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📖An Evening with Neill Tully, author of The Visit 📅June 17th 6.30pm 📍Vibes & Scribes, 21 Lavitt's Quay, Cork FREE EVENT ‘at the heart of the novel is a sort of quiet yearning and a longing for love and for completion that makes Neil Tully’s novel so brilliant and intriguing’ – Colm Tóibín

A Day that still Blooms: Bloomsday 2026 There are not many days that are as exceptional or as captivating or evocative as Bloomsday. This year heralds the celebration of its 122nd anniversary. It proclaims the most extravagant celebration of a unified relationship. It is a deep expression of a…

From Traditional to Self-Publishing by Tracy Rees Tracy Rees, author of The Golden Feather, asks: why on earth would I undertake the long and arduous process of publishing a book myself? I wrote The Golden Feather fifteen years ago. It started off as a whisper and quickly became a deluge. At that…

Irish Writers Centre Anthology Competition Competition deadline: 6th July 2026 The Irish Writers Centre invites submissions from eligible writers, affiliated with the organisation, for potential inclusion in a special anthology to mark our 35th anniversary. We are grateful to Dublin UNESCO City of…

All I Knew: The Coast of Everything by Guillermo Stitch I wish I knew how to talk to people about my work* but you might as well ask a monkey strapped to a laptop how it handles falling action. It’s alchemy—an effluvium rising from the keyboard’s chitinous click. In an act of unmitigated…

On Metafiction by Kevin Hincker Kevin Hincker, author of just-published The Story Eaters of Yamm, on how 'metafiction makes you choose'. I began my most recent novel certain that it would be my last. I had one more story I needed to tell, and then I was calling it quits. I’ll be the first to admit…

Irish Bestsellers 6th June 2026 Welcome to this week's look at the Irish bestselling books charts, where Ireland dominates the top 3 with Maggie O'Farrell's Land, a tale of the Atlantic coast, sits at no. 1 followed by Our Deadly Summer by Emer McLysaght and Sarah Breen, and very close behind is…

Kevin Hincker, author of just-published The Story Eaters of Yamm, on how 'metafiction makes you choose'. I began my most recent novel certain that it would be my last. I had one more story I needed to tell, and then I was calling it quits. I’ll be the first to admit that, over the years, my feelings had soured toward the world of publishing, and how it worked or didn’t work.

Welcome to this week's look at the Irish bestselling books charts, where Ireland dominates the top 3 with Maggie O'Farrell's Land, a tale of the Atlantic coast, sits at no. 1 followed by Our Deadly Summer by Emer McLysaght and Sarah Breen, and very close behind is rising star Andrea Mara with Such A Nice Girl, still riding high a month after release.

Competition deadline: 6th July 2026 The Irish Writers Centre invites submissions from eligible writers, affiliated with the organisation, for potential inclusion in a special anthology to mark our 35th anniversary. We are grateful to Dublin UNESCO City of Literature for providing funding to support this publication. About the Irish Writers Centre Anthology The Irish Writers Centre is producing an anthology to celebrate 35 years of the Centre and the writers who have shaped this now iconic literary institution.

There are not many days that are as exceptional or as captivating or evocative as Bloomsday. This year heralds the celebration of its 122nd anniversary. It proclaims the most extravagant celebration of a unified relationship. It is a deep expression of a perennial love that still blooms with every passing year. It is a product of the relationship that developed between Nora Barnacle and James Joyce.

Tracy Rees, author of The Golden Feather, asks: why on earth would I undertake the long and arduous process of publishing a book myself? I wrote The Golden Feather fifteen years ago. It started off as a whisper and quickly became a deluge. At that time, my dream of being a published author felt completely impossible, so I wrote about an elderly man who also had an impossible dream: to enter the mighty Emperor’s storytelling competition.

I wish I knew how to talk to people about my work* but you might as well ask a monkey strapped to a laptop how it handles falling action. It’s alchemy—an effluvium rising from the keyboard’s chitinous click. In an act of unmitigated hubris—pure gall—I try to reproduce a magic I first found on the page. I don’t know how it works any more than the ancient at his altar understood what that wisp on the breeze—smoke rising from the lamb that might have fed his family—had to do with averting crop failure.