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:

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 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