Like book shops, Record stores have never had it so tough – it’s a reality not lost on anyone reading this blog. However, today being International Record Store Day, let’s take a break from mourning for a moment and instead celebrate just a little. Celebrate the experiences these places afford us. Nothing beats rifling through
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The first time I set foot in Dublin, this city bit me in the ass. It’s sweaty and full of speed, it’s dirty and alive, it’s loud with the thumping of punk, thrash, metal, car horns, endless voices, and the heartbeats of artists everywhere. On that visit—a brief stopover on my way home to the
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Earlier in the week we got poets to submit poems made up out of five of ten words we plucked from our heads and our dictionaries. The results were ridiculous, wonderful, and in a few cases, deranged. It makes the choice really hard. But now we are shifting the responsibility onto you. Please vote
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The Young Pretenders Writers’ Group is a newly formed network for young writers (age 18 and up) who want to meet kindred spirits in an informal setting. Unlike other writing groups we don’t sit and listen to each other reading our work; we exchange stories and ideas online and meet in person every few weeks
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After so much work, waiting and worrying, the inaugural Irish Writers’ Centre Novel Fair went off without a hitch! Below are a few photos of how the highly-caffeinated day transpired…. Well done and thanks to all who came!
There is no shortage of Writers in Ireland. Whether they hail directly from Ireland or come here to live and work and hopefully stay, the diverse nature of styles and influences and historical experiences inherent in their work is fascinating to listen to, and certainly at events like this, which is a census of
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My annual novel-writing adventure is over. I finished my last chapter and 51,398 words on the 29th of November, which means I’ve won NaNoWriMo for the third time. Many other writers in my region have won too. 40,000 people worldwide wrote a novel in a month this year. Even those who wrote a few thousand
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In the first place I would like to thank Jack Harte the current chairman of the Board of the centre who’s commitment to it in recent years is unparalleled and who initiated this celebration. He was among the first to advocate a centre for Irish writers. In 1991 he negotiated with Mat McNulty a joint
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A writing friend accused me yesterday of borrowing Hermione Grainger’s time-turner in order to write this much in one month. I would love a time-turner! I’m just back in the door from our region’s Sunday Night Write-in. I wrote 550 words, which is a help as yet again I’m behind on word-count. I’ve got 28,788 words written.
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