Rod Reynolds, author of Shatter Creek, on the challenges of working both as a full-time dad and a full-time crime writer . . ...

The strangest thing about writing a series character for 20 years, is that you have to write about the same bloody person, ...

Author Katie Allen on Writing Happy is the One. Asking questions in fiction . . . writing always begins with the character.

Taking its name and ethos from Patrick Kavanagh’s belief in the beauty of the everyday, Every Blooming Thing weaves together ...

This week sees two top titles storming the tip of the Top 20 in the Irish books bestseller lists – at no. 1 is Jacqueline Connolly with Deadly Silence: A sister’s battle to uncover the truth behind ...

The Anthology Poetry Competition is open to original and previously unpublished poems in the English language.

The European Union Prize for Literature jury has awarded Sheila Armstrong a Special Mention for her debut novel Falling Animals.

The Smashing Times Arts and Literary Journal Smashing Times International Centre for the Arts and Equality would like to ...

Children of the Volcano: Making a Life for Three in Sicily. Ros Belford’s uplifting, humorous memoir building a new life on a ...

Writing since she was a child, Lucy penned her first story with her father called Arthur’s Arm, at the ripe old age of eight. She has been writing ever since. Inspired by her father’s love of the ...