People can’t get enough of audiobooks these days so it’s no surprise the medium is enjoying year-on-year double digit sales growth. But who are the people behind the voices? Where...

Know What You’re Getting Into Double check what is expected of you. It’s one thing to show up and take part in a panel, it’s quite another if the event...

Getting paid for what you love is a big bonus and residencies for writers aim to do just that, to cultivate your writing, to give you space but also for...

My latest book, Uprising, is the third part of the multi-author series, Burning Skies. The book follows the main Character Cal as his holiday to New York is interrupted by...

Do you dream of a time and space where you can write without the multiple interruptions of daily life dragging at your heels, and with the encouragement you need to...

Writing.ie was thrilled recently to win EU Business News Magazine’s prestigious award for Best Digital Writing Resource, on top of the Blogger Awards (silver and gold) that we have won...

Hands down, one of the best parts of being Anam Cara’s director is getting to know the writers- and artists-in-residence and their work. They have taught me and each other much...

My writer’s room comes in several guises; my actual writer’s room at home where I can close the door on the world; a mobile ‘writer’s room’ while travelling, which is...

A couple of years ago, I met Indian author, Shashi Tharoor, at the Dalkey Book Festival. My opening words to him were, ‘I’ve hated you since I was 14!’ ‘Why?’...

If I’m honest, I felt like a bit of a fraud when I was appointed a UNESCO/Dublin City Libraries writer-in-residence in October 2017, and not just because, as a writer,...