I’m a big fan of anthologies and short story collections and have been fortunate to have work included in a number of them over the past few years. The Asylum...

While it’s true that no author is an island (it takes a sizable village to get a book to press, whether you’re an indie or traditionally published), being an author...

What makes a book a success? What’s that magic ingredient writers need to bring to their manuscript to make it fly off the shelves? Ever since I started writing I’ve...

Writing.ie has recently launched Writers Ink, an online writers group designed to give you support, friendship, advice and to help you achieve your writing objectives – whatever you are writing....

An article from our archives – consistently one of our most popular postings! When international bestseller Alex Barclay sang the praises of Scrivener in this excellent article, we thought we’d investigate...

‘Nobody moves or the goat gets it’; finding a niche and personalising ‘success’. My writing was first published when I was twenty-three; ‘The Extent of Benefit-Induced Unemployment in Great Britain:...

The ancient novelty of Working Class literature Working-class literature, that is literature produced chiefly by & for the working class, comes in  many forms & in many mediums, many informal...

What is the working class? The working class is the class of people who depend on the continuous sale of labour power, their own or family members’, in order to...

On the same Easter Week of the 1916 rising, a Charlie Chaplin lookalike competition was held in Dublin. Chaplin, well-known to be a socialist as well as the world’s leading...

I don’t know a single writer who hasn’t failed. Yet the only writers I know have succeeded. What I’ve learned from being a published author of a bestselling memoir, as...