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Submissions deadline: 29th October 2027 The Ireland Chair of Poetry Trust (ICOP), in partnership with HOWL New Irish Writing, is delighted to announce the launch of the ICOP Pamphlet Series 2027.

The Lit, Europe’s first youth-led festival of reading and writing returns to Waterford City for its ninth year from the 9th-11th October 2026. 28 young people from across Waterford City & ...

David Marshall is a contemporary Irish essayist whose work focuses on civic systems, democracy, governance, and the ...

Founded in 2016, the Wild Atlantic Words literary festival aims to celebrate the literary heritage of our rugged coastline over several days of readings, recitals, debates and reflection, while ...

It’s been fifty one years since I dropped out of university in Durban on the east coast of South Africa, to go and find out about life. Dropped out is probably egging it a bit. I didn’t get much ...

Welcome to this week’s Irish bestselling books where non-fiction and children’s titles have really made a splash this week. In Non-Fiction, we’ve got All In by Peter ...

Born in South Wales, my parents took me to what is now Zambia at the age of three months. My father was a contractor with the Overseas Development Agency and, given that I refused to go to boarding ...

Iceapelago 3, the final book in my climate fiction trilogy won a READERS FAVORITE award. And the sequel, The Kish Lighthouse Keeper, is scheduled for publication in January. I have started work on ...

My hometown Plovdiv is the oldest inhabited city in Europe. It used to sit on nine hills, now only six. When the seventh hill was destroyed, its rocks, like a crawling stone serpent, paved ...

Diana Janney, author of A Man of Understanding, on the inspiration behind and the themes explored in her compelling new novel, The Zen Violinist. My intention in all my novels is to make big ...

Competition deadline: 31st October 2026 Welcome to the first-ever New Writers Novel Prize, in association with The Novel Factory. We are seeking the first 500 words of your unpublished novel or ...