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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

The story does not end when you publish your book, says Richárd Meillear: Lord March Rain taught me more than writing . . . I always dreamed of becoming an author. I had the story waiting ...

I’m now often asked how I became a writer. The answer is not straightforward because writing was not my first act of reinvention. Long before I wrote a novel, I had already lived ...

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 ...

Competition deadline: 30th September 2026 The Anthology Nature Writing Competition is created to celebrate the beauty of the natural world, inspire literary excellence and encourage Anthology’s ...

Submissions deadline: 31st August 2026 The Aesthetica Creative Writing Award celebrates outstanding writers. The Award was launched after the publication of Aesthetica Magazine, as a way to ...

Welcome to this week’s Irish bestselling books charts, where we’ve got some new books (My Greatest Race, by Ciara Mageean, at no. 2; The Secrets We Hide by Karin Slaughter, at no. 7) and some special ...

Competition deadline: 9th August 2026 The Frances Browne Literary Festival has officially launched its call for submissions for the 2026 Frances Browne Multilingual Poetry Competition. Now in its ...