The International Debut Novel Competition 2025 Deadline: 14th September 2025 1 August to 14 September '25, the Irish Writers Centre is throwing open the doors to unpublished talent worldwide with the International Debut Novel Competition (IDNC)  More: writing.ie/writing-comps/… #IDNC

The Irish Writers Centre in collaboration with Dublin UNESCO supported by Dublin City Council, has proudly launched the first episode of its new six-part video series Dublin, One City, Many Stories with Joseph O’Connor starring in the first episode More: writing.ie/interviews/dub…

Willowbrook Creative Writing Retreat September 5 - 7 2025 A weekend of writing workshops and activities. Suitable for those who have been published, to those dipping their toe in for the first time Read more: writing.ie/member-organis… Willowbrook Glamping & Hideaways

Submissions Call: Flame Tree Press Team An indie publisher of speculative fiction...publish a wide range of anthologies made entirely from open submissions. 'It’s a big part of our mission to support new & diverse voices' 🔥Deadline: 24th August 2025 writing.ie/resources/flam…

'Storytelling is an important tool to me as a writer. I find it almost impossible to figure out what story I’m trying to tell without also figuring out how I’m going to tell it.' Clémence Michallon , author of psychological thriller, Our Last Resort writing.ie/uncategorized/… #booktwt

'One of the crucial techniques that all writers need to master when they start out – and we ALL struggle with, is Show, Don’t Tell.' Show, Don’t Tell: Really Useful Links with Sam Blake writing.ie/resources/show… #writingtips #WritingCommunity #writers

📣 We’re recruiting! • Bookseller/Barista position available • 3-5 days a week • Bookshop experience essential • Email CVs and cover emails to [email protected] by 15th August

Frances Browne Multilingual Poetry Competition 2025 ✨Deadline: 25th August 2025 Celebrate the power of words across three languages — English, Irish, and Ulster-Scots — in this year’s trilingual competition. Read more: writing.ie/writing-comps/… #poetry #poets Frances Browne Literary Festival

The Caledonia Novel Award 2026 ✨Competition deadline: 15th October 2025 International writing competition for unpublished and self-published novelists, in all genres for adults and YA. Read more: writing.ie/writing-comps/… #WritingCommunity CaledoniaNovelAward #writerslife #writers

Letterkenny Cathedral Quarter Non-Fiction Competition 2025 ✨Competition deadline: 29th August 2025 Read more: writing.ie/writing-comps/… #WritingCommunity #writerslife

writing.ie/interviews/cam… writing.ie #Irishwriters Theo Dorgan on his newest novel.

'A writer today is not simply a writer, a writer is also a publicist, an event organiser, a panellist, an amateur web-designer. And a networker.' Rubery International Book Award-winning author Tracy Fahey on the ways to build a writing career. Read more: writing.ie/resources/buil…

'Much of what happens in the book came as a surprise to me, but I do not mean to suggest here a kind of faux naivety.' The Inspiration for #Camarade by Theo Dorgan Read more: writing.ie/interviews/cam… Mercier Press Books #WritingCommunity #booktwt

Submissions Call: Inglenook Inglenook publish creative nonfiction, speculative fiction, and magical realism between 250 and 3500 words. Original human-crafted work only, no AI sorcery. Read more: writing.ie/resources/ingl… inglenooklit #writingcommunity #writers

Big thanks to Theresa Ryder for establishing our Non-Fiction Writing Competition for our #LiteraryFestival on the writing.ie platform. The closing date for the competition is Friday, 29 August. tinyurl.com/33pws47h

'For those that don’t know, a drabble is a 100-word short story. It’s a tough one to get right but there are some great advantages to trying your hand at it.' Writing a Drabble: Really Useful Links by Amanda J Evans Read: writing.ie/resources/writ… #writers #writingtips #writingq

'Researching inside a prison was challenging, but it also reminded me why I write crime fiction in the first place.' Bestselling author Amanda Cassidy on spending a day behind bars for her fourth novel, The Stranger Inside... writing.ie/interviews/the… Canelo #booktwt

'You know something?—the whole writing thing is hard. You’re both producing the work, and cheerleading it' Rubery International Book Award-winning author Tracy Fahey on the ways to build a writing career (Part 2) More: writing.ie/resources/buil… #WritingLife #writing #writerslife