Competition deadline: 30th September 2026 The Bridport Memoir Prize is open internationally to writers aged 16+ writing in English. Your memoir does not need to be completed to submit. Your own ...

Out in the cold . . . I was coming out of M&S on Upper Liffey Street a few weeks back, having purchased a woollen jumper when a fella sitting on the pavement to the right of the doors asked ...

Editor Alysoun Owen on why the Writers’ & Artists’ Yearbook continues to be the essential guide for writers . . . On 16th July we celebrate a landmark moment in the life of an iconic title ...

No Reason to Live is the second of four novels featuring Mike Lyons, an ex-cop, born in Ireland but who has spent most of his life in the British police. I published the first novel entitled No ...

Joss Wood, author of the just-published Summerween, on how to survive a writing career. Become a writer, they said. It’ll be fun, they said. What they forgot to mention was the hard work, ...

TV was the driving force behind how I wrote my new middle-grade comedy: Séamus Almost Famous. I consider myself very lucky to have grown up in the nineties. There were so many great books and authors ...