Lynda Clark, author of the wonderfully weird and darkly funny novel, Strange Talk, on the encroaching madness of AI ...

A live reading can be a hit or miss affair. Apart from the nerves of reading out your work, the potential for stumbling, stalling – ‘dead air’, or missing your place is enormous. Your aim is ...

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 ...

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 ...

Eason, O’Connell St. Dublin 🎟 Tickets: €5 and redeemable against books sold at the venue, on the night.

November 19th, 2026, Eason, O’Connell St. Dublin Ruth Long, Sarah Rees Brennan, Dave Rudden and Holly Race will be in Eason O’Connell Street ...