Leona Forde
Tuesday 21 April 2026
City Library | 10am | Schools Only

Read more The Wonderful World of Milly McCarthy

Shaunna Lee Lynch
Tuesday 21 April 2026
City Library | 12pm | Free

Read more Book Launch: The Goddess Complex

Danielle McLaughlin in conversation with Siobhán Rea. Moderated by Declan Meade
Tuesday 21 April 2026
City Library | 7pm | Free

Read more Official Opening by Lord Mayor of Cork, Cllr. Fergal Dennehy

Joe Philpott in conversation with John Breen
Tuesday 21 April 2026
City Library | 8.30pm | Free

Read more All Roads Lead To Where You Are

Jenny Mitchell
Wednesday 22 April 2026
City Library | 11am | Schools Only

Read more Poetry & The Love of Reading

TY Student Writers from Cork City Schools with Ó Bhéal
Wednesday 22 April 2026
City Library | 1pm | Free

Read more Book Launch: The Unfinished Book of Poetry 2026

Presented by Vítor Vicente (Portugal), Maria Stavropoulou (Greece), and Jeroen Vandommele (Belgium)
Wednesday 22 April 2026
City Library | 2pm | Free | Booking required

Read more Witty Wicklow Writers Workshop

Colin O’Mahoney and Mariana Rolin
Wednesday 22 April 2026
City Library | 2.30pm | Free

Read more Teen Graphic Novel Launch 2026

Gary Moloney
Wednesday 22 April 2026
City Library | 3pm | Free | Booking required

Read more Pitching Comics like a Pro

Community Poetry Anthology edited by Jenny Mitchell
Wednesday 22 April 2026
City Library | 5pm | Free

Read more Launch of Everyone Started Singing

Odyssey, Flight & Time
Wednesday 22 April 2026
City Library | 6.30pm | Free

Read more Odyssey, Flight & Time

Geraldine Osborne in conversation with Mairead Hearne
Wednesday 22 April 2026
City Library | 8pm | Free

Read more Somewhere Cold: A Year Living in the High Arctic

Deirdre Ryan
Thursday 23 April 2026
City Library | 10am | Free

Read more Story Song & Play Session for Children Under 5

Sal Sawler
Thursday 23 April 2026
City Library | 12pm | Schools Only

Read more What Makes You Brave?

UCC Translator in Residence Tânia Ganho in Conversation with Billy O’Callaghan
Thursday 24 April 2026
City Library | 2.30pm | Free

Read more The Art of Reading

Republic of Consciousness Award Winner 2025 Gaëlle Bélem in conversation with one of her translators Laëtitia Saint-Loubert
Thursday 23 April 2026
City Library | 4pm | Free

Read more The Rarest Fruit

Jessica Traynor and Matthew Rice in conversation with Keith Payne
Thursday 23 April 2026
City Library | 5.30pm | Free

Read more The New Arcana from the Factory Floor

Rosamund Taylor in conversation with Mary Morrissy
Thursday 23 April 2026
City Library | 8pm | Free

Read more ANNOUNCEMENT One City One Book: Filly by Rosamund Taylor

Barbara Leahy and Djamel White in conversation with Sarah Harte
Thursday 23 April 2026
City Library | 7pm | Free

Read more CWBF Debut Author Showcase

Christina Neary
Friday 24 April 2026
City Library | 10am | Schools Only

Read more The Boogies and The Magic of Reading 

Sam Blake
Friday 24 April 2026
Cork City Library | 12pm | Schools Only

Read more Are You A Good Character Witness?      

Roxana Manouchehri in conversation with Grace Neville
Friday 24 April 2026
Paperboys Café at Triskel | 3pm | Free

Read more This Is Not a Cookbook

Eva Meijer in conversation with Keith Payne
Friday 24 April 2026
City Library | 5pm | Free

Read more How The Sea Might Speak, If Only We Could Listen

Cathy Sweeney and Danielle McLaughlin in conversation with Clíodhna Ní Anluain
Friday 24 April 2026
Triskel | 6.30pm | €10

Read more Spoken Stories

Louis de Paor and Halyna Kruk   
Friday 24 April 2026
Triskel | 8pm | €10

Read more Continental Riffs

Saturday 25 April 2026
Grand Parade | 10am-4pm | Free

Read more Book Market on the Grand Parade

Laurie Legrand
Saturday 25 April 2026
City Library | 10am | Free | Booking required

Read more Paper Crafts and Poetry 

Literary Agents Jade Kavanagh and Simon Trewin in conversation with Vanessa Fox O’Loughlin
Saturday 25 April 2026
City Library | 10am | Free

Read more Get Published: Meet the Agents

Saturday 25 April 2026
Triskel | 10.30am – 12pm | Free | Booking required

Read more Story Slam Cork Fighting Words

Moderated by Vanessa Fox O’Loughlin
Saturday 25 April 2026
City Library | 11.30am | Free

Read more Get Published: First Page Pitch

Dr Sanaa Khabbar
Saturday 25 April 2026
City Library | 12pm | Free

Read more Arabic Stories for Little Listeners 

Dr Harry Barry and Oona Frawley in conversation with PJ Coogan
Saturday 25 April 2026
Triskel | 12.30pm | €10

Read more Quite Simply, How Do We Live?

Vanessa Fox O’Loughlin in conversation with Neil Tully
Saturday 25 April 2026
City Library | 2pm | Free

Read more Get Published: Getting Into Print

Roddy Doyle with Paul McVeigh
Saturday 25 April 2026
Triskel | 2pm | €15

Read more Roddy Doyle in Conversation

Balsam Karam in conversation with Saskia Vogel
Saturday 25 April 2026
City Library | 3pm | Free

Read more Event Horizon

Cónal Creedon and John Spillane
Saturday 25 April 2026
Callanan’s Bar | 3.30pm | Free

Read more The Holy Hour

Cynthia Menéndez in conversation with Martín Veiga and Keith Payne
Saturday 25 April 2026
City Library | 3.45pm | Free

Read more Many Voices of Spain: Steel Glaciers

Xavier Mas Craviotto in conversation with Helena Buffery
Saturday 25 April 2026
City Library | 4.30pm | Free

Read more A Subterranean Light

Laoighseach Ní Choistealbha, Dairena Ní Chinnéide, Eithne Ní Ghallchobhair, Síle Denvir, Margaret Lonergan with MC Liam Carson
Saturday 25 April 2026
Triskel | 7.30pm | €10

Read more Dán na Caillí: Song of the Hagwitch        

Fionn Rogan and Mick O’Shea. MC Mike Ryan
Saturday 25 April 2026
Plugd | 9pm | €5

Read more Book Fest by Night: Is it about a bike?

Dr Katriona O’Sullivan in conversation with Deirdre O’Shaughnessy
Sunday 26 April 2026
St. Luke’s | 2.30pm | €15

Read more Katriona O’Sullivan in conversation with Deirdre O’Shaughnessy

First Page Pitch has become such a popular and important part of Cork World Book Fest over the last few years – 10 authors get picked to read their work aloud and get feedback from literary agents.

Read more First Page Pitch

Cork World Book Fest returns for another extravaganza of books, writers, readers from Tuesday 21 – Sunday 26 April 2026.

Read more Save the Dates!