Human Authored scheme launched as generative AI threatens authors’ livelihoods. The Society of Authors (SoA) is launching a Human Authored scheme to help identify works written by humans in ...

As a journalist, your instinct is to be clear, concise and truthful. As a novelist, all three adjectives are up for debate. I once listened to the Scottish writer Andrew ...

The first draft of my debut novel Godless Cosmologies was finished in a frenzy, quite unlike any I have before experienced. It’s odd, really, that such an urgency overcame me to finish something ...

Competition deadline: 1st May 2026 The Kipling Society have announced the John McGivering Writing Prize 2026. Entries on the subject of the Supernatural are now invited. First Prize £350Second ...

Author Ruth O’Leary tells us the inspiration behind her new novel, The Last Week of Him. Before I became a writer, I imagined writers sitting in a library room at home, surrounded by ...

Welcome to the Irish bestselling books charts; this week of course encompasses World Book Day, so the Top 20 is booming with all the Children’s Top 10 titles and then some, with the top ...

Writers from Across Ireland and Beyond Unite for Words, In Other Places, 11th-12th April 2026 Words, In Other Places, an Irish Writers Centre Literary Festival presented in partnership with the ...

Paul Coggins, author of Chasing the Chameleon, on how ‘decades in the trenches as a trial lawyer have made me a better writer . . .’ To paraphrase an old saw: Legal writing is to ...

Is scríobhneoir/údar mise agus file in oiliúint. I am a writer/author and poet in training, ag foghlaim cúpla focal and writing bits and pieces as Gaeilge ó am go ham. I feel it is important as ...

Lucy O’Callaghan has some great advice and guidance about writing middle-grade novels. ‘Middle-grade is often called the golden age of reading because the format has the largest readership of… ...

Author A. A. Sekhon on how, when it comes to character and plot, the setting of your novel can be an absolute goldmine . . . Whenever I sit down to write a new piece of fiction, I always begin with ...

Translating the Dublin Voice For Irish writers, Sean O’Casey needs little introduction. His dialogue carries the sound and cadence of the Dublin streets, veering ...