Emerging Writer

In the next issue, IOTA will explore work and play.  Send your take on this theme. Be as oblique as you like (and they like oblique......

As part of the Iron Mountain Literature Festival, Leitrim County Council and the Tyrone Guthrie Centre have developed the John McG...

The Ogham Stone is a Journal of Literature and Arts produced by the MA Students of English & Creative Writing at University of Limeri...

Fiction at the Friary is a new monthly fiction event in The Friary, North Mall, Cork.  This event, run by Danielle McLaughlin and  Madele...

The Cúirt New Writing Prize, in memory of Lena Maguire, is now open for  submissions. The categories are poetry and fiction. Ther...

Dublin Book Festival is one of Ireland’s most successful and vibrant book festivals.  This annual public Festival showcases, supports and...

Ireland's oldest independent publishing house, Mercier Press, has launched a competition to find a first-time fiction author wi...

As part of the Iron Mountain Literature Festival, Leitrim County Council and the Tyrone Guthrie Centre have developed the John McGahern ...

Poetry 5th March Fiction 9th April What evocative object would inspire you to write a poem? What thing lies about the house that has s...

DLR Lexicon are hosting regular Salon Nights showcasing various Irish magazines and presses. This time it's the turn of Penny Dreadfu...

A literary agent all her professional life, Deborah Rogers (1938-2014) set up her own agency in 1967, and twenty years later formed  Rog...

This sounds innovative: An evening combining contemporary live fiction with a bring-your-own-tunes disco controlled by the audience.  ...

Hi Roisin and welcome to writing.ie. How did you first get into writing? Short answer: I entered a competition when I was 18. Part ...

From Paul McVeigh's blog They are looking for   novels   (50,000 words or more) that contain some element of the speculative or f...

From Nuala Ni Chonchuir's blog The  Mslexia  Women’s Novel Competition  is back. They are looking for novels of at least 50,000 word...

The prize was set up in honour of Luke Bitmead. His debut novel was the first novel Legend Press published but he sadly died shortly a...

i haven't seen a copy of the Runt but check them out on Youtube. Refreshing. And you can't go wrong with this kind of of artwork...

I have posted about Irish agents before. It is consistently my most popular post. So I thought I'd do it again. I'm updating it...