The third AT The Edge, Cavan literary evening, takes place on Tuesday 2 September in Cavan Library, Cavan town. The featured readers are...

Feis Teamhra / A Turn at Tara 2014 takes place on Sunday 31 August, at 3.00pm at the Hill of Tara Visitors Centre, Tara, County Meath T...

Poets are invited to submit short manuscripts of between twelve and sixteen pages of poetry to the iOTA SHOT awards 2015. Up to three manu...

Issue 14 of the prose and poetry journal, Prole, has just been released and is available on the website : "Prole is a print magazine th...

Poetry Now at dlr Book Festival 2014 is on from Thursday 11 to Sunday 14 September in Dun Laoghaire. Poetry highlights include The Poetry ...

Allingham Poetry and Flash Fiction Competition: Deadline: Tuesday, 30 September 2014 The Allingham Flash Fiction Competition will be judge...

They All Prepare to Leave I am almost ready now for home, the plans are drawn, photographs taken, every find listed. I’ll miss this pl...

He Sees the Infant Skeleton I stopped and stared at the two American students, kneeling in the priory chancel, absorbed in the tas...

Last year I spent a couple of days as a volunteer on the Blackfriary archaeology dig in Trim which is run by the Irish Archaeology Fiel...

Submission are now open for Issue 2: Autumn-Winter 2014 - North West Words Magazine. Submissions of poetry, fiction, non fiction, art or p...

The winner of the The Hawk’s Well Theatre’s iYeats International Poetry competition was announced on Thursday 31 July at a ceremony at th...

It was most appropriate that this year's annual Francis Ledwidge Day Commemoration should take place on Sunday last, 3 August, the ce...

The annual Ballymote Heritage Weekend is taking place this weekend in Ballymote, Co. Sligo. The full details are on the website . This inc...

The second Bailieborough Poetry Festival will take place on the weekend of Thursday 9 to Saturday 11 October.  As part of the festi...

Oxfam Sligo shop invites you to their book sale and poetry reading on Wednesday 30th July. Book sale from 10am with an open mic poetry readi...

A two day writing workshop will be facilitated by Kate Ennals on Saturday 16th and Sunday 17th August in Cana House (behind St Felim’s Schoo...

Sentinel Literary Quarterly Poetry and Short Story Competitions: Closing Date: 31 August 2014 Poetry: For original, previously unpublishe...

The Stony Thursday Book is seeking submissions from local, national and international poets for its next issue, to be published as part of C...

I'm delighted to have a poem included in the first issue of North West Words , a new online magazine from the team based in Letterken...

The 2014 Swift Satire Festival draws to a close. A slimmer version, but hugely enjoyable. Well done to all involved. Congratulations to...