We are thrilled to today announce the writers selected from across Ireland to take part in our 2026 National Mentoring Programme, drawn from a record number of applicants and working across genres. Awardees will benefit from the sustained mentorship of an established writer throughout the rest of the year, to help them develop their craft.
Meet some of selected writers here:
Aaron Hickland, @Hiicker
Abby Connolly
Alice Lynch
Angela Lyons
With tech seeking to destroy art and literacy, we need a revival of the humanities. We need to insist that human literature, music and myth are worth learning and defending. That humans are unique and our achievements can't be replicated by machines.
Breaking twitter silence to brag: Ive finished another draft of my Middle Grade book! 📚
It's 150 odd pages, and I wrote it while doing 6 day weeks in hospitality. Off to my incredible editor now. Whatever its fate, I'm so proud of myself for finishing. Time for a pint...
i’m gonna tell the flowers what you did. and then they’ll tell the bees and the bees will tell the birds. good luck next time you come to the meadow bro
It's profoundly depressing seeing all the Studio Ghibli-styled AI output tacitly being used to promote OpenAI's latest product. Miyazaki famously called AI-produced art "an insult to life itself"—and this in turn is an insult to one of our greatest-ever animators and artists
TRIFLED opens tomorrow as part of #DTF24
Hear what the team behind Caitlin Magnall-Kearns' raunchy and hilarious new work has to say about the show!
📅 1–12 Oct
📍 The New Theatre
🎟️ €15-€25
Tickets on sale now at https://t.co/ClmYUmHlcr
The first 14 pages are under 1 year olds.
The first 14 pages are under 1 year olds.
The first 14 pages are under 1 year olds.
The first 14 pages are under 1 year olds.
The first 14 pages are under 1 year olds.
The first 14 pages are under 1 year olds.
Uh oh I can smell a lanyard-filled-event being organised to get more working class creatives in which will be held an expensive train ride away, require a day off making money to live and be absolutely fucking pointless anyway
Love how dramatic babies are. Saw one screamin blue murder when his pram hit a bump. Wait til you have to switch phone tariffs wee man. It's all downhill from here.
Sadly all too familiar for us Nordies. The people who question my Irishness the most are Irish people from the south. To some of them, the violence our parents endured over that very question means nothing - we'll never be "real irish".