When top jockey Marcel Dessaint loses his racing licence, his whole world falls apart. Accused of deliberately pulling up healthy horses, Marcel is passed a verdict of ‘Gross Misconduct’ and forced to ...

TV was the driving force behind how I wrote my new middle-grade comedy: Séamus Almost Famous. I consider myself very lucky to have grown up in the nineties. There were so many great books and authors ...

Writing.ie is the only place that you’ll find the weekly Irish bestseller list online, published every Saturday. Click through to see the movers and the shakers in this week’s ...

As artificial intelligence advances, writers find themselves staring at a digital ghost in the room, wondering if they can fight back. At the International Dublin Writers Festival 2026, that ...

Competition deadline: 30th September 2026 The Anthology Nature Writing Competition is created to celebrate the beauty of the natural world, inspire literary excellence and encourage Anthology’s ...

Competition deadline: 9th August 2026 The Frances Browne Literary Festival has officially launched its call for submissions for the 2026 Frances Browne Multilingual Poetry Competition. Now in its ...

I’m now often asked how I became a writer. The answer is not straightforward because writing was not my first act of reinvention. Long before I wrote a novel, I had already lived ...

The story does not end when you publish your book, says Richárd Meillear: Lord March Rain taught me more than writing . . . I always dreamed of becoming an author. I had the story waiting ...

Submissions deadline: 31st August 2026 The Aesthetica Creative Writing Award celebrates outstanding writers. The Award was launched after the publication of Aesthetica Magazine, as a way to ...

Returning for its ninth year, the Cliveden Literary Festival is a unique forum for lively discussion, thought-provoking ideas ...

I have literally just finished reading the book Our Song, by the Irish author Anna Carey this morning. It was first published last year, in 2025 by Hachette Books Ireland, and although she has ...

Writing.ie is the only place that you can find the weekly Irish bestseller list online, and as summer is upon us, books are being enthusiastically bought for the plane, beach and garden. This week ...