Sunday Miscellany

Running for 40 years now, Sunday Miscellany encourages new writing for radio, broadcasting a range of short essays and poetry to an audience of 200,000 listeners. Sunday Miscellany has recently featured work from several Eblana Members. Visit the website for guidelines on submissions.

Irish Pen

Affiliated to International PEN, a worldwide association of writers with over 140 branches in 90 countries PEN Irish PEN exists to promote friendship, freedom of expression, international goodwill and intellectual co-operation between writers from a variety of mediums. Several members of Eblana are also members of Irish Pen

BBC Writers Room

A truely excellent resource for writers, it offers information about writing opportunities and events, along with useful tips and advice from, and interviews with professional writers and other industry experts

More links are added all the time but two we like are Dictionary.com and Thesaurus.com - they're useful aids when stuck for words.

Featured Link

Each month a different link is highlighted because of what it offers, or because it showcases a forthcoming literary event of interest to our members and other writers.

April's featured link is the Franco Irish Literary Festival - 8 - 10 April - Dublin

Now in its 12th year, the FILF offering an exciting programme of speakers and a literary competition open to budding writers. Be sure to write this festival into your diary