The Barbellion Prize PAST WINNERS! 🏆🏆🏆 2020: Riva Lehrer Golem Girl: A Memoir (One World/Virago Press) 2021: What Willow Says @lynnbuckle.bsky.social (@epoquepress.bsky.social) 2022: @lettymchugh.bsky.social Book of Hours: An Almanac for The Seasons of The Soul (Self-published w/support from DAO)

The Groundsmen, the debut novel by @barbellionprize.bsky.social winning author @lynnbuckle.bsky.social ‘fierce and fearless’ Available from your local bookshop, as ePub or direct from our website: www.epoquepress.com/online-store... #epoquepress #books #bookrecommendations #booksky

Submissions for the 2026 Barbellion Prize are open! The Barbellion Prize celebrates & promotes writing that represents the experience of chronic illness & disability. Subs open 2nd April-1st September, 2026. Judges: Penny Pepper, Dr David Bolt & Letty McHugh. Full details: barbellionprize.org

A trailer for this Thursday's live online event with author Isabel Waidner and their new novel AS IF. (The sound doesn't work, so you'll have to take my word for it.) If you haven't already received an invitation and want to join us please email via my website davidjcollard.wixsite.com/my-site

Great to see the Barbellion Prize winning What Willow Says by @lynnbuckle.bsky.social reaching a wider audience through the recent French publication by Calmann Levy (Ce que disent les saules - translated by Catherine Richard-Mas) Some fantastic bookseller reviews also coming through. #booksky

You can now read What Willow Says in French! Published by Calmann Levy and translated by Catherine Richard-Mas

@dublintheatrefest.bsky.social did you proud today @ilyakaminsky.bsky.social 🤟staging Deaf Republic

A shortlist to get excited about - isn't that what we want from a prize? Huge congratulations @benpester.bsky.social @cdrose.bsky.social Sarah Hall Colwill Brown (who's had a very good week!) Yrsa Daley-Ward & Charlie Porter www.theguardian.com/books/2025/o...

The Groundsmen by @lynnbuckle.bsky.social ‘a fierce and fearless new voice’ ‘provocative and obsessive’ #epoquepresstitles #epoquepressauthors #books #book #bookcommunity #bookrecommendation

Poets, rappers, and hedges. That’s the deal this weekend at Mount Brisco Festival of Hedges! tickets.mountbriscoe.ie/events/poetr...

What Willow Say, by @lynnbuckle.bsky.social Winner of the Barbellion Prize 2021 ‘A moving, delicate book for this moment.’ ‘Evocative, carefully crafted and full of heart,’ Available from you local bookshop, as ePub or direct from us: www.epoquepress.com/online-store... #books

Two events in Dublin next week: the launch of my latest book 'A Crumpled Swan' at Hodges Figgis (Thursday from 6pm, and free, and all welcome) and a Dada cabaret at the James Joyce Centre (Friday 13th. Tickets here: jamesjoyce.ie/events/his-a... All join in with the shoutmost shoviality.

The Groundsmen, the debut novel by the Barbellion Prize winning author @lynnbuckle.bsky.social ‘fierce and fearless’ ‘provocative and obsessive’ Available from your local bookshop, as ePub or direct from us www.epoquepress.com/online-store... #epoquepresstitles #epoquepressauthors #books

Looking forward to meeting all the writers and artists at the Writing the Land Retreat in Doolin this weekend to deliver my workshop Saved by Words - not just the written words! #ISL

@byddi.bsky.social launching into her latest novel Barren @irishwriterscentre.bsky.social

Join me in conversation with Fiona O'Rourke for the Dublin launch of Barren 🗓 Wednesday 14 May 2025 🕡 6:30pm – 8:30pm 📍 @irishwriterscentre.bsky.social Dublin RSVP via link: irishwriterscentre.ie/whats-on/boo... #BookLaunch #IrishWriters #DublinEvents #AmReading #WomenWriters #LiteraryNight

If you're in Dublin on Friday 13th June please join me and some very special guests for an evening of Joyce-aligned Dada cavortings. Music, poetry, performance, readings and a climax involving noisy audience participation. All welcome - not just Joyceans www.bloomsdayfestival.ie/event/his-ar...

I’m in a watery mood for today’s accessible climate writing session with Kildare Arts & Library Service in Naas. Might swim via canal if this rain persists 💦

What Willow Say, by @lynnbuckle.bsky.social Winner of The Barbellion Prize 2021 2021 ‘A moving, delicate book for this moment.’ ‘Evocative, carefully crafted and full of heart,’ Available from you local bookshop, as ePub or direct from us: www.epoquepress.com/online-store...

Let Ailbhe’ Tale flow through your Sunday morning as she swims through Dublin’s waters in this eco tale from a deaf perspective. Commissioned in 2021 as a UNESCO City of Lit Writer in Residence nationalcentreforwriting.org.uk/writing-hub/...

The Groundsmen by @lynnbuckle.bsky.social ‘a fierce and fearless new voice’ ‘provocative and obsessive’ #epoquepresstitles #epoquepressauthors #books #book #bookcommunity #bookrecommendation

Book your spot at this🦻inclusive climate writing workshop which I will host on 26th April at Naas Library as part of their Eco Lines series, in conjunction with Chime national D/deaf & Hard of Hearing Charity www.tickettailor.com/events/naasl...

THE SHORTLIST. Stories have the unique ability to spark imagination, offer new perspectives and make complex issues resonate. These five novels do just that - spanning genres and geographies, they explore resilience, justice, community and what it means to live in a changing world.

Are you working on creative non-fiction that explores the climate crisis? Send us your creative non-fiction pitches for our upcoming Climate Issue. Our Winter 2025-26 issue will have a special focus on the climate crisis. Deadline: March 31st, 2025 stingingfly.org/news/submiss...

@forwardprizes.bsky.social accepts poetry video entries in BSL! Get those entries in 🤟

Our St Brigid’s Day readings from her sacred well in Co Kildare. Featuring Kevin Bateman, Mairead Carroll, Fiona Smith, Lynn Buckle and Doreen Duffy youtu.be/aBofFnREwb8?...

NEWS: Calling all writers! Receive mentoring from an acclaimed Irish writer of your choice. Writers living in all 32 counties can apply. Accepted forms: fiction, creative non-fiction, poetry and Children's/YA fiction. Deadline to apply: Sun 2 March 2025, 5pm irishwriterscentre.ie/national-men...

Join us in the heart of Kildare for some poetry on St Brigid’s Day for another Event in Spiritual Places That People Have Forgotten to Visit hosted by surrealist poet Kevin Bateman

Today marks the fiftieth anniversary of the broadcast of the first-ever broadcast of an Irish Sign Language news programme on RTÉ.

Check out the Barbellion Prize winning book, What Willow Says by @lynnbuckle.bsky.social and be taken on ‘a captivating journey’ by this ‘exquisitely sculpted’ story. From your local bookshop, as ePub and direct from us: epoquepress.com/online-store/W…#epoquepresstitlese#epoquepressauthorsrs

❄️Winter Course Programme❄️ Browse our first batch of winter courses! Starting as early as Jan 7th, we have a range of in-person and online courses including novel writing, short story writing, poetry and creative non-fiction✒️ Browse courses⬇️ irishwriterscentre.ie/courses/

The Saturday from 5pm, on most podcast platforms, the #poetry #podcast Eat the Storms is playing host to a luscious league of poets including Klaus Funnell, Cathy Briel & Melanie Joy On most podcast platforms to ensure you Stay Bloody Poetic 😉

I appreciate all of you who use the Alt-text description for the images you post. As a blind dude I feel so much more included here. For those of you who forget: Did you know there’s a reminder in Settings/Accessibility to toggle on & then it won’t let you post image without Alt-text. Thanks 🙏😎

I'd really like to build this list - I've probably forgotten lots, or haven't yet found you - who else is here that I should include? go.bsky.app/JbTr8AN

Winter Papers Volume 10 has arrived! An annual anthology for the arts, it offers fiction, non-fiction, poetry, photography, visual arts, craft interviews and in-conversation pieces on writing, film, theatre, photography and music - it is a TOTAL delight & I am very excited!!

Over 60? Writer? This is for you

Heading off to Dingle for the weekend for Dingle Literature Festival. Why not throw your homework onto the fire and join us for a discussion on Ghost Mountain tomorrow. dinglelit.ie/news/event/g...

Just so you know the kinda thing I write, here are my published novels, short stories, essays and, yikes, it’s mostly literary fiction with an ISL twist on what I cannot hear and too many trees, leaves and Irish peat bogs