NEW on our website | Ellen Orchard reviews 2025 Irish poetry collections: 🍙Morsels by Susanna Galbraith @machapress.bsky.social 🏝️The Oasis by Charles Lang @skeinpress.bsky.social 🎈After Party by Dean Browne (Picador Poetry) 💧Infinity Pool by Vona Groarke (Gallery Press)

HOWL opens for subs for New Irish Writing once every two years, and that window is quickly approaching! From Feb 13th - Feb 23rd you can submit your poetry, fiction, and nonfiction to HOWL 26 at howlwriting.ie We hope we are lucky enough to receive your work!

Only a few days left to submit your short story to our anthology. We are seeking short stories for our upcoming anthology, Modern Decadent, which embraces the fin de siècle literary and arts of the decadents, along with 19th century symbolism & aestheticism. #booksky #writingopportunity 👇

New blog post: a list of upcoming novel competitions for 2026 anneolearyblog.wordpress.com/2026/01/26/n...

New blog post: a shiny new list of UK and Ireland short story competitions for 2026 anneolearyblog.wordpress.com/2026/01/08/s...

Krasznahorkai has said of his work: ‘You will never go wrong anticipating doom in my books, any more than you’ll go wrong in anticipating doom in ordinary life.’ In 2012, we recorded a 94-minute conversation with Colm Tóibín for our Bookshop podcast: www.londonreviewbookshop.co.uk/podcasts-vid...

László Krasznahorkai has won the Nobel prize in literature. In our archive, from 2014: ‘My name​ is Róbert Valzer and I like walking, not that I have anything to do with the famous Robert Walser, nor do I think it strange that walking should be my favourite hobby.’ www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v3...

I have a cartoon in the current Private Eye

2 days to go until our Publishing Day Online event! 🥳 Jam-packed with insights & advice from industry experts like publishers, agents, and publicists, don't miss out if you're thinking of publishing your work! 📖 Booking & more info: irishwriterscentre.ie/autumn-publi...

Whatever she writes, I'll be reading it.

Such a pleasure to participate in a Q &A event at the Words by Water Literary Festival in Kinsale, along with Matthew Geden and Katherine Beug. Insightful questions from our moderator, Kate Barry, and a wonderful audience! Thank you for having me.

Spotted this morning on Washington St! ♥️ #Cork #Corcaigh #Speirgorm

Happy to announce that my poem "Perish and Live Forever," which first appeared in MEXICANS ON THE MOON, has just won the @sfpoetry.bsky.social 's Dwarf Star Award for poetry. This award is for best micro poem of 10 lines or less. Many thanks to members who voted. It is a big honor. Much love!

Reading ‘One-eyed Leigh’ by Katharine Kilalea is like breaking into an empty house through an unlocked door and seeing all of the people who aren’t there in every room.

'What every poet starts from is his own emotions.' TS Eliot

First post? Hmm. Just sent off my ms to my publisher. Oh, and 2025 is the beginning of my vegetarian life. So far so good!