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Writes. Living in Craughwell Co. Galway đ
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Thanks again to judge
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for her kind words and to the organisers of the
#Allingham
Arts Festival for all their hard work. Congratulations to the other winners especially Shona Doyle-Woods and
@kiklodge.bsky.social
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I have always enjoyed working with my hands. If I can repair or make something, then the day has not been a total loss creatively.
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Breda Spaight
2 months ago
My cotributor's copy arrived today. 'Abridged' is alive in the true sense: its format mutates, never settling, never standardised, always surprising.
@abridgedmagazine.bsky.social
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#GuiltyPleasure
#CultClassic
#Nostalgia
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First come, first served
#Galway
#Art
#Sunday
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Big Art Sale Fundraiser
Information about the big art sale in aid of Shorelines Arts Festival, Portumna
https://www.shorelinesartsfestival.com/big-art-sale-fundraiser.html
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This is a great competition and one of the few free ones still left. Previous winners have included Patrick Holloway, Fiona Ennis and Laura Cassidy.
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The Molly Keane Creative Writing Award 2026
Competition deadline: 1st May 2026 The annual Molly Keane Creative Writing Award, run by Waterford City & County Council Arts Office, is to celebrate the rich literary life of the late Molly KeâŠ
https://www.writing.ie/writing-comps/molly-keane-writing-award-2026/?utm_source=bluesky&utm_medium=jetpack_social
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Nuala O'Connor
3 months ago
Pushbike Prize for Flash Fiction A new flash prize and I'm judging! CrannĂłg Magazine is delighted to announce the inaugural Pushbike Prize for Flash Fiction judged by Nuala O'Connor. âŹ1500 in prizes Subs open May 1st to 21st.
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publisher of fiction and poetry
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Writing.ie Online Writing Magazine
3 months ago
The RTĂ Short Story Competition is now open for entries! âšCompetition deadline 15th May 2026 RTĂ Short Story Competition 2026
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RTĂ Short Story Competition 2026
Competition deadline 15th May 2026 The RTĂ Short Story Competition s now open for entries! The 2026 RTĂ Short Story Competition in honour of Francis MacManus, one of Irelandâs longest establiâŠ
https://www.writing.ie/writing-comps/rte-short-story-competition-2026/
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Finally some sunlight again.
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Salvador Ryan
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The Museum of Childhood in Ireland
@museumofchildhood.bsky.social
recently invited me to contribute a blog post on my four-year stint as Editor of The Moneygall News (1984-88). Was delighted to do so! You can read it here:
museumofchildhood.ie/portrait-of-...
#Moneygall
#Childhood
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Portrait of a Child-Editor in 1980sâ Moneygall â The Museum of Childhood Ireland
Many young boys in the 1980s enjoyed doing newspaper rounds. I did too, but with a slight twistâI decided to do the newspaper as well!
https://museumofchildhood.ie/portrait-of-a-child-editor-in-1980s-moneygall/
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Writing.ie Online Writing Magazine
4 months ago
The Molly Keane Creative Writing Award 2026 Competition deadline: 1st May 2026 The annual Molly Keane Creative Writing Award, run by Waterford City & County Council Arts Office, is to celebrate the rich literary life of the late Molly Keane. Molly lived in Ardmore, Co. Waterford until she died inâŠ
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The Molly Keane Creative Writing Award 2026
Competition deadline: 1st May 2026 The annual Molly Keane Creative Writing Award, run by Waterford City & County Council Arts Office, is to celebrate the rich literary life of the late Molly Keane. Molly lived in Ardmore, Co. Waterford until she died in 1996. She started writing at a young age to âsupplement her dress allowanceâ. Her first ten novels and four plays were published under the pseudonym M.J.
https://www.writing.ie/writing-comps/molly-keane-writing-award-2026/?utm_source=bluesky&utm_medium=jetpack_social
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Another striking cover on the latest issue of CrannĂłg magazine available to order now.
crannogmagazine.com
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Zine Scene Magazine Archive
6 months ago
Afternoon. Added the three Soundings issues from the early 1970s. Two were edited by Seamus Heaney, the third by Jimmy Simmons. An Annual Anthology of New Irish Writing is the tagline. Mostly Male New Irish Writing it has to be said. Anyways read them at
oldzinescene.com/collections/...
for free!
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Abridged
6 months ago
One of the Abridged personnel is creating a little Irish literary magazine archive. Give him a like or Follow or whatever it's called! Also you'll see interesting old Irish (and some other) poetry and literary mags! Ta!
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Anne O'Leary
6 months ago
New blog post: a shiny new list of UK and Ireland short story competitions for 2026
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Short story competitions 2026
And so, we launch into another writing year with positive intentions. There are so many competitions out there it can be bewildering, but selecting even one or two to aim for can be a useful spur iâŠ
https://anneolearyblog.wordpress.com/2026/01/08/short-story-competitions-2026/
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Irish in Britain
7 months ago
Exhibition on Irish nurses opens this week! Free entry, Whittington Hospital, Archway 3-18 Dec Features Photos by Fiona Freund + 1st-hand testimonies gathered by Professor Louise Ryan, GrĂĄinne McPolin & Neha Doshi, authors of Irish Nurses in the NHS
https://ow.ly/ZmBj50XxByV
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How Irish nurses helped NHS keep running for seven decades
An exhibition opens next month at the Whittington Hospital in Archway with stories of the Irish nurses taken on to help in the new National HealthâŠ
https://ow.ly/ZmBj50XxByV
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Thanks again to judge
@nualaoconnor.bsky.social
for her kind words and to the organisers of the
#Allingham
Arts Festival for all their hard work. Congratulations to the other winners especially Shona Doyle-Woods and
@kiklodge.bsky.social
www.allinghamfestival.com/fiction-poet...
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Bealach na BĂł Finne (Way of the White Cow)
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Zine Scene Magazine Archive
7 months ago
Spectrum was a Science/Tech/Engineering mag from Queen's University in Belfast. It included some 'Science Fiction' so falls into our remit. This issue is from 1967 so may be of interest to tech nostalgists also! See it at
oldzinescene.com/items/show/20
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Talented writer and always very supportive of others.
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Published in Sunday Miscellany Anthology
Delighted that my Sunday Miscellany story, âQueen of the Southâ, has made it into print with this wonderful anthology edited by producer Sarah Binchy. Canât wait to go through this and read aâŠ
https://paulmcveighwriter.com/2025/11/26/published-in-sunday-miscellany-anthology/
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These are so useful and worth a repost as we come to the end of the year. Thank you Anne.
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Solar flair
#Galway
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RTĂ Brainstorm
8 months ago
The rise and fall of Ballyshannon port. The port's international connections brought much prosperity to the Co Donegal town from the 15th century onwards, but the good times didn't last, writes
@angela-historian.bsky.social
@ria.ie
@dib.ie
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The rise and fall of Ballyshannon port
The port's international connections brought much prosperity to the Co Donegal town, but the good times didn't last
https://www.rte.ie/brainstorm/2025/1117/1544382-ballyshannon-co-donegal-port-history-trade-irish-town-atlas/
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Peatsmoke Journal
8 months ago
We are pleased to announce that Peatsmoke is now paying contributors! Contributors will receive $10 per piece (though we wish it was one million because that's how much we love you)!
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Writing West Midlands
8 months ago
Applications are open for the third year of the Paul McVeigh Residency! This is an amazing opportunity for fiction and non-fiction writers living in the UK and Ireland. Get more info here:
paulmcveighwriter.com/2025/10/17/t...
Application deadline: 30th November, 2025
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That's part 1 of the usual Valentine's day conundrum solved.
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It's been a great week. Read at an Arts Festival. Finally cracked hole-y bread. The secret turned out to be hydration and to do as little as possible with the dough Made a rather one sided friendship with a crow and got the badly scarred worktops sanded down and oiled.
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Great day with writers and poets at
#Allingham
Arts Festival in
#Ballyshannon
yesterday. Thank you to all the organisers and
@nualaoconnor.bsky.social
who judged the flash fiction competition honouring the memory of James Keane, local writer and patron of the Arts
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News â Allingham Festival
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Marie-louise McGuinness
8 months ago
Today on BBC Radio 4 and afterwards on the BBC Sounds App
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BBC Radio 4 - Short Works, Homing by Marie-Louise McGuinness
A seemingly ordinary day inspires a woman to reflect on what led her to this life.
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PĂĄdhraic Quinn
8 months ago
Honoured and thrilled to make the shortlist for The New Irish Writing Best Short Story Award at the 2025
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Nuala O'Connor
8 months ago
Two events for me on Saturday Nov 8th Allingham Arts in Ballyshannon, Co. Donegal *Literary Lunch, 11.30am, Dorrian's Hotel* Public announcement of the winners of the flash (which I judged) and poetry comps. *DĂłnal Ryan Interview, 3.30pm Abbey Arts Centre* I'm interviewing DĂłnal.
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John Creedon
8 months ago
Cork to Ballyshannon! I'll be bringing stories and readings from my childhood memoir - This Boy's Heart - to the Abbey Arts Centre, Ballyshannon on Sunday next Nov. 9th. Book signing & chat with Sean Perry. Can't wait! Tickets here -
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Munster Literature Centre https://munsterlit.ie/
10 months ago
Poet and memoirist Afric McGlinchey will lead an immersive creative writing workshop at the 2025 Allingham Festival on âSetting and Weather as Metaphorâ. The two-hour workshop for 15 participants will be held from 9:30 to 11:30 am in Kilbarron House, Ballyshannon on Saturday morning, November 8.
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Colmcille Press
10 months ago
Authors to give talks at the Allingham Arts Festival, the Letterkenny Cathedral Quarter Festival and the Frances Brown Literary Festival.
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Colmcille Press authors to guest at Donegal Litfests
Autumn is becoming the season for literature in Donegal and we're delighted to say that our authors will be giving readings and lectures at the county's three keynote festivals over the next couple of...
https://www.colmcillepress.com/post/colmcille-press-authors-to-guest-at-donegal-litfests
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Dean Kelly
9 months ago
Is Was â my new exhibition of paintings, drawings and photographs â is now live on the Kenny Gallery website. Over forty new works, made from the streets, light and shifting memory of Galway.
www.thekennygallery.ie
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Neil Hegarty
9 months ago
The finale of this year's RTE Short Story Competition is coming up: Friday 25 Oct at the Pavilion, DĂșn Laoghaire - and live at 7pm on Arena, RTE Radio One, with
@rickoshea.bsky.social
. What a pleasure it has been! - and thanks to fellow judges
@jancarsonwrites.bsky.social
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Marie-louise McGuinness
9 months ago
I've been so excited about this! My short story "Homing" will be featured on BBC Radio 4 on 7th November, Read by Charlotte McCurry
www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
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BBC Radio 4 - Short Works, Homing by Marie-Louise McGuinness
A seemingly ordinary day inspires a woman to reflect on what led her to this life.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m002lpp2
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Rick O'Shea
9 months ago
You should come out and join me for a live show next Friday night... We have
@jancarsonwrites.bsky.social
,
@neilhegarty.bsky.social
, Tristan Rosenstock, live music from David Kitt, and live readings from a host of Irish actors...
www.paviliontheatre.ie/events/view/...
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RTĂ Arena Live | Fri 24 Oct, 6.50pm - Pavilion Theatre
Join Arena and the RTĂ Short Story Competition judges for insights into the art of the short story, live music and performances from this yearâs shortlist, and the announcement of the top prizes.
https://www.paviliontheatre.ie/events/view/rte-arena-live-2025
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Niall Ă Siadhail
9 months ago
Tå mo scéal 'Corrån na Maidine', atå ar ghearrliosta chomórtas Francis MacManus
@rteradio1.bsky.social
le léamh anseo anois:
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Short Story Competition: CorrĂĄn na Maidine, by Niall Ă Siadhail
We present another story from the RTĂ Short Story Competition shortlist 2025...
https://www.rte.ie/culture/2025/1011/1537441-short-story-competition-corran-na-maidine-by-niall-o-siadhail/
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Best wishes to this year's finalists starting this evening with Witness, by Lynda McCarthy and read by Eileen Walsh
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Broadcast schedule for the 2025 shortlist
Broadcast schedule for the 2025 shortlist
https://www.rte.ie/radio/radio1/rte-short-story-competition/2025/0925/1535319-broadcast-schedule-for-the-2025-shortlist/
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Anne O'Leary
9 months ago
New blog post: an up-to-date list of Irish literary journals
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Irish literary journals 2025/2026
By far the most-read post on this blog has been a very simple one â a list of Irish literary magazines. The original post I compiled in 2022, and an updated version in 2023, have clocked up oâŠ
https://anneolearyblog.wordpress.com/2025/10/05/irish-literary-journals-2025-2026/
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Jayson Carcione
9 months ago
Delighted to have been awarded a 2025 Mentorship in Fiction Bursary with Frank OâConnor fellow
@laurajeanmckay.bsky.social
@munsterlitcentre.bsky.social
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A quiet afternoon for reading. Have a good week.
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Some very happy looking judges. Congratulations to everyone on the shortlist đ„
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RTĂ Short Story Competition 2025 shortlisted authors announced
RTĂ has announced details of the ten exciting new stories which have been shortlisted for the RTĂ Short Story Competition 2025 in honour of Francis MacManus, from 2,200 entries submitted.
https://www.rte.ie/culture/2025/0919/1534208-rte-short-story-competition-2025-shortlisted-authors-announced/
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Munster Literature Centre https://munsterlit.ie/
10 months ago
Huge congratulations to all the prize winners of the 2025 SeĂĄn Ă FaolĂĄin International Short Story Competition. First prize went to Tim Collyer. Full list of winners are available on our website:
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Irish Writers Centre
11 months ago
Writing Ghost Stories with June Caldwell đ» In this six-week course, participants will learn all the necessary tools for completing a solidly spooky story. Topics covered will include 'finding your ghost', 'the Irish pĂșca' and 'floating off in style'...
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Writing Ghost Stories with June Caldwell - Irish Writers Centre %
Are you looking to have a decent draft of a ghost story in time for Halloween? Sign up to June Caldwell's new course at the Irish Writers Centre (Dublin). Starts Tues 9 Sept 2025, 6.30 - 8.30pm
https://irishwriterscentre.ie/courses/writing-ghost-stories-with-june-caldwell/
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Irish PEN/PEN na hĂireann
11 months ago
'To arrest and charge with terrorist offences those expressing their opposition to genocide seems like an unnecessary and unwelcome form of censorship': our statement on the recent arrest of peaceful protestors - including poet Alice Oswald - in London.
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Statement on arrests following Palestine peaceful protest in London - Irish PEN/PEN na hĂireann
The arrest yesterday in the UK of dozens of peaceful protestors, including the world renowned poet Alice Oswald, seems excessive and heavy-handed. While noting that Palestine Action is currently a pro...
https://irishpen.com/2025/08/13/statement-on-arrests-following-palestine-peaceful-protest-in-london/
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Literature Ireland
11 months ago
Would you like to contribute to the public consultation about the Basic Income for the Arts? đĄ Fill out this survey from Minister OâDonovan at the Department of Culture, Communications and Sport:
ec.europa.eu/eusurvey/run...
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Basic Income for the Arts public consultation
https://ec.europa.eu/eusurvey/runner/2025-public-consultation-BIA
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I've followed Amanda's progress as a writer since reading this a few years ago. It's great to see talented people doing well.
www.irishtimes.com/culture/book...
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