We love them. We hate them. We can’t do without them. Where do characters come from? I have absolutely no idea. After all, it ...

Part 2 of this article, in which Wayne Byrne looks back on his (incredibly productive) career writing about the movies . . .

Tales of the Tide is a new adult, dark gothic romance, with a mystery and a dive into the supernatural. If Dodie Smith ‘I Capture the Castle’ met Guillermo del Toro ‘Crimson Peak’. Set on a misty and ...

Extract from an unpublished novel set in Belfast during a series of sectarian killings in the 1980s. Written by J. G. Fitzgerald, whose career in finance involved periods working in Belfast and other ...

Unreal Press is now taking fiction submissions for Vol 6 of its weird tales anthology: Tales of the Unreal. The theme this ...

Graeme Sly, author of Unforgiven, on his systematic approach to researching Historical Fiction. Creative writing is a unique ...

It's very simple. Had I known that We’d Have Told Each Other Everything would become a book, I wouldn’t have written it.

The first hollow Easter egg was invented in 1873, by Fry’s. Cadbury slightly later in 1875 created the modern Easter egg as ...

I am a 28-year-old secondary school teacher and I grew up working in a rural bar in Co.Kerry, listening to natural ...

Emma Fielder is 'now happily ensconced in the second year of my Masters of creative writing at Hull University . . .' ...

Southword are looking for compelling writing, as memoir or as innovative essays or as an admixture of both. Simon Van Booy, ...

When people ask me what inspired my police procedural thriller debut, Black Water Rising and its two sequels, my answer is, ‘Well, Peter Pan’. It sounds incredulous, I know, to go from the boy who ...