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

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 ...

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.

Linda Newbery is the award-winning author of Set in Stone (category winner, Costa Book Awards), Quarter Past Two on a Wednesday Afternoon, The Shell House, Sisterland, Lob, The Brockenspectre, The Key ...

Essie Fox, author of the riveting historical mystery, Dangerous, on how ‘there’s nothing quite like that buzz when a story comes to life . . .’ As a writer I’m best known for my historical gothic ...

A witty, cosy mystery packed with twists, turns and tea! When her flamboyant and spirited half-sister, Frankie, returns to Little Clarsden to claim her share of Rose Cottage, left to them by their ...

Extract from an unpublished novel set in Belfast during a series of sectarian killings in the 1980s. Written by J. G. Fitzgerald, whose career in finance involved periods working in Belfast and other ...

In The Movie Of Her Life, Claire Hennessy’s adult fiction debut, is a work of edgy, voice-driven short stories that go to dark places with gut-wrenching honesty few writers can master. In 21st century ...

Ox Devere, author of The Devil’s Eye and Rage of the Jinn: “Your mind will create its own movie.” My first word was book. I’ve collected a great many more since then. Words have been my great passion, ...

Natali Simmonds is a multi-genre fiction author and storytelling brand consultant, best known for her domestic suspense and thriller novels. Her debut, Good Girls Die Last, is being adapted for TV by ...

This half-day workshop (Zoom) explores dystopian fiction – dark, futuristic versions of our own society that let us look at today’s problem through a speculative lens. We’ll look at the history of the ...