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John Banville Fiction and the Dream
Kevin Barry On Craft and Consciousness
Sara Baume Five Formative Scenes
Sam Blake Finding the Story
Dermot Bolger A Writer’s Life
Lucy Caldwell Wells, waves, crossroads, stars
Jan Carson Ideas Come to Me Like Birds 1921
Evelyn Conlon Telling Tales
Celia de Freine The Impact of Imram
Martina Devlin Riots and Other Rites of Passage
Gerard Donovan A Novel Forms
Roddy Doyle On Music and Writing
Catherine Dunne Grappling With the ‘Slippery Double’
Anne Enright She does it for comfort
Wendy Erskine Inspiration
Mia Gallagher Answering Annie
Neil Hegarty Put It in Writing
Rosemary Jenkinson The Extremities of Writing
Claire Kilroy Locked Out of My Head
Catriona Lally Muddling Through
Emer Martin Fiction is the Mothership
Patrick McCabe Wild Polkas on the Moon
Molly McCloskey The Ideal and the Real
Barry McCrea Island Views
Rosaleen McDonagh Active Protagonist
Bernie McGill Meeting Mrs. Thatcher
Claire McGowan A Floor of One’s Own
Lisa McInerney Half-Answered Questions on Fiction
Belinda McKeon Routine
Danielle McLaughlin The Other Woman
Bernard McLaverty Random Jottings
Alan McMonagle The misadventures of a dithering writer in thirteen and a half fragments
Eoin McNamee Walking Girl
Lia Mills Thought Collection: On Writing
Sarah Moore-Fitzgerald Reflections on writing
Mary Morrissy Chasing the I-deer Or The Journey to Work
Paul Murray Ghost Stories
Éilis Ni Dhuibhne Swimming in Novels
Nuala O’Connor/Ni Chonchúir The Anxious Writer, Freed
Billy O'Callaghan The Nature of Stories
Mary O’Donnell How Writing Finds what it Needs
Roisín O’Donnell My Patron Saint
Nessa O’Mahony When a poet turns to fiction
Joseph O’Neill The Writing Habit
David Park Looking for Light
Siobhán Parkinson Chairshaped
Glenn Patterson From the Heart
Nicola Pierce Chasing Ghosts
Kevin Power My First Novels
Heather Richardson Beekeeping
William Wall Avoiding The Daily Drama Of The Body Writing and Illness
Hedwig Schwall Coda: Writing, the ‘business’ of being wholly human