Jen Matthews

From tomorrow, 5th Dec #BookElves2025 will be on hand to recommend brilliant Irish books for all ages - from tots to teens.
if you'd like a recommendation - ask away below. I'd be delighted to help!
And I'll be posting some of my favourite Irish books of the year every day. #discoveririshkidsbooks

Congratulations @elainefeeney.bsky.social !!!!

A blue rectangle with a red outline. Text reads: The DUBLIN SMALL PRESS FAIR is pleased to present the Literary Magazine Showcase, coordinated by Leabharlann Beag Ropes Tolka Profiles Channel SWERVE Sans. Press Holy Show Skylight 47 Southword The Storms Paper Lanterns The Pig's Back The Waxed Lemon Poetry Ireland Review Unapologetic Magazine The Four Faced Liar The Dublin Review

LITERARY MAGAZINES FOR EVERY READER at the #DublinSmallPressFair2025

Nov. 28-29 at Pearse St. Library

dublinsmallpressfair.com for full details!

KIRKOSKIRKOS

Come to a new hourlong performance from my ongoing durational writing project DIAL (Chapter 11: November) w/ sound interventions from Keith Lindsay, closing this Friday’s FLUXUS / John Cage inspired extravaganza programmed by Kirkos at The Complex. Tickets: www.thecomplex.ie/event/kirkos

We Regret to Inform You That Your Middle School Diary Has Lapsed into the Public Domain This letter is to inform you (the author) that your intellectual property (middle school diary) has officially entered the public domain due to you...

"We have included an advance copy of the hardcover edition of your diary, which Simon & Schuster will be releasing this winter. We think the photo of the time you laughed so hard in the school cafeteria that milk came out of your nose makes for a perfect cover."

Thanks to The Marrow Poetry for highlighting my poem ‘Long Haul’ today

www.themarrowpoetry.com/issue-five/l...

french wikipedia is the only language that has a "list of bastards" article

“For a short story to lure me in, I need one thing: great voice. If your narrator and/or character doesn’t have a unique or bizarre voice, I’m back to Netflix or staring at my neighbour across the road arguing with his bins.” — June Caldwell

Snap! 😁

“Because survival is insufficient.” 💙 #amreading

The Hallmark Channel Presents: Shirley Jackson’s “The Lottery” INT. BIG CITY HEDGE FUND Tessie Jacobs (30-something, blonde) stares at a bar graph with two columns: “money” and “not money.” Her boss (you know h...

MOM: You can’t spend all day moping. Not on Lottery’s Eve!

TESSIE: I have to find a way to get my life back. I don’t have time for the Lottery.

MOM: There's always time for family. Help your sister roll her wheelchair down to the creekbed to collect some stones for tomorrow.

Submissions for issue 21 are open until midnight IST on Friday 31 October ✍️

Profound dignity throughout the poems in “In Her Jaws”, lighting a way through trauma towards persistence & survival. Loving, too, learning about women I hadn’t known of before liked Caroline Herschel and Dora Richter #amreading @rosamundtaylor.bsky.social

Flight and falling: Gustav Parker Hibbett in conversation with Liz Quirke Join multi-award-winning poet Gustav Parker Hibbett as they read from and discuss their debut poetry collection 'High Jump as Icarus Story'

We can't wait for our @dinglelit.bsky.social partnership event with award winning poet Gustav Parker Hibbett.

We will explore Gustav's work in 'High Jump as Icarus Story', a collection that gifts us visions of flight and falling.

Book via www.eventbrite.com/e/flight-and...

Cork launch of Banshee issue 20 — Banshee Press Celebrate ten years of Banshee at the Cork launch of our speculative fiction-themed 20th issue. Join us at the Staff Common Room in the Quad, UCC , on Thursday 30 October at 6pm to raise a glass ...

Join us next Thursday 30 October in @ucc.ie at 6pm to celebrate the launch of Banshee issue 20! Hear readings from our brilliant contributors and raise a glass to ten years of Banshee 📚

bansheepress.org/events/cork-...

@the4facedliar.bsky.social 😁

Stunning poem by Anne Tannam 💙
#amreading

I'd say "let's burn it all down" but putting AI in everything will kind of burn it down for us, soooooo

Just picked up my copy today at vibes and scribes in cork 💙

I feel like most Irish and British writers who complain about being silenced have never done anything as brave as what Naoise has done here

Welcome home Sarah. All eyes on Gaza.

“The opportunity to move from despair to action.” 👏👏👏

Cover of An Alternative Irish Christmas: An Anthology. Green background, with the title in gold, there is a gold tree and the star on top is the Tramp Press logo

Contents page of An Alternative Irish Christmas, listing stories by: Jessica Traynor, Sophie White, Mike McCormack, Roisin Kiberd, Niall Bourke, Maggie Armstrong, Arja Kajermo, Sue Rainsford, Soula Emmanuel, Briana Fitzsimons, Belinda McKeon, Tim MacGabhann, and Anne Enright.

We are delighted to share the cover for a very special project we've been working on for Christmas 2025! An Alternative Irish Christmas is an anthology of stories, in traditional, unusual, extract, and essay form by some of our favourite authors. 1/🧵

Greta Thunberg gives her first words after she was released from Israeli prison where she was beat and forced to kiss the Israeli flag. She says the story is not about them, the story is about Gaza.

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‘Really shocking’: Independent Dublin bookstore damaged in arson attack Books Upstairs manager hopes to partially open the D’Olier Street store later on Monday

A great shop that’s so supportivr of writers, and run by the best people. They’re open today if you’re passing, or you can buy a book via their website. @booksupstairs.bsky.social www.irishtimes.com/crime-law/20...

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Via Sarah Clancy's partner Anne Mulhall:

"Friends I am so happy to tell you that Sarah and all the Irish flotilla heroes are in the air flying to Athens and will all be on flights home to Dublin tonight or tomorrow.
Sarah will be arriving into Dublin airport at 11pm tonight."

Cover of poetry book “Tides Shifting Across My Sitting Room Floor” by Anne Tannam

Poem “Feral” by Anne Tannam

“Are you well?
Such a useless question.”

Binging Anne Tannam this morning and have had two lovely cries already by page 25.