Category Archives: Interviews

Offering insight into various creative processes and advice towards aspiring and emerging writers, here’s a quick-fire interview with short story writer and YA novelist Deirdre Sullivan. Deirdre Sullivan is an award-winning writer from Galway. Her most recent book for young adults, Savage Her Reply is a dark retelling of The Children of Lir. Her debutContinue reading “Deirdre Sullivan on finding a YA voice”

Offering insight into various creative processes and advice towards aspiring and emerging writers, here’s a quick-fire interview with short story writer and novelist Jan Carson. Jan Carson is a writer and community arts facilitator based in Belfast. She has published three novels, three short story collections and two micro-fiction collections. Her novel The Fire StartersContinue reading “Jan Carson on receiving feedback and managing rejection”

Banshee Press is a small independent Irish publisher that produces a twice-yearly literary journal, Banshee, as well as a select list of books. We love exciting, accessible, contemporary writing in all forms. Banshee Press was founded in 2014 by three writers: Laura Cassidy, Claire Hennessy and Eimear Ryan. In 2021, the Banshee Press founders were includedContinue reading “Laura Cassidy from Banshee Press on investing in writers and the submission process”

Offering insight into various creative processes and advice towards aspiring and emerging writers, here’s a quick-fire interview with short story writer and novelist Sheila Armstrong. Sheila Armstrong is a writer and editor from the north-west of Ireland. She is the author of two books: How To Gut A Fish (2022), a collection of short stories,Continue reading “Sheila Armstrong on publishing short stories”

How I Edit a Book: Writing is personal, and as an author you spend an enormous amount of time alone with your manuscript. It is something you have nurtured and care for deeply, and it takes an act of courage to expose that open heart to the world. So, if an editor comes along examiningContinue reading “Davi Lancett from Daphne Press on working with an editor”

Offering insight into various creative processes and advice towards aspiring and emerging writers, here’s a quick-fire interview with the author of several bestselling crime novels, Catherine Ryan Howard. Catherine Ryan Howard is an award-winning, internationally bestselling crime writer from Cork, Ireland. Her debut novel Distress Signals came out in 2016 and was an Irish TimesContinue reading “Catherine Ryan Howard on self publishing and finding her genre”

A difficulty of writing, as with any craft, is that the world tends to focus on the early stages—draft one, the blank page, beginning. It makes sense: a first draft, an epic quest in itself, one that requires a very specific mental concentration, the humility to abandon perfection, and the pride and ambition to keepContinue reading “Ruth Atkins from Penguin Michael Joseph on How to Edit Your Novel”

We sat down with Cassia Gaden Gilmartin, arts extraordinaire and founding editor of Channel. Channel is a literary magazine born out of the climate crisis, publishing poetry and prose with an environmentalist perspective. Their goal is to provide a space for literary work that fosters re-connection with the natural world. They publish work from IrelandContinue reading “Cassia Gaden Gilmartin from Channel on Supporting Artists and the Inside Scoop on Submissions”

Offering insight into various creative processes and advice towards aspiring and emerging writers, here’s a quick-fire interview with the author of debut novel and true crime commentary Death of a Bookseller. Alice Slater is a writer, editor and ex-bookseller from London. She co-hosts the literary podcast What Page Are You On?, and edited Outsiders: AContinue reading “Alice Slater on studying Creative Writing and how she fell in love with it”