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Writing.ie is the Irish writing resources website, bringing you author tips and interviews weekly, plus constantly updated information on Events, with writing competitions and publishing opportunities in our regularly updated Forum. You don't have to be Irish to enjoy Irish writers and writing, so take a moment to look around!

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Do you have a family story to tell? This week Dave Kenny recounts stories of his childhood and memories of his father in a stunning piece Gypsy and The Poet Irish history in the making. Tell Us Your Own Story and help build the national archive housed by the National Folklore Collection in UCD.
 
 

This Week On Writing.ie... 

Bernice Barrington meets Ciara Doorley, newly appointed Editorial Director of Hachette Ireland to find out how she landed the top job and exactly what she's looking for in a new manuscript.

Following the announcement that Arthur Quinn and the World Serpent  will feature in the Children Save Dublin project from Dublin UNESCO City of Literature, Darryl Connolly talks Vikings with Bord Gais Energy Irish Book Award nominee, author Alan Early.
 

• Have a great story but don't know how to tell it? Susan Feldstein reveals the role of the ghostwriter and exactly how that works

• Writing.ie editor Barbara Scully talks to Tweet Treats author Jane Travers in Tweet Treats Goes Gourmand about the honour and excitement of being nominated for a Gourmand Award

• The Ennis Book Club Festival is one of a kind, find out what happens and who will be there this year!
  

And in our Guest Blogs...

 In Centre Stage Barry Houlihan takes a look at Smartphone apps for readers and writers on the move.

             Avenging Rejection! In Word Play Caren Kennedy brings your 9 authors who prove it's never too late

Kate Dempsey interviews poet and Professor of Physics at Trinity College, Iggy McGovern in Poetic License.

                              Alison Wells looks at emotional energy and novel writing in Random Acts of Optimism

And Chris Mills brings you the hidden torment of the bookseller in Saintly Patience Part II: Post Christmas Book Returns,

over at The Book Sellers' Blog

Mining Memories was featured on RTE Radio One's Morning Ireland. If you missed, you can listen to it here   

Great Writing, Great Places was a unique series of events bought to you by UNESCO Dublin City of Literature and Writing.ie. Catch up with RTE Radio One's Morning Ireland, when four best selling crime writers converged on The Four Courts for The Scales of Justice.