The 2026 Leopold Bloom Prize for Innovative Narration is open!

We’re looking for short fiction exhibiting exceptional ingenuity and vision in narration. All entries receive a digital copy of Issue Seven and are considered for publication!

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#callforsubmissions: L'Esprit seeks stories, essays, translation, reviews. Consciousness-forward, language-driven, risk-adept. Send us writing beyond convention. G’Lines + open calls: lespritliteraryreview.org/submission-g... #modernism #Essays #bookreviews #litmag #shortstories #creativewriting

Happy Bloomsday, among other things, for all who observe, and a chance to share this.....https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kbF5hDU_F-U

In honour of Joy Division's iconic album Unknown Pleasures being released on this day in 1979, I'm again sharing one of my favourite ever video clips (Peanuts vs Joy Division dance party)...

Colm’s story “Hiraeth” was the Second Place Winner in our 2025 Leopold Bloom Prize for Innovative Narration, and next up in our Issue Six release! Check it out below! @colmoshea.bsky.social #fiction #shortstory #writing

My short story 'Hiraeth', runner up in the 2025 Leopold Bloom Prize for Innovative Narration, organised by @lespritlit.bsky.social is now available to read here... lespritliteraryreview.org/2025/04/27/h...

A note to say I've joined @irishwriterscentre.bsky.social panel for one-to-one mentoring in fiction, creative non-fiction and essays. More details, including how to engage me, on the IWC website. irishwriterscentre.ie/one-to-one-m...

Right, Beckettians, who wants to buy the original Cooldrinagh (the childhood home of Beckett's mother).... www.irishtimes.com/property/com...

Monthly Dispatch #22 — ft. Jenkin Benson, Tim MacGabhann, @indigojackal.bsky.social Connor May, @ericracher.bsky.social @colmoshea.bsky.social Veronika Reichl (tr. Francesca Hyatt), Adam McPhee, Quyên Nguyễn-Hoàng & more ... — now live minorlits.substack.com/p/monthly-di...

ICYMI — last week @ minor lits ... — meditations on memory from @colmoshea.bsky.social minorliteratures.com/2025/03/04/u... — @chalicotherex.bsky.social on Munir Hachemi's LIVING THINGS minorliteratures.com/2025/03/05/i... — fiction from Tim MacGabhann minorliteratures.com/2025/03/06/g...

An extract from my book [Untitled]: A Meditation, has gone live on @minorliteratures.bsky.social ...

We kiss. I can’t remember what we talk about. If I could I would remember and record and repeat what we talk about, but I can’t. It was only two months ago. Two months ago tonight. An extract from [Untitled] — a memoir by @colmoshea.bsky.social

Taken in my home town, though the part I grew up in was "slightly" less posh, ahem........

Agnès Varda visits Dephine Seyrig and Alain Resnais, behind the scenes of Last Year at Marienbad, 1961.

I checked and I think you’re onto something…

[Untitled]: A Meditation, my debut work of experimental nonfiction, is available from LJMcD Communications lachlanjmcdougall.wordpress.com/books-and-sh...

Yesterday, the @stingingfly.bsky.social podcast discussed my short story 'Feeling Gravity's Pull'.... stingingfly.org/podcast/mary...

My debut book, [Untitled]: A Meditation, a work of experimental nonfiction, has been published by LJMcD Communications, and is available here: lachlanjmcdougall.wordpress.com/books-and-sh...

The first review of a piece of my work up here...

Stumbled across this, Anthony Cronin's documentary on Patrick Kavanagh, Flann O'Brien, Brendan Behan, and 'Literary Dublin'... The Literary Renaissance in Dublin youtu.be/ms9qeXB2_to?...

An extract from my piece IF.WHAT., published in the latest anthology by The Aleph Press, was recorded, and is included here, alongside the work of other contributors. astainonsilence.com/2023/12/29/a...