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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The Patrick Kavanagh Centre, in collaboration with SoFFt Productions and in association with the Patrick Kavanagh Society, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The Little Bee Charmer of Henrietta Street This is the third book that I have read by Sarah Webb and I absolutely loved it. The Little Bee Charmer of Henrietta Street was published by the O’Brien ...

An alarming increase in fraudulent activity and scams targeting authors has led the Writers’ Guild of Great Britain (WGGB) and the Society of Authors (SoA) to join together to issue urgent new ...