Boyle Arts Festival event on Saturday next 1st August at 5.30pm in King House, Boyle, Co Roscommon. Entry: €5. Join the Moylurg Writer...

The SiarScéal Festival is held every year in Roscommon, Ireland. The 2015 festival will take place 5, 6, 7 November. SiarScéal celebrat...

Details of the 2015 Dromineer Literary Festival competitions . The festival will take place 1 to 4 October, 2015. 2015 POETRY COMPETITIO...

The Aesthetica Creative Writing Award is open for entries. Now in its eighth year, the award is internationally renowned and judged by indu...

The submission period for Boyne Berries 18 will close on Saturday 11 July 2015. Boyne Berries 18 will be published in September 2015. S...

The Stony Thursday Book is seeking submissions from local, national and international poets for its next issue, to be published in October 2...

This poem of mine was part of a series of Ox Mountains poems published in their Carthography anthology by Imagination and Place Press, L...

Three very different and exciting poets. Rebecca O’Connor, Richard Halperin and Angela Carr, will be reading with AT The Edge, Cavan on T...

Popshot is an illustrated literary magazine that publishes short stories, flash fiction, and poetry from the literary...

It's W.B. Yeats' birthday today and when I got in touch with him earlier to wish him a happy birthday he seemed a little grumpy. H...

One of the most valuable historical sources is local newspapers. While researching the history of the 1912-1923 period in Sligo I read a lot...

Janice Windle and Dónall Dempsey are co-founders of the loose collective they have called  “The 1000 Monkeys” . The name refers to the ...

Arlen House, Dublin are proud to announce the publication of Connie Roberts's debut volume  Little Witness .  Connie Roberts , ...

Entries for the Moth Short Story Prize, judged by Donal Ryan, close on 30 June. The word limit is 6,000 (no minimum length) and the st...

The iYeats Poetry Competition is an annual, online, international poetry competition which has won a prestigious reputation for the...

Entries are invited for the Wild Atlantic Words open poetry competition 2015, for poems on any theme related to coastal landscape or mari...

A very successful Boyne Writers Group Poetry Day reading at Maguire's, Hill of Tara on 7 May. A great turn out, great readers, young and...

Poetry Day Ireland takes place on 7 May 2015 and will celebrate poetry’s vital place in our culture by making poetry both inescapable and...

Some news from Prole Books who publish the always interesting prose and poetry journal,  Prole.  The latest issue Prole 16 is now available ...

I'm delighted to have a poem included in the current issue of the online magazine, The Pickled Body . The editors are well-known Iris...