{"id":70629,"date":"2025-05-03T08:03:11","date_gmt":"2025-05-03T08:03:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/70629\/"},"modified":"2025-05-03T08:03:11","modified_gmt":"2025-05-03T08:03:11","slug":"belfast-books-ballgowns-edwin-mcfee-meets-organiser-nikita-rogers-to-hear-about-what-promises-to-be-the-most-magical-event-of-the-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/70629\/","title":{"rendered":"Belfast, Books &#038; Ballgowns: Edwin McFee meets organiser Nikita Rogers to hear about what promises to be the most magical event of the year"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"beltel-ebe0ecc6_root beltel-ebe0ecc6_paragraph beltel-91174671_secondary beltel-1d70522a_marginbottom4 beltel-1d70522a_marginleft0 beltel-1d70522a_marginright0 beltel-1d70522a_margintop4\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\" data-testid=\"title-summary\">Edwin McFee meets organiser Nikita Rogers to hear about what promises to be the most magical event of the year\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"A books event will be taking place in Belfast &#10;Nikita Rogers (inset)\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/05a67147-ee5a-4221-9a16-e848adfc6217.jpg\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"100%\" data-testid=\"article-image\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"beltel-ebe0ecc6_root beltel-ebe0ecc6_caption1 beltel-300db776_none beltel-91174671_secondary beltel-66f0fec7_regular beltel-1d70522a_marginbottom0 beltel-1d70522a_marginleft0 beltel-1d70522a_marginright0 beltel-1d70522a_margintop3 beltel-b48c4984_left\" style=\"color:var(--color-grey-60)\">A books event will be taking place in Belfast<br \/>\nNikita Rogers (inset)<\/p>\n<p class=\"beltel-ebe0ecc6_root beltel-ebe0ecc6_paragraph beltel-300db776_none beltel-91174671_primary beltel-1d70522a_marginbottom0 beltel-1d70522a_margintop0 beltel-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">After an eternity of wishing and hoping for a festival dedicated to all things witchy, magical and occasionally deliciously mushy, romantasy and fantasy fans across NI finally saw their dreams come true when Belfast, Books &amp; Ballgowns announced plans for an event at the Waterfront this summer. Taking place on June 28 and boasting appearances from 75 authors and 10 vendors from across the globe, the show is the first of its kind on the island of Ireland and the brainchild of the Larne-based creative wizard Nikita Rogers.<\/p>\n<p class=\"beltel-ebe0ecc6_root beltel-ebe0ecc6_paragraph beltel-300db776_none beltel-91174671_primary beltel-1d70522a_marginbottom0 beltel-1d70522a_margintop0 beltel-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">Born from an ambition to give Belfast fantasy lovers an event akin to festivals that regularly happen in the States and Europe, she tells us that she\u2019s thrilled to be both the belle of the ball and knight in shining armour for event starved book fans.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Edwin McFee meets organiser Nikita Rogers to hear about what promises to be the most magical event of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":70630,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3938],"tags":[2378,3444,77,16,15,2379],"class_list":{"0":"post-70629","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-books","8":"tag-belfast","9":"tag-books","10":"tag-entertainment","11":"tag-uk","12":"tag-united-kingdom","13":"tag-waterfront-hall"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114442862891971006","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70629","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=70629"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70629\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/70630"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=70629"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=70629"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=70629"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}