Off The Wall Plays is an online digital play publishing house that opened its doors in 2010. We sell and license play scripts for performance for educational institutions, community theatre groups, amdram as well as professional theatre. Read more
Eldridge Publishing, a leading play publisher since 1906, offers hundreds of full-length plays, one-acts, melodramas, holiday and religious plays, children's theatre plays and musicals of all kinds.
Scotland's leading literary magazine, Chapman, has a well-deserved international reputation for quality, diversity, and its authoratitive cultural voice. Read more
Seren is an independent publisher driven by quality writing across a wide-ranging list which includes poetry, fiction, translation, biography, art and history. Many of our books and authors are shortlisted for – and win! – major literary prizes across Britain and America. Read more
Established in 1970 to publish poems by new Irish writers, The Gallery Press
Established in 1970 to publish poems by new Irish writers, The Gallery Press has long been recognized as the standard bearer of Irish literary publishing. It has been our privilege to publish more than four hundred titles which show off the finest writing by established and emerging authors. Our titles have won praise and prizes for their content and design. It is our aim where possible to use Irish art on what has become the ‘distinctive look’ of our cover designs.
Based in Loughcrew, Oldcastle, County Meath in the Irish midlands The Gallery Press occupies a unique position in contemporary publishing – it is a ‘small press’ with a national and international reputation.
The founder and editor is Peter Fallon.
has long been recognized as the standard bearer of Irish literary publishing. It has been our privilege to publish more than four hundred titles which show off the finest writing by established and emerging authors. Our titles have won praise and prizes for their content and design. Read more
The Lilliput Press was founded in 1984 by Antony Farrell in County Westmeath. Jonathan Swift spent his summers in a house nearby, and derived the name Lilliput from a local townland. The office was moved to its present locale in Arbour Hill, north Dublin, in 1989. Read more
The Authors' Licensing and Collecting Society (ALCS) has described Artificial Intelligence (AI) company Anthropic's alleged use of "pirated books" to train AI chatbot Claude as "egregious" and "typical of a wider trend."
‘You can offend somebody in the 21st century with something you said in 1970... By the end of the process I was questioning myself, that was the problem. I wrote innocently and I wrote to make people laugh but when I read the book through I thought, gosh, really, is this offensive? And that? And that? Am I all these things?
Index on Censorship said 53% of librarians polled had been asked to remove books - and that in more than half of those cases books were taken off shelves
One of the persistent themes to emerge from the ongoing nationwide surge in book banning is that the bans are being pursued by a vocal, politically motivated minority. Read more
The New Zealand author channelled her experience of tragedy and mental illness with dazzling results. Now centenary celebrations will ensure her extraordinary vision lives on
Writing and publishing a nonfiction book is a big investment-of time, energy, and often money. In our work with authors, we find that people often approach the process with passion and ambition but without any sense of what it really takes to get the attention of an agent or editor, especially in today's crowded market. That's why we've created these five ways to test your book idea. Read more
In a spirited five-day celebration, held August 8-12 at the Scottish Events Campus in Glasgow, Scotland, crowds converged from all over the globe for the 82nd World Science Fiction Convention, known as Worldcon. Show organizers said that more than 8,000 membership badges were purchased in total, with over 7,200 issued at the venue and upwards of 600 in attendance online.
'I'm always on the lookout for stories that are escapist and inclusive; that carve out a space for all readers. As an editor, ensuring representation for all in the truest and most authentic way is something I am always working towards'