Paul McVeigh

 The Paul McVeigh Residency The Harrison has become a mecca for visiting artists, musicians and writers to stay at while in Belfast. When Pa...

 Pure Belfast - Writers and Chambers of Distinction On Spotify  On Apple Episode Description Paul McVeigh, born in Belfast,  began his caree...

Greene & Heaton are reopening applications from writers currently under-represented in publishing to receive a Zoom feedback session fro...

  'Life with Spider' by Patrick Langley

 Free Read: The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie

  Books to look out for in 2024 The Booker Prizes Podcast

  'Upstate' a new short story by Emma Cline.

  Paul Murray on Thomas Pynchon: ‘His vision of the future feels more prescient every day’

A couple with young children decide it’s time to spice up their flagging sex life, in Naomi Wood’s ‘Comorbidities’, read by Charlotte Ritchi...

Writers Talk at Brooks Hotel Join June Caldwell & Rob Doyle, two of Dublin's finest writers, at this intimate evening of book talk a...

September is short story month so here's two wonderful writers of the form in one post. "Such Common Life, Part 1: Protein" f...

How to Write a Synopsis by The Literary Consultancy . They are providing a manuscript assessment as part of the Paul McVeigh Residency at ...

 A fantastical flash fiction, The Swan Lake Guesthouse , by Camilla Grudova in  The Stinging Fly

I'm teaching my class, 'That Killer First Page', at Brooks Hotel, Dublin, on October 21st. On this course .. You’ll find out wha...

  Anne Enright reads John Cheever

 'The Swimmer' by John Cheever

  'P’s Parties' a new short story by Jhumpa Lahiri

In Conversation with Billy O’Callaghan   Monday, July 24, 2023 @ 07:00 PM Armagh –  Book here. Billy   O’Callaghan is amongst the finest sto...

 Free Read: 'Long Island' by Nicole Krauss

 'The Bicycle Accident' a novella by Joyce Carol Oats.

  For One Week Only: FlashFlood is open for submissions!   Up to 300 words. FlashFlood, National Flash Fiction Day's online journal, is ...

Click for rules Click on each heading further down this page for the rules and conditions of entry. Each category page also has the relevant...

The 2023 Fitzcarraldo Editions/Mahler & LeWitt Studios Essay Prize

So you want to be a writer? Essential tips for aspiring novelists

  Arts Council and Royal Society of Literature announce third NI Writers Day The third NI Writers Day will take place on Monday 26th Septemb...

 Podcast: Ben Okri Reads “The Secret Source”