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Writers and Publishing
Contacting Publishers

On the home page of this website you will find a list of book publishers If you visit the websites listed the publishers usually give information on how best to approach them.

Please consider this carefully - publishers are approached many, many times. You need to find out how that particular publisher wants to be approached - whether with a summary, a full manuscript or through a literary agent.

Literary Agents:

Jonathan Williams Literary Agency
Rosney Mews, Upper Glenageary Road,
Glenageary, Co Dublin
Font International
Hollyville House, Hollybrook Rd,
Clontarf, Dublin 3

info@fontlitagency.com
fontlitagency.com
Marianne Gunn O'Connor Literary Agency
Morrisson Chambers, Suite 17
32 Nassau Street, Dublin 2

mariannegunn@eircom.net
Ruth Cunney Agency
5 Manor Place
Stoneybatter, Dublin 7
Tel: 353 1 6351963

rcunney@indigo.ie
The Lisa Richards Agency
46 Upper Baggot Street, Dublin 4

fogrady@eircom.net
 
 
Writers and Publishing
Useful Links
Writers can also go to the following websites to find many useful resources:

Irish Writers' Centre www.writerscentre.ie
Irish Writers Union www.ireland-writers.com
Irish Playwrights and Screenwriters Guild www.script.ie
Poetry Ireland www.poetryireland.ie
www.askaboutwriting.net - a resource site for writers of all abilities with weekly news updates

 
Writers and Publishing
Awards and Publications

Writers can submit to the following awards:
Fish Short Story Prize -
www.fishpublishing.com
Frank O'Connor International Short Story Award, www.munsterlit.ie

as well as the following publications:
The Stinging Fly,
www.stingingfly.org
Southword Literary Journal, www.munsterlit.ie
Cyphers Literary Magazine, homepage.tinet.ie/~writing/05.Cyphers.html
Poetry Ireland Review,www.poetryireland.ie/publications/poetryinreview.html

The Western Writers' Centre, Ionad Scríbhneoirí Chaitlín Maude, Galway, have two web pages where people can publish their prose and poetry. One is The Poetry Mill, www.thepoetrymill.blogspot.com, and the other is The Story Barn, thestorybarn.blogspot.com Submissions, with full address and phone number, should be sent to:writersgalway@eircom.net