Me being delighted with Martina Evan's gorgeous review of New Arcana in today's @irishtimes.com 🔮✨️ @bloodaxebooks.bsky.social

Great thread from @sineadgleeson.bsky.social here. Amazing that this is really happening.

So great that The Benefactors is up for the best audiobook at the British Audio Awards. Loads and loads of people involved and thanks to each and every one of them.

It's Culture Night tonight! Well, Abridged has 20 years of material on www.abridged.zone to read for free! You don't even have to leave the house. For misanthrophists everywhere!

Join us.,

September news: New books from @poetclare.bsky.social, @jesstraynor.bsky.social & @emiliejelinek.bsky.social; prize news for Matthew Caley, Kris Johnson & Niall Campbell; radio & podcasts for @pascalepetit.bsky.social & Greta Stoddart; Ruth Fainlight film premiere. mailchi.mp/263b340dbcf3...

We are supporting the @artscouncilireland.bsky.social in seeking increased funding of €200m to the Irish arts sector in #Budget2026. Increased investment is needed in order to meet the funding and development needs of the arts sector. Read more here: artscouncil.ie/news/budget-...

I found this beauty in my letter box. Delivery by stealth and kindness. FILLY Extraordinary work by Rosamund Taylor @rosamundtaylor.bsky.social and all @bansheepress.bsky.social ✨

I'm over the moon that Arthur Sze has been named our 25th U.S. Poet Laureate. Arthur was on the show for his new & collected The Glass Constellation and we looked back across his life as a poet in honor of it. ICYMI: 📻 tinhouse.com/podcast/arth... @coppercanyonpress.bsky.social

Ten years ago this week, The Long Gaze Back: An Anthology of Irish Women Writers was published. ​It took a huge amount of research, but introduced me to many writers, and to the historical omission of Irish women from the literary canon. @newislandbooks.bsky.social www.newisland.ie/shop/p/the-l...

26 September 2025 @ 6.30pm @booksupstairs.bsky.social - Launch of The Hare's Corner @burrenbeotrust.bsky.social @newislandbooks.bsky.social Tickets here... www.eventbrite.com/e/book-launc...

I'm delighted to be judging this year's Gregory O'Donoghue Poetry Competition! Get your glorious poems in munsterlit.ie/odonoghue-co... @munsterlitcentre.bsky.social

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Our colleague Belinda McKeon will be in conversation w/ Deborah Treisman (fiction editor of @newyorker.com) Anne Enright, Roddy Doyle & Colin Barrett @abbeytheatre.bsky.social on 12 Oct. for this special event: A Century of The New Yorker's Irish Writers'. ⭐ www.abbeytheatre.ie/whats-on/the...

Submissions for Poetry Ireland Review 147, edited by Theo Dorgan, are now closed. Further submissions to this issue may open again in October; please check this page and our social media posts for any updates. Thank you for your interest in Poetry Ireland Review.

FILLY by the brilliant @rosamundtaylor.bsky.social has arrived! Can't wait for this glorious novel in verse to be out in the world ✨️✨️✨️ @bansheepress.bsky.social

Residency alert! In partnership w/ @artscouncilireland.bsky.social, we're seeking a Writer-in-Residence for 2026. Pls spread the word and consider applying to come and work with us! 🙏 @maynoothuniversity.ie @irishwriterscentre.bsky.social @muahi.bsky.social artscouncil.ie/funding-oppo...

Sara Baume: It was time to respect my mother’s medieval shit. I began to dig into the past

Some mid-week inspiration for new writers courtesy of the talented Olivia Fitzsimons! @oneflawediris.bsky.social This advice was shared with us as part of our video series 'Dublin, One City, Many Stories', in collaboration with @dublincityoflit.bsky.social www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Z5Z...

📣 We've just announced the Curator's Programme for 𝗗𝘂𝗯𝗹𝗶𝗻 𝗔𝗿𝘁 𝗕𝗼𝗼𝗸 𝗙𝗮𝗶𝗿 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟱. DABF Guest Curator 2025 is 𝗗𝗿 𝗦𝗲𝗹𝗶𝗻𝗮 𝗚𝘂𝗶𝗻𝗻𝗲𝘀𝘀, her theme is 𝘍𝘭𝘰𝘤𝘬. Read about her vibrant programme 🔗 bit.ly/4660yeP 𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗗𝗔𝗕𝗙𝟮𝟱 𝗘𝘃𝗲𝗻𝘁 𝗣𝗿𝗼𝗴𝗿𝗮𝗺𝗺𝗲 𝘄𝗶𝗹𝗹 𝗯𝗲 𝗽𝘂𝗯𝗹𝗶𝘀𝗵𝗲𝗱 𝗼𝗻𝗹𝗶𝗻𝗲 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗯𝗼𝗼𝗸𝗶𝗻𝗴𝘀 𝗼𝗽𝗲𝗻 𝗧𝘂𝗲𝘀𝗱𝗮𝘆 𝟮𝟴 𝗢𝗰𝘁𝗼𝗯𝗲𝗿 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟱. #DABF

This story began life as part of the 24-hour Great Big Giant Short Story Experiment run by @sonyagildea.bsky.social and @stingingfly.bsky.social in 2024 ✍🏻 💻. Entries were invited for fiction of up to 1888 words, a ref to Mansfield's year of birth. Winners announced 14 Oct, Mansfield's birthday.

Ngā mihi nui Thank you! to the folks at I te Kokoru At the Bay. My short story On the Couch has been shortlisted for the 2025 Katherine Mansfield Sparkling Prose Competition in Aotearoa New Zealand 🤩 atthebay.org/sparkling-pr...

Calling all arts managers and producers 📣 Next week, we're hosting a workshop with Safe to Create and Migrant Rights Ireland to help arts orgs support and employ migrant artists 🌎 🗓 Wed 10 Sept | 12:30 – 2:00pm | Online Book here: safetocreate.ie/training/wor...

@dlrarts.bsky.social Writer's Coffee Morning & Information Session on mentorship. Please Join Carolyn Brown Dlr Arts, Olivia Fitzsimons, Annemarie Ní Churreáin & Sonya Gildea 20th Sept 11-1pm Meeting Room, Lexicon Library All welcome, registrations required: [email protected]

@dlrarts.bsky.social Writer's Coffee Morning & Information Session on mentorship. Please Join Carolyn Brown Dlr Arts, Olivia Fitzsimons, Annemarie Ní Churreáin & Sonya Gildea 20th Sept 11-1pm Meeting Room, Lexicon Library All welcome, registrations required: [email protected]

Am over-sharing in the echo echo echooooo ✨✨✨✨ www.echolive.ie/corklives/ar...

#IrishPoets #IrishVisualArtists #SubmissionCall

Now available to pre-order: FILLY, the stunning novel in verse by award-winning poet Rosamund Taylor. Out 9 October 2025 ✨ @rosamundtaylor.bsky.social bansheepress.org/shop/p/filly...

Delighted with this review of New Arcana in the the Poetry Book Society autumn brochure 🍂 @bloodaxebooks.bsky.social

Announcing Poetry Ireland’s Introductions | Céadlínte poets for 2025! Thanks to Jessica Traynor for selecting our Introductions poets and Aifric Mac Aodha for selecting our Céadlínte poets. Supported by @artscouncilireland.bsky.social and Arts Council Northern Ireland National Lottery Funding.

Huge congratulations, Martina. 🎉 Great news for all. 💫

The Never A Rose Submission Call is now open! This issue is for Irish poets and poets based on the island of Ireland plus Irish/International visual artists. See www.abridged.zone/abridged-0-1... for info!

The beautiful rare book display at the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library at Yale. We stopped by this week and had to share with you all.

Submissions are open for the International Debut Novel Competition until 14 September! We’re celebrating past winners by looking back at their memories of the competition. This is 2024/25 winner, Andrew Cunning, author of the upcoming novel 'Clara and Christina', to be released in May 2026! 🥳

Writing Ghost Stories with June Caldwell 👻 In this six-week course, participants will learn all the necessary tools for completing a solidly spooky story. Topics covered will include 'finding your ghost', 'the Irish púca' and 'floating off in style'... irishwriterscentre.ie/courses/writ...

PIR 146: COVER REVEAL We are thrilled to reveal the cover for PIR Issue 146, provided by Northern Irish artist, Stephen Johnston. PIR 146 is now available for pre-order on our website! Visit: www.stephen-johnston.co.uk Funded by @artscouncilireland.bsky.social Arts Council of Northern Ireland.

One of our own, Susanna Galbraith, is in the new issue of Poetry Ireland. Go read it. Then apply to the new Abridged Submission Call. @poetryireland.bsky.social

Here come the launches!! Mark this in your diary - more info to come on in person ones soon 🔮✨️

John Hewitt Birthday Readings! Presented by The John Hewitt Society as part of @belfastfestival.bsky.social in association with Poetry Ireland! Monday 27 October 2025 @ 8:00pm The John Hewitt Pub, Belfast Tickets: £8-10 Book tickets here: www.poetryireland.ie/whats-on/joh...

There's a new Abridged submission call out! This one is for Irish poets and poets of any nationality based on the island of Ireland plus artists from anywhere! Go ahead, submit!

The prestigious #penheaneyprize 2025 is open for submissions until the 31st of August, for collections published between 1st of July and 31st of December 2025. More info here🔗 www.poetryireland.ie/education/ne... @englishpen.bsky.social @seamusheaneyestate.bsky.social

Open to all, takes less than three minutes.

Final two published poems from New Arcana before the book comes out next month! With big thanks to @poetrywales.bsky.social for featuring them. 🃏🐍😈 @bloodaxebooks.bsky.social

Takes a few mins. ec.europa.eu/eusurvey/run...

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...

Opportunities for writers: August 2025 🖊️ Our monthly list of submission windows, competitions, bursaries, residencies and general literary opportunities is now live. irishwriterscentre.ie/opportunitie...