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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Laurel Corona, author of Aloha Wanderwell Takes the Wheel: What It’s Like to Write Another Book When Ten Years Ago I Swore I Wouldn’t I said I was done writing historical fiction. I originally had ...

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 ...

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 ...

Inclusive, Climate-Safe Futures by Tanvir Bush and Sarah Bell Introduction A new project, called Sensing Climate, is coming to ...

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 ...

Murder One, Ireland’s International Crime Writing Festival, returns once again for 2026.