It’s another week in the Irish bestselling books charts, where we have an eclectic mix. As well as almost a dozen World Book Day titles (including this week’s no. 1, Bunny vs Monkey: ...

Part 2 of author Michael Clemenger’s article the role of the women of Cumann na Bhan who fought in the 1916 Rising and the subsequent civil war. Read Part 1 of this article here. The Role of ...

Author David Looby tells us of the inspiration behind his novel, A Billion Sharp Pieces . . . I began writing A Billion Sharp Pieces with a very simple premise: exploring male youth and toxic ...

Author and film-maker Johnzy Zombee tells us of his writing journey . . . What does writing mean to you? I think fiction is the best medium for telling a story. It allows me to explore a ...

The Discover Irish Children’s Books Symposium is a unique full day event created by children’s writers and illustrators, for fellow children’s writers and illustrators. It’s part-funded by the Dún ...

On Life, Recovery, and the Slow Work of Remembering Wildness is often imagined as something distant – a place we travel to, a threshold we cross. But wildness is not ...

The Irish Writers Centre are excited to announce our Spring Publishing Day! This virtual event aims to increase accessibility ...

An Post is to donate and deliver over 40,000 books to children in hospitals, care settings and Direct Provision Centres for World Book Day on Thursday, 5th March – in partnership with ...

The advice to ‘kill your babies’ or ‘kill your darlings’ has been a feature of writing guides and workshops for decades, but is it good advice? asks Felicity Hayes-McCoy. I’ve given this piece the ...

Toner, author of The Confidence Club, on how her training as a journalist has helped when it comes to meeting a publisher’s deadline . . . To blow my own trumpet: I am the most ...

The Three-Act Structure Using a story structure can help you organise your story idea, it can help guide and show you what’s working and what’s not. The three-act structure is one of the most popul… ...

Writers love courtroom drama. They’re pure conflict, and can illicit the full range of emotions from the reader. The thing is, unless we’ve studied the law or are trained solicitors, most of us don’t ...