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Next Tuesday evening (14/04), I shall be assuming into Heaven from Belfast's steadfast No Alibis Bookstore @lilliputpress.bsky.social www.ticketsource.com/no-alibis-bo...

Cardinal Lane They rip out the forest behind our house. It's a spring of bumblebees and yellow jackets, their stings reminding us: Look out. The trees depart, and in their place, a drainage pond with confused ducks calling it their home. Their home behind our home. The workers build more houses…

It's Spring. Post your cicadas poem

"It's July in April!", she quipped, unable to come up with anything clever enough to adequately capture the greatness of this novel and author.

Clare Allen • Holding On •

Henri Le Sidaner • The White Garden at Twilight •

Suzanna Schlemm - She

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‘Four Night Seas’ is an exceptional first book of short stories. Niamh Mac Cabe takes the reader deep into the textures and instabilities of memory, desire and loss, with well-judged humour and vivid depictions of landscape and character. Published today. @lilliputpress.bsky.social

Picking up Mad Sweeney on the Merlin bird app

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Hundreds of submissions have already poured in and some fabulous poems are hot favourites to book their places in the next issue of 14 magazine but I need to see more poems! Click on the link and scroll down for details of how to submit. richardskinner.weebly.com/14-magazine.... #14magazine

Ink on paper. 18th century, Japan. Artist Shouhaku Soga

First attempt at flight

To me, beds are just envelopes that mail you to your dreams.

The 2026 Barbellion Prize submissions window opened at midday yesterday and since then nearly 700 followers have signed up for the new Instagram account: www.instagram.com/barbellionpr... There's a new website also: barbellionprize.org Get involved! Spread the word!

[reading a book in first person] i dont remember doing any of this

We're open for MULTIGENRE FULL-LENGTH MANUSCRIPTS!!! April 1 - June 1, send your multigenre books to our SUPER EXCITED brand new multigenre reading team, headed by our SUPER EXCITED multigenre editor, @erinvachon.bsky.social! Link for full details + to submit: splitlippress.submittable.com/submit

The Giantess (The Guardian of the Egg) by Leonora Carrington, 1947 #WyrdWednesday

Spinning Hare ~ Beatrice Alder (linocut on quilted cotton)

🤩 I'm honoured to have my short story "Gate" in Coppernickel's latest, Issue No.42 (University of Colorado) 🚪💧 Cover, and last page of story:

Belfast pals, I'd be delighted to see you at my collection's launch in No Alibis Bookshop on Tuesday 14th April at 6pm👁️ @lilliputpress.bsky.social noalibis.com/event/book-l...

The height of the first substorm tonight from near my apartment in North Pole, Alaska. Real-time video. (sorry for heavy breathing was running down the street to get a better shot)

#artist #art #painting #WomensHistory #Blackwoman

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So this is a harpy eagle. But my theory is, this is is 100% six sparrows in a trench coat. 🤔 Doesn't matter. I like birds. Photo by @elnopower.bsky.social. Check them out for more. :) #birds

❗️Just a heads up that there is a bogus email circulating inviting authors to come on Burning Books❗️

Knowing who to be mad at is praxis.

Signing up to @alcs.co.uk is also a gift for your descendants because copyright continues after death. Apart from my own modest payout, I get a chunk from my father’s estate. He was an academic and every time a school or library photocopies one of his books or articles I get money!

This is reminding me of the amazing sign I saw in Kyoto!

Four Night Seas by Niamh Mac Cabe: A quiet, subtle capturing of cultural identity without resort to cliche

A quiet, subtle capturing of cultural identity without resort to cliche – The Irish Times https://www.europesays.com/ie/396087/ Four Night Seas Author: Niamh Mac Cabe ISBN-13: 9781843519744 Publisher: Lilliput Press Guideline Price: €15.95 There’s something distinctly,…

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Log versus Pine Cone

Woke up to this wonder in today's The Irish Times. ☘️🪄🏑 @lilliputpress.bsky.social www.irishtimes.com/culture/book...

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"As for the usefulness of poetry, its uses are many. It is the deification of reality. It should make our days holy to us. The poet should speak to all men, for a moment, of that other life of theirs that they have smothered and forgotten." --- Edith Sitwell (1887–1964):

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On 746 Books, I review Niamh MacCabe’s new short story collection, Four Night Seas, a work that is thematically inventive and plays with form and structure to striking and impressive effect. @lilliputpress.bsky.social @niamhmaccabe.bsky.social #readingirelandmonth26 746books.com/2026/03/14/f...

Happy launch day to FOUR NIGHT SEAS by Niamh Mac Cabe 🎉 🌊 🐕 Run to your local bookshop to pick up THE debut collection of the year from one of Ireland's most stunning writers (I mean, look at those endorsements!) or join us this evening from 5.30pm at the brilliant @libersligo.bsky.social

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New from @lilliputpress.bsky.social 'Four Night Seas' by @niamhmaccabe.bsky.social A collection of 14 stories featuring characters navigating emotional or existential thresholds. Buy @dubraybooks.bsky.social 📖 online book sample to peek inside and share www.jellybooks.com/cloud_reader...

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Debut collection of the year is launching TOMORROW - be there! 🌊🐕

About to dive into a collection of tales by seer and all-round genius C.D. Rose @cdrose.bsky.social Here's the first page of the last tale. 🏣🏤💎🏭🏫

ICYMI Fictive Dream is open for submissions of contemporary #shortstories #flashfiction #microfiction and #translations #callforsubmissions. Please click on the link below for our guidelines. We look fwd to reading your words...

If no one else, the dying must notice how unreal, how full of pretense, is all that we accomplish here, where nothing is allowed to be itself. Rilke