We’re delighted to have been selected as an Island of Ireland finalist for Small Press of the Year at the #Nibbies for the third year running! Huge thanks to @thebookseller.com & congrats to our fellow Irish nominees 💚 www.thebookseller.com/british-book...

Limerick Writers' Centre is now accepting entries for The Gerald Griffin Competition for First Original Adult Fiction 2026, a unique opportunity combining mentorship, publication, and community for emerging novelists. For all the information go to their website – www.limerickwriterscentre.com

One of us, has a little online Irish literary magazine archive. Give him a like and a follow!

Happy publication day to Found in a Context of Destruction, the debut collection of poems from acclaimed writer Tim MacGabhann. Available now in all good bookshops or from the Banshee Press website 🖤 bansheepress.org/shop/p/found...

Galway People! I’m curating a new reading series, in association with Poetry Ireland, in Westside Library. First event on the 7th of March at 2pm

We are now taking Fiction submissions for Southword. Just over 3 weeks to get your entry in!Click on the website link to submit your entry. Good luck! #poetry #southword #fictionwriting

Co-editor Peadar has a poem up at Abridged. www.abridged.zone/mark-tamar-p...

We’re thrilled to announce Julie Goo as the Irish language guest editor for HOWL New Irish Writing 26. www.howlwriting.ie/post/welcomi...

Our new issue is online and free to read. Go see! If you like it and have a spare quid or two, we'd be grateful for a donation! You can here: www.abridged.zone/obtaining-ab... Ta!

Afternoon. We're pleased to present the Abridged 0 - 107: Elixir Submission Call. Poetry Required! See www.abridged.zone/abridged-0-1... for info! @artscouncilireland.bsky.social @poetryireland.bsky.social

HOWL opens for subs for New Irish Writing once every two years, and that window is quickly approaching! From Feb 13th - Feb 23rd you can submit your poetry, fiction, and nonfiction to HOWL 26 at howlwriting.ie We hope we are lucky enough to receive your work!

Somehow, I appear to have added a link to a photo only aha, so here's the proper link: mariaedgeworthcenter.com/maria-edgewo... 🥰

🗣️📖PSA all poets! We've got some excellent poetry courses coming up for you, whatever stage of your writing journey you're at - from transforming inspiration into verse to assembling your collection and preparing for publication! Find out more here: irishwriterscentre.ie/courses/

Source: Reuters search.app/ZBZ9V I no longer recognise the world.

Submissions Call: Three Pillars Press Submissions deadline: 8th March 2026 Submissions are now open through the The Pillars Press for the Poetry Pamphlet Awards 2026. This will be for poets resident or born on the Island of Ireland. Three Pillars Press: What We Publish? Three Pillars Press…

Beyond excited to share the news that my first poetry collection, Midnight at the Saltmarsh, will be published by @thegallerypress.bsky.social in May 2026! 💫✨

We are delighted to announce that this year’s Southword Editor’s Poetry Award has been won by José Buera. A full list of highly commended and commended entries are available on our website www.munsterlit.ie Many thanks to everyone who submitted an entry. #poetryaward

In the garden today!

Made a new year's resolution to focus on your writing? Courses kicking off this month with places still available include book illustration, playwriting, comedy, poetry, Japanese short forms, and historical fiction for children and young adults. Booking open here: irishwriterscentre.ie/courses/

I'm on all social media but I intend to be my most real self here and substack so you can follow me there if you've not grown tired of me here 🌷💀🌷 substack.com/@mollytwomey...

Have you sent in your entries yet? MAGMA POETRY COMPETITION 2025/26 is open for entries in both categories: The Judge’s Prize – poems of 11 to 50 lines The Editors’ Prize – poems of up to 10 lines Deadline 31 January 2026 This year's judge is Rishi Dastidar @betarish.bsky.social

* DEADLINE EXTENDED * We are now accepting applications for the 2026 National Mentoring Programme until Friday 16 January, at 5pm. This is an opportunity open to all writers across the island of Ireland. For all the information you need, check out our site: irishwriterscentre.ie/national-men...

Source: The Telegraph search.app/7YR42 the cryptic babble that passes for so much of art is still standing like a colossus.

My third collection, Landscape with Question, will be published in June 2026 with @carcanet.bsky.social. It started out as a biography in verse of Nano Reid, then became something else entirely. 🌔🌊🏙️🌱 www.carcanet.co.uk/978180017561...

🎁 Poem-a-day advent calendar 🎁 Day 12 is 'My Grandmother's Kitchen' from 'Watching for the Hawk' by @bredaspaight.bsky.social 💖 @arlenhouse.bsky.social

We're thrilled to announce that @the4facedliar.bsky.social has been awarded a Project Award for 2026 by @artscouncilireland.bsky.social which will secure the publication of Issue 5, we are very grateful for their support.

Poetry Ireland Review Issue 147, edited by Theo Dorgan, is available for pre-order! This special edition titled 'Love Poems to Humans' is a collection of poems that draw on, reflect on, and speak up for human love. 🔗 Pre-order: www.poetryireland.ie/publications... Artwork by Emma Stroude.

It's a joy to have a poem in this issue. The image captures the throes of love I experienced for the object of my love when life was challenging. Thanks to Theo Dorgan - editor!

Did you know that it's our 35th anniversary in 2026? 🥳 To celebrate, we've recently launched a host of 35 brand-new courses from screenwriting, poetry, comedy, and more Check them out and get booking below 👀 irishwriterscentre.ie/courses/

Belfast launch TOMORROW Thursday 4 December, 6pm at The American Bar Liz McManus (ed) *May Morton: Phantom Poet* Rosemary Jenkinson *Manichea: A Play on Cancellation* Francis O'Hare *A Different Light* ALL WELCOME Arlen House - Celebrating 50 Years

I'll be updating the poetry magazines spreadsheet this coming week, so if you're not on my mailing list, join now (it's free) and you'll never be short of places to send your poems... robinhoughtonpoetry.co.uk/poetry-magaz...

Big huge congrats to the brilliant @elainefeeney.bsky.social ❤️👑❤️

We'll have a stall at this brilliant event in Pearse Street Library tomorrow and Saturday – hope to see you there! 📚

One of us has started an online Irish (mainly) literary magazine archive. There's not much on it at the moment, but there will be! They have a new Bluesky account. We'd be grateful if you'd give it a follow at bsky.app/profile/oldz... Thanks!

Three Pillars Press is excited to announce its official launch as an independent Poetry Pamphlet Press dedicated to publishing new voices in contemporary poetry. Founded in 2025, the Press aims to offer a publishing platform to new and emerging poets... www.writing.ie/news/three-p... #poetrysky

Ger Duffy and Billy Fenton have started a new poetry press, focussing on publishing poetry pamphlets from new and emerging poets. Their first submission window will open from Jan-Feb 2026. The website is www.3pillarspress.com @3pillarspress #poetrypress #poetrypamphlets #poets

Best wishes to @billyfenton.bsky.social and Ger. So much poetry energy from Waterford at the moment. Good luck 👍

Otter in the boathouse today. #Otter 🦦

London! Celebrating Arlen House at 50, launching @nualaoconnor.bsky.social's *Menagerie* plus *Washing Windows V: Irish Women Revolutionise Poetry, 1975-2025* Hosted by @irishlitsoc.bsky.social at @irishculturalcentr.bsky.social Hammersmith, Tuesday 25 Nov, 7.30pm irishlitsoc.org/event/arlen-...

A definite date for next months diary:-

Celebrating 50 Years of Arlen House Arlen House & Books Upstairs invite: Liz McManus (ed) *May Morton: Phantom Poet* Noelle Lynskey *Featherweight* Ruth Carr *Catching the Missing Beat* Rosemary Jenkinson *Manichea: A Play on Cancellation* Sunday 30 November, 2pm Books Upstairs Café ALL WELCOME

Save the date! Submissions open for HOWL New Irish Writing 26 in February 2026 🐺 🖤

Arlen House & Books Upstairs launch invite: Liz McManus (ed) *May Morton: Phantom Poet* Ruth Carr *Catching the Missing Beat* Noelle Lynskey *Featherweight* Rosemary Jenkinson *Manichea: A Play on Censorship* Sunday 30 November, 2pm, Books Upstairs ALL WELCOME Celebrating 50 Years of Arlen House

today's lonely offering. Is there anybody out there?

Delighted the news is out about our next two poetry titles from @bansheepress.bsky.social - new collections from Tim MacGabhann and Billy Ramsell coming your way in 2026 ✨️

It was a pleasure to read at the 50th anniversary launch of The Stony Thursday Book at the Belltable last night. Congratulations to all involved - it was a great evening of readings. Many wonderful voices from across the country.

It's a real honour to have work in this issue of Southword. Launch is Friday 21, Triskel Arts Centre, Cork. 6.30.

'My jelly legs are off the couch by grace of Prozac. Four months indoors and the neighbourhood is treason.' From our sold-out issue 18 (autumn/winter 2024) -- poetry by Vasiliki Albedo ⭐ @minorroarr.bsky.social bansheepress.org/read/the-sta...

That's how to do it. Source: The Guardian search.app/5jTLG