SEÁN HEWITT
WRITER
2025
Open, Heaven
Galway
Cúirt International Literature Festival
Kenny's Bookshop
9th April, 5pm. Tickets here.
New York City
Glucksman Ireland House
12th April, 5pm. Tickets here.
Washington, D.C.
Politics and Prose, Conn Ave.
13th April, 3pm. Info here.
New York City
New York Public Library
14th April, 12pm. Tickets here.
New York City
The Strand
14th April, 7pm. Tickets here.
Cambridge, MA
Harvard Bookstore
15th April. Info here.
Athens, GA
University of Georgia
Ciné
16th April, 7pm. Info here.
San Francisco
City Lights Bookstore
17th April, 7pm. Tickets here.
Los Angeles
Book Soup
18th April, 7pm. Tickets here.
Dublin
Dubray, Grafton Street
23rd April
London
Foyles Charing Cross
24th April, 7pm. Tickets here.
Bath
Mr B's
25th April. 7pm. Tickets here.
Glasgow
with Kirsty Logan
Paisley Book Festival
27th April, 12.30pm. Tickets here.
Manchester
Queer Lit Bookshop
28th April. Tickets here.
Edinburgh
Portobello Bookshop
29th April. Tickets here.
Dublin
International Literature Festival Dublin
Queer Book Club Dublin
19th May, 8pm
Dublin
Hodges Figgis
21st May
Norwich
Norwich Literature Festival
24th May, 6pm. Tickets here.
Bristol
with Michael Amherst
Storysmith
26th May. Tickets here.
Liverpool
Waterstones
27th May. Tickets here.
London
It's Hardback Out Here book club
Penguin, Embassy Gardens
28th May.
London
Waterstones Gower Street
29th May. Tickets here.
Dublin
Books Upstairs
5th June
London
Jaipur Litertature Festival London
British Library
14th June. Info here.
Edinburgh
Edinburgh Literature Festival
17th August
Denmark
Louisiana Festival
21st-23rd August
Columbia, MD
Howard County Literature Society
15th February, 7.30pm. Tickets here.
2024
Bratislava
Central European Forum
16th November.
Trnava
Ypsalon Festival
15th November, 8pm. Tickets here.
Cheltenham
Cheltenham Literature Festival
13th October, 6.30pm. Tickets here.
Maynooth
Kildare Readers Festival
10th October, 7pm. Tickets here.
Cornwall
North Cornwall Book Festival
28th September, 11.30am. Tickets here.
Edinburgh
Edinburgh International Literature Festival
23rd August, 8.45pm. Tickets here.
Berlin
Curious Fox
8th June, 8pm. Free entry. Info here
Liepzig
die NaTo
7th June, 7pm. Tickets here.
Lewes
300,000 Kisses
Charleston House Festival
25th May, 5.30pm. Tickets here.
Dublin
International Literature Festival
23rd May. Tickets here.
Birmingham
Verve Poetry Festival
23rd February, 7pm. Tickets here.
Oxford
Rapture's Road
Oxford Poetry Society
22nd February, 5pm. Tickets here.
Dublin
Classics Now
with Fiona Benson
National Concert Hall
3rd February, 3pm. Tickets here.
London
Rapture's Road
The Common Press Bookshop
18th January. Tickets here.
Cambridge
Rapture's Road
Pembroke College
17th January. SOLD OUT
London
Rapture's Road launch
with Sarah Perry
London Review Bookshop
16th January, 7pm. SOLD OUT
Dublin
Rapture's Road launch
Hodges Figgis
11th January, 6pm. Info here.
2023
Belfast
Outburst Queer Arts Festival
13th November, 7.30pm. Tickets here.
London
No.9, Cork Street
Mayfair
3rd November. Tickets here.
Milan
300,000 Kisses
26th October, 6pm. Tickets here.
Dublin
300,000 Kisses
Launch: Books Upstairs
17th October, 6pm.
Cheltenham Literature Festival
300,000 Kisses (12th October, 7pm. Tickets here.
All Down Darkness Wide (13th October, 2pm). Tickets here.
Ghent
All Down Darkness Wide
with Erwin Mortier
Museum Guislain
29th September. Tickets here.
Wexford
Write by the Sea
All Down Darkness Wide
24th September, 11.30am. Tickets here.
Edinburgh International Book Festival
All Down Darkness Wide
19th August, 7pm. Tickets here.
Sligo
Yeats Summer School
Poetry reading
2nd August.
Listowel
Listowel Writers Week
with Alice Kinsella
2nd June. Tickets here.
Maynooth
All Down Darkness Wide
Maynooth Arts and Minds Festival
6th May, 2pm. Tickets here.
Athens, GA (USA)
with Louise Kennedy and Martin Doyle
Morton Theatre, Athens
26th April, 7pm. Tickets here.
Galway
with Manchán Magan and Amanda Thomson
Cúirt International Literature Festival
21st April. Tickets here.
Worcester, MA (USA)
All Down Darkness Wide
College of the Holy Cross
29th March
St. Andrews
Poetry reading
Stanza Poetry Festival
Online event. 12th March. Info here.
Paris
Tongues of Fire and New Poems
Université Sorbonne Nouvelle
9th March
Liverpool
All Down Darkness Wide
Waterstones, Liverpool One
7th March. Tickets here.
Liverpool
Matt Simpson Memorial Poetry Reading
Liverpool Hope University
6th March.
Limerick
All Down Darkness Wide
Limerick Literature Festival
25th February, 2.30pm. Tickets here.
Dublin
All Down Darkness Wide
Museum of Literature Ireland
25th January 6.30pm. Tickets here.
2022
Prague
All Down Darkness Wide
Charles University
14th December. Tickets here.
New York City
Irish Arts Center
PoetryFest 2022
3rd December. Tickets here.
Dingle
All Down Darkness Wide
Dingle Literary Festival
19th November, 4.30pm. Tickets here.
Dublin
All Down Darkness Wide
Dublin Book Festival
13th November, 3.30pm. Tickets here.
Dublin
All Down Darkness Wide
in conversation with Niamh Campbell
Chapters Bookshop
9th November. Free to attend. Book here.
Edinburgh
Push the Boat Out
"Through Forests and Folklore"
an hour of music, story and poetry, with Amy Jeffs
5th November, 7pm. Tickets here.
Edinburgh
Push the Boat Out
"Memoirs of the Moment"
5th November, 3.30pm. Tickets here.
Lannan Center for Poetics and Social Practice
Georgetown University, Washington D.C.
4th October, 7pm. Info here.
All Down Darkness Wide
The Poly, Falmouth
13th August, 7.30pm. Tickets here.
All Down Darkness Wide
The Edge of the World Bookshop, Penzance
12th August, 7.30pm. Tickets here.
All Down Darkness Wide
St. Endellion Hall, Cornwall
11th August, 7.30pm. Tickets here.
All Down Darkness Wide
Yeats International Summer School
Sligo, Co. Sligo
2nd August, 8pm.
All Together Now
Curraghmore Estate, Co. Waterford
All Down Darkness Wide: Launch
Gutter Bookshop, Temple Bar, Dublin
21st July, 6.30pm.
Penguin Pride
Above the Stag, London
20th July, 7pm. Tickets here.
All Down Darkness Wide
Book Culture, New York City
19th July. Online. Info here.
All Down Darkness Wide: Launch
London Review Bookshop
14th July, 7pm. Tickets here.
West Cork Literary Festival
Seán Hewitt & Cristín Leach
10th July, 5pm. Tickets here.
Body & Soul
Ballinlough Castle, Co. Westmeath
18th June, 12pm.
Irish Museum of Modern Art
21st May, 2pm
University of Limerick Creative Writing Festival
with Chiamaka Enyi-Amadi and Rachael Hegarty
20th May, 5.45pm. Tickets here.
Balliol College, Oxford
Balliol Literary Society
16th May, 4pm
Out-Spoken, London
with Yomi Sode, Hannah Lowe & Martha Sprackland
21st April, 7.45pm. Tickets here.
Arvon
Poetry Masterclass: Seeing Nature Slant
14th April 2022, 11am. Tickets here.
Cúirt International Literature Festival
with Pádraig Regan and Gail McConnell
10th April, 5.30pm. Tickets here.
Portal, for Derek Jarman
Manchester Art Gallery
3rd April, 2pm. Tickets here.
Friends of the Earth
"Speaking the Predicament": Reading and Discussion
Online, 21st February 2022, 6pm. Register here.
(No) Holding Back
Poetry workshop
bath magg, 14th January, 7pm
bath magg launch
11th January 2022, 7pm
Ginkgo Prize
online workshop
1st December, 6.45pm.
Homerton College, Cambridge
8th November, 7.30pm. Info here.
Poetry in Aldeburgh
with Victoria Kennefick, Aoife Lyall and Róisín Kelly
7th November, 7pm. Tickets here.
Milton Keynes Literature Festival
Queer Natures workshop
3rd November, 7pm. Tickets here.
Push the Boat Out, Edinburgh
with Cynthia Miller
16th October, 3pm. Tickets here.
Red Line Book Festival
Poetry Awards Night, hosted by Seán Hewitt
13th October, 7pm. Civic Theatre. Tickets here.
Cheltenham Literature Festival
with Nidhi Zak and Aoife Lyall
12th October, 1.30pm. Tickets here.
Red Line Book Festival
in conversation with Andrew McMillan
11th October, 7.30pm. Tickets here.
The Laurel Prize readings
Yorkshire Sculpture Park
8th October. Info here.
Seoul International Writers' Festival
8th October-24th October. Info here.
An Evening with Seán Hewitt
National Library of Ireland
14th September, 7pm. Free tickets here.
Irish Queer Archive, National Library of Ireland
Poetry Writing Workshop
20th August, 3pm. Sign up here.
Irish Queer Archive, National Library of Ireland
Reading and Discussion
3rd August, 7pm. Free tickets here.
What We Read Now
with Sarah Westcott and Pratyusha
12th July, 7pm. Free tickets here.
West Cork Literary Festival
with Nidhi Zak / Aria Eipe
11th July. Tickets here.
An Evening of Poetry with Candlestick Press
The Leeds Library
6th July, 7.30pm. Free tickets here.
Ledbury Poetry Festival
with John Challis
4th July, 4pm. Tickets here.
Critical Poetics Summer School
Nottingham Trent University.
"Queering Care", poetry workshop, 2nd July, 1-5pm. Info here.
Interview with Maggie Nelson, 2nd July, 7pm. Info here.
Carlow University, Pittsburgh, PA
MFA Creative Writing Guest Reader
16th June 2021.
Desperate Literature, Madrid
with Romeo Oriogun and Martha Sprackland
16th May, 8pm (Madrid Time). Info here.
Cork International Poetry Festival
15th May 2021, 9pm. Tickets here.
Jane Martin Poetry Prize
13th May, 6.45pm. Tickets here.
Poetry / Poetics Reading Series
Maynooth University
6th May 2021. Tickets here.
Poets & Players Prize readings
3rd May, 7pm. Tickets here.
West Cork Poetry Festival
29th April, 2021.
Cúirt Literature Festival
Writing through the Queer Archive
24th April, 2pm. Tickets here.
One Dublin One Book
Poetry at the Lexicon, with Richard Scott & Bebe Ashley
19th April, 7pm. Free tickets here.
Cardiff Seren Poetry Festival
15th April 2021, 7pm.
An Evening with Kostya Tsolakis, Mícheál McCann & Seán Hewitt
1st April 2021, 7pm. Free tickets here.
Wordsworth Trust
24th March 2021. 7.30pm. Tickets here.
Irish Repertory Theatre, New York City
22nd March, 7pm (EST), 11pm (GMT). Info here.
St. Patrick's Symposium
Market Place Theatre, Armagh
15th March 2021. 11am. Book here.
University College Cork
17th February 2021. 6pm. Free tickets here.
St. Paul's Girls' School, London.
3rd February 2021.