The Lit Review

Five Years have past; five summers, with the length Of five long winters! and again I hear These waters rolling from their mountain-springs With a soft inland murmur. It's really more of a weekly, Lit Review sort of murmur. Events…

But soft! What light through yonder window breaks? It's the Lit Review. Lit Events The International Literature Festival is pitching up in Dublin so there will be piles of great events this week. Though they are clogging up the new…

George R.R. Martin Fails to Finish Book Just when we thought that winter might actually be here, George RR Martin has announced that he has been unable to complete the sixth book in the Game of Thrones series, A Song of Ice and Fire, in…

Censoring Author Alaa-Al-Aswany in Egypt President of Egypt, Abdel Fattah el-Sisi is leading a crackdown on voices of dissent in the public domain. Alaa-Al-Aswany, bestselling author of The Yacoubian Building, has been forced to cancel a…

Poems for Safe Keeping UCD library has launched the Irish Poetry Reading Archive, to present readings of poetry by Irish artists and to preserve our cultural heritage for future generations. The archive is composed of works by Irish…

Bord Gais Energy Irish Book Awards The Bord Gais Energy Irish Book Awards took place last night with winners in fifteen book categories.  The Green Road by Anne Enright, was chosen as the Eason Book Club Novel of the Year and Spill Simmer…

Moscow Library of Ukranian Books A library in Moscow was subjected to a police raid last week, targeting ‘anti-Russian’ books, and have detained its director, Natalya Sharina, accusing her of ‘inciting ethnic hatred’. The library first…

NaNoWriMo It’s almost November, this is disgusting, I know. But November also means that NaNoWriMo (National Novel Writing Month) is here again, encouraging aspiring story-tellers to get those words down onto the page. You can sign up to…

Festival Bites Bram Stoker Festival will take place from 23rd to the 26th of October. I promise I will control the urge to make vampire puns while sharing some of this year’s excellent array of events. The Scary Trail will guide…

Listen to Lingo Attention please: Lingo has arrived. The spoken word festival will kick off today, Friday 16th October until Sunday 18th. It will host story tellers, artists and truth searchers in bars and theatres and cafes around Dublin.…