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 ...
Writing.ie is the only place that you’ll find the weekly Irish bestseller list online, published every Saturday. Click through to see the movers and the shakers in this week’s ...
As artificial intelligence advances, writers find themselves staring at a digital ghost in the room, wondering if they can fight back. At the International Dublin Writers Festival 2026, that ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...