The free program for the 2017 Emerging Writers’ Festival is overflowing with a range of free events, conversations, parties and workshops - we round up a few of our favourites.

“The biggest lesson has been in being myself, and finding what it is that only I can write.”

The literary festival is a form by which we communicate to an audience, and gather together like-minded people. What we do with that form is entirely up to us. It is vital that programmers consider deeply the context in which we live, play, read and...

Are you the DWF's next Director?

We spoke with Fiona Wright, author of Small Acts of Disappearance (shortlisted for this year’s Stella Prize), ahead of Between The Covers on March 23.