The Lit, Europe’s first youth-led festival of reading and writing returns to Waterford City for its ninth year from the 9th-11th October 2026. 28 young people from across Waterford City & ...

Submissions deadline: 29th October 2027 The Ireland Chair of Poetry Trust (ICOP), in partnership with HOWL New Irish Writing, is delighted to announce the launch of the ICOP Pamphlet Series 2027.

David Marshall is a contemporary Irish essayist whose work focuses on civic systems, democracy, governance, and the ...

A Beginner’s Guide from a (Very Recent) Beginner Scientists sewing mice together. That’s what I heard on the radio one summer afternoon in 2018: a young ...

Founded in 2016, the Wild Atlantic Words literary festival aims to celebrate the literary heritage of our rugged coastline over several days of readings, recitals, debates and reflection, while ...

It’s been fifty one years since I dropped out of university in Durban on the east coast of South Africa, to go and find out about life. Dropped out is probably egging it a bit. I didn’t get much ...

Iceapelago 3, the final book in my climate fiction trilogy won a READERS FAVORITE award. And the sequel, The Kish Lighthouse Keeper, is scheduled for publication in January. I have started work on ...

For fifteen years I was a diplomatic security advisor for the EU and the UK governments, mostly in conflict-afflicted and fragile environments in Africa, the Middle East and Afghanistan. I am using ...

Welcome to this week’s Irish bestselling books where non-fiction and children’s titles have really made a splash this week. In Non-Fiction, we’ve got All In by Peter ...

My hometown Plovdiv is the oldest inhabited city in Europe. It used to sit on nine hills, now only six. When the seventh hill was destroyed, its rocks, like a crawling stone serpent, paved ...

Diana Janney, author of A Man of Understanding, on the inspiration behind and the themes explored in her compelling new novel, The Zen Violinist. My intention in all my novels is to make big ...

Competition deadline: 31st October 2026 Welcome to the first-ever New Writers Novel Prize, in association with The Novel Factory. We are seeking the first 500 words of your unpublished novel or ...