Publisher Full Set has acquired Little Oases, a memoir by debut author Carol Ballantine, which is set to publish in spring ...

Application deadline: 31st August 2026 A brand-new international literary and creative festival, The Binding, is coming to Longford, Ireland this November. As part of The Binding festival, ...

Most people, on discovering that we are partners in crime (writing), are astonished that a married couple could stay married after writing four novels together as Ellery Lloyd. ‘If we tried, it ...

Alysoun Owen, Editor of Editor of the Writers’ & Artists’ Yearbook and the Children’s Writers’ & Artists’ Yearbook, on how best to commit to your writing . . . Be a committed writer. Write ...

Ava Glass is the CWA Dagger-shortlisted author of Alias Emma (The Chase), The Traitor and The Trap. She is an American-born novelist based in England, and a former crime reporter ...

Writing.ie is the only place that you’ll find the Irish bestsellers online each week, and it’s been a busy week for thrillers! When the world is (literally) on fire, many people turn ...

Never to be Found is a great read. I’d like to think I was the first to say that but I am not, everyone is talking about this book and the reason is very simple, it’s a really great read. Jo Spain ...

Bookselling Ireland (the Booksellers Association (BA) in Ireland), together with Publishing Ireland, is delighted to announce details for this year’s Irish Book Week campaign, which will run from ...

From Tonn Tuile to Flood Tide: the daughter and translator relates. Eithne O’Neill on translating her father’s Tonn Tuile: a landmark of mid-century Irish fiction, now in English for the first time.

The Hidden Voice is the pen name of the author of Love Isn’t Born. It’s Built. – Children Beyond Blood, an English-language lived-experience book exploring adoption, identity, origins, family ...

I was writing novelettes before I knew what a novelette was. They started out as short stories, but I kept writing them too long. Also, I’m not sure short stories are supposed to have chapters in ...