We present an extract from The Irish Writers Handbook 2025, the essential guide to writing and getting published, with contributions from acclaimed authors and book industry professionals.

Thanksgiving poems full of gratitude Thanksgiving often inspires us to get a little poetic. Thinking and speaking about the ...

Langston Hughes poems guaranteed to move you Langston Hughes is one of the most prolific yet most underrated American poets ...

This Children’s Day, the British Council’s Digital Library features six thought-provoking short films that offer young ...

In Russia, no poet need starve if he can hack out odes extolling "socially useful" goals. In revolt against sloganeering paeans that read like Pravda set to rhyme, hundreds of ...

Funny things happen when one invokes Robert Frost’s famous poem, “The Road Not Taken.” Musician Ric Robertson sounds as if he ...

I love short stories and have read nearly all key short story books from the rest of the southern African sub region. But, I ...

Nisga'a writer Jordan Abel has won the Governor General's Literary Awards for fiction for his novel Empty Spaces. Empty ...

The celebrated novelist on being blacklisted in her homeland, literary snobs and why writing is harder than people think ...

“Toward the end of her life, Joan Didion achieved something close to celebrity ... regarding it as an example of how she was “at her best when she insinuated herself into her subject.” He is less ...

The singer has joined forces with his son to record a new album. He talks to Mark Beaumont about their need to record ...

Native American Heritage Month is an annual celebration sponsored by the Library of Congress, the National Archives and ...