Many were sad, some bittersweet, others held a hint of humor. Still others, hope. With the theme being ‘ endings ,’ it was only natural...

A retired clinical biochemist in Dublin, a freelance journalist in Belfast, a poet in Oxford and a pharmacist in Cork are among ....

What we fear and love, sometimes in equal measure, are endings. But unbeknownst to us, endings arrive often in the guise of beginnings,...

Illustrating the sheer diversity of people entering our Wild Atlantic Writing Awards (WAWA) , we proudly introduce Shelley Arnfield , a...

WAWA Winners Plus A Chance To Choose Our Next Competition

While hundreds of stories we've received for the latest Wild Atlantic Writing Awards (WAWA) competition on  the theme of ‘danger’ are...

A former midwife living in the Canary Islands paralysed after an accident, a charity volunteer and candidate for local elections from...

We were going to post an article about how much we enjoyed being with writers at our recent Travel and Discovery Retreat. But then we...

Four finalist stories from our previous writing competition and a new writing competition on the theme of 'danger'

Have you ever been in a dangerous situation in your life? What was it? How did it happen? How did you deal with it? Did it change you in...

One aged 21 from Florida, now living in Nashville and the other in her 60s from Tyrone, Northern Ireland now living in Berkshire, winners...

One can never get tired of receiving the amazing enthusiasm and happy messages from finalists and winners of our writing awards. It what...

Heraclitus, a Greek philosopher, is quoted as saying “change is the only constant in life” - and he was right. And change comes in many...

Writing about the death of a friend and the emptiness it leaves is never easy but Canada-born Alli Mckenzie found it a cathartic...

From Virginia, New York and Florida in the US to Clare and Donegal in western Ireland, from Creswick rural Australia to Lewisham suburban...

Scotland-born, Christine Colliar whose story Time Runs Out was a finalist in the flash fiction category of our ‘Three Word Headline’ Wild...

After a futile attempt to conform to English society by working for the Civil Service - an experience she describes as simply...

Tracy Jones, a finalist in the creative non-fiction section of our ‘WAWA Love’ competition with her touching story entitled ‘Foster...

Winning the flash fiction competition of our ‘Wild Atlantic Writing Awards’ (WAW) with her story, ‘Share the Vision,’ came as a great...

As it has never happened before in our ‘Wild Atlantic Writing Awards’ competitions, we simply had to highlight it - a single writer...