Tradition and the individual talent

I'm judging the Maria Edgeworth Festival's poetry competition this year 🥳 and I would love to read your work! The deadline is the 27th of February 🌸 mariaedgeworthcenter.com/.../maria-ed...

#Greenland 🙏🏻

Copenhagen town hall square, Denmark right now. Massive solidarity with Greenland demonstrations. Source: dr.dk

From The Stinging Fly - The Climate Issue - a short story of brilliance - Night of the Big Wind by @junec.bsky.social - Quick witted, sharp as a tack. Writing like this is hugely inspiring. 🙏🏻

Amazing @martinadalton.bsky.social 🤗 Congratulations 🙌🏻 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻

I'm on all social media but I intend to be my most real self here and substack so you can follow me there if you've not grown tired of me here 🌷💀🌷 substack.com/@mollytwomey...

This is completely accurate.

@mabreen.bsky.social Happy New Year to the best Line Manager I ever had xx 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻🙏🏻

2026 🙏🏻

A newborn baby surviving in terribly tough circumstances. Please help if you can. ❤️ 🙏

Please send good wishes that my second novel will be picked up by a Literary Agent and a publisher. It’s currently out for submission 😱

Almost 400 deer culled at Killarney National Park

It's been a rough year for Europe's fish stocks. The cause? Massive overfishing. Nature can bounce back. In the EU, we have legislative tools to make that happen, like the EU Common Fisheries Policy. But we need more urgency in the implementation. Please share this post 🔁

Coming Soon! ✨ NEW YEAR'S EVE WITH MIKE & NOEL AND FRIENDS! 31st Dec 10:35pm! Join the best New Year's Eve Party this year with hosts #NoelCroninBEM & @MikeReadUK The greatest ever star-studded end of year party! #TPTVsubtitles

Cannot wait to hear these stories!!!!

Get it before it’s gone!!

SPOTLIGHT #poetry book, Blackbird Singing at Dusk by @wendypratt.bsky.social , an illuminating, lyrical exploration of place, nature, rural working-class lives, ancestors & history. 'This book will absorb your heart, mind & soul' - @janeburn.bsky.social In our sale, £7.99 ninearchespress.com/shop

34- There is no better chronicler of the Anthropocene, of human relationships with the natural world they seem hell-bent on destroying, and of the glimmers of hope that it doens’t have to be this way, than @robgmacfarlane.bsky.social #BookSky💙📚 #BooksOf2025

Wow. What a cover!

It's that day. As i've got older, I have felt the death of John Lennon more deeply. What a fucking waste A genius

The poet and their accountant

@talkingpicturestv.bsky.social Is the place to be this Christmas 🎄

“The Train” (1920) by Claughton Pellew (1890-1966) who I'm sure all my friends in Cornwall know well. I didn't know him well at all so here's a few notes for anyone as thick as me: www.bookroomartpress.co.uk/.../claughto... and trunchhistory.weebly.com/artists.html

Howya - just figured out how to really switch from X/Twitter and I'm properly here now! (I think) If we've never met WHAT IS THE CRAIC! This is my website colmkeeganpoetry.com And here's an example of the type of poems I write Nice to meet you 👋

My debut WW2 novel, Love Will Have Its Way, would make a great Christmas present. Set in #waterford, Ireland, Cornwall and Kent. Available in The Book Centre, Waterford and through my website www.joycebwriter.com

HYMN TO ALL THE RESTLESS GIRLS by Annemarie Ní Churreáin & FALLEN by Audrey Molloy The Gallery Press Launch @booksupstairs.bsky.social last week 💫

The Benefactors is Waterstones Irish Book of the Year. I could not be more pleased.

My WW2 novel, Love Will Have It’s Way is on sale in The Book Centre, Waterford for Christmas 🎄 For those with an interest in local history. The story is set in #Waterford #Kent and #Cornwall during WW2. It’s also available to order through my website. Link in my bio.

Leonard McCombe, Dublin, 1957

Well done, Rekha 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻

What a great cover!

So sorry to hear about Prunella Scales. After Henry is STILL one of my favourite sitcoms of all time.

#Sybil #PrunellaScales 🙏🏻

#PrunellaScales 🙏🏻

Issue 20 (autumn/winter 2025) has gone to print! Our landmark 20th issue, guest edited by acclaimed author @clarakiyoko.bsky.social, has a speculative fiction theme and marks our tenth anniversary in print. The beautiful cover art is by @erinconnally.bsky.social ✨ bansheepress.org/shop/p/issue...

Trespasses trailer. I can’t believe how good it looks. 🙏 youtu.be/HNJF5No6NU0

Whey-hey!! AGENT ZO has been shortlisted for the Polish Foreign Ministry’s biannual history book prize! I couldn’t be more delighted! Full list: www.gov.pl/web/diplomac...