SEÁN HEWITT
WRITER
2023
Athens, GA (USA)
All Down Darkness Wide
University of Georgia
27th April
Worcester, MA (USA)
All Down Darkness Wide
College of the Holy Cross
29th March
St. Andrews
Poetry reading, with Sylvia Legris
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
with Matt Rowland Hill, Original Sins
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
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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
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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.
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The Poly, Falmouth
13th August, 7.30pm. Tickets here.
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The Edge of the World Bookshop, Penzance
12th August, 7.30pm. Tickets here.
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St. Endellion Hall, Cornwall
11th August, 7.30pm. Tickets here.
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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.