Coming up in 2 weeks! Booking + more info: irishwriterscentre.ie/autumn-publi...

“It was very difficult for us to write about Dublin because Dublin had been done — Joyce had devoured the city,” says John Banville to Neil Jordan in this trailer for video 3, Dublin, One City, Many Stories @dublincityoflit.bsky.social @irishwriterscentre.bsky.social The full video drops 30 Sept

Want to up your POV game? Uncover the mysteries of 1st, 2nd, 3rd and use of multiple POVs to deepen your reader experience. Come join my 4-week online course in November through @irishwriterscentre.bsky.social irishwriterscentre.ie/courses/flas...

🌍September Climate Writing Session 🌍 Don't forget September's edition of the @irishwriterscentre.bsky.social Climate Writing Sessions is taking place tomorrow evening online.

✨Publishing Day Online 2025✨ Our first panel of the day will focus on building your brand as a writer, both online and through traditional media! Learn about BookTok, building your audience and more with our expert panelists More info+ booking: irishwriterscentre.ie/autumn-publi...

Got a poem you'd like to polish? Diarmuid Fitzgerald is here to help! Hear him chat about his upcoming 1-day course: 'Making Your Poem Publishable' below Booking: irishwriterscentre.ie/courses/how-...

A reminder that this month's Climate Writing Session - featuring @alkinsel.bsky.social, Rachael Hegarty and Dean Black of the Bog Bothy Project - kicks off this Wednesday at 7.00pm. Register at the link below. irishwriterscentre.ie/whats-on/cli...

Looking to publish your writing for the first time? Or learn more about the publishing industry and how works? Publishing Day Online is coming 🔜 Read more about our exciting line-up and book day or session tickets 👇 irishwriterscentre.ie/autumn-publi...

Happy Friday! We're excited to announce our first-ever Online Publishing Day event 🥳 With a day of panels from industry insiders, it will be an incredibly informative + beneficial day for anyone looking to publish for the first time📚 details + booking: irishwriterscentre.ie/autumn-publi...

We are delighted to announce that Ellen Flanagan is the inaugural recipient of the Irish Writers Centre New Writing Prize for ‘A Typical Barbie’, which is her first published piece of fiction. Full announcement: irishwriterscentre.ie/announcing-t...

POETS! Next week award-winning poet and facilitator @markgranier.bsky.social will be kicking off his beginners course 'Poetry for the Curious' online! irishwriterscentre.ie/courses/poet...

🥳BOOK LAUNCH! 📖Fearless: A Biography of Edna O’Brien by Cathy Curtis 📍Irish Writers Centre ⏰6:30-8:30 pm, 17th Sept More details below! irishwriterscentre.ie/whats-on/boo...

Starting ✨this✨thursday! Details and Booking: irishwriterscentre.ie/courses/push...

Tosaigh do sheachtain leis an dán úr seo: 'Cosa ar an Deais' le Ciara Ní É - páirt d'ár sraith 'FísDánta le Filí' i gcomhair le REIC www.youtube.com/watch?v=YJDN...

Performance poet extraordinaire Anna D is back at the Irish Writers Centre this weekend for a one-day workshop on developing your style! irishwriterscentre.ie/courses/soul...

As we head into the weekend, here's Joseph O'Connor on finding time to write ✍️ Part of our video series 'Dublin, One City, Many Stories' with @dublincityoflit.bsky.social and @dubcitycouncil.bsky.social www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qj7W...

We're in the final stages now! First-time authors get your submissions in for the International Debut Novel Competition by this Sunday, 14th September 📖 Details: irishwriterscentre.ie/internationa...

Delighted to share that the Irish Writers Centre will host several events as part of Dublin Book Festival 2025! Check out the programme below 😍

Writers! Caroline Green is back at the Irish Writers Centre next week, helping you draw out new depths and develop your work in her three-week course 👇 irishwriterscentre.ie/courses/push...

Fun, productive generative writing workshop kicking off in Oct (Zoom, Wed evenings) with the @irishwriterscentre.bsky.social! For anyone who might be in need of a creative boost/nudge etc. 🖋️🎉 irishwriterscentre.ie/courses/jump...

It's the magic number 🪄 Get your submissions in for the International Debut Novel Competition today! Details: irishwriterscentre.ie/internationa...

The wonderful @hessephillips.com (author of Lightborne and International Debut Novel Competition winner 2022) reflects on their experience with the Competition! ✨4 days to go! ✨ hessephillips.com/2025/09/10/w...

⏰🗣️Writers - you've got just 4 days left to enter the International Debut Novel Competition 2025! More info here: irishwriterscentre.ie/internationa...

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Writing your novel's synopsis can be a head-scratcher! Make it easier on yourself with help from past International Debut Novel Competition winner Lauren Mackenzie! ✨Only 5 days to go to get your submissions in ✨ irishwriterscentre.ie/how-to-write...

With just 5 days to go until the deadline of the International Debut Novel Competition, we asked leading international publishers + agents for their advice on getting your manuscript read! Find out more ⬇️ irishwriterscentre.ie/agents-and-p...

More advice to new writers to kick off your week! This time from the incredible Joseph O'Connor who spoke to us for the first video in our series 'Dublin, One City, Many Stories; www.youtube.com/watch?v=kSyG...

⌛Time is running out! 🏃 Here's our Head of Programming, Damien Donnelly, reminding debut novelists that there's only 6 DAYS left to enter the International Debut Novel Competition! For more information about submissions, visit the link in our bio.

Siobhan McHugh is in Dublin for her masterclass: 'Narrative Podcasts: The Invisible Art of Audio Storytelling' This Saturday, 10am at the Irish Writers Centre! More info + booking on our website 🎆✨

Writers round table for Dublin, one city, many stories. Brought to you by @irishwriterscentre.bsky.social www.youtube.com/watch?v=mvYJ...

🗣️🗣️Calling all writers! Curious about developing imagery in your work? Award-winning poet and facilitator David McLoghlin's course 'Poetry, The Object Correlative' starts next Wednesday 10 September Find out more 👇 irishwriterscentre.ie/courses/find...

Some mid-week inspiration for new writers courtesy of the talented Olivia Fitzsimons! @oneflawediris.bsky.social This advice was shared with us as part of our video series 'Dublin, One City, Many Stories', in collaboration with @dublincityoflit.bsky.social www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Z5Z...

Seo é 'Cosa ar an Deais' le Ciara Ní É, ar céad dán sa sraith 'FísDánta le Filí' atá faoi láthair againn leis an ngrúpa REIC This is 'Cosa ar an Deais', by Ciara Ní É our first poem in the series 'FísDánta le Filí' with REIC Enjoy! www.youtube.com/watch?v=YJDN...

We've released a few more tickets for our Culture Night event 'Fierce Form on a Friday' below. Grab yours before they're gone again! irishwriterscentre.ie/culture-nigh...

🎥Episode Two of Dublin, One City, Many Stories is out now! 🎥 This second video in the series Dublin, One City, Many Stories, was produced by the @irishwriterscentre.bsky.social to celebrate 15 years of Dublin as a City of Literature. youtu.be/3AlCWwM-09s?...

Episode 2, The Writers Roundtable, is out, a 6-part series produced by @dublincityoflit.bsky.social & the Centre, featuring Aoife Barry, Kevin Curran, Olivia Fitzsimons, Victoria Kennefick & Emmet Kirwan. Watch on the website of @dublincityoflit.bsky.social or irishwriterscentre.ie/video-series...

Submissions are open for the International Debut Novel Competition until 14 September! We’re celebrating past winners by looking back at their memories of the competition. This is 2022 winner Orla Mackey, author of Mouthing.

A wonderful opportunity for unpublished novelists with our friends over at the Irish Writers Centre ⬇️

Our fifth Climate Writing Session of 2025 - featuring @isabellekenyon.bsky.social of the award-winning @flyonthewallpress.bsky.social - is taking place this Wednesday at 7.00pm. Register at the link below! irishwriterscentre.ie/whats-on/cli...

Looking for some writing advice? Check out our new playlist 'Advice and Resources for Writers' featuring writerly words of wisdom from Joseph O'Connor and more to come! www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...

Coming 27 Aug The Writers Roundtable, Video 2 of Dublin, One City, Many Stories, produced in association with Dublin UNESCO City of Literature & the Irish Writers Centre (watch on their websites) With @sweetoblivion.bsky.social Kevin Curran, Olivia Fitzsimons, Victoria Kennefick & Emmet Kirwan.

Writing Ghost Stories with June Caldwell 👻 In this six-week course, participants will learn all the necessary tools for completing a solidly spooky story. Topics covered will include 'finding your ghost', 'the Irish púca' and 'floating off in style'... irishwriterscentre.ie/courses/writ...

Submissions are open for the International Debut Novel Competition until 14 September! We’re celebrating past winners by looking back at their memories of the competition. This is 2024/25 winner, Andrew Cunning, author of the upcoming novel 'Clara and Christina', to be released in May 2026! 🥳

The @culturenightdub.bsky.social 2025 programme is live! The Irish Writers Centre is delighted to be taking part with our event 'Fierce Form on Friday' 🍂 Check it out in the packed-out programme below culturenight.ie

𝗢𝗕𝗦𝗘𝗥𝗩𝗘, 𝗔 𝗙𝗟𝗘𝗔 is back! In our next artist talk with Frustrated Writers' Group, poet and FWG member Rafael Mendes will be joined by poet, essayist and John Pollard Prize-winner @gphibbett.bsky.social. irishwriterscentre.ie/whats-on/obs...

Writing your synopsis can be tricky, luckily past International Debut Novel Competition winner and author of 'The Couples', Lauren MacKenzie is here with some much-needed advice! Read the full article here: irishwriterscentre.ie/how-to-write...

So delighted to be part of this!

Join us for our 2nd Writers Showcase on 19 Sept for Culture Night 2025 Fierce Form on Friday is a promenade literature tour in the Centre with @maryodonnell.bsky.social Jo Black, the Vagabond Queen & Sophie White Full details on website irishwriterscentre.ie/culture-nigh...

Saturday 30 August 2025, join us for our Autumn Open Day to sample courses, seminars, workshops & an online evening masterclass Full details at irishwriterscentre.ie/whats-on/aut... Why not join us online for an evening Poetry Masterclass with Victoria Kennefick www.eventbrite.ie/e/autumn-ope...

Don't miss out on our upcoming zine workshop with @tinygreens.bsky.social, featured as part of Autumn Open Day 2025!🍃📚✂️ Book your place at the Eventbrite below. www.eventbrite.ie/e/autumn-ope...