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 ...

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

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 ...

When my latest novel, A Tibetan Girl Called Ata, was published, I was fully aware of the risks it entailed. Why was it risky? Because the novel tells a contemporary love story between a Tibetan ...

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 ...

Welcome to this week’s Irish bestselling books charts, where we’ve got some new books (My Greatest Race, by Ciara Mageean, at no. 2; The Secrets We Hide by Karin Slaughter, at no. 7) ...

Competition deadline: 1st September 2026 The Milk House and The Daily Yonder invite submissions to the Best in Rural Writing Contest. $700 in Prizes $10 Entry Fee Fiction and Nonfiction (7,000 ...