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Competition deadline: 31st December 2026 With €11,000 in prize money, The Moth Poetry Prize is one of the biggest prizes in the world for unpublished poems. The prize is open to anyone, and each year it attracts thousands of entries from new and established poets
Gerilyn Bass Greenberg, author of Drama Drama Drama, on publishing a manuscript a decade after
Fear and Trauma: The monster under the bed by Sharon Dempsey Women understand fear as
Editor Helen Carr: ‘I hope the collection I have brought together will open readers’ minds
Andrew O’ Connor discusses the inspiration and writing of his 17th novel The Expectation. The
My Christmas book: a novel in nine months . . . My fourth novel with
Emer Rohan, winner of two awards on the night, on the tenth anniversary of The
The Reading Agency launches largest-ever UK prison book-gifting programme. Nearly half a million Quick Reads
Welcome to this week’s Irish bestselling books, where this week’s book is a new non-fiction
Welcome to this week’s Irish bestselling books charts. We have some fabulous non-fiction in for
Dublin City Council is delighted to launch the Teen Citywide Read 2026, organised by Dublin
Although Prestin and the Booger Oath is a funny, mischievous and deliberately gross children’s adventure,
Elena Casaneanu on how her poetic memoir Alchemista is not just about survival. It is
Diary of a Sesh Hound is a story that has lived rent free in my
Frankie Chase, debut author of Bad Winner, on her route from meandering to meaningful, life’s
Author Teresa Doran describes the evolution of her novel Running Home, from an attendance at
1. My hometown Plovdiv is the oldest inhabited city in Europe. It used to sit
It was 1988, a bad time for junior doctors in Ireland. There was endless wrangling
Yvonne We all know death; it happens all the time and everywhere around the world;
