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Competition deadline 16th November 2020 Podcasts are kind of a big deal! Over 100 million people in USA listen to at least one Podcast a month and that rate is increasing by 20 million year on year. Fiction podcasts are taking a century’s worth of
I hated history when I was at school in England – all those kings and
Irish author Anna Burns has won the 2020 International DUBLIN Literary Award, sponsored by Dublin
Historical author Andrew O’Connor reflects on how the pandemic is shifting the way resources can
I’ve always got a great kick out of kids’ books – the zanier the better,
I get asked a lot why I choose to write about difficult, often uncomfortable subjects.
After some serious debate, our panel of judges – Madeleine Keane, Literary editor of the
After the success of our previous challenges here at Writing.ie, we’re running another 5 day
It’s been a strange week in the book world, with great excitement at the reveal
Paul Halligan is a blind father of 4 children who has always been interested in
We have another rash of new releases this week, with some great titles in the
The twenty-two stories in this collection were written over a period of about fifteen years.
You may have to be Irish and of a “certain age” (read 65+) to appreciate
I began researching and writing my thriller novel Run From The Devil in 2015. I
It’s that time of the year again when I don my self-publishing hat and launch
They appeared in March. The forerunner, Leo, took over the television channels to tell us
Read Part 1 of this article here. And then he goes onto the subject of
The youngest of seven, reared a few streets from the town centre of Dundalk, it
I was in an old church, late last year taking photographs of a pulpit, which
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