Irish Writers’ Centre

Welcome to this round of the Lit Review. Banshee journal, Coast to Coast Irish Issue, the Jane Martin Poetry Prize, MoJo journal, and the Sycamore Review are all open for submissions until the end of March.  Cúirt International Festival of…

Welcome to this round of the Lit Review. The International Literature Festival Dublin is looking for volunteers, Sally Rooney's second novel is released in September, The Stinging Fly wants unpublished writers, One City One Book celebrates…

Welcome to this fortnight's Lit Review, packed with competitions and submission calls. Don't forget that the closing date for this year's Listowel Writers' Week competitions is 1st March. Competitions & submission calls The Stinging…

Competitions & submission calls Atlantis Short Story Contest Entry to the Atlantis Short Story Contest 2017/18 is open until 25th February.  Prizes range from $50 to $300 and all entrants will receive feedback on their work.  Full…

The Lit Review – your round up of all things literati. News Leonard Cohen's New Book of Poetry The Flame - a book of Leonard Cohen’s unpublished work and final poems is to be published next year by Canongate. According to Canongate,…

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…

"Everything is broken." Apart from the Lit Review! News This week Bob Dylan is laying low. CNN are reporting that the Nobel Prize Committee are having trouble tracking Dylan down in order to award him his cash prize. For now at least…

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…

Thou still unravish'd bride of quietness, Thou foster-child of silence and slow time, It's Lit Review time. Events The festival formerly known as the Frank O'Connor Short Story Festival will begin on the 7th of September. The event is…

I have eaten the plums that were in the icebox. Oh well, have some Lit Review instead. Events This Thursday, the Irish Writer's Centre are hosting the launch of White Sorrow by Andrea Aviet. The event will begin at 6:30…