This week in the Irish bestselling books, we’ve got The Truth About Ruby Cooper by Liz Nugent still heading the charts, with Colm Tóibín’s new The News From Dublin in a close second ...

Brian Gilhooly with a tale for the ages: featuring his Ma, The Fugitive and a little corrugated galvanised hut down below in Rosslare Strand. The year is 1968 and my parents, Mick & Joan ...

Competition deadline: 10th May 2026 The Belvedere New Writing Prize offers an opportunity for new and emerging writers to win €200 and publication in Volume 2 of The Belvedere this autumn. There ...

Perpetual Motion: how a polyglot life between worlds shaped Vanessa Fabiano’s first book, Chinese on the Beach . . . When I first went to China in 1994, I had no intention of writing a book ...

Romanian journalist based in County Clare, Ireland, since 2015. After moving in the country side, Gabriela and her husband ...

Chris Dresser, novelist and screenwriter, on the facts behind his fiction. Surviving Treachery: Third Book in the Willjohn Trilogy is out now. At school in South Africa I was good at sport and ...

What’s in a Title? More Than You Think! Anna Kahill, author of Not the Perfect Victim, on how titles shape meaning, visibility, and which stories are heard. A title is often treated as an ...

The Whistleblower Cafe and Bookshop is located on South Anne street and has four floors. It’s described as a space for artists, writers, whistleblowers and those who want to create change. Job ...

(Dec 2025) of his novel ‘Don Eugenio.’ Over those years he won numerous screenwriting awards and also directed and produced a ...

Getting Your Facts Straight: author Siski Kalla on writing creative non-fiction for children. When you hear the term non-fiction, you might think textbooks, self-help books, gardening books and ...

The Visit by Neil Tully Ask a group of emerging writers to list marketable, commercially relevant topics that might catch an agent or publisher’s eye, and AI anxiety, trauma, gender, or mental ...

On the Craft and Adventure of Writing, with five invaluable suggestions for writers. I said a lot about writing in my new book, Start With a Word: On ...