An Arts Festival Is No Time To Get Creative by Tara Sparling
Writing in a café is hard: I don’t know how J.K. Rowling did it. Writing
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Writing in a café is hard: I don’t know how J.K. Rowling did it. Writing
In October 2010, my mother-in-law, Mary Higgins, was diagnosed with lung cancer. Mary died on
The most common advice given to writers is “marry well.” I don’t find that particularly
Shortly after I finally made peace with the notion that I was going to be
It’s been a sunny week in Ireland. This is more important than you know. Summer
The FutureBook Hack held over 36 hours at University College London 14th/15th June proves how
Are you sometimes intimidated by literary fiction? Do you feel that popular or genre fiction
Last year my first novel hit the bookstores, a story about a boy in his
Do you know what a trigger warning is? I didn’t until recently. A trigger warning
Stuck for a title for that crime novel you’re working on? Or perhaps you have
Sometimes I wonder whether I’m happier striving away in the darkness, ploughing my merry (if
As an aspiring writer and mother of three small children, I constantly imagine how many
Ask someone for their stereotypical image of a writer and you may get the picture
They say you never learn ‘how to write a book’. You only learn to write
That is the question. Well, in truth, because I am not as polite as Mr
Hey! Why aren’t you writing? The most common response to this question seems to be
As writers, we’re all familiar with the adage ‘Show, Don’t Tell.’ This piece of wisdom
May all my submissions be successful and let me be the one who the publishers
Few sentences fill me with greater and more disproportionate rage than the one which goes
Could people like stop mis-using the English language and use like grammar and stuff and
