STATE, IN RELATION. My piece - Word Rain - is designed to be read multiple ways. Launching Sunday 14th at TBG+S, and available to buy at Dublin Art Book Fair. 📸: @sonyagildea.bsky.social

⭐Well, she's arrived—the 2026 Irish Writers Handbook⭐ Find yours here ⬇️ ⬇️⬇️ and in all good bookshops imminently! wordwellbooks.com/index.php?ro... @stomaselli.bsky.social @janecasey.bsky.social @niamhgarvey.bsky.social @oliviahopewriter.bsky.social @irishwriterscentre.bsky.social

Love June's story, about a tempest, but also a particularly Irish version of the Wizard of Oz. 🌀 🌀 🌀

Very pleased to share an essay on the craft (& crafting) of essays in the Irish Writers Handbook 2026. Thank you to @ruthmckee.bsky.social for commissioning. @booksireland.bsky.social wordwellbooks.com/index.php?ro...

STATE, IN RELATION Jointly created by @stomaselli.bsky.social Clare Bell, Nathan O'Donnell, Nithy Kasa @oeiny.bsky.social Annemarie Ní Churreáin & myself Launch & readings 14 Dec 4pm DUBLIN ART BOOK FAIR @tbgands.bsky.social @artscouncilireland.bsky.social www.templebargallery.com/whats-on/eve...

Between March 2024 & May 2025 of group of writers & artists (myself included) participated in a set of workshops to jointly create the printed publication, State, in Relation, our response to the Irish Constitution. Launching 14th December at DABF: www.templebargallery.com/whats-on/eve...

A note to say I've joined @irishwriterscentre.bsky.social panel for one-to-one mentoring in fiction, creative non-fiction and essays. More details, including how to engage me, on the IWC website. irishwriterscentre.ie/one-to-one-m...

My thoughts and reflections on Joakim Norling's announcement of the closure of @timglaseteditions.bsky.social : derekbeaulieu.ca/2025/03/16/t... and thank you so much Joakim -- your vision and dedication has been inspirational.

Saddened to hear @timglaseteditions.bsky.social are winding up operations: timglaset.com/so/adPMUUlvs...

Studio 6 Collective A long & inspiring day w/ fellow collaborators on this collective project, Nathan O'Donnell, Clare Bell, Annemarie Ní Churreáin @oeiny.bsky.social @stomaselli.bsky.social Nithy Kasa & creative partners TBG+S w/thanks @artscouncilireland.bsky.social for making such work possible

Writing about this: youtu.be/NgSWm9_BZjs?...

Irish language rap group Kneecap has won a discrimination case over the British govt's refusal to award them an arts grant

A sneak peek at a very special issue of gorse. Coming early next year. #herecomesthesun #gorse14

Good list. But there's a short story collection on there.

Because there are just so many amazing writers and publications in Ireland we had to have a spillover starter pack! Starter pack 1: go.bsky.app/M7713mj Starter pack II: go.bsky.app/EvJAiPv

Yesterday, the @stingingfly.bsky.social podcast discussed my short story 'Feeling Gravity's Pull'.... stingingfly.org/podcast/mary...

Last year I was a judge for the Irish Writers' Centre Novel Fair competition. This year they asked me for tips on how to write a synopsis. I started with this: irishwriterscentre.ie/its-the-beat...

'Paris France may be the work that best captures Stein’s combative, contradictory nature: an avant garde book that trashes the avant garde surrealists.' www.theguardian.com/books/2024/f...

Absolute pleasure to judge the Galley Beggar Press Short Story Prize 2023/24. Here's the three stories on the shortlist: www.galleybeggar.co.uk/prize

Truth/False: Coughing is a form of love. (Yoko Ono) #valentinesday

Michael Stipe reviews his 35 greatest outfits: www.gq.com/gallery/mich...

Against Silence: A Palestinian Writing Series: #CeasefireNOW

from Bell's 1951 “The Telephone and How We Use It”: instructions on how to use a dial telephone and how to be a good telephone neighbor #othernetworks

I would echo what my fellow judge Sharmilla Beezmohun said, that it was a great experience. But it was also a difficult experience, in that the standard of entries was so high. Congratulations to all winners, runners-up & those highly commended. irishwriterscentre.ie/12-emerging-...

[email protected] asked me to pick my cultural highlights of the year. I went with books by artists who are writers, writers who are artists: www.galleybeggar.co.uk/advent-calen...

Orson Welles made Christmas cards for his friends and he kind of had a theme.

Wendy Erskine has programmed banging events for Dublin Art Book Fair. Tonight, I join Wendy, & Will Ashon & Nithy Kasa to think about 'totalising perspectives & polyphony, people & place, tradition & innovation, & chance.' Free to attend: www.templebargallery.com/whats-on/eve...

Leaving the house for some things. 1/ We are the Passengers, with Wendy Erskine, Nithy Kasa & Will Ashon, for Dublin Art Book Fair: www.templebargallery.com/whats-on/eve... 2/ Nollaig na mBan 2024, Bodies of Work. On the soapbox to talk about gorse journal: irishwriterscentre.ie/whats-on/nol...

The mighty Wenday Erskine has curated this years' Dublin Art Book Fair at Temple Bar Gallery + Studios. I'm joining Will Ashon & Nithy Kasa to talk about 'totalising perspectives & polyphony, people & place, tradition & innovation. And chance.' 13th December: www.templebargallery.com/whats-on/eve...

Please, if you can, shop local.

Having the chats with Diarmuid Hester. His book, Nothing Ever Just Disappears: Seven Hidden Histories, "celebrates the courage it took for these queer people merely to exist, and exist honestly, in a hostile world." www.theguardian.com/books/2023/a...

Bureau of the Centre for the Study of Surrealism and its Legacy, Mark Dion (2019). More here: bookworks.org.uk/publishing/s...

Very much looking forward to 'My Cinema', a volume of the writings of Marguerite Duras on her exceptional films. Translated by Daniella Shreir. Published next month by Another Gaze Editions. anothergazeeditions.com

An RTE Arena special on the mighty @winterpapers.bsky.social 9. Thanks to Kerri ní Dochartaigh for singling out my interview with Niamh McCann, & Niamh's line, 'I want to put us all into the same location of personal responsibility.' www.rte.ie/radio/radio1...

We're having an event to say hello to Winter Papers 9 this Saturday (Nov 11th) as part of Dublin Book Festival.

...and they're almost always the best books too

1/ I wrote my first (& only) short story for 'Vigilantia: what happens when artists and writers pay attention to Mogwai' (published by Chroma Editions, September 2023). Paylist of some of the tracks riffed on here: open.spotify.com/playlist/4jM...

'It shows that a queer sense of place is central to the history of the 20th century & powerfully evokes how much is lost when these spaces are forgotten.' Looking forward to talking to Diarmuid Hester on 16th November. Free to attend, but grab a ticket here: booksupstairs.ie/all-events/h...