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 ...

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 ...