“Be confident in your voice – and have a banging synopsis” : Find out what makes a winning Novel Fair Manuscript✨

Featuring tips and tricks from a past winner, judge and agent🖊️

A recording of last months Novel Fair launch, live now on our website💻

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John Donne said, 'Let us make one little room, and everywhere.' That's what I believe, really, that everything interesting begins with one person and one place.'

John McGahern

Submissions close at midnight tonight (IST).

11 for Finglas. We want an Art Centre in Finglas for all to access. - Sign the Petition! chng.it/yJLmFVtVKb via Change.org

It's not the war in Gaza.
It's the war on Gaza.
It's not a ceasefire that's required.
It's an immediate halt on genocide.
I can't understand those who don't see this. It's so utterly clear.

'Work on your sentences. Be confident in your voice. And have a banging synopsis.' My advice for entering Irish Writers Centre Novel Fair:
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Heartbreaking. Rest in Peace PAUL AUSTER (1947-2024); his new york trilogy (and so many more) is mindblowing.

We at the Review mourn the loss of Paul Auster (1947–2024). In celebration of his life and work, we’ve unlocked his Art of Fiction interview from our archive.

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RIP Paul Auster. I LOVED the New York Trilogy. Reading the Faber Books paperback (in 1988?) reorientated my expectations of the novel as volatile object and experience. #RipPaulAuster I included it in this piece for the Guardian Books ‘Top Ten’ series: theguardian.com/books/2017/dec…

theamericanscholar.org/tales-from-an-…
Suitcases once belonging to residents of a New York State mental hospital tell the stories of long-forgotten lives

Still open. Send your best.

Camilla Grudova has been appointed as this year’s Frank O’Connor Short Story Fellow, which includes a three-month residency in Cork (mentorship opportunities soon!). She will also be the judge of the Seán Ó Faoláin Short Story Competition, open for submissions on 1st May.

Fascinating read on the pyramid clown show that is big publishing in the US.

(Hat tip: David Collard) elysian.press/p/no-one-buys-…

If you think you've got a book in you, here's what to do :-) Join us Irish Writers Centre Novel Fair 2024 launch tonight. Register for free at us02web.zoom.us/webinar/regist… livisoffline Susan Tomaselli 🏳️‍🌈 🏳️‍⚧️ #ConorNagle

Tomorrow evening, & free to attend.

📚Are you working on your first novel?

Attend the online launch event for #NovelFair , our literary competition for first-time novelists to meet with publishers and agents!

🗓️ Wed 24 April 2024
🎟️Book free ticket: irishwriterscentre.ie/whats-on/novel…
Read thread for more info🧵

Jean Rhys deserves an apology to be honest.

Sean O'Hagan on Akihiko Okamura's photos of The Troubles rte.ie/culture/2024/0… via RTÉ

This is so bizarre. Dulux have a new ‘books as paints’ range. Since when was Jane Austen ‘comfortingly warm’? Why is Frankenstein beige?

We’ve opened submissions! 12th April - 3rd May. To summarise: we’re looking for your best work, for writing that resists definition for stories & poems that strain against classification. gorse.ie/submission/