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Competition deadline (15th July 2022) The Morning Coffee Writing Competition was created in association with Sonder Magazine in 2020 to fundraise for the Dublin Rape Crisis Centre. The idea behind the title is that, even if the world is pretty dark at times, there are
Here’s a confession to start with: I don’t remember where I was when I came
It all started with rather a throwaway comment, something akin to “I should write a
This exceptional account by Mark Edwards, chronicling his long-held and hard-earned ambition to become a
When I first joined the police, I worked with a young rascal of a cadet
The desire to write fiction came on when I was at home with small children.
The Antonio Feltrinelli International Prize for poetry has been awarded to Michael Longley. Previous winners
Welcome back to this week’s round up of bestselling books in Ireland. Not many changes
National Crime Reading Month (NCRM), has been hailed as the biggest campaign to date, as
The winners for the Indie Book Awards 2022, the annual awards curated exclusively by independent bookshops
Welcome back to another week in the charts! This week the trend is definitely all
The life experiences that inform my writing efforts are essentially military with a touch of
I wonder if anyone reading this, is aware of the massive on-going monument to Crazy
I admire and enjoy reading the works of Nikita Gill, Rupi Kaur, Robert Louis Stevenson,
When I moved to Ireland in 2006 from my native Romania it quickly became clear
It’s that time of the year again. The summer solstice has come and gone, the
My first real memory of Ireland was at Easter. I was seven and my family,
You danced across my mind just now… I have your smiling picture beside my bed.
I was talking with José Mari in my pidgin Spanish last Saturday evening about the
