Given the numerous court hearings on the matter and resolute resistance of State authorities to come clean, the case for a public enquiry is overwhelming. Even the Chief Constable of the PSNI, Jon Boutcher is not opposed to one. Several High Court Judges have ruled there should be one. The Supreme Court in London may force one. In any event it is well past time to give the Brown family and especially Sean’s widow, Bridie, the truth. Only a public enquiry is capable of that

Entries must be the author’s own unpublished work. This includes print, online publication, or broadcast. Simultaneous submissions are accepted; however, entrants should notify organisers immediately if work is accepted elsewhere. The theme for this year’s competition is “New World.” Entrants must be over 18 years of age and either resident in Ireland or from the island of Ireland. Entry is free.

Bizarrely, for a society that has supposedly progressed out of the dark days of the Troubles and into a ‘new dispensation’, the Browns have now been kept waiting for an inquiry even longer than the Bloody Sunday families were.

It’s imperative that Derry and Coleraine - led by their Councils and Chambers of Commerce - quickly find shared leadership, and rise up with a common voice. They must convince the politicians at Stormont and Westminster with detailed arguments and analyses that this is wrong and will have devastating long term consequences for an important sub region on this island, before its too late.

'The Half-Life of Edith Hopkin and Other Stories' begins with a novella (the title story), which tells of a rape victim whose infant baby is removed from her at the Tuam Mother & Baby Home in the 1960s and how her life unfolds in the traumatic aftermath. It is a highly-nuanced, compassionate and lyrical tale, made all the more significant as the author himself was born in the Castlepollard Manor Mother & Baby Home in 1965 and was then adopted a year later.

A Scandal in Plain Sight author GARRETT HARGAN investigates how Stormont’s neglect of Derry’s education sector is compounding the damage done by what John Hume called ‘the despicable criminal story of the second university’.

Colmcille Press and North West Regional College have partnered to trial new voice replication technology designed to help authors and independent publishers create professional audiobooks quickly and affordably. For the first of three pilots, produced by Aaron McKeever, Consultant at NWRC's XR Hub, author Felicity McCall reads the title story from her new short-story collection What We Did on Our Holidays.

Carrying Light pays personal tribute to Derry and Donegal luminaries, from Pat Hume and Sr Clare Crockett and from Dinny McGinley to Canon McDyer

He easily matches many of our big literary talents and paddles in the same thematic streams but seems to be somehow overlooked.

In this extended interview, the veteran campaigner and writer Eamonn McCann recalls the Derry of the 1950s and 1960s, and the events that him to write one of the most famous modern histories on Ireland.