Endings. Your New Writing Challenge
What we fear and love, sometimes in equal measure, are endings. But unbeknownst to us, endings arrive often in the guise of beginnings,...
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Oct 67 min read
Writers In Canada And Switzerland Win WAWA Competition
Illustrating the sheer diversity of people entering our Wild Atlantic Writing Awards (WAWA) , we proudly introduce Shelley Arnfield , a...
Sep 254 min read
WAWA Winners Plus A Chance To Choose Our Next Competition
WAWA Winners Plus A Chance To Choose Our Next Competition
Sep 58 min read
Meet Annie Percik, KT Ryan and Jacqui Kelly: Talented WAWA Finalists
While hundreds of stories we've received for the latest Wild Atlantic Writing Awards (WAWA) competition on the theme of ‘danger’ are...
Jun 1812 min read
Midwife, lecturer, charity volunteer and pharmacist - all WAWA finalists
A former midwife living in the Canary Islands paralysed after an accident, a charity volunteer and candidate for local elections from...
May 1610 min read
WAWA Finalist Born Under A Windmill
Four finalist stories from our previous writing competition and a new writing competition on the theme of 'danger'
May 21 min read
Danger: Crisis Or Opportunity? New WAWA Challenge
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...
Feb 1211 min read
WAWA Stories And The Writers Behind Them
Ireland Writing Retreat is delighted to highlight some of the finalists in a previous ‘Wild Atlantic Way Awards’ (WAWA) competition on...
May 19, 20222 min read
Creative Nonfiction Winner and Finalists are…
From Virginia, New York and Florida in the US to Clare and Donegal in western Ireland, from Creswick rural Australia to Lewisham suburban...
Jan 25, 202210 min read
All Kinds of People - That's The Story of 'Ireland Writing Retreat'
We’ve had judges, civil servants, social workers, kindergarten teachers, nurses, doctors, IT specialists, entrepreneurs, medical...
Jan 13, 20225 min read
Teddy Bears And Tantrums
Tracy Jones, a finalist in the creative non-fiction section of our ‘WAWA Love’ competition with her touching story entitled ‘Foster...
Feb 12, 20212 min read
Are You Up For This Challenge?
With Valentine’s Day upon us, no better way to kick-off our third ‘Wild Atlantic Writing Awards’ (WAWA) than to choose that ‘many...
Nov 9, 20205 min read
Irish ‘landscape laureate’ considers Nature a key element of writing
Few authors are more adept at integrating Nature and landscape in their prose than multiple-book, northern Irish crime writer, Anthony J....
Oct 31, 20205 min read
Stories to Help You Celebrate Samhain
We wish you all a Happy Samhain weekend & look forward to reading your creative entries in our new WAWA competition over the coming weeks.
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