Is this 'typo' deliberate @stomaselli.bsky.social: 'preserving' instead of 'persevering' (lol!). Totally assume you're being brilliantly clipped and sarcastic, while hoping I won't notice.

Looking forward to my #Story THE WORKSHOP in gorse 14: 'Multitudes'. The issue is nine #pamphlets and an editorial to accompany. I was rejected TWICE by this lit journal prior! My offering is a story within a story, in a creative writing workshop, facilitated by a narky tutor with mean pen strokes.

Every writer's group needs just one smiler...

September! irishwriterscentre.ie/courses/quee...

Nine years of "bye bye" to cheating assholes and "Yes, I said yes" to a new life of love and adventure.

Roast Courgette Pesto!

Almond milk latté in the garden with the bees causing a riot. #SmallPleasures

Class...

I do love this #vegan recipe: 'Cuban-Style Sweet & Sour Squash with Peppers and Basil', baked in ginger, garlic, white vinegar, olive oil, chilli flakes, salt, 2tsp caster sugar...topped with pumpkin seeds & fresh Basil, served with yellow rice and yoghurt (Vg) or sour cream. 1hr10 mins. #BeforePic

Cowardly fraud @patrickfreyne.bsky.social is attempting to draw me out for a CAGE MATCH via another of his childish taunts. Well, I'm game if he is. Let's just say **everyone should buy tickets to this event** and I'd urge anyone in the front row to wear the plastic ponchos provided.

The most consequential works of fiction do not yield easily to summary because they’re not plotty or propulsive, they are psychological. www.irishtimes.com/culture/book...

Brilliant conversation with Tom Morris & Nicole Flattery on @stingingfly.bsky.social podcast about the small mortifications in a writing career, relentless rejection, the idea of career progression (or lack of), associated anxieties, process or practice, loneliness. stingingfly.org/podcast/tom-...

Two of my favourite flowers in the garden this time of year: red-headed Mohican alliums, tall, fluffy, bendy and weird; and verbena, spreads all over the place and stretches to 6ft.

Being married to an #Editor regularly involves conversations shifting to: "That reminds me of..." and off she goes to pull a whole collection of literary magazines from dusty boxes in the garage... This time it's #Zembla, which I haven't heard of. Looks like a music mag from 80s:

Keelin O'Shea is a Dublin-born and Dublin-based documentary photographer who focuses on capturing care in the city's queer community. See more in GCN's June issue 👉 bit.ly/gcnjun26

Brilliant conversation with Tom Morris & Nicole Flattery on @stingingfly.bsky.social podcast about the small mortifications in a writing career, relentless rejection, the idea of career progression (or lack of), associated anxieties, process or practice, loneliness. stingingfly.org/podcast/tom-...

I'm reading at the #launch of Paper Visual Art (issue 17) along with Maija Makela and Rachel O'Dwyer, July 9th, 6.30pm, Temple Bar Gallery + Studios. Free but ticketed: www.eventbrite.ie/e/journal-la...

Vanilla Pear Drop & Lemon Sherbert Martini

Pride month might be over, but we have one last AMAZING ANNOUNCEMENT! Canada's first community-led trans housing initiative. Built by us, for us. This fall, we are opening 21 permanent, affordable homes in northwest Calgary for Two-Spirit, trans, and gender diverse people: skippingstone.ca/housing

This Vanilla Pear Syrup I'm making for cocktails smells bleedin' divine 🍐

September! irishwriterscentre.ie/courses/quee...

Key Lime Pie for tomorrow's dinner I'm doing for two friends who got engaged. Next up is the Pear Syrup for one of the cocktails. We've to make the breakfast for AirBnb guests, clean their room & rest of house, mow the lawn and go to the dump + cook four courses for 2pm. Why do I do this again? 😃 💍

I'm reading at the #launch of Paper Visual Art (issue 17) along with Maija Makela and Rachel O'Dwyer, July 9th, 6.30pm, Temple Bar Gallery + Studios. Free but ticketed: www.eventbrite.ie/e/journal-la...

Still thinking about this incredible book, it's wild as fook and mustard murky, giddyy-beautiful; the writing is incredible. I'd happily cut the balls off anyone with a bad word to say.

Early post. Nice.

One of the easiest breakfasts I do for #AirBnb guests is Tomato & Tarragon Tart. A ready-to-roll sheet of #vegan puff pastry (€1.39), spread with dijon mustard, mix of sliced coloured tomatoes from the #Polish shop (€3.60), smoked sea salt, chopped fresh tarragon (€1.99), olive oil, in oven 30 mins.

The serpent makes literary fiction eat the apple in the Grove of common sense. And so on. My Elbow is a Spaceship for Cats to Sit On, is my next short story. www.theguardian.com/books/2026/j...

Having a dinner party on Saturday with two arrival cocktails: 1. Vanilla Pear Drop: 60mls vodka, 30mls lemon juice, 30mls homemade pear & vanilla syrup, pear slice OR 2. Lemon Sherbert Martini: 50mls vodka, 30mls lemoncini cream liqueur, 20mls lemon juice, dibdab sherbert, lemon slice. Pick one?

For the day that's in it, a dear friend, gone a year. She also plays guitar & flute here. This is one story I will definitely write, the details are so sad and bizarre. But for now on her anniversary, there's just talent and a haunting invective. Never forgotten, Caroline. youtu.be/5E-dcCqpEzI?...

Someone is going to burst our Airbnb 5 🌟 bubble (123 reviews, the pressure, like!) and when it happens it'll be momentously liberating as we'll be able to hunt them down like Frankenstein's monster on the ice. But it ain't this couple in the meantime.

Very happy to see the book stocked in London's best bookshop. @londonreviewbookshop.co.uk #booksky www.londonreviewbookshop.co.uk/stock/the-co...

-From Quarks to Quasars 1/ Fired government scientists just launched a new site to keep climate data public.The site is called Climate.us & it was created by former staffers behind Climate.gov, the NOAA-run website long used by many for trusted climate information."

Really looking forward to reading this in Wales next week - comes highly recommended - #NightSwimmers by Roisin Maguire published by @serpents-tail.bsky.social 💙📚📚💙 #books #booksky

Our Airbnb room in Dublin, link in bio.

From Paper Visual Art, issue 17

“One day we’re going to build something that destroys us all . . ." Today is a good day to read Lucy Zhang. @dango-ramen.bsky.social

Garden is pure mental this year, needs manners. How is everything over 10ft tall in just over four years and what do we begin to prune/cut down or take out!? Leaving it for now.

Our giant letter to the Minister, delivered outside the Dáil, while he recklessly expands aviation climate pollution: We write to urgently remind you there is a worsening climate and and biodiversity emergency that threatens every child's future.....

Nice to be part of this issue of Paper Visual Art journal, back from the printers 🔥

IKE: A Publishing Project has been quietly building a home for shorter works each beautifully designed, thoughtfully printed, and built to last. We're launching a Kickstarter campaign: 3 new chapbooks that examine the fragile, resilient architecture of identity. www.kickstarter.com/projects/ike...

Listening in on this seminar with the Irish Writers Union, munching 🍕

This course sounds innovative and fab, 11th July, 11am-1pm @irishwriterscentre.bsky.social 'Arabic language poetry from Palestine in both Arabic and English', facilitated by Eman Alhaj Ali. Line by line translations and no Arabic required (but welcome). irishwriterscentre.ie/courses/writ...

'No other author writes more evocatively about the airlessness of hospital, the mundanity of pain...'. A great Substack post by @sineadgleeson.bsky.social on Lucy Grealy, who 'endured 30 failed surgeries, constant pain and a haunted self-reckoning'. momentsofrecognition.substack.com/p/on-lucy-gr...

Roll up, roll up.

Fifty years from now, nobody’s going to believe all of this shit happened. One or two of these batshit things might be possible, but all of it? No. People trying to verify facts on the web will find a data-equivalent of the black asteroid layer in the geological timeline in the form of genAI slop.

Still thinking of this fab book launch on Wednesday night for an absolute epic book that's four novels plus zippy novellas, but holds its own despite the structural complexity, and still manages to be accessible. THE COAST OF EVERYTHING by Guillermo Stitch.

What a cover! I mean, how could a child pick up this book and not want to read it?

Hearing great things so going in:

Still thinking of this fab book launch on Wednesday night for an absolute epic book that's four novels plus zippy novellas, but holds its own despite the structural complexity, and still manages to be accessible. THE COAST OF EVERYTHING by Guillermo Stitch.