Emerging Writer

Entries are being accepted for three writing competitions being run in association with the third annual Tubbercurry Literary Festival, in C...

These awards, the Nibbies are more, I think, populist and popular. Books that real people buy and read. JK Rowling won the Outstanding Achie...

The wonderfully inventive whitehousepoets are working with some poets from Newcastle, joining the Shannon and the Tyne. A special edition of...

Check out these tutorials featuring Jack Black. You have to give yourself permission to write a fairly dodgy first draft, yes, all the way t...

Hi, Well I didn't win the Hennessy award but, as everyone keeps saying, it's brilliant just to be nominated. I was extremely ungraci...

Here's some more books worth looking for, the Orange prize shortlist for women writers. Among the first-timers on the list is Sadie Jone...

I'm really confused, concerned and possibly angry. The deadline for this competition was March 18th 2008 and yet there is an announcemen...