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With four Nobel Laureates and four Booker Prize winners, the Irish know a bit about writing. Writing.ie is the national online Irish writing resources website, bringing writers everywhere weekly author tips and interviews plus events, competitions and more. You don't have to be Irish to enjoy Irish writers and writing, so take a moment to look around!

 

This week on Writing.ie...

Described as 'popular fiction at its finest' best selling author Anita Notaro's sixth book A Moment Like This is out this week.  In an emotional interview on Friday's Late Late Show, Anita's husband Gerry McGuinness revealed how her health has prevented her from promoting the book as she would have liked. Diagnosed with dementia in 2011, Anita is today a different person from the women who directed some of RTE's most popular shows and who won the Galaxy Irish Popular Fiction Book Award. Find out more in A Moment Like This.

Win your copy at our competitions page!

 

Joe Cassidy is a healer and a diviner. A dyslexic, he has worked with ghostwriter Sue Leonard to produce a fascinating memoir of this career and experiences. Caitriona Devery found out more about Joe, his book The Diviner and the ghost writing process for writing.ie.

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• Rachel Pierce has crossed to the other side! An editor for best selling authors like Ross O'Kelly Carroll, Rachel explains why and how she wrote The Ghost Detectives, The Lost Bride, new out for 9-12 year olds from Puffin. Win your copy at our competitions page!

• Richard Ridley is an award winning author who provides a wealth of tips to writers at Amazon's Create Space Community Resource pages. Writing.ie are delighted be working with Amazon to bring you this excellent article How To Write An Author Profile - an essential tool for every author.

• If you are in a writers group and thinking about producing an anthology, find out how the Fermanagh Writers group did it. Dianne Trimble explains the process and how Tuesdays at Charlie's came about.

 

 

 

 

 

Don't miss our competition running in association with Anam Cara Writer's and Artist's Retreat!

Anam Cara Writer's and Artist's Retreat and writing.ie are once again joining forces to sponsor a writing competition, this time for poets.  The winning poet will receive a place in the one-week residential retreat Speaking in Pictures: A Poetry Writing Workshop Concerning Visual Art, conducted by Susan Rich. 

For a description of the workshop, go to: http://www.anamcararetreat.com/workshops.html; to learn more about Susan Rich, go to: http://poet.susanrich.net/or read her article right here on writing.ie revealing exactly how your poetry can benefit from revision in It's Not What You Write, It's How You Re-write

This competition is for previously unpublished poems, no longer than 14 lines, inspired by Chagall's painting "I and the Village" a 1911 painting by the Russian-French artist Marc Chagall, currently exhibited at the Museum of Modern Art, New York. Entry details are at our competition page!

 

• In a book club? Check out our book reviews section for a host of new reads reviewed by the experts at Dubray Books and Hughes and Hughes.

 

Tell us your story...

 

As exams start all over Ireland, this week in Mining Memories Margaret Clayton recalls her own school days and her daughter's Inter Cert years. What do you remember?

Waterford Writers Weekend is the place to get published, and after the Inkwell Getting Published workshop, Fran Mulcahy did exactly that. Finding Nancy launches May 9th at Waterford City Library, find out more in Writing&Me

If you have a story to share with us and the National Folklore Archive, helping to build a first hand picture of Ireland's history, please send it in! Check out our Tell Your Own Story for how.

 

 

And in our Guest Blogs...

Alison Wells says 'Hooray for (Inter) National Flash Fiction Day' in Random Acts of Optimism.

 

In Song Book Derek Flynn looks at dynamics. What do The Pixies and Nirvana have to do with writing fiction?

 

 

 

 

Over the Edge is seeking it's New Writer of the Year - Barry Houlihan has the inside track at Centre Stage

 

In Poetic License, Kate Dempsey looks at Online Magazines for poets.

 

 

 

In Self Printed Catherine Ryan Howard talks to Claire Ridgway about the New Self-Publisher.

 

Caren Kennedy reveals the formula for success in TV soap opera at Word Play

 

 

 

 

Louise Phillips brings us a Crime Scene book club review of Arlene Hunt's The Chosen, and it gets the thumbs up!

 

Elizabeth Murray is our girl on the ground at Listowel Writers Week in Front the Front Row. and the Writer's Week blog is live!

 

 

 

 

 

Click here to see what you missed last week!

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.