The Royal Irish Academy (RIA), in association with the Department of Foreign Affairs, has announced the six shortlisted ...

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 ...

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 ...

The winners of the prestigious 2026 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 ...

Competition deadline: 30th September 2026 Founded in 2002 by Luigi Marchini and Laurie Porter, SaveAs Writers started as a small group of creative people meeting to critique each other’s poetry ...

It was with profound sadness that the death of literary agent Simon Trewin was announced by his family on Monday this week. Simon died peacefully at home on Thursday 25th June 2026, a month after ...

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A History of Sweny’s Pharmacy’ explores the remarkable story behind one of Dublin’s most beloved cultural and literary landmarks. ‘SOAP is a history ...

Submissions Deadline: 28th August 2026 Samhain Harvest Poetry submissions are invited for an anthology of Poetry funded by Longford Home of Halloween. Submission requirements: Poets may submit up ...

The Journals Fleadh returns for its third year this July, bringing together readers, writers and editors for a vibrant ...

Submission deadlines: 15th/20th August 2026 Fresh Words – an International Literary Magazine, an independent global literary platform – has announced a series of open calls for ...

Close Third-Person Point of View moves the point of view from outside the characters to inside one character’s head. The reader has access to that character’s emotions, thoughts, and assumpti… ...