CrimeFest, one of Europe’s leading crime writing conventions, has announced the winners of the final CrimeFest Awards.

Mary O’Donnell, author of Walking Ghosts, on the short story: how I approach it, and why emotional honesty matters . . .

And see here for David French talking about his previous book, Mefloquine Dream.

Palestinian author Yasmin Zaher has won the most prestigious literary prize for young writers – the Swansea University Dylan ...

The New Writing Prize is an annual literary award, a collaboration between the Irish Writers Centre and The Stinging Fly, ...

My path to publication has been long and meandering, but enjoyable. I was that child that always wanted to be a writer.

Author Byddi Lee on how the ‘why’ of writing is a mysterious force of nature, and figuring that out will help you with the ...

In Assisting Fate, as in life, the lines between certainty and doubt often blur. But for me, the melody – my melody – keeps ...

I did my doctoral thesis on Neoplatonic philosophy and its influence on 5th-century CE Greek epic poetry. The influence of dead philosophers on dead poets. Those ghosts haunt my own creative writing.