Emer Rohan, winner of two awards on the night, on the tenth anniversary of The Carousel Aware Prize (CAP) for Independent Authors . . . The Carousel Aware Prize for Independent Authors (CAP ...

The Reading Agency launches largest-ever UK prison book-gifting programme. Nearly half a million Quick Reads to reach prisons across the UK, with a collection shaped with people in prison and ...

Welcome to this week’s Irish bestselling books, where this week’s book is a new non-fiction bestseller looking at the troubles of the housing market. Brand new and straight to no. 1, ...

Competition deadline: 31st December 2026 With €11,000 in prize money, The Moth Poetry Prize is one of the biggest prizes in the world for unpublished poems. The prize is open to anyone, and each ...

The monster under the bed by Sharon Dempsey Women understand fear as an omnipresent spectre in our lives. It shows up early on, when we are conditioned to be wary of strangers and ...

Why My Novel Has Its Own Non-Fiction Companion Book. How did my novel turn into two books? It was never my intention in the beginning. It evolved. The original storyline, the love ...

Elena Casaneanu on how her poetic memoir Alchemista is not just about survival. It is about transformation. I am a Writer… A Writer in the Making For most of my life, I never considered myself a ...

Submissions deadline: 2nd November 2026 The Stony Thursday Book is seeking submissions from local, national and international poets for its next issue, to be published in Spring 2027. The Stony ...

I hope the collection I have brought together will open readers’ minds to the wealth of classic Irish Gothic fiction’. Irish Gothic I’ve been working in publishing ...

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

The weather, as I write this, is wet and windy. In a literary sense, if I felt the need to include it in a story, I would describe it as “wild and raging”. My main character, the Protagonist, ...

Competition deadline: 16th November 2026 The Clonegal/Kildavin Veteran Players Group was formed in May 2013. Verteran Players Group has now six publications under its belt. “Lest We ...