Belfast Book Fesival 2017 Belfast Book Festival 2017 | Page 28

LITERARY ISSUES
Join three of Ireland’s most exciting literary magazines for an
afternoon of readings from contributors from their newest issues.
The Tangerine is a Belfast-based magazine of new writing. The
Tangerine includes features, reportage, commentary, fiction, poetry,
illustration and photography.
The Stinging Fly was established in 1997 to seek out, publish and
promote the very best new Irish and international writing.
Banshee Lit is an exciting & contemporary journal with new writing
from Ireland & around the world. Featuring short stories, flash fiction,
poetry, personal essays and interviews.
4PM // £6 | £4 // CRESCENT ARTS
JAMAICA IN THE 21ST CENTURY
DR LIVINGSTONE THOMPSON
We welcome Dr Livingstone Thompson to the festival this year for a talk on his
already critically acclaimed study, Jamaica in the 21st Century.
Trawling through public discourse and debates in Jamaica, this book distills
and surfaces the main issues that captured the attention of the public:
education, crime, the church, politics, homosexuality and human sexuality, to
name but a few.
Many of the issues that preoccupy us at this time are issues that have been
addressed before. This book is designed to aid memory and to help us see
the progress that has been made and to avoid reinventing the wheel.
6PM // FREE EVENT // CRESCENT ARTS
Sun 11 Jun