Application deadline: 1st December 2026 Writers across Great Britain and the island of Ireland are being invited to apply for a place in an All-Island & GB-wide Online Writers’ Circles, ...

A Journey from Script to Prose. My mentor at film school, Jan Fleischer, once told me that writing a screenplay was like liberating a ship from an iceberg: chipping away like a ...

What I learned from Steinbeck I am not sure how old I was when I began keeping a journal, but I know it was in a school copy book with an ordinary cover so none of my ...

Wilson, author of What Mortal Flesh, on how to create authenticity in historical fiction . . . In the film, Ben Hur, there’s a moment when you can supposedly see one of the charioteers ...

Welcome to a very autumnal week in the Irish bestselling books charts, where how close we are to the festive season is reflected in how many children’s books are in the Top 20 (five this ...

Competition deadline: 30th November 2026 The theme for the 2026 Wild Atlantic Writing Awards is ‘We ​Knew This Day Would Come’. The beauty of this phrase is that it is open to so many ...

Brian Gilhooly tells us of his father’s fondness for the almost indestructible Toyota Corolla KE70 . . . Throughout my father’s career as a member of An Garda Síochána, which spanned ...

Short stories are a great way to explore an idea without having to build the larger world of a novel. They might be short, but they still need many of the same ingredients: an interesting character… ...

Submissions deadline: 11th January 2027 Discoveries is the Women’s Prize Trust’s transformative writer development programme designed to address the specific challenges that women face as writers.

Author Tony O’Reilly on the inspiration behind A Bullet for the General: ‘how I nearly lost my mind!’ Finding the spark for a story is rarely a predictable process, but for the ...

Although Prestin and the Booger Oath is a funny, mischievous and deliberately gross children’s adventure, the story behind the book means a great deal to me. My children Conor, Darragh and Carla ...

Carol Barratt, author of the Nature’s Nasties books for children on writing ‘stories that are factual but fun; stories that weave around facts’. “What is the point of wasps? I’m fed up ...