The Inkwell Group

Every writer out there knows the simple and often daunting truth, that when it comes to writing, it is at times a lonely path. Louise Philips tells how Inkwell helped smooth the way to success.

From being made redundant to star blogger and freelance journalist, Hazel Gaynor explains how The Inkwell Group have helped her pursue her writing dreams.

Having recently launched her debut novel in London, Alex Thomas shares about her route to success and the “wonderful experience” of working with The Inkwell Group.

When she first began writing about four years ago, Jane Travers knew she was writing into the void. She went hunting for professional advice and found Inkwell. She has never looked back and here she shares her story.

The Scarlet Ribbon, the debut novel from Derry O’Dowd, is the fiction line launch novel for The History Press Ireland. In an unusual collaboration between father and daughter, Michael and Katy O’Dowd (writing under the pen name Derry O’Dowd), the novel is a romance, set during the years 1737-1742 in Paris, London, Dublin and Galway.

Within a short period of time Catherine Ryan Howard has gone from unknown to star blogger of the self-publishing world. With four books behind her, here Catherine shares about working with The Inkwell Group.

Getting published is a slow process – everyone tells you that – and then unexpectedly it speeds up to a pace that leaves you breathless.

That happened for me last August when I sent the first three chapters of my first book profile, synopsis and agent’s letter to Inkwell Writers as part of their submission service.

For as long as she could remember, Maria Duffy dreamed of writing a book and a phone call to Vanessa O’Loughlin at Inkwell proved to be the most important of her life. Here she shares her story…

Patricia Byrne writes poetry, fiction and nonfiction. A graduate of the MA (Writing) programme of NUI Galway, she lives in Limerick and first came to Inkwell via Patricia O’Reilly’s Writing Historical Fiction online workshop. Trying to get her voice ‘right’ in the book, Patricia contacted Vanessa O’Loughlin to critique the opening chapters