All eyes are on Romantasy this week as the latest in the Court of Thorns and Roses series by Sarah J. Maas hits the shelves: ...
Songs for Ghosts by Clara Kumagai This is a wonderful American-Japanese historical fiction novel and is written by the ...
Competition deadline: 30th November 2026 The Gregory O’Donoghue International Poetry Competition is an annual single-poem ...
Lynda Clark, author of the wonderfully weird and darkly funny novel, Strange Talk, on the encroaching madness of AI ...
From celebrated Irish novelists and exciting new literary voices to poetry, memoir, crime fiction and Irish-language storytelling, Dingle Literary Festival returns from the 20th to the 22nd November ...
Entering writing competitions can be a great way to give your writing a sense of purpose and to challenge yourself. A competition deadline can provide motivation, while the possibility of being ...
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 ...
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 ...
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, ...