The Society of Authors have announced the judges who will be choosing the shortlists and winners of the 2025 Society of Authors’ Awards.

The Stand-in Dad by Alex Summers is a joyful story about found family and the courage to embrace love’s true colours . . .

I don’t remember much about writing the first draft of Ciao, Amore, Ciao, a novel started the day I buried my mom and dad’s ...

Tanner: a pre-decimal term for a sixpence. How I loved my Sunday afternoons, walking with my sisters to the local village . .

Established to inspire creativity, great writing and to provide a platform for publication, the Anthology Flash Fiction Competition is open to original and previously unpublished flash fiction pieces ...

Author Caroline Madden on the long but ultimately successful journey to publication of her delightful new novel, The Marriage ...

Kelly is a Scottish/Irish writer based in Ireland. You may say she has been cursed, a dyslexic storyteller, but that has never stopped her. Kelly graduated with a Bachelor of Arts with honours in Film ...

Tales of the Tide is a new adult, dark gothic romance, with a mystery and a dive into the supernatural. If Dodie Smith ‘I Capture the Castle’ met Guillermo del Toro ‘Crimson Peak’. Set on a misty and ...

We love them. We hate them. We can’t do without them. Where do characters come from? I have absolutely no idea. After all, it ...

Part 2 of this article, in which Wayne Byrne looks back on his (incredibly productive) career writing about the movies . . .