It’s been fifty one years since I dropped out of university in Durban on the east coast of South Africa, to go and find out about life. Dropped out is probably egging it a bit. I didn’t get much ...

Join Smashing Times for an evening with acclaimed Irish poet and spoken-word artist Emmet O’Brien, including performance and informal conversation about his creative work. The event celebrates rhythm, ...

Join Smashing Times for a live performance of Memorial Monologues: The Path of Memory Part II by Mary Moynihan. Accompanied ...

Welcome to this week’s Irish bestselling books where non-fiction and children’s titles have really made a splash this week. In Non-Fiction, we’ve got All In by Peter ...

For fifteen years I was a diplomatic security advisor for the EU and the UK governments, mostly in conflict-afflicted and fragile environments in Africa, the Middle East and Afghanistan. I am using ...

Competition deadline: 31st October 2026 Welcome to the first-ever New Writers Novel Prize, in association with The Novel Factory. We are seeking the first 500 words of your unpublished novel or ...

My hometown Plovdiv is the oldest inhabited city in Europe. It used to sit on nine hills, now only six. When the seventh hill was destroyed, its rocks, like a crawling stone serpent, paved ...

Limerick Writers’ Centre have announced the winner of the Gerald Griffin Competition for First Adult Fiction 2026. The atmosphere was one of celebration and literary promise at The ...

Working-class Britain reads – so why is it missing from the story of Britain’s reading crisis? As Britain battles a national decline in reading, The Bee is challenging one of the assumptions ...

Legends, Trailblazers & Everyday Heroes – winner of Teen & YA Book of the Year at the An Post Irish Book Awards – a lot of people asked ...

Diana Janney, author of A Man of Understanding, on the inspiration behind and the themes explored in her compelling new novel, The Zen Violinist. My intention in all my novels is to make big ...

Frankie Chase, debut author of Bad Winner, on her route from meandering to meaningful, life’s diversions and finding inspiration where you least expect it. Authoring is yet to make me my millions ...