student celebration by Keith Donald John Hewitt Showcase School Poetry Theatre Music Words and Music Gallery Goes Green Shoot Holy Ghosts, Some Colum Sands and 8.30pm Alan Gillis, Sara Berkeley, Productions Horslips & Special Patrick McCabe Eamon Grennan Two Sore Legs Guests Paul Brady and Paul Muldoon 10pm Music The Squat Pen The Lifeboat Purely Poetry