3rd edition - 05 & 06 October, 2024 @ Leuven
What's NEW
05/10/2024
06/10/2024
05/10/2024
11:00 AM
Opening
Alia Papageorgiou
Talk by Derek Blyth - I am not a Robot
Main Hall
12:00 PM
Lailuma Saidi - Let the women of Afghanistan learn!
Main Hall
13:00 - 13:30 PM
PAUSE
Main Hall
13:30 PM
Lisa Martin and Latika M Bourke talk - Australia in Europe, writing, reporting and media today.
Main Hall
14:00 PM
Cauvery Madhavan
Main Hall
14:30 PM
Barbara Vercruysse in conversation with Alison Mooney, kindness, Poetry and balance.
Main Hall
15:00 PM
Jacqueline Chio - Lauri
Main Hall
16:00 PM
Alison Langley
Main Hall
16:30 PM
Maria Laura Franciosi - Per un sacco di Carbone Italian migration for coal mining
Main Hall
17:00 PM
Tony Connelly with Shirin Wheeler
Main Hall
Workshops/Courses/ Events
Alison Langley - will lead us in an all-day activity at the opening
Conference Room
13:00 PM
Alison Langley workshop on Translating Lives and bringing characters to the page through historic research
Conference Room
13:00 PM
Eleonora Balsano - Live Podcast recording - Chosen Tongue meets On The Page a look at Belgium
Conference Room
15:00 PM
Julian Hale - writing back covers and structure, book development
Conference Room
16:00 PM
Lisa Martin The Lazy Person's Book Club - bring a favourite book, read your prefered passage lets all discuss
Conference Room
06/10/2024
12:00 PM
Global writers and the Asian Review with Sri Lankan author Paramudith D Rupasinghe - Writers Festival of Belgium - Our Authors (writefest.be)
Main Hall
13:00 PM
La Belgique cest chic - Alia + Irina Papancheva + Helena Buckinx + Lisa Martin
Main Hall
14:00 PM
Hard Talk - with Natalie Sarkic Todd - The Battle on the ground What's so hard about love and understanding, a timely book
Main Hall
14:30 PM
Linda Warnier - academic publishing in Belgium 🇧🇪 what’s the latest news?
Main Hall
15:00 PM
Short Story Competition announcement
Launch of Nature writing prize Chloe
Poetry by Alison Mooney
Main Hall
Alia Papageorgiou
Author
Alia Papageorgiou is the Artistic director of the Writers Festival of Belgium, she is the President of the Press Club Brussels Europe.
Lisa Martin
Author
Lisa Martin is a freelance journalist based in Copenhagen. For the past three years, she was a Southeast Asia correspondent with Agence France-Presse in Bangkok.
Tony Connelly
Author
Tony Connelly (born 21 December 1964, in County Antrim) is an Irish journalist and author. He is the Europe Editor for RTÉ News.
Irina Papancheva
Author
Irina has worked as a journalist, editor, translator, deputy mayor of Sofia and an advocate for Bulgarian and European NGOs.
Publishers selling books
Celebrating the written word in the heart of Europe
Festival Hours
05/10/2024 11:00 - 18:0006/10/2024 12:00 - 16:00
Address
Irish College LeuvenJanseniusstraat 1Leuven, 3000 Belgium
Get In Touch
Telephone: +32 487680045Email: info@writefest.be