Raising Voices programme led by Children’s Books Ireland. . . Following a call out for applications in October last year, national charity and arts organisation Children’s Books Ireland has now ...

Your Covering Pitch and Synopsis with Literary Agent Simon Trewin – Live! Writing.ie are always The Perfect Covering Letter with Literary Agent Simon Trewin Your Covering Letter with Literary Agent ...

New online creative writing courses starting in March, suitable for complete beginners as well as writers with some experience looking to get unstuck or to try something different: – Start Writing (3 ...

Book sales are at their peak at this time of year, and sports biographies and non fiction titles are always popular – as you can see in this weeks list of bestselling Irish books.

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Morna Sullivan has been reading and writing poems since she could read and write . . . I closed my eyes as the battered black Mercedes mounted the central reservation. Our realtor, Stefan was trying ...

Time and space shifting: author David Cairns on the difficulties of writing detailed historical fiction set in Scotland from Australia. I have just finished my sixth novel – all relating events in the ...

Historical Fiction Author, Amanda Lees on How To Walk and Talk Your Way To Dialogue That Sings . . . Dialogue is Marmite to authors. Some, like me, love writing it. Others would rather sweat over ten ...

One key – and very relatable – element of pretty much any supernatural or paranormal tale (or for that matter, supposed factual account) is the challenge faced by ...

From April 9th-12th, the UL Creative Writing Festival will feature literary stars including Marian Keyes, Joseph O’Connor, Donal Ryan, Paul Lynch, Liz Nugent, Paul Muldoon – and many, many more. The ...

I’m Irish and I live in Japan with my wife, who is Japanese, and our four children. I grew up in rural Ireland and over thirty years ago, after graduating University, I found myself in Japan with ...

The Curae Prize is a literary award just for writer-carers. A carer (based on the NHS definition) is anyone who looks after a family member, partner or friend who needs help because of their illness, ...