model of a shortform essay - a really good one

on 11/12 June I'll be happily spiraling at the 14th Organ Vida Festial at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Zagreb. Thx to Lea Vene for curating! www.e-flux.com/announcement...

Does anyone/any institution in Dublin have a copy of the documentary Women Art Revolution by Lynn Hershman Leeson, which I need for research? It seems impossible to find/stream outside the US. Pls repost & message me if you have one - v grateful for any leads.

nice to be cited... from the forthcoming Autotheory and its Others ( @punctumbooks.bsky.social )

I'm very happy to be part of re:verb, curated by @cmakris.bsky.social and featuring @zanbreathnach.bsky.social @kitfryatt.bsky.social and other great writers - a celebration of poetry and experimental writing on 5/6 June at Kirkos in Dublin - weekend pass here www.citizenticket.com/events/kirko...

TOMORROW! A few tix still available for queer poetry & great chat!

great news-my Markievicz-award-winning digital narrative Miss-Communication is back online. She's not back making predictions yet but you can read my choose-your-own-adventure critical theory essay on gender/language/computing/Barthes/Enigma/Oedipus/the Dublin Belles & more! miss-communication.ie

was advised to do this with street book finds by someone who got bedbugs from a found art book... a.k.a. philsophie dans le frigo...

At the EU today talking about 'The Internet Left - Progressive politics in the digital age' for The Left in the European Parliament with Marc Botenga of @ptbbelgique.bsky.social and @robtoes.bsky.social (Birckbeck)

1/2 When @irishwriterscentre asked me to do a masterclass I realised I'm not at all sure about mastery. Instead I wanted to think about the roles of doubt, risk, opposition, destruction and refusal, which can also be kinds of confidence, enthusiasm, construction and curiosity.

Giving a talk and reading from my text ‘In a Sandy Matrix’ on Saturday in Westport, on Mesolithic shell middens, mollusks, and the thoughts on what it means to consume and absorb the flesh of another animal. www.customhousestudios.ie/exhibition/e...

at « Georges Perec, archives d’une enfance » at the Archives de Paris today with huge Perec & Ellen Dillon...

minor impromptu w/ @badaude.bsky.social @benlibman.bsky.social Tim MacGabhann & Alice Blackhurst

Today I'm wearing linen lemons in #Frigiliana. Here's an ickle piece I wrote about lemons as a creative writing exercise on a @badaude.bsky.social course some moons ago. I do really love 🍋 🍋 🍋 lespritliteraryreview.org/2022/04/13/l...

an impromptu reading orgainised by @minorlits.bsky.social tomorrow (tuesday 31st) at www.8litheque.com/fr paris, with me Alice Blackhurst @benlibman.bsky.social & Tim Mac Gabhann. doors open 19h15. we'll be talking about autoficition/personal essay/memoir whatever you like to call that thing...

I have two jokes about Trotsky, but you gotta pick

i've got one too but it's obscurer...

Paris le jour Paris la nuit…

book early - on 29th May I'll be talking with Jan Carson, Conor Kostick, and Derek O’Connor about AI and writing at @projectartscentre for @bealtainefestival projectartscentre.ie/events/faict...

looks like I'll be in Brussels around 18 April: does anyone know a bookshop/gallery/university/whatever that might like me to come & talk about Amateurs!?

next week ... Alice, @benlibman.bsky.social and Tim will also be joined by @badaude.bsky.social (!)

dreamt i successfully rehoused a colony of white mice under a bridge in London's South Bank Centre

thx to @saintsoftness.bsky.social's substack (avmarraccini.substack.com/p/a-list-of-...) for alerting me to this very smart essay by Hannah Smart, on David Foster Wallace's sentences @lareviewofbooks.bsky.social lareviewofbooks.org/article/noth...

celebrating #IWD by reading a book about how women were forced out of tech in the late twentieth-century programmedinequality.com

love this, by Andrew Groves: fashion, feminism, finance, failure... profandrewgroves.substack.com/p/who-can-af...

publishing of the future (seen from 1989)

The 2026 Prize is judged by Claire-Louise Bennett, Ottessa Moshfegh and Joanna Walsh. For a chance to get your work in front of their eyes, enter at: desperateliterature.com/prize 5/

i'm bored: suggestions for applications, residencies, new careers pls...

“Most people are still scrolling because there’s nowhere else to go”: An Interview with Joanna Walsh — Cristina Politano minorliteratures.com/2026/02/10/m...

Monthly Dispatch #32 — ft. @yanisiqbal.bsky.social Michael Templeton, @niamhmaccabe.bsky.social @farsouthproject.bsky.social @djamelbouchenaki.bsky.social @kentkosack.bsky.social @stuhennigan.bsky.social @badaude.bsky.social @raviddice.bsky.social & more ... out now: minorlits.substack.com

#gorse12 (Language is a virus) has just arrived in the house from the printers and I flick open on this illustration by @badaude.bsky.social! Lord, it must be a sign that the world will survive after all 😃

i spent the last week in the beckett archive at reading university as this year's samuel beckett creative fellow. it was intense, confusing, sometimes disturbing, sometimes boring, strangely exhausting, none of which are bad things. i couldn't photograph beckett's handwriting/manuscripts so here's:

last week @ minor lits ... — @monalisavitti.bsky.social interviews @badaude.bsky.social minorliteratures.com/2026/02/10/m... — new fiction in French* from @djamelbouchenaki.bsky.social minorliteratures.com/2026/02/12/l... *with a translation by Jordan Barger

"The demand for verified profiles…dismantles a valuable feature of the early web: the ability to step outside the boundaries of offline gender, class, racial categories and appear as pure language ..." @monalisavitti.bsky.social interviews @badaude.bsky.social minorliteratures.com/2026/02/10/m...

Today is the day! Record your day and be part of recording queer lives and histories in the UK. Sketch, type, write, or photograph your day. Even if you think your day isn't very interesting we'd still love to have it in our collection! All types of days, boring or brilliant are welcome #LGBTplusHM

IMPORTANT pls RT My online novel seed-story.com is loading sporadically/not at all The servers belonged to Google Creative Labs Sydney (now apparently defunct) If anyone reading worked there/knows someone who did pls get in touch urgently so this pioneering work of digital literature can be saved

I've been invited by 3 UK universities to speak about Amateurs! and they've all had to withdraw their invites as departmental cuts mean they can't even pay expenses.

« At its best it was around 20 years of people making works that altered the way art was made, who had access to make it, and the way it circulated and was received; works that changed the ways we see the world » THIS 👆 Insightful interview with @badaude.bsky.social by @monalisavitti.bsky.social 😍

i'm disgusted that funding for artists will continue to be limited to 2k recipients & awarded by lottery. Award on the basis of need, award on the basis of track record but not this tombola that will leave so many struggling for 3 years b/c of a short straw drawn www.gov.ie/en/departmen...

going to be in London for a couple of days in mid-Feb - what art should I go see?

a lot of my work over the last 6 years has been 'building AI skills' but the more i know the more i distrust & the less i am 'willing to provide date': what have i been doing wrong?

v happy to be doing this for @desperatelit.bsky.social - enter here desperateliterature.com/prize/

It's my dream for this book to be on a syllabus. Not too subtly, if you'd like to put it on yours I'd be eternally grateful (& also more than happy to student questions...)

Off Meath Street, a new hotel is under construction – and locals are photographing every stage. "We're kind of slagging ourselves, calling ourselves The Watchers."

wow - honoured to be here

Caiwei Chen at MIT @technologyreview.com recommends Amateurs!

I'm in today's @irishtimes.com in a piece about Irish artists in Marseille & in great company!

v nice piece - thank you!

does anyone have access to Valerie Solanas' “A Young Girl’s Primer, or How to Attain the Leisure Class” published in Cavalier Magazine in 1966?

I have a reason be in Cambridge in 26/27 and quite fancy applying to this: www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DPW923/c.... I need a letter of support from someone who works at Cambs. If you know anyone who might like to support my work in lit/arts/digital humanities I'd be very grateful for ideas...