We present an extract from The Irish Writers Handbook 2025, the essential guide to writing and getting published, with ...

Now, I tend to write funny rhyming poems. But as I tell kids at school visits, not all poems rhyme and not all poems are funny. But you’ve got to give poetry a chance. Here’s the first poem in ...

I’ve always written poetry for children, but one night after a particularly ... I always wanted to write funny and also meaningful things to share, but I was never quite happy with my comics.

By Abby McGanney Nolan As spooky season approaches, the master of children’s horror recommends creepy ... Lucy Ruth Cummins and more depict the poetry, wonder and droll humor inspired by the ...

In Friday St. Paul show, expect the talented group to take on the issues of the day without much care for who might be ...

The Shadow: Poems for the Children of Gaza (Malta: Horizons, October 2024) is a collection of 42 original poems (21 by Ahmed Miqdad, 21 by John P. Portelli) which depict the state of being of the two ...

Labour MP Duncan Webb, who has spoken against Gloriavale in the past, warns while some of the banned books might seem funny, the reality of the censorship was “deeply troubling” and children were ...

My dear friend David, a prolific writer, wrote a funny poem recently about half lives that made me rethink my own thoughts about birthdays. About how when we’re kids, we’re always rounding up to seem ...

These memoirs, thrillers, romance, literary fiction, nonfiction and short stories focus on Native and Indigenous stories, in recognition of National American Indian Heritage Month ...

Labour MP Duncan Webb, who has spoken against Gloriavale in the past, warns while some of the banned books might seem funny, the reality of the censorship was “deeply troubling” and children were ...