About Writers Festival of Belgium - the conversations
The Writers Festival of Belgium talks books, interviews with authors, themes like politics, climate change as an emergency, feminism and will bring you the best of ideas and words as we can. The next edition in October 2025 is focused on Cry me A River. We also run a the Short Stories of Belgium competition with winners featuring in local print magazines. For all info please see: writefest.be
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September at the Columbia Publishing Course, in Oxford interview with the Director Shaye Areheart
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18 May 2026
Is it 'Nature's Last Dance'? Natalie Kyriacou OAM talks us through response to environmental challenges and her gorgeous book
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8 May 2026
'The Scent of Wild Animals' aka EU Politics? A conversation with Sophie in 't Veld
Listen in as we talk politics, Brussels, EU dynamics, accountability, and how Sophie in ‘t Veld sees the future of European politics in years to come. 30+ years in politics and in the European Parliament, makes for an energising & passionate perspective from Sophie. Let us know what you think of this episode and, of course, keep writing.
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22 Apr 2026
'The Owned Continent', Dave Keating talks us through writing his first book
In this podcast Writers Festival of Belgium’s Alia Papageorgiou talks to Dave Keating a long time journalist in Brussels, usually covering EU US relations as a newscaster, he talks through how his levels of anger and passion towards the new status quo between the two continents birthed his book ‘The Owned Continent, How to free Europe from American military, economic, and cultural dependence. Enjoy
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21 Mar 2026
En Francais, avec Daniel Couvreur
An interview with Le Soir, Belgium's journalist Daniel Couvreur on his latest bande desinnee 'Le Faux Soir'
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10 Aug 2025
Alice Austen talks to 'On the Page' about her Brussels based novel 33 Brugmann Place
Alice Austen has so many accomplishments, in law, in state building, in playwriting and now with her first novel takes us by the hand and leads us straight into
Brugmann Place in Ixelles, increasingly under Nazi German occupation beginning in 1939. The lives of each of the tenants at number 33 Brugmann share their fears and tense surroundings as world war two increasingly becomes reality and its impact is inescapable. I interviewed Alice for this podcast and also for an interview in The Brussels Times (https://www.brusselstimes.com/belgium/1560093/why-new-brussels-based-ww2-novel-feels-more-timely-than-ever) which was printed earlier in 2025.
Please enjoy the article and also the conversation Alice Austen was just such a delight to talk to, I could have spent hours doing so. Her book is highly recommended by the writers festival, and we do hope that one day we’ll have her join is in Brussels, or elsewhere in Belgium seeing as the stage for the story is Ixelles. Enjoy discovering the Brussels of the past.
Alia Papageorgiou
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18 Jul 2025
Publishing ins and outs for a photographer who had to print
See more and read more about Alexandra Huddleston’s work on her website Vertigo - Artist Book — Alexandra Huddleston (https://www.alexandrahuddleston.com/vertigo-artist-book)
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11 Jul 2025
Chosen tongue meets On the Page
More about Eleonora Balsano on her website Author | Eleonora Balsano (https://www.eleonorabalsano.net/) you can read some of her published works there. See more about the The European Writers Salon (https://www.saloneurope.org/) as well.
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7 Oct 2024
The 30 year journey to 'Travellers In Transit' a book by Brussels author Helena Buckinx
A conversation with Helena Buckinx on her book 'Travellers In Transit' one of the authors at the Writers Festival of Belgium 2024 which took place at the Irish College of Leuven writefest.be. We do a shoutout to bookhelpline.co.uk and scribis.be which self publish books in Belgium.
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3 Oct 2024
An Australian correspondent in South East Asia now in Copenhagen
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10 Jul 2024
A correspondent's journey, Ireland, and Brexit in Brussels with Tony Connelly
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24 Mar 2024
A conversation with Niko Efstathiou
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5 Mar 2024
Go As A River - and a conversation with author Shelley Read
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25 Sept 2023
Short story as literature and our competition
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23 Sept 2023
Getting a handle on the short story
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10 Jun 2023
On the Page - Writers Festival of Belgium
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29 Apr 2023
On the Page - the Writers Festival of Belgium Podcast
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