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| We have the results of the Anam Cara Writer's and Artist's Retreat Short Fiction Competition! But first...
 100 years ago, the Titanic sank with the loss of 1517 lives. Senan Moloney's book The Irish Aboard Titanic reveals just who was on board and where they were from. Delving into the conditions and lives of those who set sail for America, in a poignant tale he reveals who reached their destination, and who was lost.
Enter our draw at our competitions page to win your copy!
 Award winning writer Vanessa Gebbie is judging the Anam Cara Writers and Artist Retreat Short Fiction competiton, and this week Marese O'Sullivan reveals how Vanessa started writing, and just how important short story competitons were to her first novel The Coward's Tale.
If you entered the Anam Cara Short fiction competiton, find out if you made the short list here - the thirteen shortlisted stories make great reading, so grab a cup of tea first!
 Riding high in the Amazon bestseller list, Hazel Gaynor reveals why she decided to self publish her Titanic novel The Girl Who Came Home, and why she is so glad she did. And just look at her fabulous cover!
 And Roisin Meaney reveals exactly where she found the inspiration for One Summer and how she develops her story in Roisn Meaney on Theme, Character and Plotting.
And we have a copy of One Summer to give away at our competitons page!
Tell us your story...
If you have a story to share with us and the National Folklore Archive, helping to build a first hand picture of Ireland's history, please send it in! Check out our Tell Your Own Story for how.
Don't miss: Dublin: One City One Book 2012, Celebrating Dubliners at the National Concert Hall, Friday 13th April, 8pm with The Dubliners (named after the book), Joycean singers the Shannon Colleens & Noel O'Grady, comedian David McSavage and Dublin writers Peter Sheridan and Dermot Bolger. Tickets €25 & €20 (concessions available) The event, celebrating James Joyce's book Dubliners, will now be dedicated to the memory of the late Barney McKenna. McKenna, one of the original members of The Dubliners, who passed away last Thursday 5th April and is to be buried in Trim, Co. Meath, 9th April.
And in our Guest Blogs...
 Derek Flynn recounts the continuing adventures of Do You Dream at All in SongBook
 Kate Dempsey looks at what creativity really is in Poetic License.
 In Centre Stage Barry Houlihan gives us research tips on sources and using literary archives
 In Random Acts of Optimism Alison Wells talks to Lucille Redmond about Love, her short story collection.
From the Front Row,  Elizabeth Rose Murray reports from #DerekFest2012
 Louise Phillips tells us about her a short story in the New Island anthology Another Road in Crime Scene
 Caren Kennedy looks at Writing for Television, The Great British Sitcom in Word Play
 Catherine Ryan Howard is back in Self Printed, talking to Lauren Clark about going from News Anchor to New Author.
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| We looking for your submissions of personal essays in the Monday Miscellany, Mining Memories and Writing & Me sections! See what we have there now and check here for full submission guidelines:
We are working with the National Folklore Collection in UCD to preserve selected submissions to these sections to add to their rich archive.
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