We're excited to announce the cover for Issue 4 of The Four Faced Liar, our competition issue, with artwork by the wonderful Jenny Lawlor! @irishpen.bsky.social @irishwriterscentre.bsky.social @writing.ie

I’m a bit of a fiend for author biographies, and this six part series on Jane Austen discussing her politics, reading life, and more, is just delicious.

Pantone’s vibe of the year is uneasy institutional silence

From tomorrow, 5th Dec #BookElves2025 will be on hand to recommend brilliant Irish books for all ages - from tots to teens. if you'd like a recommendation - ask away below. I'd be delighted to help! And I'll be posting some of my favourite Irish books of the year every day. #discoveririshkidsbooks

Congratulations @elainefeeney.bsky.social !!!!

LITERARY MAGAZINES FOR EVERY READER at the #DublinSmallPressFair2025 Nov. 28-29 at Pearse St. Library dublinsmallpressfair.com for full details!

Come to a new hourlong performance from my ongoing durational writing project DIAL (Chapter 11: November) w/ sound interventions from Keith Lindsay, closing this Friday’s FLUXUS / John Cage inspired extravaganza programmed by Kirkos at The Complex. Tickets: www.thecomplex.ie/event/kirkos

"We have included an advance copy of the hardcover edition of your diary, which Simon & Schuster will be releasing this winter. We think the photo of the time you laughed so hard in the school cafeteria that milk came out of your nose makes for a perfect cover."

Thanks to The Marrow Poetry for highlighting my poem ‘Long Haul’ today www.themarrowpoetry.com/issue-five/l...

french wikipedia is the only language that has a "list of bastards" article

“For a short story to lure me in, I need one thing: great voice. If your narrator and/or character doesn’t have a unique or bizarre voice, I’m back to Netflix or staring at my neighbour across the road arguing with his bins.” — June Caldwell

“Because survival is insufficient.” 💙 #amreading

MOM: You can’t spend all day moping. Not on Lottery’s Eve! TESSIE: I have to find a way to get my life back. I don’t have time for the Lottery. MOM: There's always time for family. Help your sister roll her wheelchair down to the creekbed to collect some stones for tomorrow.

Submissions for issue 21 are open until midnight IST on Friday 31 October ✍️

Profound dignity throughout the poems in “In Her Jaws”, lighting a way through trauma towards persistence & survival. Loving, too, learning about women I hadn’t known of before liked Caroline Herschel and Dora Richter #amreading @rosamundtaylor.bsky.social

We can't wait for our @dinglelit.bsky.social partnership event with award winning poet Gustav Parker Hibbett. We will explore Gustav's work in 'High Jump as Icarus Story', a collection that gifts us visions of flight and falling. Book via www.eventbrite.com/e/flight-and...

Join us next Thursday 30 October in @ucc.ie at 6pm to celebrate the launch of Banshee issue 20! Hear readings from our brilliant contributors and raise a glass to ten years of Banshee 📚 bansheepress.org/events/cork-...

Stunning poem by Anne Tannam 💙 #amreading

I'd say "let's burn it all down" but putting AI in everything will kind of burn it down for us, soooooo

I feel like most Irish and British writers who complain about being silenced have never done anything as brave as what Naoise has done here

“The opportunity to move from despair to action.” 👏👏👏

We are delighted to share the cover for a very special project we've been working on for Christmas 2025! An Alternative Irish Christmas is an anthology of stories, in traditional, unusual, extract, and essay form by some of our favourite authors. 1/🧵

Greta Thunberg gives her first words after she was released from Israeli prison where she was beat and forced to kiss the Israeli flag. She says the story is not about them, the story is about Gaza.

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A great shop that’s so supportivr of writers, and run by the best people. They’re open today if you’re passing, or you can buy a book via their website. @booksupstairs.bsky.social www.irishtimes.com/crime-law/20...

Via Sarah Clancy's partner Anne Mulhall: "Friends I am so happy to tell you that Sarah and all the Irish flotilla heroes are in the air flying to Athens and will all be on flights home to Dublin tonight or tomorrow. Sarah will be arriving into Dublin airport at 11pm tonight."

“Are you well? Such a useless question.” Binging Anne Tannam this morning and have had two lovely cries already by page 25.

If I may make a suggestion, call your local TDs and councillors. Being a constituent is important to these people, they hate hearing from us.

There are lots of actions around the country in support of the Global Sumud Flotilla and Palestine today. #LiftTheSiege

Just rang Dept of Foreign Affairs and was read an official statement that was an essentially a PFO. (BTW The woman on the line was very helpful, and I have no doubt they’ve put this down to someone who has no input or control.) She explained that they were noting the phone calls received. (1/2)

I’m so absorbed with worry about @sarahmaintains.bsky.social. I know so many of us are. She is the goodest of good eggs and one of the few people that actively fight for a better world in a meaningful way. This pain in our corner of the world— I cannot conceive of the pain in Gaza.

Thinking of @sarahmaintains.bsky.social and the other Irish citizens who are part of the @freedomflotilla.bsky.social, and have been detained by the IDF who illegally intercepted them in international waters. Here is Sarah’s poem, ‘If I had any other thing’:

Sarah Clancy and Chris Andrews have both been kidnapped by the IDF. Contact Dept of Foreign Affairs: Address: Iveagh House, 80 St Stephen’s Green, Dublin 2, D02 VY53 Website: www.ireland.ie/dfa Telephone: +353 1 408 2000 #globalsumudflotilla

here is the @irishpen.bsky.social statement on the Global Sumud Flotilla irishpen.com/2025/10/02/g...

Can't wait for the Dublin launch of New Arcana, happening tomorrow at @gutterbookshop.bsky.social with the wonderful Seán Hewitt. Come join us 🔮✨️ @bloodaxebooks.bsky.social

Ever wonder how Shirley Jackson went about writing The Lottery? Well, here you go. This is my 9th Jackson of the year and it was full of many such overlooked gems #MyYearWithSJ

Contact your elected reps to demand a diplomatic intervention to keep humanitarians safe.

@bansheepress.bsky.social open for book submissions from 1-15 Oct 👇 (Pl read the sub guidelines.) bansheepress.org/read/banshee...

very tempting... substack.com/home/post/p-...

This poem. 🐙

Will be searching out Wilson collections next payday. Would love to just sit with this poem for a while.

Would you like to contribute to the public consultation about the Basic Income for the Arts? 💡 Fill out this survey from Minister O’Donovan at the Department of Culture, Communications and Sport: ec.europa.eu/eusurvey/run...

Mural of Statue of Liberty in shame unveiled in France the day before 4th of July

Reminder! Our competition closes in just under 2weeks. @irishpen.bsky.social @irishwriterscentre.bsky.social @poetryireland.bsky.social @writing.ie @munsterlitcentre.bsky.social

@the4facedliar.bsky.social is running a Creative Non Fiction competition- deadline 30 June. More about our judge here! www.the4facedliar.com/submissions #cnf #writingcommunity #creativenonfiction

This. Story. Subtle, precise, and all the feels at once. @stingingfly.bsky.social 💙

Opportunities for #poetry , #creativenonfiction #shortstories and #flashfiction . Deadline end of June! Please share x