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 ...

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… ...

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 ...

This year I returned to independent self-publishing after a gap of eight years. In the next three articles, I’m going to share some of what I’ve learnt in the hope that if to make this decision too, ...