Jan Carson on receiving feedback and managing rejection
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 Starters…
Read More
Laura Cassidy from Banshee Press on investing in writers and the submission process
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 included…
Read More
Sheila Armstrong on publishing short stories
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,…
Read More
Davi Lancett from Daphne Press on working with an editor
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 examining…
Read More
Catherine Ryan Howard on self publishing and finding her genre
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 Times…
Read More
Ruth Atkins from Penguin Michael Joseph on How to Edit Your Novel
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 keep…
Read MoreSomething went wrong. Please refresh the page and/or try again.
Can’t find what you’re looking for? Use the search form to search the site.
Sign up to our newsletter to receive all the latest updates!