Ron Rash

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