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Award winning magazine for writers at all levels http://www.writing.ie - based in Ireland but for writers everywhere. Featuring book and writing news, tips, technique, competitions, submission opportunities and much more. We want to help! 📚💙
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Writing.ie Online Writing Magazine @writing.ie · Jul 2
'If you don’t have your own website you can use this page as your shop window on the web'

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Enter our draw to win…

Amanda Cassidy’s fourth novel The Stranger Inside is our latest giveaway, and it’s another gripping page-turner!

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Enter our draw to win…
Amanda Cassidy’s fourth novel The Stranger Inside is our latest giveaway, and it’s another gripping pageturner! Here’s the blurb: You’re behind bars, framed for a crime you …
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November 18, 2025 at 11:44 AM
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'I simply thought it was about time to give voice to the female in detection, and with Sherlock Holmes’s landlady I had leeway to create a character virtually from scratch.'

Writing Dr Watson and Mrs Hudson by Susan Knight

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Writing Dr Watson and Mrs Hudson by Susan Knight
I fell into writing as Mrs Hudson almost by chance. As a lifelong fan of both Victorian and crime fiction, I simply thought it was about time to give voice to the female in detection, and with Sher…
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November 18, 2025 at 10:12 AM
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Submissions Call: New Isles Press Anthology Issue 5

✨Deadline: 30th Nov 2025

'Will be part of Nth Belfast Festival '26...a wonderful opportunity to have your work published, shared with a growing readership, & performed live at a major festival event'

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Submissions Call: New Isles Press Anthology Issue 5
Submissions deadline: 30th November 2025 Yellow House Publishing Issue 5 of the New Isles Press Anthology is now open for submissions. Our featured author for this issue is the acclaimed playwright…
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November 18, 2025 at 9:53 AM
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'If the story doesn’t work in its own right, if it is not a gripping and psychologically compelling read, then any supposed parallel will not rescue or justify it'

Employing the Prism of the Past by Dara Kavanagh, author of Scorched Earth

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Historical Fiction: Employing the Prism of the Past by Dara Kavanagh
Dara Kavanagh, author of the three historical novels, Prague 1938, Jabberwock and Scorched Earth, on creating the parallel world of fiction. Like many art forms, the novel has a venerable tradition…
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November 18, 2025 at 9:35 AM
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'We were lucky to be there at a time when Inuit customs and traditions, as well as their language, Inuktitut, were still strong.'

Somewhere Cold by Geraldine Osborne

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November 17, 2025 at 11:24 AM
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'Through conflict, characters reveal their deepest desires, fears, and values, allowing readers to engage emotionally with their journeys.'

Writing Conflict: Really Useful Links by Lucy O’Callaghan

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Writing Conflict: Really Useful Links by Lucy O’Callaghan
Conflict is the driving force of fiction, the element that propels characters into action and keeps readers turning the pages. Whether it arises from a clash of wills, an internal struggle, or an e…
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November 17, 2025 at 11:09 AM
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'Having chosen to tell this new story in the form of interior monologues, the biggest challenge was in honing the different voices...'

Author Allan Radcliffe on the writing of his cinematic second novel, Blurred Faces

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Blurred Faces by Allan Radcliffe
Author Allan Radcliffe on the writing of his cinematic second novel, Blurred Faces, ‘a tale of two souls attempting to find themselves’. An enduring cliché in the music industry is the …
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November 17, 2025 at 10:14 AM
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Irish Haiku Society Competition 2025

Competition deadline: 31st December 2025

'The IHS International Haiku Competition offers prizes of Euro 200, Euro 60, and Euro 40 for unpublished haiku/senryu in English.'

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Irish Haiku Society Competition 2025
Competition deadline: 31st December 2025 The Irish Haiku Society (IHS) is a not-for-profit organisation promoting the writing and appreciation of haiku in Ireland. It organises readings, ginko, wor…
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November 17, 2025 at 9:59 AM
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'From the outset I wanted to engage top-quality industry professionals to help me produce a book I could be proud of...'

The Decision to Self-Publish by Sheena Wilkinson

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Speak Your Truth in association with Poetry Ireland presents a generative Poetry Workshop.

Facilitated by Molly Twomey, Southword Debut Collection winner.

🕰️ Sat 29th November
🗓️ 10.30am-12.30pm
⛪ Waterford Gallery of Art
🎟️Admission: €25

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November 11, 2025 at 11:48 AM
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Congratulations to Ferdia Lennon. Ferdia has been awarded the 2025 Rooney Prize for Irish Literature for his novel Glorious Exploits
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Ferdia Lennon wins 2025 Rooney Prize for Irish Literature for Glorious Exploits
The €10,000 prize, awarded annually since 1976, celebrates an outstanding body of work by an emerging Irish writer under 40
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November 11, 2025 at 9:29 AM
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It's time to play the music,🎵
It's time to light the lights,💡
It's time to come and meet us
At Banner Books tonight. 📚📚

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November 11, 2025 at 8:22 AM
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The @nlireland.bsky.social & @opwireland.bsky.social present Culture Club, a lecture series with leading architectural practices.

Next up: Ryan Kennihan, on creating timeless buildings rooted in place & culture.

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November 11, 2025 at 10:15 AM
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If, like Dean, you feel passionately about poetry and spoken word, you could be just who we’re looking for. We currently have four vacancies on the Poetry and Spoken Word Group committee. Find out more on our website buff.ly/CKAo9Ga
November 11, 2025 at 10:31 AM
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Switching from Thriller to Horror Writing by Leigh M. Hall

'I have the potential to gain readers who may have never heard of me if I didn’t branch out to horror.'

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November 11, 2025 at 11:11 AM
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Flesh by David Szalay wins the Booker Prize 2025

'Flesh by David Szalay was named the winner of the Booker Prize 2025 at a ceremony in London on Monday, 10 November'

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November 11, 2025 at 11:00 AM
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It’s time to make your voice heard!

The 2025 An Post Irish Book Awards celebrate the very best of Irish writing — and now it’s YOUR turn to choose this year’s winners! 💚

From powerful debuts to unforgettable favourites, every vote counts.

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November 11, 2025 at 10:48 AM
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Submissions Call: The Stinging Fly

✨Deadline: 18th November 2025 (closing at 5pm Irish time)

Fiction, creative non-fiction, and poetry for the Summer 2026 issue.

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November 10, 2025 at 9:55 AM
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'Sharing my ideas through the creative process of writing fiction has been one of the most rewarding experiences in my professional life.'

Building Worlds, Bridging Ideas: Author Russell Luyt on how The Midnight Factory was born . . .

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November 10, 2025 at 9:40 AM
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Fusilli Flash Fiction Competition

'For the international Fusilli Flash Fiction Competition (age 18+), we want your stories up to 200 words with a twist.'

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Fusilli Flash Fiction Competition
Fusilli Flash Fiction Competition deadline: ongoing For the international Fusilli Flash Fiction Competition (age 18+), we want your stories up to 200 words with a twist. We will announce a short li…
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November 10, 2025 at 9:21 AM
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November 6, 2025 at 10:18 AM
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'Narrative non-fiction invites readers not only to learn about what happened but to feel it, to understand the motivations, conflicts, and emotions that drive real people in real situations'

Writing Narrative Non-Fiction: Really Useful Links by Lucy O’Callaghan

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November 6, 2025 at 9:49 AM
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'Many novelists experience new awareness of their own work when asked to talk about it at events or in interviews.'

A Time for Reading: Once a Year by Felicity Hayes-McCoy

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A Time for Reading: Once a Year by Felicity Hayes-McCoy
My latest novel Once a Year is set in Castlehill Hotel & Spa, a riverside country house owned and run by the Sullivan family for generations. Traditionally, when the Christmas rush is over, the…
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November 6, 2025 at 9:40 AM
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Submissions Call for Tintreach, January 2026

Tintreach publishes creative work from across the artistic spectrum

✨Submissions are open until capacity is reached, or until midnight on Sunday, 30 November 2025

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November 5, 2025 at 10:37 AM
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'There’s a nostalgia that hits as a writer when you revisit characters from a previous book'

Sharon Black, author of Love like the R̵e̵a̵l̵ Reel Thing, on the challenges of writing a sequel and why she wanted to write one . . .

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November 5, 2025 at 9:56 AM