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.

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

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

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

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 ...

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At the An Post Irish Book Awards, a fabulously glittery evening, hosted by Miriam O’Callaghan, Vanessa Fox O’Loughlin was delighted to announce the winner of the Writing.ie Short Story of the Year ...

The idea for writing my debut outback noir crime novel The Stoning was hatched in a one-bedroom flat in West Hampstead at about four in the afternoon on a wintry Tuesday in late 2014. It was already ...

Ruth Frances Long, Author of The Book of Gold, on Inspiration, Research and Historical Fantasy . . . Once upon a time I fell in love with a book. Not an uncommon occurrence. We’ve all done it at one ...

Maeve Murphy was born in Belfast in N.Ireland and educated at Cambridge University. She is a film maker and has made 3 award winning Independent Feature Films. “Christmas at the Cross” is her debut ...

Camilla Macpherson, first prize short story winner in the 2023 Plaza Prizes, recently caught up with Rémy Ngamije, one of the judges in the 2024 competition, to find out more about his creative life.