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 ...

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 ...

Returning for its ninth year, the Cliveden Literary Festival is a unique forum for lively discussion, thought-provoking ideas ...

The winners of the prestigious 2026 Crime Writers’ Association (CWA) Dagger Awards, which honour the very best in the crime-writing genre, have been announced. Created in 1955, the world-famous ...

The Royal Irish Academy (RIA), in association with the Department of Foreign Affairs, has announced the six shortlisted ...

It was with profound sadness that the death of literary agent Simon Trewin was announced by his family on Monday this week. Simon died peacefully at home on Thursday 25th June 2026, a month after ...

Competition deadline: 30th September 2026 Founded in 2002 by Luigi Marchini and Laurie Porter, SaveAs Writers started as a small group of creative people meeting to critique each other’s poetry ...

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I have literally just finished reading the book Our Song, by the Irish author Anna Carey this morning. It was first published last year, in 2025 by Hachette Books Ireland, and although she has ...

Writing.ie is the only place that you can find the weekly Irish bestseller list online, and as summer is upon us, books are being enthusiastically bought for the plane, beach and garden. This week ...

Close Third-Person Point of View moves the point of view from outside the characters to inside one character’s head. The reader has access to that character’s emotions, thoughts, and assumpti… ...