Our #AirBnb season starts today. Tales of show chickens, Mormon pastor from Utah, Spanish popstar who broke up with her boyfriend in my dead mother's bedroom. We've dined with bassoon players, lady Airforce General, Booker longlister, former LA gang member, Druid, etc. www.airbnb.ie/h/pinkhoused...

We’re marking LGBTQ+ Pride Month 2026 by remembering the history of the fight for lesbian and gay rights led by OutRage!, set up in May 1990 after the murder of gay actor Michael Boothe. The Bodleian holds a collection of materials donated by Peter Tatchell in 2023. Copyright: OutRage!

The ‘Hamnet’ author’s new novel, ‘Land,’ about an Irish family in the aftermath of the Great Hunger, is sweeping in its ambition, writes Rachel Vorona Cote.

The Kerry Library now has 10 copies of my book in circulation. You can reserve a copy anywhere in Ireland. For free! Have a read! kerry.spydus.ie/cgi-bin/spyd...

this is a pride flag made from real nasa imagery happy pride month 🏳️‍🌈✨

“I’d like my mother to read it and know how I feel about her, how sorry I am for everything I’ve ever done to her, and, maybe like my protagonist, how I have spent my life in failed pursuit of a love like ours.”

As the Giro d'Italia's women's race gets underway today, meet the only woman who ever rode in the men's race. Also, Ireland's cycling pioneers and why they were warned of the dangers of 'bicycle face'. Irishwoman's Diary today @irishexaminer.bsky.social www.irishexaminer.com/opinion/colu...

There's just 1 place left now on my 6-week #ShortStory course beginning 30th June.

Missiles $8,523,839,979 Bombs and explosives $1,061,726,930 Lobster-tail $6,919,553 Alaskan king crab $2,019,613 From expenditures made by the U.S. Department of Defense in September 2025. harpers.org/archive/2026...

Coming up this Saturday... join Joanna Walsh in person for a crash course in thinking through radical new directions for self- and mutual publishing, & personal and financial strategies for creative survival. 🔗 irishwriterscentre.ie/courses/mast...

Dublin sure do be pretty sometimes. #DownTheDocks

This Is Also a Love Story by Sally Hayden: Fearless reporting from Ireland’s most vital journalist

Nice to be included in #PVA17 on fashion and its relationship to contemporary art. Featuring: Rosa Abbott, Darran Anderson, Liam Cagney, Laurence Counihan, Lisa Godson, John Graham, Francis Halsall, Maija Makela, Joseph Noonan-Ganley, Rachel O’Dwyer, Eileen O’Faolain, Garry O’Neill & Philippa Snow.

Scam Alert. We have been alerted by several authors who have received “invitations” to appear at WCLF. These bogus invitations ask authors to pay to appear at the festival. This is not us. We will never ask authors to pay to appear the festival

This is well worth reading, by @naoisen.bsky.social, on the "quiet" defunding of Irish arts festivals, in favour of tourism initiatives. Lots of people visit Ireland for arts festivals, which Fáilte Ireland doesn't seem to recognise. www.irishexaminer.com/opinion/comm...

The Gordon Bowker Volcano Prize is awarded to a UK or Irish writer, or a writer currently resident in those countries, for a novel focusing on the experience of travel away from home. In memory of Malcolm Lowry and endowed by Gordon Bowker, his biographer, and Ramdei Bowker.

What does a thesaurus eat for breakfast? A synonym roll.

➡️ From 10:05pm BST, we'll be live-streaming the winner announcement on Instagram, TikTok and YouTube – join us on your platform of choice to watch it as it happens (2/2) www.youtube.com/watch?v=MxCX...

3 women writers in the top 5… www.theguardian.com/books/ng-int...

If you’re in Dublin tomorrow evening, I’ll be in conversation with Mary Costello about her new novel A Beautiful Loan, at 6pm as part of @ilfdublin.bsky.social. Tickets here: ilfdublin.com/whats-on/fes... @canongate.co.uk

Join me and Aea Varfis-van Warmelo to celebrate the publication of her debut novel ATTENTION-SEEKING BEHAVIOUR. Live online on Thursday 4th June at 7pm (BST). All welcome. If not already invited email me: davidjcollard.wixsite.com/my-site Order your copy here: peninsulapress.co.uk/products/att...

We-mortgaged the house in 2006 to start Bluemoose Nearly lost the house again in 2013. Authors short listed for 31 literary prizes, 2 books adapted for BBC Two. Another chosen for National Junior Certificate in Ireland. Reaching readers corporates don't even bother with. @thebookseller.com

These have been increasing in sophistication to the point that they’re becoming a real problem. Some use the names of real people in publishers and refer specifically to your work. It’s bizarre, there’s no way these scammers could be making money out of it, but genAI has made it so easy for them.

OMG, I literally can't stop laughing! This is pure genius, puts #Yellowface in the shade as #LitWorldSatire Tom Morris, please jump up, take a bow, at your leisure.

Gorgeous post today. The covers should be an art expo, but very much looking forward to the insides. Especially Alan McMonagle whose stories are always beautifully twisted; Niamh Boyce (great for voice); Susannah Dickey; Tom Morris who's cleverly penned a tale formatted as Notes on Contributors. 👏

I'm not long back from this magical #ArtistsRetreat and @irishwriterscentre.bsky.social are offering six new residencies at #TyroneGuthrieCentre in Annaghmakerrig, Monaghan. This is so worth applying for, absolutely stunning experience! Submittable is open for applications until 5pm, Friday 29 May.

Six weeks to work on your short story, from June 30th to August 25th. Learn from others, learn from yourself. See an idea through to a complete story that manages to surprise. Get published (every time, every course, I see people jump that wall!). An opportunity to focus.

State in Relation, a little book with lots of big messages, is No. 3 in @booksupstairs.bsky.social

Happy to be part of #Pride Programme with @irishwriterscentre.bsky.social this year, facilitating a #QueerShortStory course in autumn. Other interesting events too such as: Writing Queer Irish Womanhood: Katherine O’Donnell & Rosamund Taylor in Conversation: irishwriterscentre.ie/announcing-t...

This might be of interest, produced in partnership with Friends of the Earth Ireland, and published by @littleislandbooks.bsky.social

Meanwhile, I'm facilitating another #ShortStory course @irishwriterscentre.bsky.social from June 30th which I really love doing. Watching participants land giddy on an idea; leaving 6-weeks later with an achieved short story under their belt. Always a few gems. irishwriterscentre.ie/courses/writ...

Today is publication day for my book, Prestige Drama. It's a funny, angry book about Derry, memory and Troubles-scented television. I think it's quite good, however I can *confirm* that it's quite short. But don't take my word for how great it is, look at all these lovely people saying that.

Happy to be part of #Pride Programme with @irishwriterscentre.bsky.social this year, facilitating a #QueerShortStory course in autumn. Other interesting events too such as: Writing Queer Irish Womanhood: Katherine O’Donnell & Rosamund Taylor in Conversation: irishwriterscentre.ie/announcing-t...

Irish authors. American covers. Bargain prices. Dangerous combination. Fresh delivery on the front fiction table and Irish fiction table now, with Colm Tóibín, Donal Ryan, Louise Kennedy, John Boyne, Colum McCann, Niamh Campbell, Colin Walsh, Catherine Airey and more. From €5.99. 1/3

Great night here @booksupstairs.bsky.social reimagining & scrutinising The Irish Constitution as living text, not a dusty historical document. Each writer has soared in sideways from a completely different angle, it's a brilliant collaborative book. Pleae buy a copy! booksupstairs.ie/product/stat...

Looking forward to this event later (6pm) in @booksupstairs.bsky.social It's fully booked with waiting list!

This event is tomorrow evening, free but booking is essential 👌

Really enjoyed this. Has left me thoughtful about names, voices, meanings, languages, queerness, Judaism, activism, and a lot of other things. A welcome reminder of the extraordinary richness of the unofficial story, the disallowed story, of us. From @suchmayer.bsky.social via Peninsula Press

Slow-boiling the spuds the old-fashioned way! #AchillCottage

Ruth McKee talking about her intriguing debut, Wild Iris – have pre-ordered this and am on postman-watch for its arrival. Ruth McKee: ‘Pitching a novel about a suicidal middle-aged woman getting drunk on her birthday wasn’t easy’ www.irishtimes.com/culture/book...

For the bank holiday weekend ahead, we are to be found here, both of us working on a short story. This is my absolute favourite 'go to' place for peace, nature, relaxation, love, laughter. There's two sweet dogs and a direct path down to the sea. It takes four hours on the motorway, but worth it. ✋

This event is next Tuesday, tickets are free, but booking needed.

This event is next Tuesday, tickets are free, but booking needed.

NEW: On this month’s episode, contributing editor Mia Gallagher is joined by June Caldwell @junec.bsky.social to read from and discuss her story ‘Night of the Big Wind’ from Issue 53 Volume Two, the climate issue. Listen back here: stingingfly.org/podcast/june...

Our Critical Reading school is open again! This is our popular online class where we pull apart novels, look at them from an editorial point of view - and also just have the fun of discussing wonderful works of art. Details here: www.galleybeggar.co.uk/school-criti...