With just one week left until the deadline for our ‘Wild Atlantic Writing Awards,’ we’re delighted to continue our series of essays by...

I’d like to share with you some of the instances in which I relied on Nature to help me encourage a certain mood or expectation in my reader

This lesson by author John DeDakis links closely to the second edition of WAWA competition focusing on the use of Nature in...

To say author and pathologist, Dr. Bradley Harper, has been busy recently is a severe understatement. Aside from being a volunteer...

Few authors are more adept at integrating Nature and landscape in their prose than multiple-book, northern Irish crime writer, Anthony J....

We wish you all a Happy Samhain weekend & look forward to reading your creative entries in our new WAWA competition over the coming weeks.

With our second edition of WAWA open for entries we are sharing some stories that reached the final round of our first edition.

‘Wild Atlantic Writing Awards’ (WAWA), is now open for entries in two categories: fiction and creative nonfiction. See how you can enter...

The Dance by Janet West It started gradually, the separation. I didn’t notice anything for a long while, maybe I chose to ignore the...

The Funeral Sandwich by Jocelyn Doyle The triangles pile across platters flanked with bowls of soup and endless cups of tea, tall black...

We are introducing a Summer Offer exclusive to Friends of Ireland Writing Retreat...

Read the winning stories for the Wild Atlantic Writing Awards (WAWA) for flash fiction and creative non fiction...

Winners of the Wild Atlantic Writing Awards are...

Winners of WAWA competition to be announced in...

Announcing the line-up for WAWA judging panel.

With just three weeks left until the May 31 deadline for our inaugural ‘Wild Atlantic Writing Awards’ (3,000 euro worth of prizes), we...

We have been very fortunate over the last five years to have enjoyed the company of wonderful, positive minded people, fine writers...

Authors who have been wonderful tutors at 'Ireland Writing Retreat' consider entering writing awards a worthwhile activity.

New creative writing awards from Ireland Writing Retreat: flash fiction and creative nonfiction competition

Not only sunshine, sandy beaches and fascinating excursions to historic places in both Romania and Bulgaria, but our creative writing...