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Writing.ie About Writing.ie is an online magazine site for writers and readers of all ages – if you are an author and feel you could contribute to our Resources pages, or would like to discuss your genre in our Magazine section do please get in touch! If you have a book review or feel there is any other part of the site you can contribute to, drop us an email. If you have a literary event, reading or book launch coming up, tell our visitors about it – we have thousands every week – it’s free to add events and a backlink from writing.ie will help your site visability. Contact us by email contact@writing.ie if your enquiry is urgent by phone to 087 2835382. Writing.ie is about all about reading, writing and you – we welcome your suggestions. At the moment we have a strong fiction offering but we are particularly keen to hear from poets, song writers, screen & script writers, and writers who write in the Irish Language who can contribute to the site. Vanessa Fox O’Loughlin Writing.ie has been developed and is run by Vanessa Fox O’Loughlin who founded The Inkwell Group publishing consultancy. She is Ireland’s leading literary scout who has assisted many authors to publication including Jax Miller whose deal for Freedom’s Child was the hot news at the 2014 London Book Fair. Vanessa has been writing fiction since 1999 when her husband set sail across the Atlantic for eight weeks and she had an idea for a book. Vanessa’s novel True Colours was launched on World Book Day 2011. Her non fiction eBook Writing to Get Published: Bringing the Dream Alive (Collca 2011) is available for all eReader devices and as an app. In 2010 Vanessa worked with The Hope Foundation to compile and edit The Big Book of Hope (Poolbeg) a collection of over 40 fiction and nonfiction stories from Ireland’s leading writers, business, politicians and media personalities; in 2014 she curated and edited Taking the Plunge, a short story collection celebrating the launch of the dlr LexIcon library. Vanessa conceived and developed the National Emerging Writer Programme for Dublin City of Literature, and was the lead consultant and presenter for WritersWebTV bringing free, live, online workshops to writers worldwide. Vanessa is the Chair of Irish PEN and the Irish and Eurozone Adviser to the international organisation The Alliance of Independent Authors. Listen out for her writing slot on Sunshine 106.8fm’s Andrea Hayes Saturday Morning Show. Contact Vanessa: vanessa@writing.ie Cathal Póirtéir Cathal Póirtéir is writing.ie’s Eagarthóir Gaeilge. Cathal Póirtéir presented Comhluadar na Leabhar, the weekly book programme, broadcast on both RTE Raidió na Gaeltachta and RTE Radio 1 for the past few years, wrote the bestselling book The Great Irish Famine (Mercier Press,) and researched and edited two compendia of famine folklore: Famine Echoes (Gill and Macmillan) and Glórtha ón Ghorta (Coiscéim). Cathal has also produced a number of spoken word CDs published by RTE including Blasket Island Reflections. His poetry collection Tonnchrith Intinne was nominated for an Irish Times Literary Award, and in 2012 Oireachtas na Gaeilge presented him with their Lifetime Achievement Award at their annual media awards. He has also won gold and silver awards at the annual PPI awards. You can follow Cathal online, on Twitter and on Facebook. Kate Dempsey Kate Dempsey runs writing.ie’s Poetic License blog and is our poetry guru. She is a writer and a blogger living in Maynooth. She writes fiction and non-fiction as well as poetry and is widely published in Ireland and abroad, in magazines, anthologies and on the radio. She fits this around her family and a full time job, writing on the sofa, on the train and in that little coffeeshop on the corner. Poetry can be a solitary activity and she appreciates the support she received from the online community, particularly when starting out. She is excited about continuing the dialogue with her blog here. Paul FitzSimons Paul FitzSimons is a screenwriter and novelist and has written the novel ‘Burning Matches’ and a number of scripts for film and TV. He has worked as a storyline writer on RTE’s ‘Fair City’. His short stories are published in ‘Who Brought The Biscuits’ by The Naas Harbour Writers. Paul likes crime thrillers, good coffee and Cadbury’s chocolate. He doesn’t like country-and-western music or people who don’t indicate on roundabouts. Paul also runs the Script Editing service Paul | The | Editor. paulfitzsimons.com Derek Flynn Derek Flynn runs writing.ie’s SongBook blog, and is an Irish writer and musician. He has an Honours Degree in English Literature and Philosophy. He’s been published in a number of publications, including The Irish Times, and was First Runner-Up in the 2011 J. G. Farrell Award for Best Novel-In-Progress. His writing/music blog – ‘Rant, with Occasional Music’ – can be found on his blog and on Twitter. You can follow Derek online, on Twitter and on Facebook. Hazel Gaynor Hazel Gaynor runs writing.ie‘s Carry on Writing blog and is an author and freelance writer. Her writing success has been featured in The Sunday Times Magazine and Irish Times and she was the recipient of the 2012 Cecil Day Lewis award for Emerging Writers. She has also interviewed many authors for writing.ie, including Philippa Gregory and Sebastian Faulks. Originally from Yorkshire, England, Hazel now lives in Ireland with her husband, two young children and an accident-prone cat. Hazel’s debut, THE GIRL WHO CAME HOME (William Morrow/HarperCollins) was a USA Today and NYT best seller. Her second novel, A MEMORY OF VIOLETS, will be published in February 2015. To keep up-to-date with Hazel’s news, visit her website www.hazelgaynor.com or her Facebook page at https://www.facebook.com/ ER Murray Elizabeth Rose Murray lives in rural Ireland where she fishes, grows her own vegetables and lives for adventures and words. Her children’s trilogy, Nine Lives, is to be published by Mercier Press, with Book 1 scheduled for summer 2015. Elizabeth has had poetry and short fiction published in journals across the UK and Ireland, and has been shortlisted for several awards for her writing including Francis McManus Short Story and Aesthetica Creative Works competitions. Follow Elizabeth on Twitter @ERMurray, Facebook: ERMurray. Author or visit her Green Fingered Writer blog to find out what she’s up to next. Louise Phillips Born in Dublin, Louise Phillips is the crime writing mastermind behind writing.ie’s Crime Scene blog. She began writing in 2006 when her youngest son turned thirteen. Since then, Louise has won the Jonathan Swift Award with her story Last Kiss. She was a winner in the Irish Writers’ Centre Lonely Voice Platform, short-listed for the Molly Keane Memorial Award, Bridport UK, and long-listed twice for RTE Guide/Penguin short story competition. Louise has been published as part of many anthologies, including County Lines from New Island, and various literary journals. In May this year she was awarded an Arts Bursary for Literature from South Dublin Arts Council. Hachette Books Ireland bought Irish and UK Commonwealth rights for Louise’s debut psychological crime novel Red Ribbons, which was shortlisted in this year’s Irish Book Awards for Best Crime Novel of the Year 2012. Louise’s second novel The Doll’s House will be published in 2013. Red Ribbons centres on the abduction and murder of a 12-year-old school girl and the main character Kate Pearson, a criminal psychologist who is drafted in by the police to help them find the killer. Ciara Doorley of Hachette likened Phillips to Sophie Hannah and Tana French, and said: “Louise is a supremely talented writer. She subconsciously creates parallels between her characters, and this really challenges the reader. Her writing is tense, atmospheric and we’re really delighted to have launched this a new voice in Irish crime.” Emma Tobin is writing.ie’s From the Front Row teen blogger, bringing you news and views for young writers of all ages. Emma is 16 and from Newbridge, Co Kildare, Ireland where she lives with her parents, one brother, two cats, a hamster and some fish. Emma writes prose, poetry and fiction and she is currently editing her first novel which has the working title ‘Specimen 941‘. Emma blogs at abcofbeingateenager.blogspot.ie. She is a member of the WriTeen Scene, a creative writing group for young people based in Newbridge, Co Kildare, and is a regular contributor to the arts show Artyfacts on KFM Radio in Kildare. Emma writes a monthly column for News and Views a local newsletter in Newbridge. In May 2013 Emma had a piece of her writing included in a new HeadSpace magazine for young people focusing on positive mental health. Her piece was called Blinking Out. In May 2013 Emma won the bronze medal in the National Mock Law Trials Finals for her role as TV Court Reporter. On Valentine’s Day 2013, Emma had an opinion piece on Love and Saint Valentine published in the Irish Times newspaper. Emma won the Kildare County Council Stories for the Ear Competition in 2012 for a piece of prose called Guardian Angel. Alison Wells Alison Wells runs the Random Acts of Optimism blog and lives in Bray, Co. Wicklow with her husband and four children. Her short fiction been published in many magazines and online and print anthologies and she has been featured on Sunday Miscellany. Shortlisted for the Hennessy New Irish Writing Award, Bridport and Fish Prize’s she has just completed a themed short story collection Random Acts of Optimism and a literary novel The Book of Remembered Possibilities. To read Alison’s full blog, visit Head Above Water. Find out in her Random Acts of Optimism how she manages to juggle writing, children and life.
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Guest Blogs Cad a Dheinimid Feasta gan Feasta? Mar is eol go forleathan, tá fógra faighte ag an iris FEASTA go mbeidh deireadh leis an deontas a fhaigheann an iris ó Fhoras na Gaeilge ar an 30 Meitheamh 2014. Ní ró-shásta leis an chinneadh sin atá Eagarthóir Feasta, Pádraig Mac Fhearghusa. Tugann Foras na Gaeilge iris eagraíochta ar FEASTA. Diúltaíonn FEASTA don lipéad sin. Ní nuachtlitir eagraíochta an iris seo: ‘Ní gá gurb ionann na tuairimí a nochtar in aon áit san iris seo agus tuairimí Chonradh na Gaeilge’ ár mana, agus ó 1948 anall tá FEASTA ag feidhmiú go leanúnach mar reiviú smaointeachais. Ar ndóigh, mar reiviú den smaointeachas Éireannach, tá sé mar aidhm ag Feasta, mar a bhí ag an gConradh riamh, an Ghaeilge a choimeád á labhairt in Éirinn agus an litríocht a chothú inti. Iompaíonn FEASTA an saol ina shaol Gaeilge, oiread agus a bhfuil san ar a chumas mar iris, ar mhaithe le léitheoirí agus scríbhneoirí na teanga. Níl brabús le déanamh ar litríocht, filíocht ná gearrscéalaíocht a chur i gcló ach ar ócáid annamh. Dá ainneoin sin, gnó riachtanach is ea cothú na litríochta in aon sibhialtacht gur fiú sibhialtacht a thabhairt uirthi. Éiríonn ceist an dtuigeann Foras na Gaeilge go bhfuil a leithéid de dhualgas gnó air mar institiúid, mar phátrún Gaeilge, de chuid an stáit? Nó ar chóir go mbeadh aon bhaint ag an bhForas leis an soláthar a dheineann an stát d’iris mar seo? Ní béarlagar atá uainn: ‘reading is migrating on line’, ‘scheme for a lifestyle magazine-type on-line publication’ agus araile. Ar eagla aon mhíthuisceana, níl locht ag FEASTA ar a bheith ar fáil ar líne. Bíonn 8,000 – 10,000 focal den ábhar as Feasta ar fáil ag www.feasta.ie go rialta, cheana féin, mar is eol don bhForas, mar áis dár léitheoirí, mar phoiblíocht dár scríbhneoirí, mar theagmháil le cairde na Gaeilge thar lear agus mar bhunachar do lucht ollscoile. Is amhlaidh nach dtaitníonn ‘fís’ an Fhorais linne: an saol a iompú ina ‘ghearróg’ ar líne, a cheapfá. Is buille trom é ar léamh agus scríobh agus cothú na Gaeilge agus na litríochta Gaeilge. Ní féidir nach eol d’aon duine tuisceanach é sin. Focal a thaitníonn leis an bhForas is ea ‘comhthéacs’. Sea, seo comhthéacs: má chuirtear deireadh le scata beag irisí i dteanga a labhraíonn billiún daoine, ní faic é. Má chuirtear deireadh le scata beag irisí i dteanga teanntaithe, faoi bhrú leanúnach, mar atá an Ghaeilge, is tubaiste é. Leanfaidh FEASTA de bheith ag cur ardán ar fáil go leanúnach, ámh, do ghearrscéalaíocht na Gaeilge, d’fhilíocht na Gaeilge, agus don léirmheastóireacht agus don phoiblíocht ar leabhair Ghaeilge — d’aigne na Gaeilge. Ba shin ár ngnó sularbh ann don bhForas. Éagsúlacht seachas aoinghnéitheacht atá uainn. Tá irisí staire, seandálaíochta agus ealaíne as Béarla ar fud na tíre, cuir i gcás, a fhaigheann tacaíocht ó fhoinse éigin sa chóras stáit. Níl éinne ag rá gur chóir a gcuid ábhar a bheith ar líne amháin, nó ag bagairt báis orthusan? Saoirse na héagsúlachta atá ó phobal na Gaeilge chomh maith, agus óna scríbhneoirí cruthaitheacha. Is cóir a bheith i dtaithí ar na forbairtí teicneolaíochta is déanaí, gan dabht: agus b’fhiú don bhForas luí isteach go rábach ar chumas phobal na teanga sa teicneolaíocht sin a éascú, seachas a bheith ag cur isteach ar an bpobal céanna lena gcuid físeanna easnamhacha don léitheoireacht. Ní hionann blúiríní ar líne agus leabhar nó alt téagartha ar iris chlóite a léamh! Chabhródh roinnt síntiús gan dabht – agus Beidh FEASTA ann i Meitheamh 2015 má fhaightear lántacaíocht lucht na Gaeilge tríd an iris a cheannach. An bhfuil 100 síntiúsóir breise ann a chuirfidh táille Bliana €75 go dtí : Bainisteoir Feasta, Donnchadh Ó hAodha, Cúil Aodha, Maigh Chromtha, Co. Chorcaí. Pádraig Mac Fhearghusa, eagarthóir, 26 Bealtaine 2014 Follow Cathal online, on Twitter and on Facebook. Writing.ie is delighted to welcome Cathal Póirtéir as our Eagarthóir Gaeilge. Cathal Póirtéir presented Comhluadar na Leabhar, the weekly book programme, broadcast on both RTE Raidió na Gaeltachta and RTE Radio 1 for the past few years, wrote the bestselling book The Great Irish Famine (Mercier Press,) and researched and edited two compendia of famine folklore: Famine Echoes (Gill and Macmillan) and Glórtha ón Ghorta (Coiscéim). Cathal has also produced a number of spoken word CDs published by RTE including Blasket Island Reflections. His poetry collection Tonnchrith Intinne was nominated for an Irish Times Literary Award, and in 2012 Oireachtas na Gaeilge presented him with their Lifetime Achievement Award at their annual media awards. He has also won gold and silver awards at the annual PPI awards.