Delighted to see my short story Oboe highly commended in the Bridport Prize. @bridportprize.bsky.social bridportprize.org.uk/wp-content/u...

A huge thanks to @daithitoms.bsky.social and Shane Tivenan for a great conversation at Prismatic Pages in Oslo last weekend.

Israeli drones drop grenades near UN peacekeepers in Lebanon

Dagens avis: klassekampen.no/utgave/2025-...

Catriona Shine @catrionashine.bsky.social is an Irish-Norwegian writer and architect. Her debut novel, Habitat, published by the Lilliput Press, was a Sunday Times, Irish Times and The Journal Most Anticipated Book of 2024, RTÉ Book of the Week, and was longlisted for the McKitterick Prize. Catriona

Calling all European creators, please read and sign this open letter to the European Commission for Tech Sovereignty, Security and Democracy calling for AI regulation, and copyright protection and enforcement. creators-for-europe-united.eu #AI #europe #creators #copyright

Thanks to all at Cork World Book Fest!

It has been a wonderful privilege to stay at Hawthornden Castle for a writers’ residency. It’s a beautiful place and I made some great friends. #writing #hawthornden #writingretreat #novel #edinburgh #scotland #castle

I'll have the pleasure of reading and conversing with Christine Dwyer Hickey, Kevin Curran (another Lilliput author) and Mary Morrissy at the opening to Cork World Book Festival this Tuesday 7pm at Cork City Library. Come along if you can!

Free to enter #writing competition as part of annual #literaryfestival in lovely Ponta Lopud near #Dubrobnik #Croatia entry can be short story, poetry, essay. Theme is hotels: 'what do their walls feel+what stories do they long to tell?' Info and t+cs here

What are the good search engines now that Google is broken?

I wrote about Gaza, and about writing about Gaza www.irishtimes.com/opinion/2025...

Making an effort to repost (not just like) all the posts on goodness, kindness, beauty, optimism. Be the change you want to see in the world (or at least on BlueSky) 😊

Read Mary Morrissey’s short essay on her Issue 14 short story, Mature People thelonelycrowd.org/2025/04/13/a...

⌛Solvej Balle on Time, Wonder, & Writing the Impossible⏳ On this week's podcast Solvej Balle returns to the bookshop she once called home to discuss her monumental "On the Calculation of Volume". 🎧: pod.fo/e/2c6094 @thebookerprizes.bsky.social @faberbooks.bsky.social @ndbooks.bsky.social #BookSky

There's a lovely review of Habitat by Madeline Beach Carey in World-Architects Magazine today. #Habitat #buildingnovels #architecturebooks #architecture #novel #oslo www.world-architects.com/en/architect...

Really lovely to have work included here in such brilliant company ✨️

Founded in 1975, this year marks Druid's 50th anniversary We're celebrating with a double bill of Synge’s Riders to the Sea and Shakespeare’s Macbeth in Galway this July, followed by Macbeth in Dublin and Beckett’s Endgame in New York Come join us in the celebrations 🎉

I've just signed this petition protesting Meta's theft of Irish writing, which they've used to build their AI tool. Will you sign too? my.uplift.ie/petitions/pr...

Irish businesses will struggle to compete with Amazon ie, both online and in the high street. Shop direct with your Irish retailers, who already exist. Support local, not the billionaires.

Happy read-a-book-with-a-green-spine day! ☘️

All over the papers in Serbia. Lovely to see. Huge thank you to Suzanna and all Belgrade irish festival for stellar efforts to champion my books.

Honoured that Leonard and Hungry Paul has been included in the @irishtimes.com 100 best Irish books of the 21st century (so far), at 38. Thanks so much to the contributors who selected it. (Ps. I was a contributor but didn't nominate or upvote my own book.) www.irishtimes.com/culture/book...

The Alternatives by Caoilinn Hughes Habitat by Catriona Shine Brooklyn by Colm Tóibín And… a brilliantly unsettling debut novel coming next year from @canongate.co.uk The Wardrobe Department by Elaine Garvey 💙📚

A very domestic mail day for me

Habitat and friends at London Book Fair @lilliputpress.bsky.social

After a busy day of visitors yesterday, we've decided to keep our doors open all week (11am-7pm) for local artists who have been impacted by the power outages If you're still without power, you're very welcome to visit The Mick Lally Theatre to warm up and charge your devices 🌩️🔌🔋❤️

Every year I’ve looked forward toThe Observer’s list of ‘most exciting debut novels’. It is so wonderful that The Benefactors is there for 2025, in such great company, and described as ‘riveting.’Thank you @theguardian.com and @sceptrebooks.com.Such a big deal. www.theguardian.com/books/2025/j...

It’s official! THESE DAYS will be out in the US on 8 April with Sarah Jessica Parker’s imprint at Zando, SJPLit. I love the ethos of the imprint and I LOVE the US cover - a detail from a painting by Scottish artist Alberto Morocco.

@mannahattamamma.bsky.social on Edith Wharton’s The Custom of the Country, Miranda July, and “women of a certain age.”

Meanwhile, in Oslo …

Thanks to Sue Leonard for a lovely interview in the Irish Examiner today. @irishexaminer.bsky.social www.irishexaminer.com/lifestyle/ar...

In case you missed it, here's Rick O'Shea's pick of 2024 books, including Habitat! Delighted to be mentioned. www.independent.ie/entertainmen...

@irishindependent.bsky.social Will you we putting a Bluesky share button on your online articles soon?

Author @catrionashine.bsky.social talks with Nirica Srinivasan about the shifting moods & forms of an apartment building & its inhabitants in her debut novel HABITAT @lilliputpress.bsky.social interlocutorinterviews.com/new-blog/202...

I was interviewed by Nirica Srinivasan on Interlocutor interlocutorinterviews.com/new-blog/202...

Another great review of #Habitat

There’s a great review of Habitat in the Sunday Independent today.

Join me for the launch of Habitat at Hodges Figgis on Wednesday 6 March 6pm. I’ll be discussing the book with Elske Rahill and signing copies. Hope to see you there!

My own copy of Habitat arrived just the other day.

Cover reveal!

Habitat listed in The Irish Times today

Habitat, coming March 2024 @lilliputpress