What is FORESIGHTERS? Professor Geraint Ellis explains more about our exciting project - sign up for an Information Webinar on our website! #MSCA #HorizonEurope #futures

Want to come to Belfast and write about the future? I'm part of the Foresighters Doctoral Training Network and we have 20 funded places with which you can pursue your work in Queen's University, supervised by me or other team members. More in the comments, and here: www.qub.ac.uk/sites/foresi...

It was wonderful to spend the afternoon in Dublin's Swiss Embassy where Le Garçon venu de la mer, the French translation of The Boy from the Sea, was awarded the Prix des Ambassadeurs de la Francophonie en Irlande. The award is shared with my brilliant translator Pierre Bondil. Thanks to all ...

There are freshly signed copies of The Boy from the Sea in the Waterstones and the Foyles on the Tottenham Court Road, London.

I'm looking after two Cathedral Quarter Arts Festival events this week. Neither are actually in Belfast's Cathedral Quarter, they're both in the Seamus Heaney Centre at Queens. See the replies:

Donegal. (I'm sorry I didn't get the artist's name but it's a window in Dungloe).

Went to the 10,000 year old Moneystaghan Bog yesterday for a workshop with writers. We had guidance from Niamh Doran and Maria Mulholland from the RSPB. We were in the area of Toner's Bog, famous from Seamus Heaney's poem Digging. Thanks to Maria and Niamh and to all at the Seamus Heaney HomePlace.

Great example of textual ambiguity on a door in the Glasshouse Hotel, Sligo.

These are the rough locations of a few upcoming events I'm doing, see the thread for info and links.

Field Notes: Writing the Natural World with Garrett Carr. This workshop is happening May 2nd, in Partnership with RSPB NI. First we go to Moneystaghan Bog to learn about the ecology and character of the bogland then return to the Seamus Heaney HomePlace for some writing. Link is in the comments.

It's great to have The Boy from the Sea on the shortlist for the 2026 Kerry Group Irish Novel of the Year Award. Congratulations to the other nominees, hopefully we'll meet in May. This year’s shortlist was selected by adjudicators Nicola Sturgeon and Andrew O’Hagan. My thanks to them.

Nigerian vessels and Killybegs: A news story from the Donegal Democrat, 1988.

The Boy from the Sea was, I'm delighted to hear, the most borrowed book in Sligo Library last year so I'm glad to be visiting there soon to talk about the novel. Date: April 29. Time: 6:30pm - 8:00pm. Location: Sligo Central Library.

Number 58 in a list of books by students of the Seamus Heaney Centre at Queens: EVERYTHING THAT IS BEAUTIFUL by Louise Nealon, published by @manillapress.bsky.social in a few days. "Wise, brutal and razor-sharp," says the Irish Times.

The audiobook of The Boy from the Sea, narrated by the brilliant Stanley Townsend, is an Audible Monthly Deal for April, you can get it for £4.99 this month.

I'm very happy to hear The Boy from the Sea, or rather Le Garçon Venu de la Mer has won the Prix Littéraire des Ambassadeurs de la Francophonie en Irlande. It was great to work with Pierre Bondil on the French translation of the novel. We exchanged many emails during the process.

Donegal.

Killybegs in the 1960s. That's Phyllis, I'd say, on the left. (Thank you to Patrick O'Donnell and the Killybegs Facebook group for the photo).

Nice to be on this list with @garrettcarr.bsky.social @penguinrandomhouse.bsky.social global.penguinrandomhouse.com/announcement...

Donegal.

Wonderful to have The Boy from the Sea on the The British Book Award shortlist for the Book of the Year (debut fiction) award. We find out who has won on May 11th.

When I was writing The Boy from the Sea I found it very useful to realise, or to decide, that it was Historical Fiction. So it is great to see that the novel topping that particular chart on Amazon. Thank you to all the readers out there.

Good morning. I see The Boy from the Sea is just 99p for Kindle at the moment. It's a limited time deal.

Matthew Rice's first poetry collection was number 2 on my list of books from the Seamus Heaney Centre at Queens and PLASTIC, just published, is 57. "Goes where poetry seldom does: the factory floor, the canteen, the night shift ... real and vital work," says Nick Laird. Published by Fitzcarraldo.

What a great window! Thanks to everyone at Waterstones in Cirencester.

If you enjoyed @garrettcarr.bsky.social's The Boy From The Sea, you might like his journey walking the border (I did, very much)

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Nice seagulls! Thanks to everyone at www.forumbooksshop.com for this brilliant display.

Delighted to say that The Boy from the Sea is Waterstones Fiction Book of the Month. Thank you to the Waterstones team and I look forward to meeting some of you in England in the next few days.

See you soon England.

Ian McDonald has published plenty and was named a Grand Master of Science Fiction by the European Science Fiction Society in 2019, but, nonetheless, his latest was written while he was studying in the SHC with us and it is number 56 on my list. BOY, WITH ACCIDENTAL DINOSAUR is published by Tor.

Hello Spanish readers of the world. El chico que vino del mar is out now.

Upcoming events for in England for The Boy from the Sea. Links are on my website, garrettcarr.net. See you then! Stockport, Serenity Booksellers in Romiley. Monday 2nd February. Newcastle, The Bound in Whitley Bay. Tuesday 3rd February. London, Waterstones in Streatham. Wednesday 4th February.

The next London Irish Centre Book Club (online) is 27 January & the book will be The Boy from the Sea, by Garrett Carr Louise Kennedy, author of Trespasses, described the book as "Compulsive reading ....Compassionate, lyrical and full of devilment" Book now👇 https://ow.ly/v0Ql50XBort

The folks at Solas Nua, Washington DC, are reading The Boy from the Sea for their book club this month. They'll be meeting via Zoom on Monday January 12th and you're invited: www.solasnua.org/events/ficti...

The paperback of The Boy from the Sea will be out at the end of January and I have a few events upcoming in England. See you then.

Meine 3 Lieblingsbücher des Jahres 2025 #germanbooksky @garrettcarr.bsky.social @amandapetersauthor.bsky.social @rowohlt.bsky.social @harpercollins.bsky.social #lieblingsbücher #lieblingsromane

The St. Catherine is exactly what the Christine Dawn looks like. I got this photo from a Killybegs Facebook group. Apparently the St. Catherine is still fishing, based on Achill island now.

My son's Religious Education exam flashcards on the plagues of Egypt.

My father's logbook from this days learning to pilot an aircraft. A forced landing, I notice, in 1973.

Dingle, County Kerry.

Opening in half an hour, Shiro Masuyama’s Borderline Project. All welcome, Marie Heaney Square, beside the Seamus Heaney Centre, Belfast.

Tomorrow we'll have a visitor to the Seamus Heaney Centre; Japanese artist Shiro Masuyama will be bringing his Borderline Project Caravan. You can visit the caravan anytime from 11am in Marie Heaney Square (next to the SHC). Shiro will discuss it and some of his other work in the SHC at 3pm.

On Tuesday, a very special caravan is will be visiting the Heaney Centre, Belfast, for a day. All welcome.

You can vote online and from anywhere in the world.

At last, the last. This was my son's colouring pencil project, the GAA crests of each of Ireland's counties. 32 out of 32: Armagh.

31 of 32: Derry.

Just had a lovely woman in our shop in Donegal, searching for her lost twin sister. Appreciate it if my Irish followers would retweet this. Thank you.

Next Thursday, Dublin, not too late. Come along!

Delighted that The Boy from the Sea has been nominated for the Irish Book Awards. It's up for the Eason Novel of the Year. Thank you to all. You get a vote! You can vote from anywhere in the world. www.irishbookawards.ie/vote/ Congratulations to all the nominated authors.