From Cheever to Ron Rash, Carver to Eudora Welty, O’Connor to Richard Ford, some of the finest American writing is to be found in the short form

On Wednesday a winner will be announced for the most lucrative short-story prize in the world

Barrett is just second Irish winner of the €25,000 prize, after Edna O’Brien

Nuala Ní Chonchúir, Ron Rash and Deborah Levy all feel it is important for beginners to try out different forms – poems, novels, short stories, plays – to see what suits them and what excites them

Over the next 12 weeks we’ll be getting the help of successful authors to explain everything would-be writers need to know. This is the first step to your debut novel

Kevin Barry’s wonderful novel is a worthy winner of the Impac; but it was chosen from a shortlist that did not reflect the quality of the wider literary field

A time for ‘legends in their own lunchtime’

The Cúirt festival brings a heavyweight literary line-up to Galway this week – here are 10 highlights