M. John Harrison has won the Booker Prize 2026 for his 13th novel, The End of Everything, a dystopian satire that probes the ...

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All eyes are on Romantasy this week as the latest in the Court of Thorns and Roses series by Sarah J. Maas hits the shelves: ...

Songs for Ghosts by Clara Kumagai This is a wonderful American-Japanese historical fiction novel and is written by the ...

Lynda Clark, author of the wonderfully weird and darkly funny novel, Strange Talk, on the encroaching madness of AI ...

Competition deadline: 30th November 2026 The Gregory O’Donoghue International Poetry Competition is an annual single-poem ...

Entering writing competitions can be a great way to give your writing a sense of purpose and to challenge yourself. A competition deadline can provide motivation, while the possibility of being ...

From celebrated Irish novelists and exciting new literary voices to poetry, memoir, crime fiction and Irish-language storytelling, Dingle Literary Festival returns from the 20th to the 22nd November ...

A live reading can be a hit or miss affair. Apart from the nerves of reading out your work, the potential for stumbling, stalling – ‘dead air’, or missing your place is enormous. Your aim is ...