Bursary time! Please apply if you're eligible and join me and @emmadarwinwriter.bsky.social in January. 👇

Submissions Call for Tintreach, January 2026 Tintreach publishes creative work from across the artistic spectrum ✨Submissions are open until capacity is reached, or until midnight on Sunday, 30 November 2025 Read more: www.writing.ie/guest-blogs/... #Writingsky @smashingtimes.bsky.social

I've been getting back into the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy series after many years, and the most relatable part is how everyday objects like doors and elevators have been imbued with artificial intelligence and it just makes them obnoxious and frustrating to use and everyone hates it.

Want to up your POV game? Uncover the mysteries of 1st, 2nd, 3rd and use of multiple POVs to deepen your reader experience. Come join my 4-week online course in November through @irishwriterscentre.bsky.social irishwriterscentre.ie/courses/flas...

Of course. Can't not have the Welkin. I've even been updating the Welkin website 😀 Had to find a solution to my website having too many pages without deleting stories 😬

Another Starter Pack for #IrishBookWeek: Literary Journals. Again, if I've forgotten anyone please let me know in the comments go.bsky.app/EdG3Ruv

Seeing as it's #IrishBookWeek, I've put together a Starter Pack of bricks 'n' mortar bookshops. Terrified I've forgotten someone obvious so please let me know of additions go.bsky.app/G4kmxVq

Submissions for Tolka Issue Eleven are now open until 6 November. We publish all kinds of non-fiction – essays, memoir, reportage, autofiction and the things that fall in between. Full submission guidelines here www.tolkajournal.org/submit

A wonderful opportunity for a creative writing & poetry one day workshop

The BBC are accidentally running the subtitles to Mrs Marple over the Mercury Prize, and it’s rather wonderful. A few of lines could plausibly have been written by Jarvis.

We're holding a month-long write-in in the awkward time between November and December, and we'd love for you to join us. It's free. Tell your friends. www.smokelong.com/ready-for-pr...

The older I get the more I appreciate when people say "oh I don't know the answer to that" or "actually I was wrong". It's probably the biggest shortcut to get me to trust you tbh.

Oh no - lovely Diane Keaton RIP

*Submission reminder* We're open to unagented subs from 6-12 Oct. For this submission period we are looking for novellas only (35K-50K). We're specifically looking for novellas that play w horror, mystery, weird & the unusual. More info below🐐 www.wildhuntbooks.co.uk/blog/pop-up-...

Such a pleasure to do this Q&A for the Word Herding blog. @anneoleary.bsky.social is so supportive of other writers. Her blog is a great resource for Irish writers seeking info on opportunities, competitions, etc.

New blog post: an interview with author @sylvialeatham.bsky.social about her debut novel #ChaosTheory. Touching upon fear of failure, carving out writing time and robot social skills! anneolearyblog.wordpress.com/2025/10/09/c...

Lads, there’s a new magazine in Belfast - coming soon. Give a follow (insta or blusky) to our new friends, Sci Fi Ireland 🪐 #WritingCommunity #SciFiCommunity

FLASH WRITERS! I'm judging the Allingham Flash Fiction Comp and it's been extended! The deadline extended to Sunday, 12 Oct at 23:59 / 11:59 pm. Applies to both on-line and postal submissions. All other competition rules and guidelines remain in effect; see www.allinghamfestival.com/fiction-poet...

Books Upstairs is a fine store with a particularly excellent poetry section. Why not support them by ordering your books online instead: booksupstairs.ie

Looking to get your words into the world but completely overwhelmed by a billionty-hundred-squundred competitions and submission listings? WELL LOOK NO FURTHER. We have distilled a whole bunch of literary opportunities for your glorious self. writershq.co.uk/5-competitio...

RIP lovely Jilly Cooper, the only subject of a @backlisted.bsky.social episode to write us all thank you letters afterwards. ❤️

Aldi Pretty Horses

New blog post: an up-to-date list of Irish literary journals anneolearyblog.wordpress.com/2025/10/05/i...

New blog post: an up-to-date list of Irish literary journals anneolearyblog.wordpress.com/2025/10/05/i...

Amazing

I want to go to there

The Last Minute Club for our 31st, £1460 prize fund award is open! Here’s our pink and green LMC badge. You should be getting one if you enter today. Deadline midnight today, Sunday 5th Oct. Bathflashfictionaward.com/enter

Word of the Day is ‘tandsmør’, from Danish. It describes bread that is buttered so thickly you can see tooth marks in it after every bite. Its literal translation? ‘Tooth butter’.

May I alert you to a rather joyful £500 writing competition you perhaps didn’t know you needed in your life, but in fact absolutely do…? www.failingwriterspodcast.com #flashfiction

Aw, farewell to the wonderful lady of the house

Terribly sad news

#Writers, the Hilary Mantel Prize offers an exceptional new opportunity. The late author, who twice won the #WalterScottPrize, was committed to championing emerging talent, and the winner receives a cash award plus mentoring. Submissions are open through 31 December. See https://loom.ly/NFsTZjE#Writers

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

They've lost the 9yos

A Personal Anthology is a weekly mailout in which a guest editor (writer, reader, critic, mongoose) picks and introduces a dozen favourite short stories. So if you love short stories and would like to take part, let me know! (DMs open.) In fact, I have an empty slot NEXT WEEK. Carpe Diem!

Submission Open 15th September to 15th of October 2025 Submissions are now open for issue 28 of The Manchester Review. The Editors are looking forward to reading the best of your poetry, fiction, and non fiction.

Team Oyin #TraitorsIRL

We are open for #submissions of #shortstories #flashfiction #microfiction #translations and looking fwd to reading your work #callforsubmissions. Please click on the link for our guidelines fictivedream.com/submission-g...

Just removed the date label from an old book and discovered that someone has drawn a design for a teapot that can serve either tea or poison how's your day going?

Previously published or unpublished, fiction or nonfiction (or anything in between), 250 words or fewer, deadline Nov 15. The SmokeLong Grand Micro Contest. www.smokelong.com/the-smokelon...

Delighted to announce that we have some very exciting mentorship opportunities available in Poetry, Fiction and Memoir. Applications need to be submitted by 15th September. Spaces are very limited. All the details can be found through the link in our bio or on our website – www.munsterlit.ie

How to hook a reader from the opening line:

Banshee Press will open for book submissions from 1-15 October. More details to follow soon. Ready your manuscripts! 📝 bansheepress.org/read/banshee...

I’m not doomscrolling. I’m hopequesting.

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...

Just saw someone repost this so I thought I'd resurface it for everyone. It's still relevant.

My latest cartoon for @newscientist.com

My new book publishes on the 21st August and it has ALL the Indexes. 😂 Lists make me happy #Autistic Published with Jessica Kingsley/ Hachette.

He looks like a cormorant about to be cleaned by RSPB volunteers.

Delighted to share that the Nero New Writers Prize in assoc. with Brunel Uni is now OPEN for entries from unpublished writers in Fiction, Non-Fiction and Children's Fiction. For full details visit nerobookawards.com/new-writers-... Good luck!