All eyes are on Romantasy this week as the latest in the Court of Thorns and Roses series by Sarah J. Maas hits the shelves: ...

Songs for Ghosts by Clara Kumagai This is a wonderful American-Japanese historical fiction novel and is written by the ...

Competition deadline: 30th November 2026 The Gregory O’Donoghue International Poetry Competition is an annual single-poem ...

Lynda Clark, author of the wonderfully weird and darkly funny novel, Strange Talk, on the encroaching madness of AI ...

Entering writing competitions can be a great way to give your writing a sense of purpose and to challenge yourself. A competition deadline can provide motivation, while the possibility of being ...

From celebrated Irish novelists and exciting new literary voices to poetry, memoir, crime fiction and Irish-language storytelling, Dingle Literary Festival returns from the 20th to the 22nd November ...

A live reading can be a hit or miss affair. Apart from the nerves of reading out your work, the potential for stumbling, stalling – ‘dead air’, or missing your place is enormous. Your aim is ...

Wilson, author of What Mortal Flesh, on how to create authenticity in historical fiction . . . In the film, Ben Hur, there’s a moment when you can supposedly see one of the charioteers ...

A Journey from Script to Prose. My mentor at film school, Jan Fleischer, once told me that writing a screenplay was like liberating a ship from an iceberg: chipping away like a ...

What I learned from Steinbeck I am not sure how old I was when I began keeping a journal, but I know it was in a school copy book with an ordinary cover so none of my ...

Application deadline: 1st December 2026 Writers across Great Britain and the island of Ireland are being invited to apply for a place in an All-Island & GB-wide Online Writers’ Circles, ...

Short stories are a great way to explore an idea without having to build the larger world of a novel. They might be short, but they still need many of the same ingredients: an interesting character… ...