Welcome back to the Irish bestselling books lists where sales are picking up as Christmas draws nearer – the top 10 of the Top 20 are now clocking over a thousand sales a week and the others ...

You have to kill your darlings. The kind of line we’ve all heard, those of us cursed and blessed with the urge to write a ...

At a glittering ceremony in Dublin, the An Post Irish Book Awards celebrated its 20th Anniversary with the opening speech ...

Michael Clemenger movingly tells us what he came to fully realize on his confirmation day in June 1963. The sentiment of ...

The crime writing genre’s oldest and most famous award, the CWA Diamond Dagger, has had an injection of new blood thanks to a ...

Richard Gadz, author of the The House of all Sorrows, the third title in the Gothics Undead series, tells us how horror and ...

Competition deadline: 13th February 2026 Footnote Press and Counterpoints Arts announce the first Footnote x Counterpoints Prize for Fiction for writers from refugee and migrant backgrounds.

Sam Blake tells us about the layering process that went into creating the backstory for her characters in The Killing Sense .

Author Anna Byk on her dream come true: the publication of her novel, It’s Never Really Over, about five women and their life ...

The deadline for written submissions is Monday 5 January, 2026. The deadline for visual submissions is Monday 19 January, ...

Author Ruth Finnegan, who also writes as R. Kristi, on the many options available to us when it comes to writing sequels . . ...

Brian Gilhooly give us a light-hearted but affectionate piece about Irish ingenuity, bureaucracy, and friendship — and how ...