Welcome to another week with the Irish bestselling books charts, where our featured book this week is brand new from Louise Kennedy. At no. 13 in the Top 20 and no. 5 in the Top 10 Original ...

The shortlist for the 2026 An Post Irish Book Awards has been unveiled, featuring a diverse and exciting mix of exceptional writing from both new and established writers and illustrators across 19 ...

Competition deadline: 11th December 2026 Ennis Book Club Festival is thrilled to announce the launch of its fourth annual Short Story Competition, an inspiring opportunity to champion emerging ...

I’ve been thinking about the function and importance of setting in my works, discovering it can vary and considering why and how . . .’ Like many ...

Although Prestin and the Booger Oath is a funny, mischievous and deliberately gross children’s adventure, the story behind the book means a great deal to me. My children Conor, Darragh and Carla ...

Dark Side of The Silvery Moon is a lively three-person storytelling show featuring bardic storyteller, Aindrias de Staic alongside percussionist Brian Fleming and harpist Aisling Lyons. Blending ...

An International Literary Magazine is pleased to announce three special international anthology projects for Halloween 2026. We are inviting ...

Submissions deadline: 11th January 2027 Discoveries is the Women’s Prize Trust’s transformative writer development programme designed to address the specific challenges that women face as writers.

The Reading Agency launches largest-ever UK prison book-gifting programme. Nearly half a million Quick Reads to reach prisons across the UK, with a collection shaped with people in prison and ...

Competition deadline: 31st December 2026 With €11,000 in prize money, The Moth Poetry Prize is one of the biggest prizes in the world for unpublished poems. The prize is open to anyone, and each ...

Emer Rohan, winner of two awards on the night, on the tenth anniversary of The Carousel Aware Prize (CAP) for Independent Authors . . . The Carousel Aware Prize for Independent Authors (CAP ...

Submissions deadline: 2nd November 2026 The Stony Thursday Book is seeking submissions from local, national and international poets for its next issue, to be published in Spring 2027. The Stony ...