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