Welcome to Writing4all.ie

Interested in writing poetry, fiction, non-fiction or drama? Want to workshop your writing in a friendly environment, get valuable feedback from other members and take part in our lively forums? Then join our site today!

More info

As a member, you can also earn points, enter our regular free competitions and win prizes! Membership is free and you're guaranteed a warm welcome to our friendly writing community!

Become a Member

Latest News

  • Member News | 26.01.12

    We at Writing4all have been working on many worthwhile developments to
    enhance the site for all of our members. We have been tightening our
    anti-spam security, improving the writings/readings interface, and fixing
    all the little bugs that have affected the site over the last few months.

    During the process of 'switching on' these enhancements we unfortunately
    lost data posted between the period of December 15th to January 16th.
    Despite our best efforts we have not been able to recover this data and for
    this we apologise sincerely to all of our members.

  • Writing4all News | 29.11.11

    Tomorrow is the deadline for the Writing Spirit Short Story Award, and here are the stories and authors who've made it onto the third round shortlist:

    Martin Donohue, Skinny Jeans
    Simon Fay, I'm With Barry
    Colm Reynor, Them Three
    Andy Smith, Dinner
    Paddy Doherty, A Hunders Years of Solitude
    Clare Tuttlebee, Not Like Her

  • General | 24.11.11

    You've got six days to get in your short stories for the Writing Spirit Award.  That's six days to get a story ready to win €1000.  Max. word count is 4,000 words and the judge is Christine Dwyer Hickey.  Read on for the low-down...

  • General | 22.11.11

    Doire Press is pleased to announce its 2012 iST Annual International Poetry & Fiction Chapbook Competition. Winners will each receive 75 copies of their own professionally edited and printed chapbook, published by Doire Press. Chapbooks will be perfect-bound, contain up to 40 pages, feature colour front and back covers, as well as their own ISBN and barcode.

  • General | 17.11.11

    On Friday 25th November, 2011, the Laois Writers Group, the brainchild of Writing4all Member, Margaret Cotter (Muscles), will launch their first anthology, “Pulse of Life”. All proceeds form the book will be donated to the Cuisle Centre in Portlaoise.

  • Writing4all News | 17.11.11

    Just a quick apology for the interruptions in service over the last 10 days.   The site is undergoing some needed maintenance work which has resulted in disruptions with login.  We hope the problem won't reoccur and we're doing all we can to ensure the minimum amount of downtime as possible.  Thank you for your continued patience!

newsletter subscribe

Monthly Winners - October

Every month we select winning entries from Fiction, Non-Fiction and Poetry writings on the site. Winning entries are eligible for inclusion in our annual Best of Writing4all anthology.

The Big Question

Who's the most influential Irish writer of all time?
James Joyce
17%
Samuel Beckett
17%
William Butler Yeats
22%
Oscar Wilde
44%
Total votes: 18

Who's online

There are currently 2 users and 3 guests online.

Online users

  • susanna Dunne
  • roisiposy

Who's new

  • LJScott
  • MCC
  • angelas Arses
  • yule_eye_sees
  • gili
  • Gwen L
  • Bolderdix
  • pamelajacks

Search Users