Books Upstairs

The Lit Review is back, with book festivals in Dublin and Cork, poetry and short story competitions, workshops and more. Competitions & submission calls RTE Radio 1 Short Story Competition The 2018 RTÉ Radio 1 Short Story…

Picture the scene: you’re alone, the lighting is tasteful, and you are reading. Finding yourself in these circumstances, have you ever looked up and asked yourself “what on earth am I reading?” If this sounds familiar, then Putting it in…

Events A new collection of Irish fiction by writers from Northern Ireland will be launched in the Ulster Museum on Monday 3rd October. The collection, entitled The Glass Shore, is edited by Sinead Gleeson, the presenter of the Book…

It's December and we're heading full tilt to the end of the year and the frenetic celebrations of A CERTAIN EVENT. The good news is that there are still little pockets of poetic calm to be found out there in the big wide world, even in…

The clocks have gone back, the central heating's on and you've just recovered from the Halloween nom-noms sugar-induced coma. Hello... it must be time for November Poetrybeat! Winter is, indeed, coming. But that's no reason to go into…