International Literature Festival Dublin

🍕Calling All Vendors! 🍕
ILFD returns to Merrion Square this May, welcoming nearly 30k visitors over 10 vibrant days. We’re inviting food and drink vendors to be part of this much-loved festival and showcase their offerings to a diverse, curious, and hungry audience.
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Calling all writers! Date with an Agent is your chance to meet leading industry professionals and get the inside track on how to best hook their interest. Apply before 7th April at: ilfdublin.com/whats-on/fes...

Poster advertising Date with an Agent 2026 at the International Literature Festival Dublin

Don't miss your chance to connect with an agent who might just be your publishing match made in heaven.

Date with an Agent 2026 at @ilfdublin.bsky.social

📢Deadline for submissions is Monday 6th of April, midnight

Full details:
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Announcing the first headline events for ILFD 2026!

Book your pre-release tickets now for the first wave of in-conversation events, featuring Colm Tóibín, Doireann Ní Ghríofa, Maria Alyokhina, Richard Armitage and Tana French.

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Apply now for Date with an Agent!

Held during The Insider’s Guide to Publishing at ILFD in Merrion Square Park, at Date With An Agent, top literary agents meet ten writers one-to-one to offer tailored advice.

Deadline Tues 7th April 2026, midnight.

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Submissions are now open for Date with an Agent!

Held during The Insider’s Guide to Publishing at ILFD in Merrion Square Park, at Date With An Agent, top literary agents meet ten writers one-to-one to offer tailored advice.

Find out more and submit your work now at:

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Today marks the start of Brigit: Dublin City Celebrating Women and there are lots of exciting events across the weekend - check out the full programme at:
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Join us for Writing Dublin at Wilton Park with Oliver Callan and Patrick McCabe, a special Off the Page event presented in partnership with IPUT Real Estate. Book now: ilfdublin.com/whats-on/festival/writing-dublin-at-wilton-park-oliver-callan-and-patrick-mccabe/

📅 Tuesday 3rd March
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📢 Calling all aspiring authors – this is your chance to get your work in front of an agent! 📢

Get your chance to pitch your writing in person at International Literature Festival Dublin 2026! Date with an Agent is now open for submissions.

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📆 Save the date! 📆
The International Literature Festival Dublin is returning from 15th to 24th May 2026, featuring events for readers of all ages and interest and celebrating the very best Irish and international fiction and non-fiction authors, poets, lyricists, playwrights and screenwriters.

An absolutely gorgeous time at @ilfdublin.bsky.social - thank you so much for supporting Conn and I (and letting me play D & D with some very Chaotically Good writers!)

Thank you so much to all who braved the weather to join us at
@ilfdublin.bsky.social on Friday evening, and of course to our wonderful contributors for sharing their work 🩵
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Thank You from ILFD! 🙏📚

As the curtain falls on this year’s International Literature Festival Dublin, we want to extend our heartfelt thanks to everyone who made it unforgettable: the brilliant writers, passionate readers, curious minds, and dedicated teams behind the scenes. #ILFD25

Those who've seen me at the @ilfdublin.bsky.social, this weekend, will know it's never about ME. It's always about pleasing my adoring public. I am so GIVING. I don't want to put words in your mouth but I suspect 'Christlike' or 'saintly' spring to mind. Here are a couple of snaps taken post-event.

Graphic novelist Aimée de Jongh describes going undercover to research life in a #Lesbos #refugee camp. “Drawing is a tool to show something journalists can’t,” she says. @ILFDublin.bsky.social #NewDutchWriting

I'm in the "fangirling historians" faze of life. Could've listened to Serhii Plokhy for hours, so grateful to the @ilfdublin.bsky.social for bringing him to Dublin.

Rebecca Solnit on stage at the International literature festival in Dublin.

The brilliant @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social at the @ilfdublin.bsky.social ...can listen to her for hours.

Sensory Storytime - Merrion Square Park, International Literary Festival Dublin 2025 - The Reviews Hub The International Literature Festival Dublin has brought a wealth of children’s entertainment for its 2025 edition. Aisling Breen’s Sensory Storytime is among them. Beginning with every parent’s night...

#REVIEW #THEATRE Sensory Storytime @ilfdublin.bsky.social "a very fun experience"🌟🌟🌟🌟
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Brilliant night @ilfdublin.bsky.social with Emmet O'Brien, Jan Brierton and John Cummins

Cover of Rebecca Solnit book No Straight Road takes you there

Photo of Rebecca Solnit at IFLD 2025

Thank you @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social for the wisdom, truth and hope this evening (and also for the shout-out to librarians for having the facts :)) #ILFD @ilfdublin.bsky.social

From the Date with an Agent audience seven years ago to the stage today. Thanks so much @samblakebooks.bsky.social for hosting such a brilliant event @ilfdublin.bsky.social

Join bestselling author-illustrator Laura Ellen Anderson for a magical, fun-filled event all about Marnie Midnight & The Minibeast Mission! 🌙🐛🎨

Discover how real-life creatures inspire her stories, then get creative and design your own minibeast. Perfect for young imaginations – happening tomorrow!

No Straight Road | Rebecca Solnit

If I was in Dublin today I would be attending @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social 's event at the @ilfdublin.bsky.social (but I'm not, so I can't).
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What a pleasure it was to hear @roxanegay.bsky.social be interviewed at @ilfdublin.bsky.social tonight! Truly a balm.

I'm off to Ireland to spread some Moomin love at the International Literature Festival Dublin. The car to the airport hasn't even left the drive yet and I'm sweating like an overweight Hemulen! #Moomins @ilfdublin.bsky.social

At @ilfdublin.bsky.social last night, in conversation with Garrett Carr and Gerbrand Bakker. It was an excellent event: big thanks to everyone who came along.
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🏆 The Adversary by Michael Crummey has won the 2025 Dublin Literary Award! 🏆

Nominated by Newfoundland & Labrador Public Libraries and published by Knopf Canada, this powerful novel takes the top honour in the award’s 30th year. 🎉

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Another packed day ahead at ILFD25, with the Dublin Literary Award, Roxane Gay, Hwang Bo-reum and even more to discover! 📚✨🌍

Me emerging from the foliage to read a story in a tent on Merrion Square in Dublin.

Reading from my story ‘Jenny and the Viking’ last weekend @ilfdublin.bsky.social for the launch of the summer issue @stingingfly.bsky.social. Superb readings from Tara Bergin, Aoife Bhreatnach, James Hudson, Liz Quirke, and Tenaya Steed. Thanks to all involved. Photo by Ger Holland.

Tenaya’s winning story, ‘Missing the Eclipse’: stingingfly.org/product/summ...

Tenaya was announced as the winner of the award at our launch event at @ilfdublin.bsky.social last Saturday.
She has a new story ‘Water Lilies’ in the new Summer 2025 issue.
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