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 ...

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.

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 ...

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

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

Sherlock Bones and the Mystery of the Vanishing Magician by Tim Collins and John Bigwood ...

The Stoney Collection is more than an anthology. It is a free community platform for independent writers and their remarkable ...