Can a TV documentary--filmed in your #Irish hometown--capture the real story? To find out, I watched the clip and then wrote a micro #memoir, "Christmas Lies and Lights" set in that same town (TV clip included): ainegreaney.medium.com/christmas-de... @irishexpat.bsky.social @irishstewpodcast.com

Thank you, @paragraphplanet.bsky.social, for publishing my #flashficction piece, "No Goodbye." #writingcommunity #Irishwriters #amwriting #microfiction

@writingcommunity.bsky.social - Here's a piece I wrote a while back. It's for those of us who *aren't* all jingle bells at this time of year! @writeforwellbeing.bsky.social thewisdomdaily.com/blue-christm...

@writeforwellbeing.bsky.social I was inspired by this medical humanities journal's call for short pieces on "House Calls and Home Care." I've wanted to write this little story (400 word limit) for a very long time. See full essay here 👉 tinyurl.com/nsxxj9h3

🎁 #Writers love that gift that makes the writing life easier. I've listed 8 gift ideas, including < $10 and those for > $10. Samples: -A packet of pocket-sized notebooks (<$10) -A voucher for a co-working space or café (>$10) What would *you* add to the list? www.ainegreaney.com/writingonwri...

@writingcommunity.bsky.social - Too often, we think of fictional or memoir settings as another item on the how-to-write list. But our geographical or temporal settings can be more--much more. Grateful to @booktrib.bsky.social for inviting me to write this → tinyurl.com/4z3esmwn

Wednesday night! Join us at the Salem Athenaeum for "Writers in Your Neighborhood." Honored to be with other local writers from North of Boston.

"Naming and loving. They’re not the same thing ... Just like the bird songs, each of our stories is unique." Enjoy this piece o' mine on nature vs being codified by our alpha-numeric identifiers. @writingcommunity.bsky.social @massaabb.bsky.social @naturewriting.bsky.social 🔽🔽 tinyurl.com/5brsh2ej

Looking forward to virtual workshop, "Writing Your Personal Essay" at the @irishwriterscentre.bsky.social. Enrollments now full, so it'll be (as always) a lively group. Look at the centre's other workshops and programs. irishwriterscentre.ie #irishwriters #writingworkshops ⬇️ ⬇️

A few spots open in virtual #writing workshop from the @irishwriterscentre.bsky.social. Use heirlooms, keepsakes or a beloved book or photo to inspire a short memoir, story, essay. @irishexpat.bsky.social @writing.ie New writers or those trying a new genre are welcome. tinyurl.com/3zcnhjc6

#BBF2025 - Incredible day yesterday at Boston Book Festival. Our panel topic: how our creative writing confront issues of place, displacement and the concept of home. It was a thrill to see everyone coming together to honor literacy and literature. @belmontbooks.bsky.social #BostonBookFestival

#BBF2025 - 📗Only 2+ days until Boston Book Festival on October 23. I'm on an author panel, "Place and Displacement: How We Find and Make Home," at 2pm. Discussing how we shape, and are shaped by, the places we call home. #writingcommunity #Authors #Immigrantwriters bostonbookfest.org/schedule/

#WritingCommunity✍️Join us for this virtual writing workshop w/ HerStories Project on Nov 3. For #fiction + #nonfiction writers! #writingworkshop ➡️ Opening scenes ➡️ Showing versus telling ➡️ Crafting dialogue (or not) ➡️ Closing scenes Info, registration: www.theherstoriesproject.com/making-a-scene

Have you noticed? From "The Atlantic" to "The New Yorker," quite a few publications are writing and sharing about our private and shared anxiety. Writing ✍can't be a cure-all, but it may help. Here are my 6 tips for writing during these anxious times: 👇 tinyurl.com/yuaexp3m

Loved doing this interview on writing for wellness + how journaling can support our public-facing writing. Take a read. Or register for Monday, October 13th virtual workshop! #Writing #WritingCommunity #IrishBluesky #Authors&Writing tinyurl.com/4xhcyar5

Are you a writer balancing your creative life with a day job? Enjoy my interview with @createwritenow.bsky.social and Kauffman. #writing #Authors www.youtube.com/watch?v=NxTB...

One of my summer 2025 highlights was the week-long women's ✍writing retreat at The Pyramid Life Center, NY. On our final day, one workshop participant slipped a thank-you note onto my desk. It really doesn't get better than this. ❤️ 🙏 #Writing #writingandbooks #writingcommunity #writingworkshops

#WritingCommunity - New writing journal. I've been doing this since I was 14 and it still feels magical. Also, my writing pen was crafted from two old dining room chairs. #Authors

#movinday #Writing #Backtoschool And oldie but hopefully goodie personal essay: www.wbur.org/cognoscenti/...

#Writing - This is a great list from Erika Dreyfus. www.erikadreifus.com/2012/01/frid...

#WritingCommunity - Latest blog post: How to find and keep the joy in our writing #Writing #Authors #Journalling www.ainegreaney.com/tipsforwrite...

#WritingCommunity - Places to submit our personal essays. rafalreyzer.com/magazines-we...

#authorship #creativewriting #editing #amwriting #writingcommunity inventingrealityediting.com/2...

#Booksky #authors #writingcommunity - 📚Just had this piece, "Willie Nelson and the Three G’s of Literary Citizenship" published at Brevity Magazine brevity.wordpress.com/2025/07/24/w...

My local TV interview. Sample topics: 📚 My latest book ✍️ Writing - writing about place 👨‍⚕️ Writing for #wellness youtu.be/ucs6oX60ncg

An essay on bereavement and loss and the folks who come to help us in our hour of need #Authors, #Writing #Irishwriters hopkinsmedicalhumanities.org/tendon-magaz...

#horrorwriter #amwriting #writingcommunity #indieauthor #indieauthors inventingrealityediting.com/2...

After five years of sweat, tears and elbow grease, I'm happy to announce that my memoir, #BarnGothic, will be published by @islandpress.bsky.social on November 13th, 2025. It's a book that I owed my family and other farmers like them.

#WritingCommunity - I learned to knit when I was 4. I've been knitting ever since. Two years ago, I decided to combine my two loves (knitting and writing) in this braided, coming-of-age essay. Enjoy! #Bloomday ainegreaneywriting.blogspot.com/2024/07/unna...

Just had this essay published at The Wisdom Daily. It's about witnessing my first school prom in America. Yes, I break one of the 7 deadly sins here--but it was worth it! #writingandbooks #Irishwriters #essays #memoir #booksky tinyurl.com/3d4c8mpt

#Irishwriters #Authors #WritingCommunity - Have an essay or story that's your own, personal favorite? Share here! This is among my top three, pubbed in @litromagazine.bsky.social www.litromagazine.com/every-saturd...

#WritingCommunity ✒️ - Get them while they're hot! 😎 "Tips for your 😎 summer writers retreat: www.ainegreaney.com/blog/tips-fo...

I had the pleasure of doing this little interview with Creative Process Podcast recently 🖤 www.creativeprocess.info/writers-inte...

A short essay on summer travel--and the stories that we pack and carry on board. #Irishwriters #Writing www.journalofexpressivewriting.com/post/roll-st...

What's the coolest #summer place to create and write? Scope out the porch or patio at your local coffee shop or café. But first: Get your free, how-to ✏️writing tips. #Writingtips www.ainegreaney.com/blog/how-to-...

Some choice places to send your writing to this week… or at least a list to save and think “I’ll do this later” and then forget 🖤 Submission details & links to their websites: www.chillsubs.com/lists/13_pay... #writingcommunity

#WritingCommunity ✒️Q: What do you get when you ask a group of Monday-morning teens to "write about a place where you feel *really* uncomfortable?" A: Here at @booktrib.bsky.social, where I unpack the power of place and setting in crafting our stories. #writingtips → booktrib.com/2025/05/29/w...

I love this sensual piece by @kitdewaal.com. It deftly combines memory, lived experience, opinion and advocacy. Also resonated with my own experiences.

You do NOT have to accept this! Post on the public comments to pressure them to NOT do this! www.regulations.gov/commenton/FD...

#InternationalFamilyDay #Writing ✍️How to write about folks and family→ www.ainegreaney.com/blog/writing...

✍️Writing Tough Stuff: Five Tips to Make it Easier: ✍️https://www.ainegreaney.com/blog/writing-tough-stuff #Writing #WritingCommunity

#Booksky 📖 It's Mother's Day here in the U.S. So sharing this piece on writing the "baddie mother." As the fictional Mommie Dearest upends our learned beliefs and expectations, why does this character sizzle on the page? #Writing #writersandreaders #books ainegreaney.medium.com/mother-gone-...

Here's an excerpt from my short fiction collection at @storeybookreviews.bsky.social. Thank you!

There's nothing like hearing from a reader friend. #Booksky Very grateful.

I loved this essay. Take a read ...

#Bealtaine here on the #Massachusetts coast. Very low tide this morning.

#writingtip #writingtips #BraveWrite #AuthorLife#writers inventingrealityediting.com/2...

@writingcommunity.bsky.social @wrtrstat.bsky.social "Finding and Keeping the Joy in Writing." I loved writing this guest blog, including my 4 tips. Get link to full article and a review of my short-fiction collection, "Trespassers and Other Stories" at LINK 👉 tinyurl.com/yr7fcpz2

Finding and Keeping the Joy in Writing. Guest post at Madeline Sharples book-review and writing site. #booksky #WritingCommunity #Writingandbooks @womenwritersnet.bsky.social www.madelinesharples.com/heres-though...

#Booksky "And without all of these (kiddie novels), would I have grown into that teenage kid, ostensibly a (sort of) “good girl,” who, by her 19th birthday, had read three banned books?" #WorldBookDay #Readers #Irishwriters www.ainegreaney.com/blog/on-worl...