Join us on Saturday 4th of October, 2.30pm, in Ballinasloe Library for the official launch of 'Forged in Fire', a collaborative fine art exhibition by #group8ballinasloe members. #Ballinasloe

Coming from @newislandbooks.bsky.social this November is a handsome gift edition of the classic short story from Joyce's Dubliners - The Dead, with a new introduction written by @nualaoconnor.bsky.social ( author of the bestselling Nora) - Preorder here - thebookshop.ie/james-joyce-...

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...

Board nember @nualaoconnor.bsky.social has written a report on Evensong 2025, in memory of Elizabeth Bowen, at St Colman's Church, Farahy. It's now on the Bowen Society website. www.bowensociety.com/commemoration/

A new #painting. "Cill Chiaráin". Kilkieran if you prefer. One ridiculous perfect day in South Connemara I was painting by the side of a road. Everywhere I looked I saw more paintings I knew I'd paint later. This is later. I love this part of the world. Love it. #ArtYear #SpeirGhorm #MountainMonday

Bowen Essay Comp for under and postgrads. See more: Latest News – The Elizabeth Bowen Society share.google/oixUWFDLWnFI...

Delighted to be shortlisted for this award alongside winner #JudyCrozier and Karen J McDonnell of down the road, and others. My essay, about autism and Pythia, will be in Southword in 2026. Thanks to all at Munster Lit & @southword.bsky.social 🙌

Next Wednesday we have the September Bowen Reading Group. 24th Sep - 7pm BST - online. Free! All welcome. We're reading & discussing *Look at All Those Roses*. 🌹 In the Collected volume, the stories we're considering run from 'Reduced' to 'Summer Night'. www.tickettailor.com/checkout/vie...

Culture Night, I'm in @tertuliabookshop.bsky.social in Westport for a Brainstorm with artist #bredaburns, talking about neurodivergent vs neurotypical brains/life/living/creativity. Fun! 6pm - Tertulia, Westport, Co. Mayo Image: 'Living With A Brain Like Mine' collage by Nuala O'Connor

⚡️Meet the Stormers of Issue V @nualaoconnor.bsky.social’s fifth poetry collection Menagerie (Arlen House) was published in 2025. She’s currently writing a memoir about late-diagnosed autism. She is a member of Aosdána. The Storms is supported by #fingalarts #dublinUNESCOcityoflit Arrives Nov 2025

Flowers for Elizabeth from the Bowen Society ahead of her annual memorial at St Colman's, Farahy, which commences shortly.

Tomorrow in Cork, remembering Elizabeth Bowen 🌸

Join us for the September Bowen Reading Group - link in bio! 24th Sep - 7pm BST - online. Free! All welcome. We're reading & discussing *Look at All Those Roses*. 🌹 In the Collected volume, the stories we're considering run from 'Reduced' to 'Summer Night'. www.tickettailor.com/checkout/vie...

FORTHCOMING: *The Aesthetic of Elizabeth Bowen’s Novels - Light, Atmosphere, Fragmentation, and Sensation* (2026) by Diana Hirst This is the first monograph to evaluate Elizabeth Bowen’s ‘verbal painting’, and the first to acknowledge the influence of the East Kent landscape in her novels.

My news! Thank you @artscouncilireland.bsky.social

'I don’t know why it’s been banned. For describing what an American theological dictatorship could look like? Because it portrays evil? Is it evil to portray evil? If so, bye-bye Bible and Shakespeare.' Margaret Atwood

Elizabeth Bowen features in a 1970 BBC documentary currently available to watch on the BBC iPlayer. Omnibus - Virginia Woolf: A Night's Darkness, A Day's Sail 'I know she was a genius.' EB on VW www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/epis...

And we are live with Issue 3! Thanks to all who made this possible, including the wonderful @nualaoconnor.bsky.social for judging the competition that brought this issue to life. www.frazzledlit.com/p/issue-3-ha...

Wednesday, 10th Sep Green Carnations: Remembering Eibhear Walshe FREE - Book: Eventbrite The School of English and Digital Humanities, UCC, invites you to a symposium in honour of the late Dr Eibhear Walshe. 12:30 - 7:30pm www.eventbrite.ie/e/green-carn...

Link for our September @bowensociety.bsky.social Reading Group.

Keep your eyes well peeled this coming Sunday for what is a terrific issue of Frazzled Lit. The best of the best of Short Story Writers, as judged by Nuala O'Connor @nualaoconnor.bsky.social are in this tight packed issue. An excerpt from the winner! @finnegag.bsky.social

All the writers, all the details @tracychevalier.bsky.social @salenagodden.bsky.social @cristinajurado.bsky.social @nualaoconnor.bsky.social @matthewtree.bsky.social themadridreview.com/f/the-madrid... #newissue #news #breakingnews #free #freestuff #freepalestine #writing #writers #gaza #litmag

If the writers are being censored, who have we got? 'How the Bendigo writers’ festival’s code of conduct caused a walkout and claims of censorship.' #palestine share.google/Z1D9xR5kZQCu...

Please fill this in, artist or not! ec.europa.eu/eusurvey/run...

I'm judging the Allingham Flash Award www.msn.com/en-ie/entert...

🌹 A little reading reminder for the next Bowen Reading Group 🌹 24th Sep - 7pm BST - online. We're reading & discussing *Look at All Those Roses*. Link soon. #bowenreadinggroup #ElizabethBowen #ElizabethBowenSociety #lookatallthoseroses #shortfiction #shortstories

Still a couple of places left on my poetry course this Saturday in Co. Galway. Sign up asap!

I am sooooo excited and honored to have won third place! Thanks to @nualaoconnor.bsky.social for selecting my story and to @frazzledlit.bsky.social! Congrats to all the winners and finalists!

REMINDER for my poetry workshop! Still some places left. One-day poetry workshop with Nuala O’Connor, from 10.30am – 4.30pm on Sat 16th of Aug. Presented by Group8 Cost: €110. Places are limited and booking is essential. To secure a place, please book through the following link: bit.ly/4lcGkX7

🌙 New poem 🌙 I have a new poem in the #quare_eire anthology. A prose poem about autism and awkwardness, two things that are forever to the forefront for me. Thanks to editor Dr Lauren Cassidy for selecting my piece. @laurencassidy.bsky.social quareeire.wordpress.com?fbclid=PAQ0x...

My translation of Caitlín Maude's poem 'Na Blátha' features on this new bench #UniversityofGalway. I couldn't attend the launch, but will nip in soonest to take some photos. I'm a proud alumna of the university, & proud Caitlín Maude fan 🙂 www.galwaydaily.com/news/poet-ca...

Join us, online, on Wednesday #ElizabethBowen

‘When I visit other big houses, I am struck by some quality that they all have—not so much isolation as mystery. Each house seems to live its own spell and that is the spell that falls on the visitor from the moment he passes in at the gates.’ Elizabeth Bowen @crawfordartgallery.bsky.social

All welcome to join the July Bowen Reading Group - link in bio! 30th July - 7pm BST - online. Free! We're reading & discussing *The Cat Jumps*. 🐈‍⬛️ In the Collected ed., the stories run from 'The Tommy Crans' to 'The Apple Tree'. www.tickettailor.com/events/eliza...

Been yonkles. Just submitted. It’s open until late September, so get those biros scribbling.

"It's basically like a big treasure hunt" Margaret O'Sullivan from UL's School of History & Geography spoke to Clare FM about a new UL research project that's seeking the public's assistance to locate Irish heritage relics known as bench marks. 🎧 www.clare.fm/podcasts/ul-... ‪@ulgeog.bsky.social‬

It looks like Madeleine Smith is definitely the flavour of the year! My novel about her case, LOVE AND OTHER POISONS is out tomorrow! @wildfirebooks.bsky.social @sheilland.bsky.social @headlinebooks.bsky.social uk.news.yahoo.com/true-crime-t...

Junior Galway poets, a competition for you. 8 to 12 yos. Theme: Nature. #poetrycomp #galwaylibraries #Galwaylibrary #juniorpoets

2025 Allingham Poetry and Flash Fiction Comps - open for entries! Kate Newmann judges the Poetry Comp. The winner will also receive the Francis Harvey Poetry Award. Nuala O’Connor judges the Flash entries. The winner will be awarded the Keane Family Fiction Prize. share.google/lKqCxWYi7V1N...

We are delighted to announce the awardees of the 2025 Annaghmakerrig Residencies! 🎉 The five selected writers are: ▪️ Emily Cooper ▪️ Emer Lyons ▪️ Rosa Mäkelä ▪️ Afric McGlinchey ▪️ Nuala O’Connor @nualaoconnor.bsky.social irishwriterscentre.ie/announcing-t...

A friend in need, a fellow writer who gives so much to the writing community, please help if you can, every little bit is useful.

It's here! Over 160 calls for literary competitions & submissions including poetry, fiction, creative nonfiction, art, photography, & more - contests, literary journals, residencies, bursaries etc - open or with deadlines in July 2025. Best of luck & pls share! www.thisiswordbox.com/wordbox-blog...

Reminder for the July Bowen Reading Group - link in comments! 30th July - 7pm BST - online. Free. All welcome. We're reading & discussing *The Cat Jumps*. 🐈‍⬛️ In the Collected volume, the stories we're considering run from 'The Tommy Crans' to 'The Apple Tree'. www.tickettailor.com/events/eliza...

'Raynor Winn’s publisher says her story is “unflinchingly honest”. It’s not. The story, no doubt, has elements of truth, but it also misrepresents who they were, how they started...the financial circumstances that provided the backdrop.' So fed up with fraudsters!! observer.co.uk/news/nationa...

I cannot fathom that a story of mine is in the @wigleaf.bsky.social Top 50…! Like, what?! 🤯 Thank you to @splonk.bsky.social and @nualaoconnor.bsky.social for publishing this micro of bare, gleaming bones 🦴 And @stillsquirrel.bsky.social, for the workshop in which this was born 🤍

Yet more anti-culture nonsense. Why do they hate everything culturally significant? Why does everything have to be about shopping? 🙄

Really enjoyable evening of poetry, music, readings, discussion @bloomsdayfestival.bsky.social @jamesjoycecentre.bsky.social Hosted by @davidcollard.bsky.social with special guests @nualaoconnor.bsky.social @ronanhession.bsky.social Jacob Hession and Stephanie Ellyne. Thanks @ianhagues.bsky.social 🙏

Nuala O’Connor reviews A Crumpled Swan, by David Collard (Sagging Meniscus Press) (We like our Bloomsday connections on the oblique side 😊) Read it in full here: booksirelandmagazine.com/rare-and-mar... @saggingmeniscus.bsky.social @nualaoconnor.bsky.social @davidcollard.bsky.social

We are open for Short Story subs for our competition until 30th June. @jmcm.bsky.social and I are all caught up with the inbox and would love to see more. Don't sit on your work. Send it! Judged by @nualaoconnor.bsky.social Cash prizes! Details: frazzledlit.com

Still time to get a story in, 30th June closing!