Resources
A list of poetry-friendly groups, events and other useful links. If you have anything you would like to add to our list, please email us at: thepenpointsnorth@outlook.com
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Art Organisations
Arts Council Northern Ireland Community Arts Partnership Crescent Arts Centre Down Arts Centre John Hewitt Society Northern Ireland Publications Resource Open Arts Poetry Ireland Seamus Heaney Centre for Poetry Verbal Arts Centre Festivals Aspects Literary Festival Belfast Book Festival Culture Night Belfast Happy Days Enniskillen International Beckett Festival Newcastle Arts Festival On Home Ground Festival Stendhal Arts Festival Publishers Blackstaff Press Dedalus Press Doire Press Guildhall Press Lagan Press Lapwing Publications Liberties Press The Lilliput Press New Island Books Salmon Poetry Tramp Press Other Sites of Interest Culture Northern Ireland Discover Northern Ireland: Literature FSNI National Poetry Competition The Irish Literary Times Irish Writers Online The Lifeboat Linen Hall Library The Monday Night Cure National Poetry Day No Alibis Poethead The Seamus Heaney Centre Digital Archive The Squat Pen |
Publications
Print: Abridged Banshee Blowing Raspberries Gorse Irish Pages The Open Ear (for QUB students and alumni only) The Penny Dreadful Poetry Bus Mag The Stinging Fly The Yellow Nib Online: A New Ulster The Bohemyth FourXFour The Honest Ulsterman The Incubator (themed issues, not always open to poetry) Panning For Poems The Pickled Body Poetry Proper (no longer active) Writers' Groups Ards Writers (Newtownards) Meets: second and fourth Tuesdays of each month, 7.30-10 pm at the Web Theatre, North Street, Newtownards. Contact: mail@ardswriters.com or 028 9065 3820 or 028 9181 7423 Ballycastle Writers Meets: Wednesday nights at Rathmoyle Resource Centre. Ballymoney Writers’ Group Meets: Ballymoney Town Hall, High Street, Ballymoney every Monday 7.30 – 9.30pm. Contact: Teresa Godfrey at mteresagodfrey@aol.com Burnavon Writers (Cookstown) Meets: The Burnavon every other Thursday, 7-9 pm. Contact: 02886 769949 Comber Writers' Group Meets: Comber Library, Newtownards Road Contact: Gerry Miller at gerry.m@nireland.com Derry Writers' Group Meets: monthly, every second Thursday, at 7.30pm at the Centre for Contemporary Art, 10-12 Artillery Street, Derry/Londonderry. Contact: derrywriters@hotmail.co.uk Fermanagh Creative Writers Group Meets: Charlie's Bar, Enniskillen every Tuesday evening. Contact: Dianne Trimble at fermanaghwriters@aol.com Here NI Runs two writers groups for lesbian and bisexual women, One in Belfast and one in Derry/Londonderry. Belfast: Second Sat of Every Month from 12-2pm. 2nd Floor, 9-13 Waring Street, Belfast BT1 2DX Derry/Londonderry: Last Saturday of every month from 12-2pm Tower Hotel Derry (lobby) Contact: orlaith.hendron@hereni.org or 07597879630 Jane Ross Writers (Limavady) Meets: contact for details as venue may change. Contact: sesnagh@gmail.com Lough Neagh Writers "A diverse local writing group of all ages, gender, religion and background. We are involved in writing poetry, plays, prose and stories. We also collaborate with film makers, artists, photographers and other writing groups." Contact: Martelle Mc Partland either at loughneaghwriters@gmail.com or martelle@talk21.com (Not actively seeking new members) Shalom Writers’ Group (Newtownabbey) Meets: Belfast Central Library every Thursday Contact: Denis O’Sulllivan at dfosullivan@sky.com Write Here, Write Now Meets: Each Friday at Greenway Women's Centre, Belfast. Contact: Telephone: 028 9079 9912 Email: secretary@greenwaywomenscentre.org |