About us

The Dublin Writers Festival, founded in 1998, is Ireland’s premier literary event and gathers the finest writers in the world to debate, provoke, delight and enthral. Described by the press as ‘boasting a stunning array of top international literary talent’ and ‘the country’s most successful and easily the best annual literary event’, Dublin Writers Festival line-up is sure to impress.

With readings, discussions, debates,workshops, performance and screenings, the festival creates a hotbed of ideas. Whether it’s the mix poets, writers of fiction and non-fiction, lyricists, playwrights and screenwriters, Dublin Writers Festival brings new faces and house-hold names together in ways that suprise and inspire. Children’s fiction is well represented and we are spoilt for choice with the calibre of Irish language writers. Come celebrate many specially commissioned events in the City of Words.

Festival Team

Festival Team
Executive Director	Ray Yeates
Programme Director	Liam Browne
Family & Children’s Programmer	Sinéad Connolly
Festival General Manager	Aimée van Wylick
Marketing Assistant	Martina McDonald
Box Office Manager	Joey Kavanagh
Volunteer Coordinator	Eibh Collins
Festival Photographer	David Mannion
Copywriter	Alistair Daniel