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 ...

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

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 ...

IVAN GIBBONS is a lecturer in Modern Irish and British history specialising in the relationship between the British Labour Party and Ireland. He was lecturer and MA and BA Programme Director in Irish ...

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.

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.

Zachary Finn is a lover of all things history and horror. He currently resides in central NY with his dog and his girlfriend. When he’s not working at a museum, reading, or writing, you can find him ...

Author Amanda Addison on celebrating multiple ethnicities in YA storytelling. Looking for Lucie is a YA novel in which the key protagonist, Lucie Hansen, is forever asked the question: Where are you ...

In Showbusiness with Blood, Eamon Carr beguiles the reader with an insightful account of the world’s greatest boxers, from Steve Collins to Mike Tyson to Tyson Fury and Katie Taylor. Boxing, Ireland’s ...

Electra Rhodes is an archaeologist whose short prose has been widely published, most recently in Parthian Press’ anthology An Open Door – Travel Writing for a Precarious Century. Current projects ...

Anya Bergman became interested in the witch trials of Vardø and the vivid folk tales of the north while living in Norway. Travelling to the Steilneset memorial, in which Louise Bourgeois and Peter ...