In December 2012, New Island and RTÉ Radio One's Arena launched the first on-air creative writing course. The course took place on the first week of each month until June 2013. Writer and creative writing teacher Dave Lordan led the course, each month offering a new writing prompt to listeners who would submit material based using that prompt as inspiration. This book contains the best of those submissions. To accompany them, Arena specially commissioned pieces by a host of emerging Irish writing talent producing a completely novel and enjoyable anthology that presents the best of up-and-coming Irish writing talent.

Featuring writing by Colm Keegan, Dave Rudden, Nuala O’Connor, Sarah Maria Griffin, Claire-Louise Bennett, Stephen James Smith, Martina Evans, Oisín Fagan, Elaine Feeney and many more.

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Contributors:

Colm Keegan - Dave Rudden - Kerrie O’Brien - Kevin Higgins - EM Reapy - Nuala O’Connor - Eoin Glackin - Miceal Kearney - Liam Cagney - Michael Naghten Shanks - Erin Fornoff - Mel Kavanagh - Billy Ramsell - Sarah Clancy - Catherina Behan - Dimitra Xidous - Brigid O’Connor - Rob Doyle - Leona Lee Cully - Jessica Traynor - Christodoulos Makris - Jennifer Matthews - Jinx Lennon - Stephen Kennedy - Tina Pisco - Angela Finn - Sonya Kelly - Eavan Roche - Kieran Marsh - Sarah Maria Griffin - Declan Burke - Raven - Stephen Murray - Suzanne Walsh - Kathy D’Arcy - Martina Evans - Geraldine Creed - Claire-Louise Bennett - Armel Dagorn - Lisa Marie Johnson - Simon Lewis - Alison Wells - Emma Dunne - Paul Casey - Abby Oliveira - Neil McCarthy - Oisín Fagan - Kit Fryatt - Paul Timoney - Kate Dempsey - Kalle Ryan - Boris Belony - Cathal Holden - Máighréad Medbh - Erin Ecstasy - Patrick O’Flaherty - Afric McGlinchey - Stephen James Smith - Elaine Feeney - Temper-Mental MissElayneous - Karl Parkinson