Westmeath County Council and the Arts Council are currently accepting applications from writers for the 2025 John Broderick ...

Finding Me Beyond Illness by Shanali Perera explores resilience and transformation through the lens of creativity . . .

Author Emmet O’Reilly on the inspiration behind and the lessons learned in the writing of This Is Ourselves, Under Pressure.

I’ve written on and off for years, mainly short stories, but began in earnest in late 2022. My first novel was runner-up in ...

Use the Words You Have by Kimberly Campanello: there were some beautiful passages painting pictures of places and people . . ...

Author David Butler on the ‘Competition Length’ Short Story and the ‘8 Cs’. As the early Maupassant or Chekhov might well attest, tight word-counts dictated by the mechanics of publication have a long ...

Jack Murphy had the perfect life – a wife, little girl, and a home of his own. Until the Crash. Now homeless and having lost it all, Jack arrives at Apollo House when the Home Sweet Home Housing ...

While Europe continues to suffer under the iron fist of Nazi occupation, Britain remains battered but unbowed. DCI Frank ...

AWAKE! William Blake and the Power of the Imagination: a celebration of Blake’s genius and a guide for living.

The Keshcarrigan Short Story and Poetry Competition is now open for submissions. Proceeds go to the Keshkarrigan Barracks ...

The Society of Authors has announced the winners for the 2025 SoA Awards celebrating fiction, poetry and children’s ...

Children's author E.R. Murray on the many mistakes she's learnt to avoid over the past decade of her writing journey . . .