The Dinner Show and Other Consumptions is Ben Arzate’s collection of short stories, and the terrain it covers is gruesome, ...

Burning Inwards is a fifteen story short-story anthology. A Burning In man or woman is someone who has become defensive, self ...

Submissions deadline: 8th March 2026 Submissions are now open through the The Pillars Press for the Poetry Pamphlet Awards ...

Author Jack Rathmell shares a few of the things he learned in the writing of How the Rhino Lost His Horn . . . It’s 2026 ...

Author Catherine Hokin with the pros and cons and the dos and don’t of the prologue . . . Prologues can be divisive things, ...

The 2026 Limerick Literary Festival in Honour of Kate O’Brien will run in Limerick February 27th, 28th and March 1st at the ...

Sharon Black tells us about her new writing room and the huge improvement it has made to her writing process . . . J.K.

Athbhliain Faoi Mhaise Daoibh – to everyone! This week, while there are some big self-help books seeing a January surge (see ...

The Arrival of Nicky Rackard: this story follows on from Brian Gilhooly’s piece about his Ma, Joan Byrne, in 1950s Gorey. You ...

The Fish Flash Fiction Prize is an opportunity to attempt one of the most interesting and rewarding tasks – to create, in a ...

Five Writing Tips I Learned from My Debut Epic Fantasy, Sister Wake. My first epic fantasy for adults, Sister Wake, comes out ...