Byddi Lee 📚 Author |🎭Playwright |🎬 Screenwriter

📚'Barren', 'Rejuvenation Trilogy' & 'March to November'|🎭 Toxic Relationships | ✍ Flash Fiction Armagh @ArmaghWriters | 📖 Read my latest book ⬇️

[Byddi Lee 📚 Author |🎭Playwright |🎬 Screenwriter @Byddi]

It's great to be able to offer all my books as ebooks on https://t.co/GUFlNuVRZN and support local bookshops in the process! https://t.co/Ci5IfcPAW5

[Irish Writers Centre @IrishWritersCtr]

Applications for the inaugural Irish Writers Centre John Hewitt International Summer School Bursary close on Wednesday!

The bursary includes full accommodation as well as access to all events during the week.

🔗 https://t.co/Y63jfctCbD

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Running for three weeks from Saturday, Monica Byrne leads 'A Writing Workshop for the Age of Emergency'. In the midst of global crises, Monica argues for the power of literature—and the power of imagination—to help us envision better futures.

https://t.co/82aKXcspOz

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📣 Applications are now open!

Evolution is a free six-month programme that provides support for up to 12 published writers at a crucial stage in their careers.

Find out more and apply via our website: https://t.co/khhfcdmemN

Deadline for applications: Tuesday 30 June 2026.

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Tomorrow night we kick off our Pride 2026 programme!

Writers Katherine O'Donnell & Rosamund Taylor will be in conversation about their experiences writing queer womanhood, tomorrow 4 June from 7-8pm!

All welcome 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️

Book here: https://t.co/V5qIMk4KS0

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THE COUNTDOWN BEGINS!

ONE MORE SLEEP til we launch the programme for this year's JOHN HEWITT INTERNATIONAL SUMMER SCHOOL

You're VERY welcome to join us at The Market Place tomorrow for drinks, snacks, live music, readings AND our spanking new JHISS26 programme.
Come join us! x

[The John Hewitt Society @The_JHS]

Amid an epidemic of loneliness & ‘friendship recession’, what can the history of friendship teach us?

We're delighted to welcome TIFFANY WATT SMITH, historian & author of Bad Friend: On Joyous, Imperfect Love to #JHISS26. (BRING A FRIEND!)

https://t.co/XQupHI4bSM

[Byddi Lee 📚 Author |🎭Playwright |🎬 Screenwriter @Byddi]

@rosemaryj77 @tomjcull @ACNIWriting @ArtsCouncilNI Congratulations 🎉🎉🎉👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻

[Canary @TheCanaryUK]

Genociders shouldn't get to compete in sporting events like everything is normal.

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Theatre at #JHISS26

WORK IS THE CURSE OF THE DRINKING CLASSES by Neil Titley

Set in Paris in 1898, Will Govan plays an exiled Oscar Wilde looking back on his extraordinarily colourful life

‘Charming and witty.’ The Irish Times

Tickets & info: https://t.co/qVbg6pjJV8

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We're VERY excited to present this one!

Among Communists: A Memoir - Sinead Morrissey in conversation with Maureen Boyle.
Mon 27 July, 7pm.

Tickets: https://t.co/0vV8FwG5u9

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The Irish PEN "Freedom to Write" event has become a regular and much-loved fixture at the John Hewitt International Summer School over the years.

We're very excited for this year's event with International Human Rights Lawyer CAOILFHIONN GALLAGHER KC.

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I’ll take that review any day @Suejleonard Thanks!

‘I loved this book so much; I couldn’t put it down, and would urge anyone to read it, whatever their age. Above all it’s a redemptive story of an exceptional pair of siblings.’

https://t.co/OClvqeRHnQ

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WOMEN & THE MINER'S STRIKE looks at the histories of women from coalfield communities during the 1984-5 miners’ strike

Another great #JHISS26 talk taking up this year's theme -"Living as Other Women Lived: The Politics of Challenge and Success"

Tickets: https://t.co/GHRfxetBPc

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The 39th John Hewitt International Summer School takes place this year from 27th-31st July, at Market Place Theatre, Armagh.
Join us for a week of literature, art and ideas!

[Byddi Lee 📚 Author |🎭Playwright |🎬 Screenwriter @Byddi]

@doreen_duffy13 Thanks 🙏🏻

[Byddi Lee 📚 Author |🎭Playwright |🎬 Screenwriter @Byddi]

@JulianD86666247 @IrishWritersCtr @VarunaWriters Thanks 🙏🏻

[Byddi Lee 📚 Author |🎭Playwright |🎬 Screenwriter @Byddi]

Absolutely delighted to be awarded this amazing opportunity on the International Lamplight Fellowship Programme with the @IrishWritersCtr in partnership with @VarunaWriters. I'm particularly excited and honoured to be alongside these superb writers. Can't wait to get started!

[Irish Writers Centre @IrishWritersCtr]

The Irish Writers Centre (in partnership with @VarunaWriters) is delighted to announce that four writers have been selected for the fourth year of the International Lamplight Fellowship Programme: Niamh Boyce, Patrick Chapman, Byddi Lee and Fiona McKay.

https://t.co/wfR0Vc3IWM

[Sarah Gilmartin @sarahgilmartin_]

Such a fun launch for Little Vanities. Thanks to everyone who came, Henrietta McKervey for her great speech and @Hodges_Figgis for hosting 💙

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Calling aspiring & emerging writers across the island!
The #JHISS26 3-DAY CREATIVE WRITING WORKSHOPS - delivered by some of the foremost Irish writers in their field - are available to book online now!

For full details and booking go to: https://t.co/aZfaFH4Ggx

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We're excited for this one!

ANDREW MILLER is regarded as one of the most distinctive voices in contemporary British fiction

His recent novel, The Land of Winter, was shortlisted for the Booker & won the Walter Scott prize for Historical Fiction

Tickets: https://t.co/pmKTEzG7Y6