Poet Marion Lougheed with some invaluable tips for putting together and publishing a collection of your poetry. In the last few years, I crafted various versions of what eventually became Baggage ...

Author Nicole Liang on her fascinating life journey and how she came to write her novel, The Deflector . . . Growing up, I’ve always been intrigued by fantasy and storytelling. Sometime in primary ...

Estrela Lourenço, illustrator of Mimi the Dancing Bee, on her fascinating journey from science to animation to storyboarding and on to writing and illustrating children’s books. I think I’m ...

Chris Bridges, author of psychological thriller, The Death Bed, with some top tips when it comes to writing about health care in your fiction . . . I aspired to be a writer from a young age but ...

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 ...

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: Total Chaos), ...

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 ...

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 ...

An unreliable narrator is one who misleads, withholds information or lies to the reader. This storyteller could be doing this intentionally or unintentionally. While using an unreliable narrator can ...

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… ...