Author Dwight Thompson tells us how his decision to move away from home played a major part in the writing of his new novel, My Own Dear People. V.S. Naipaul once said, “When I learnt to write I ...
The Society of Authors’ Awards shortlists announced today represent some of the best and most promising literary voices of the year and include a number of Irish authors. The winners will be announced ...
Why I created a prison diary and how it became a book. I never set out to write a book. When I was sentenced to 3½ years in prison, the last thing on my mind was producing anything ...
How to Build a Better Ireland by Conor Brady. Publisher Eoin Purcell acquired world rights in all languages directly from the author. In Resetting The ...
Two events and experiences came together to trigger the development of Blood and Water. I wish I wasn’t a cliché but I always knew I had a novel in me. At least one. I had been playing around with ...
Submissions deadline: 24th July 2026 Haunted Futures 29th – 30th September 2026, University College Cork: Call for Creative Work The organisers of the annual Haunted Futures Conference at ...
Somewhere by Jessamine O’Connor Jessamine O’Connor is an accomplished award-winning poet and writer. Her collection Silver Spoon is published by Salmon Press. She has books with Nine Pens ...
The Patrick Kavanagh Centre, in collaboration with SoFFt Productions and in association with the Patrick Kavanagh Society, ...
Tintreach Submissions deadline: 14th June 2026 Smashing Times International Centre for the Arts and Equality would like to invite submissions to Edition VII of Tintreach: The Smashing Times Arts ...
Writing true-crime books is an important public service, writes the author of Buried Secrets, Barry Cummins, and anyone with a passion for justice and solving mysteries can try it. I wrote my first ...
My brother, David Heidenstam, died in April 2024, a month short of what would have been his 80th birthday. He was a writer, who left behind a legacy of a play, a book of short stories, or ...