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Competition deadline: 15th January 2023 Submissions for the 2023 Discoveries programme are now open. Discoveries invites unpublished and unagented women writers in the UK or Ireland to submit the opening of a novel in English – up to 10,000 words – across any genre of
Some years ago, my husband and I took a tour of the Rathcroghan archaeological site
‘There was a wise woman, we’re all agreed, some call her Brigid, some call her
In newspaper journalism, the sports section was sometimes, playfully, described as the Toy Department. While
My writing process (if it can be called that!) It’s a Monday, and today marks
The Art of Writing and Illustration – complimenting and enhancing each other They say that
We are creeping ever closer to December; the nights are lengthening and getting colder and
Richie Sadlier, Sally Hayden, John Boyne, Kellie Harrington, John Creedon and Marian Keyes are among
It’s another week in the charts, another week closer to Christmas, and the Children’s Top
We have a couple of notable new entries to this week’s charts – two very
The Board of the An Post Irish Book Awards have rewarded Anne Enright with the
You can commit injustice by doing nothing. Marcus Aurelius, Meditations It is close to a
My love affair with the beautiful Andalusia has been going on for most of my
Lonely Boy didn’t really start out as a book. That wasn’t the intention. It began
Born in 2002, Citra Tenore (pronounced “cheetra tenorae”) is an American author from Massachusetts. She
I was in Bar Metro the other week supping on a cider and imbibing on
He came from the south, this bully called Ian. Like most bullies, the less resistance he
Radio has been in my life since I was born. There was a radio in
Browsing the news from home in the Irish Independent on-line a few weeks back I
