These are the writing retreats we plan for 2024 with details on each. We’re on the verge of celebrating our 10th birthday next year...

An exclusive traditional Irish music performance under the rafters of a century-old thatched cottage by the sea, an evening of...

Two women in southern England - Emma Frances Simpson and Annie Percik - emerged as winners of the latest ‘Wild Atlantic Writing Awards’...

‘A magnet, a Mecca, an incubator, a hothouse for writers. No other city has attracted so much literary talent or produced such a wealth...

With several hundred stories to read, the task, while enjoyable, wasn’t easy for judges of the latest ‘Wild Atlantic Writing Awards’...

Aside from the sheer reading pleasure they provide, one of the delights of receiving stories for our ‘Wild Atlantic Writing Awards’ is...

Dragons and other fantastic creatures, time travel, dramatic escape on the High Seas and an intriguing search for a long-lost woman. Such...

A brave woman from the San Francisco Bay area writes poignantly about her struggle to accept beauty after brain tumor surgery left half...

A professional dancer in New York, a legal secretary in Ireland, a school teacher in Colorado and a Nature lover in the historic English...

Cole Porter wrote this classic song, Ella Fitzgerald and Frank Sinatra made it famous… so… With two of our writing retreats this year...

As many of you may be working hard to perfect your stories for our latest writing competition, the seventh edition of WAWA on the theme...

With the New Year upon us, there’s one simple word that springs eternal - ‘hope.’ As such, we thought it appropriate to kick off our...

We are proud to present the writers and stories of four of the finalists in our ‘Wild Atlantic Writing Awards’ (WAWA) competition on the...

Winners of WAWA on Beauty

From a wide range of highly imaginative stories, we are delighted to announce the winners and finalists in our latest ‘Wild Atlantic...

Our four wonderful writing finalists featured here share at least one thing in common - they show that age is nothing but a number and...

Following the success of our recent week-long get-together in Paris, we’d like to offer all our ‘Friends of Ireland Writing Retreat’ an...

by Sean Hillen A multi-national group of wordsmiths - from countries as diverse as Mexico, France, Ireland, England, Belgium, the US and...

Strange to say, especially as we organise writing retreats, but sometimes a picture is worth a thousand words. So here, in vivid color,...

With our next creative writing retreat less than three weeks away, excitement is mounting and preparations well underway in Donegal for...