Stories of life and death from a prison doctor, with some invaluable advice when it comes to writing narrative non-fiction. I am a writer and a doctor who ...

Competition deadline: 30th September 2026 The Bridport Memoir Prize is open internationally to writers aged 16+ writing in English. Your memoir does not need to be completed to submit. Your own ...

Out in the cold . . . I was coming out of M&S on Upper Liffey Street a few weeks back, having purchased a woollen jumper when a fella sitting on the pavement to the right of the doors asked ...

Joss Wood, author of the just-published Summerween, on how to survive a writing career. Become a writer, they said. It’ll be fun, they said. What they forgot to mention was the hard work, ...

Hospitals, injuries, and medical emergencies are common throughout multiple genres of fiction, and it’s easy to see why. When a character is hurt or sick, this creates instant tension and can have an ...

Editor Alysoun Owen on why the Writers’ & Artists’ Yearbook continues to be the essential guide for writers . . . On 16th July we celebrate a landmark moment in the life of an iconic title ...

No Reason to Live is the second of four novels featuring Mike Lyons, an ex-cop, born in Ireland but who has spent most of his life in the British police. I published the first novel entitled No ...

Writing.ie is the only place that you’ll find the weekly Irish bestseller list online! Click to see the top 20 books and the top 10 in each category. Writing.ie is the only place that you’ll find the ...

The chapters of your novel are the scaffolding of your story structure. The way you assemble them directly affects the way your story is delivered to the reader. So, getting it right is essential. … ...

The Munster Literature Centre is pleased to announce that The Redemption of Galen Pike by Welsh writer Carys Davies (Salt Publishing) has been selected as winner of the Frank O’Connor International ...

The 2024 shortlists for the prestigious Crime Writers’ Association (CWA) Dagger awards, which honour the very best in the crime-writing genre, have been announced. Created in 1955, the world-famous ...

When your story is set in a made-up town, it’s important that this setting feels like a real place with its own history, traditions, and quirks. Otherwise, your readers will be pulled out of the story ...