Estrela Lourenço, illustrator of Mimi the Dancing Bee, on her fascinating journey from science to animation to storyboarding and on to writing and illustrating children’s books. I think I’m ...

Chris Bridges, author of psychological thriller, The Death Bed, with some top tips when it comes to writing about health care in your fiction . . . I aspired to be a writer from a young age but ...

It’s another week in the Irish bestselling books charts, where we have an eclectic mix. As well as almost a dozen World Book Day titles (including this week’s no. 1, Bunny vs Monkey: ...

Part 2 of author Michael Clemenger’s article the role of the women of Cumann na Bhan who fought in the 1916 Rising and the subsequent civil war. Read Part 1 of this article here. The Role of ...

Author David Looby tells us of the inspiration behind his novel, A Billion Sharp Pieces . . . I began writing A Billion Sharp Pieces with a very simple premise: exploring male youth and toxic ...

Author and film-maker Johnzy Zombee tells us of his writing journey . . . What does writing mean to you? I think fiction is the best medium for telling a story. It allows me to explore a ...

The Irish Writers Centre are excited to announce our Spring Publishing Day! This virtual event aims to increase accessibility ...

The Discover Irish Children’s Books Symposium is a unique full day event created by children’s writers and illustrators, for fellow children’s writers and illustrators. It’s part-funded by the Dún ...

On Life, Recovery, and the Slow Work of Remembering Wildness is often imagined as something distant – a place we travel to, a threshold we cross. But wildness is not ...

An Post is to donate and deliver over 40,000 books to children in hospitals, care settings and Direct Provision Centres for ...

The advice to ‘kill your babies’ or ‘kill your darlings’ has been a feature of writing guides and workshops for decades, but is it good advice? asks Felicity Hayes-McCoy. I’ve given this piece the ...