The Lit Review

Call For Submissions - HeadStuff Literary Section Fiction Are you passionate about all things writing and literature? The Literature section at HeadStuff needs you! We are looking for flash fiction and short story submissions for our…

News Shortlist for the International Dublin Literary Award Announced The short list for the International Dublin Literary Award was announced this week. The award is in its 23rd year, and is awarded to novels written in, or translated…

News Bob Dylan Finally Accepts Award The strange saga of Bob Dylan's Nobel win continues. After being a no-show at the banquet on December 10th, it has been confirmed that he received his medal and diploma "during a meeting with members…

News Winners of the Hennessy Literary Awards Hennessey held their 46th annual Literary Awards on Tuesday night. The awards are one of the longest running cultural sponsorships, celebrating new Irish writing. This year’s judges were…

Welcome to the 100th instalment of the Lit Review! Although it's not very literary to endorse emojis, I encourage you to imagine this post is peppered with the celebratory ones. This week we look at Marina Carr, Tom Hanks and the Ennis Book…

News New Irish Poetry Journal Launches Cork appears to be emerging as a literary hub for Ireland (which I like to half-jokingly, half-seriously attribute to Graham Norton - maybe I'll look into this...), as a new poetry and arts journal…

News Cork Literary Gathering Are you living in Cork? Have you, as I'm sure many others have, read Graham Norton's debut novel Holding and thought, hey, maybe I can be a writer too? Well you're in luck then, because a new monthly literary…

Library Ransom Have you ever felt like it would be easier to pay those library fines in bitcoin? In what is hopefully the last instance of library crime in 2017, the public libraries of St Louis are being held ransom. Hackers using a…

Writers Resist Hundreds of American writers gathered on the steps of the New York public library on Sunday to form a literary protest against Trump’s inauguration. The ‘Writers Resist: Louder Together for Free Expression’ demonstration was…

News Earlier this week, two Irish presses had books short listed for the Republic of Consciousness prize. The prize was founded earlier this year by author Neil Griffiths who feels the current business model in publishing is "terrible."…