> March 1st

HOWL opens for subs for New Irish Writing once every two years, and that window is quickly approaching! From Feb 13th - Feb 23rd you can submit your poetry, fiction, and nonfiction to HOWL 26 at howlwriting.ie We hope we are lucky enough to receive your work!

❛A converted barn all to myself, beautiful countryside on the doorstep... I managed about a months worth of writing condensed into one inspired week. – Susan Allott, author The Moth Retreat offers accommodation for writers and artists of all disciplines in rural Ireland. www.themothmagazine.com

You can visit #Yeats: The Life and Works of #WilliamButlerYeats, a #free #exhibition at the National Library of Ireland on Kildare St, #Dublin. 📆 Open Monday to Sunday: https://www.nli.ie/exhibitions-events/exhibition-yeats-life-and-works-william-butler-yeats-0

Volunteer as a Reader for the Orwell Youth Prize! The @orwellprize.bsky.social is looking for experienced professionals across publishing, literature, academia, civil society (and more) to provide personalised feedback as part of their judging process.

ICYMI: The Royal Society for Blind Children has issued an urgent appeal to children’s authors, writers and publishers to donate stories to its new bedtime stories app, following its launch last week 👇 #BookSky

BREAKING NEWS Anthropic agree to pay $1.5 billion to settle claims that it downloaded pirated books to train its AI systems. This is the largest U.S. copyright settlement in history. The settlement is still subject to the judge's approval. 🧵 authorsguild.org/news/what-au...

and as always, worth noting again: this settlement is for *pirating* works. the judge in the lawsuit ruled that the way anthropic *trained* on works was legal!