Being a debut author is incredible and also one of the strangest experiences of my life. The emotional rollercoaster as I’ve soared the heights of living my dream while also plummeting to new ...

The Ten-Step Guide to Helping Kids Take Charge of Anxiety. There’s a particular kind of pressure that comes with writing a book when you have a ...

Welcome back to the Irish bestselling books charts, where we’re delighted this week to feature a much-loved author whose new book is soaring at the top of the Top 20 with the kind of sales ...

Writers’ Week is Ireland’s first and longest running literary festival. Since 1971, writers and readers congregate in the ...

Penny allowed herself to be gathered up carefully as the vet gently inserted the catheter into her front leg. The decline had been slow but steady since Christmas and blood tests had revealed ...

Competition deadline: 1st May 2026 The annual Molly Keane Creative Writing Award, run by Waterford City & County Council Arts Office, is to celebrate the rich literary life of the late Molly ...

Bookselling Ireland (the Booksellers Association (BA) in Ireland) are delighted to announce the ambassadors for Independent Bookshop Week 2026, which this year marks its 20th anniversary. The ...

But, Really, You Should Start Next Year’s Application Today. Right Now. And This Is Why. I submitted my Arts Council Arts Grant application yesterday. I am writing this, completely sleep deprived, ...

Words of warning: writing is a selfish solitary occupation and research becomes addictive. You will find Fate has an unexpected habit of intervening too. My own exciting journey began when I ...

Two Little Girls in Blue: my writing of it is a tale in itself, for one thing led to another. I’d always known that lovely, sad song of 1893 . . . An uncle tells his nephew of his own past: how he ...

Human Authored scheme launched as generative AI threatens authors’ livelihoods. The Society of Authors (SoA) is launching a Human Authored scheme to help identify works written by humans in ...

The first draft of my debut novel Godless Cosmologies was finished in a frenzy, quite unlike any I have before experienced. It’s odd, really, that such an urgency overcame me to finish something ...