Competition deadline: 27th May 2026 The Pitching Competition at the Film Fair, the industry market of the Galway Film Fleadh, ...

The Evolution of American Film Music, 1960s-1990s by Wayne Byrne and Amanda Kramer. I remember one of the first instances of my being aware of a film’s score.

Some years ago I wrote “The Elvis Diaries,” a conceptual book written in the voice of “The King”. He’d always wanted to write an autobiography, intending to call it “Through My Eyes,” but never ...

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Whether you are ready to submit, still working on your book, or just starting out, this is where you’ll find invaluable tips and advice to improve your chances of getting published. Featuring top ...

Angela Smith writes about Eileen O’Shaughnessy, George Orwell’s wife. Eileen Maud O’Shaughnessy Blair was a remarkable woman who, in her brief 39 years, helped ...

Perpetual Motion: how a polyglot life between worlds shaped Vanessa Fabiano’s first book, Chinese on the Beach . . . When I first went to China in 1994, I had no intention of writing a book ...

Mo Fanning, author of the forthcoming Lisa Doyle is Absolutely Fine, on the process of how ‘discovery happens’ . . . A book won’t take off because someone sees it on Instagram and ...

On St Patrick’s Day this year, we released the first single from ‘One Good Sparkle’ – a spoken word album of Pat Ingoldsby’s poetry. The track, ‘Words to the ...

Chris Dresser, novelist and screenwriter, on the facts behind his fiction. Surviving Treachery: Third Book in the Willjohn Trilogy is out now. At school in South Africa I was good at sport and ...

Brian Gilhooly with a tale for the ages: featuring his Ma, The Fugitive and a little corrugated galvanised hut down below in Rosslare Strand. The year is 1968 and my parents, Mick & Joan ...

On the Craft and Adventure of Writing, with five invaluable suggestions for writers. I said a lot about writing in my new book, Start With a Word: On ...