John Boyne sets up short-story competition for kids cooped up at home
Cecelia Ahern joins judging panel and helps fund prizes for contest for six- to 18-year-olds
Anna Burns: From relative unknown to Man Booker prize winner
‘Milkman’ author has been praised for her ‘dazzingly inventive’ writing approach
Guardian’s modern Ireland book recommendations are ‘b*ll*cks’
Irish writers have poured scorn on a Guardian listing of books that define Ireland
Shelfies with Irish writers: how the literati keep their libraries in order
Self-confessed shelf addict John Boyne checks out how fellow authors like to stack
Island culture: events worth getting on the boat for
The Drop Everything cultural biennial will soon take over Inisheer with art, music, and a specially built sauna
Winter Pages: a treasure trove of soul fuel with deep roots in Irish soil
If this standard is kept up, writes Kevin Gildea, then Winter Pages will become as essential as a warm fire on the wet miserable nights of our Irish winter lives
The writing ritual: from blank page to Booker contender
Doughnuts and cigarettes or blindfold, earmuffs and earplugs? Writers can have odd ways of getting ready for their working day – or night. Gavin Corbett, Christine Dwyer Hickey, Henrietta McKervey, Thomas Morris and Paul Murray take us into their creative worlds
10 books to read in your first semester
With the Leaving Cert results out this week, here’s a literary taster of what to expect at third level
Léan Cullinan on learning to love rewriting
This week, to mark the end of our How to Write a Book series, we have a daily Q&A with a debut author
What a character: writers in fiction
With the Dublin Writers Festival kicking off this week, here are 10 great books with writers as their subject
‘Editing is my natural role’
Declan Meade has made it his business to find our finest writers, and his 15 years at The Stinging Fly make for formidable reading
EU presidency’s cultural offerings break away from stereotypical Irishness
The Irish programme generally eschews the traditional emphasis on literature in favour of showcasing contemporary art
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