Looking to publish your writing for the first time? Or learn more about the publishing industry and how works? Publishing Day Online is coming 🔜 Read more about our exciting line-up and book day or session tickets 👇 irishwriterscentre.ie/autumn-publi...

Next SpeakEasy Waterford on Sept 26 with special guest, debut novelist Orla Mackey. Open Mic and music as well.

All welcome 🩷💚 Launched by Ellen Dillon with guest reader Lauren Lawler. And a double pamphlet launch alongside Shakeema Edwards!

#Poets I am delighted to be running a workshop on redrafting based on my book below for SWWJ. Non members particularly welcome 2-3.30pm Saturday 20th September £10. Do come ✍️DM for details. 🙏 share #poetry #redrafting #craft #workshop #discussion #techniques @flyonthewallpress.bsky.social

Over 150 calls for literary competitions & submissions including poetry, fiction, creative nonfiction, art, photography, & more - contests, literary journals, residencies, bursaries etc - open or with deadlines in September 2025. Please share & best of luck! www.thisiswordbox.com/wordbox-blog...

Starting tomorrow, meet the stars 🌟 of issue V of The Storms, the printed journal of poetry prose & visual art. Supported by @fingal.ie & Dublin City of Literature & Dublin City Council 🙏 Issue V will be have its first launch on 1 Nov with full launch details coming soon 🎉

The 2025 Introductions | Céadlínte programme is underway! We’re delighted to welcome this new cohort of poets and hope that Introductions will provide them with many new creative opportunities as they launch their promising writing careers. Visit to our website to learn more!

I’m thrilled too. This time 38 years ago, I left home and moved to Maynooth. The first person in my family to finish secondary school and go to college. It was a life-changing experience. ❤️ 📚

@dlrarts.bsky.social Writer's Coffee Morning & Information Session on mentorship. Please Join Carolyn Brown Dlr Arts, Olivia Fitzsimons, Annemarie Ní Churreáin & Sonya Gildea 20th Sept 11-1pm Meeting Room, Lexicon Library All welcome, registrations required: [email protected]

Thrill to read alongside Jane Clarke, Mark Roper, Bernard O'Donohue & Grace Wilentz, w/ #music by Leslie Dowall & Hugh Buckley, Emma Roche, Ed Dwan Quartet and Hidden Highways, at the #CirclingTheSquare festival in #Thurles, Saturday 1 November. Thanks to Larry O'Doherty for the invitation #poetry

📚 Voting is now open for the An Post Bookshop of the Year 2025! Support your local bookshop by casting your vote, and you could win 1 of 3 €100 One4all vouchers. Voting closes 19 Sept at midnight. Vote now: bit.ly/45Uxsil #APIBA #BookshopOfTheYear

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Postscript by Seamus Heaney who died twelve years ago today

Am over-sharing in the echo echo echooooo ✨✨✨✨ www.echolive.ie/corklives/ar...

Episode 2, The Writers Roundtable, is out, a 6-part series produced by @dublincityoflit.bsky.social & the Centre, featuring Aoife Barry, Kevin Curran, Olivia Fitzsimons, Victoria Kennefick & Emmet Kirwan. Watch on the website of @dublincityoflit.bsky.social or irishwriterscentre.ie/video-series...

Announcing Poetry Ireland’s Introductions | Céadlínte poets for 2025! Thanks to Jessica Traynor for selecting our Introductions poets and Aifric Mac Aodha for selecting our Céadlínte poets. Supported by @artscouncilireland.bsky.social and Arts Council Northern Ireland National Lottery Funding.

Delighted to be part of @poetryireland.bsky.social Introductions 2025 💫✨ Huge thanks to @jesstraynor.bsky.social for including me among such a stellar group! 🙏🙏🙏

Looking for some writing advice? Check out our new playlist 'Advice and Resources for Writers' featuring writerly words of wisdom from Joseph O'Connor and more to come! www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...

🚨 End of Month Submissions Alert! 30 journals, competitions, publishers and residencies all with deadlines by 1 September - poetry, fiction, creative nonfiction, visual art & more. Don't miss out! www.thisiswordbox.com/wordbox-blog...

Banshee Press will open for book submissions from 1-15 October. More details to follow soon. Ready your manuscripts! 📝 bansheepress.org/read/banshee...

An incredible line up for our Autumn Open Day, Saturday 30 August, at the @irishwriterscentre.bsky.social , two of which will be online including our evening poetry masterclass with Victoria Kennefick…

John Hewitt Birthday Readings! Presented by The John Hewitt Society as part of @belfastfestival.bsky.social in association with Poetry Ireland! Monday 27 October 2025 @ 8:00pm The John Hewitt Pub, Belfast Tickets: £8-10 Book tickets here: www.poetryireland.ie/whats-on/joh...

If you're thinking of going to Write by the Sea Festival in Wexford, weekend and Saturday passes have sold out, but you can still buy Sunday passes and tickets to individual events. I'm looking forward to chatting to @wednesdayerskin.bsky.social and Donal Ryan on Sun 28th Sep! ti.to/wbts/wbts-2025

Here come the launches!! Mark this in your diary - more info to come on in person ones soon 🔮✨️

✨ New Opportunities for Poets - open calls, competitions, and awards! Browse our website for opportunities with August & September deadlines! ✏️ Discover the full list of Opportunities for Poets here: www.poetryireland.ie/writers/oppo...

Saturday 30 August 2025, join us for our Autumn Open Day to sample courses, seminars, workshops & an online evening masterclass Full details at irishwriterscentre.ie/whats-on/aut... Why not join us online for an evening Poetry Masterclass with Victoria Kennefick www.eventbrite.ie/e/autumn-ope...

And summer’s lease hath all too short a date; Shakespeare, Sonnet 18

There's a new Abridged submission call out! This one is for Irish poets and poets of any nationality based on the island of Ireland plus artists from anywhere! Go ahead, submit!

🌸COVER REVEAL🌸 for MORE FLOWERS & it’s a beauty! I’m grateful to so many: @triohousepress.org, @krisbigalk.bsky.social, @natashakane.bsky.social & to @fascicles.bsky.social, @kcbrattpfotenhauer.bsky.social, & @cynthiamhoffman.bsky.social for their kind, generous words! Pre-order link in comments!

Mid-August submission deadlines alert! 44 literary journals, competitions, publishers and residencies all with deadlines by 1 Sept, 14 of which are closing over the next week. Don't miss out! www.thisiswordbox.com/wordbox-blog...

We're pleased to present the Abridged 0 - 109: Never A Rose Submission Call. Details can be found here: www.abridged.zone/abridged-0-1... Go ahead, submit! @artscouncilireland.bsky.social @poetryireland.bsky.social #poetry #art #Ireland #NorthernIreland #Derry

Opportunities for writers: August 2025 🖊️ Our monthly list of submission windows, competitions, bursaries, residencies and general literary opportunities is now live. irishwriterscentre.ie/opportunitie...

Only a few days left to enter the Waterford Poetry Prize! Free entry and lovely prizes, details below. ✨️

Now available to pre-order: FILLY, the stunning novel in verse by award-winning poet Rosamund Taylor. Out 9 October 2025 ✨ @rosamundtaylor.bsky.social bansheepress.org/shop/p/filly...

Submission Call. Monday. This issue will be for Irish poets and poets based on the island of Ireland plus Irish/International visual artists.

“..the best of life is life lived quietly, where nothing happens but our calm journey through the day, where change is imperceptible and the precious life is everything.” ― John McGahern, All Will Be Well: A Memoir

I'm live on Arena on @rteradio1.bsky.social at the earlier time of 6.30 to 7.30 for the next few weeks. Tonight we have a panel with a selection of music, film, books and visual art to transport you to another place, and we pay one last tribute to our beloved Seán Rocks in poetry and music.

There's a new Abridged Submission Call on its way. More News Soon. @poetryireland.bsky.social @artscouncilireland.bsky.social

Lime Square Poets and Poetry Circle present, in association with Poetry Ireland, First Wednesday Series: an open mic and poetry reading gathering on the 1stWednesday of every month in Limerick. Join us tonight, August 6th @ 7:30pm White House Bar, 52 O'Connell St, Limerick City Free admission!

It's here! Over 150 calls for literary competitions & submissions incl. poetry, fiction, creative nonfiction, art, photography & more - contests, literary journals, residencies, bursaries etc - open or with deadlines in August 2025. Good luck & pls share. www.thisiswordbox.com/wordbox-blog...

I've been trying to write something about the death of my colleague Seán Rocks, but I can't do him justice. From everyone I have spoken to in the last few days, it's safe to say that the loss of his voice, warmth, passion, curiosity, and skill in the promotion of the Arts... 1/2

We are deeply saddened by the passing of Seán Rocks. He was a dedicated broadcaster, acclaimed actor and passionate advocate for the arts; his contribution was both profound and enduring. We extend our sincere condolences to his family during this difficult time.

In the most violent unstreamed wrestling competition of 2025, in the final round, in the very last minute, I beat my website into obedience and now you can finally buy both my books online! (If that’s what you’re into 🖤) laurenodonovan.com

Catch @mollytwomey.bsky.social on Arena this evening with the best in the biz, @rickoshea.bsky.social. I'm not jealous, you're jealous!!

FILLY, Rosamund Taylor's beautiful forthcoming novel-in-verse, is now available for pre-order from Waterstones.com at 25% off RRP. This offer is available until midnight on 31 July. Enter the code SUMMER25 at checkout! #WPreorder @rosamundtaylor.bsky.social www.waterstones.com/book/filly/r...

Poetry Ireland is delighted to announce Alvy Carragher (Ireland) and Ali Choudhary (UK) as winners of the The Eavan Boland Award 2025. Full press release here: www.poetryireland.ie/education/ne... @britishcouncil.bsky.social @tcddublin.bsky.social

A dream to see a poem from 'Chic to be Sad' in the Irish Times today 💜💙💛 @thegallerypress.bsky.social

Delighted to see my poem Sweetshop on display at the beautiful Blarney sanctuary walk as part of Cork’s Poetry In The Park!📚✍️✨

First look: the gorgeous cover of FILLY, Rosamund Taylor's stunning novel-in-verse, coming from Banshee Press in October 2025. Cover photography by Oana Stoian, with design by Jack Smyth ✨ @rosamundtaylor.bsky.social @jackflag.bsky.social

DEADLINE EXTENDED! Applications for Poetry Ireland's Introductions / Céadlínte programme will remain open until Monday, July 28th! More info on how to apply here: www.poetryireland.ie/writers/intr... @jesstraynor.bsky.social