It’s all about the desk. Although I can write on my laptop just about anywhere – in the kitchen or in bed, upstairs in ...

The Dinner Show and Other Consumptions is Ben Arzate’s collection of short stories, and the terrain it covers is gruesome, ...

Submissions deadline: 8th March 2026 Submissions are now open through the The Pillars Press for the Poetry Pamphlet Awards ...

Burning Inwards is a fifteen story short-story anthology. A Burning In man or woman is someone who has become defensive, self ...

Author Jack Rathmell shares a few of the things he learned in the writing of How the Rhino Lost His Horn . . . It’s 2026 ...

Sharon Black tells us about her new writing room and the huge improvement it has made to her writing process . . . J.K.

The 2026 Limerick Literary Festival in Honour of Kate O’Brien will run in Limerick February 27th, 28th and March 1st at the ...

Athbhliain Faoi Mhaise Daoibh – to everyone! This week, while there are some big self-help books seeing a January surge (see ...

The Fish Flash Fiction Prize is an opportunity to attempt one of the most interesting and rewarding tasks – to create, in a ...

The Arrival of Nicky Rackard: this story follows on from Brian Gilhooly’s piece about his Ma, Joan Byrne, in 1950s Gorey. You ...

Where art meets commerce: the role of the editor. Sylvia Leatham reflects on lessons learned over the two-and-a-half-year ...

Five Writing Tips I Learned from My Debut Epic Fantasy, Sister Wake. My first epic fantasy for adults, Sister Wake, comes out ...