Competition deadline: 31st July 2026 As part of the 2026 Wild Atlantic Words Festival, our annual short story competition will include a reading and prize-giving ceremony in the Festival Dome at ...

Fiona McCann tells us that winning the Joan Hessayon Award for Romantic Fiction is ‘a spur to keep going: to keep learning, to keep improving, to keep writing’. Time can move in ...

What about all the other Irish women that history forgot? I’ve written for as long as I remember. My first qualification when I left school was a City and ...

Not every scene has to include all five senses but using some of them all the time will engage your reader more deeply into your story. The only way to get better and more confident in using the ...

Author Tracy Martin tells us her ‘writing has been shaped by procrastination, perseverance, paralysis, pain, resilience, humour, 3am soul‑talks and by the kind of perspective you only earn ...

In this video learn how to unload backstories without stopping your story’s momentum. Brandon discusses four specific ways in which you can hint at or reveal backstories before moving on to discuss a ...

How a Leadership Book Slowly Wrote Itself For years, I thought writing a book belonged to “other people”. Real writers. Academic people. People who knew what they were doing. Meanwhile, I was busy ...

Galway Public Libraries is set to deliver a first for Ireland with the introduction of the country’s first modern mobile library vehicles based on bus infrastructure, following the signing of ...

How Murder on Lough Derg Came to Be Murder on Lough Derg grew out of the extraordinary summer of 2018, the year in which the novel is set. Ireland experienced one of its warmest and driest summers ...

Author Samantha Moody with some excellent tips on how to turn inspirational true events into works of fiction . . . Think about the craziest true event you’ve ever seen, read or heard about. Maybe ...

Welcome back to another week in the Irish bestselling books charts, where this week’s featured book is the very creepy-sounding new book from Doireann Ní Ghríofa, Said the Dead. With amazing ...

Perrin Pring, author of the just-published novel, Cash and Gravity, asks: Why is Your Query Letter Not Working? Let’s talk about querying. If you’re a U.S. author who is unagented, that word ...