Chandrika Narayanan-Mohan

It's eternally frustrating that the HSE has the blinkers on & only looks to UK when it comes to trans healthcare when Spain & Malta are right there! In Spain I can walk into a pharmacist & get estrogen patches. No GP, no traumatic assessments. Just medicine without the bullshit and no one is harmed.

All my comics have happy endings!

Leonard and Hungry Paul cast and Director on telling a story about kindness, friendship, and the quiet heroism of everyday life - The feel-good series stars Alex Lawther, Laurie Kynaston and Jamie-Lee O’Donnell, with Julia Roberts as narrator

So many people I'd like to thank in Ireland for championing

Leonard and Hungry Paul @ronanhession.bsky.social

Here's a few

@jackielynam.bsky.social
@kitdewaal.com
Donal Ryan.
@martindoyle.bsky.social
@rickoshea.bsky.social

And all the booksellers & Librarians!

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Autumn Publishing Day Online - Irish Writers Centre We are excited to announce our Autumn Publishing Day, and for the first time, we’re bringing it to you online! By making the event virtual, we aim to increase accessibility for all writers across the ...

Thinking of publishing your novel?

Today's the last day to sign up to our Publishing Day Online event!✍️

3 sessions full of insights from publishers, agents, authors, and publicists kicking off from 10:30am tomorrow ✨

Booking + session info: irishwriterscentre.ie/autumn-publi...

Dr. Jane Goodall filmed an interview with Netflix in March 2025 that she understood would only be released after her death.

Background image shows an open notebook and pen on a wooden table. The text reads: Publishing Your Work - October 2025, Poetry & Writing Submissions - Journals, Competitions, Bursaries, Residencies. www.thisiswordbox.com

Over 160 calls for literary competitions & submissions including poetry, fiction, creative nonfiction, art, photography, & more - contests, literary journals, residencies, bursaries etc - open or with deadlines in October 2025. Please share & best of luck!
www.thisiswordbox.com/wordbox-blog...

Calling all arts managers and producers 📣

Next week, we're hosting a workshop with
Safe to Create and Migrant Rights Ireland
to help arts orgs support and employ migrant artists 🌎

🗓 Wed 10 Sept | 12:30 – 2:00pm | Online

Book here:
safetocreate.ie/training/wor...

Screenshot of the first two questions in the survey - there's only six to answer. #SpéirGorm #SpéirGhorm #Ireland #Art

There's a REALLY quick and easy survey for the public consultation on the Basic Income for the Arts scheme - it only takes a few seconds, anyone can fill it in, and it could make a huge difference to arts workers in Ireland. Take a few ticks to places a few ticks here: ec.europa.eu/eusurvey/run...

Please join us for a #IrishKidLitforPalestine Live Online Picture Book Masterclass with @chrishaughton.bsky.social Paddy Donnelly @pforde123.bsky.social & @sarahwebbwriter.bsky.social
Tues 2 Sept 2025 6.30pm - 8.00pm
Tickets: www.ruthennis.com/irish-kidlit...
Please share and please support.

Comment: O'Callaghan delivers cruelty against migrants His deportations have a theatrical quality that should unsettle anyone who cares about basic human decency.

Comment: Savagery like the attack on the innocent man in Tallaght can be expected as long as government punishes migrants for problems it creates, then feigns shock when members of the public mirror acts of sadism perpetrated by the state itself.

www.ontheditch.com/o-callaghan-...

Nature Beyond Cure: Disabled Perspectives Books that explore nature and living with disability and illness from disability perspectives. No magical cures here!

I've made a new list on @bookshop.org of books that explore nature / walking / the outdoors by disabled, neurodivergent and chronically ill writers - Nature Beyond Cure - aka our own narratives are messy and complex. Do share! #BookSky #DisabledWriters
uk.bookshop.org/lists/nature...?

There are an awful lot of NGOs in Ireland who claim to support people in the sex industry but have never given the real support UM has given over the years.

Now is the time for them to step up and use their massive funding (which UM has never had) to do something actually helpful for sex workers.

A close up of hands using pinning forceps to transfer an Emperor moth specimen to the main drawer which can be seen in the background.

Very excited to say that we are seeking an Assistant Curator to join our entomology team! 😁🪲

For full details on this 2 year fixed-term post, head to our website:
➡️ careers.nms.ac.uk/job/727783

#Entomology #InsectCollection #EntoJobs #MuseumJobs

President Michael D. Higgins has sent a message to all those celebrating Pride today and across the summer

The Inheritance by Cauvery Madhavan - read an extract It's 1986 and 29-year-old Marlo O'Sullivan of London-Irish stock has just found out that his sister is his mother. To steady his life, he moves to Glengarriff, to a cottage he has inherited, in the st...

We love this novel by our West Cork neighbour @cauverymadhavan.bsky.social. Cauvery will be chatting about The Inheritance in #BantryBookshop on Sat 12 July at 11.30am as part of WCLF. #FreeEvent @hoperoadpublish.bsky.social
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Sticky note on wood that says ‘Just make it exist first. You can make it good later.’

This is where I am. New book in the making. Thousand words a day if I can. They don’t have to be good words.

Photo of Bob and Leon kissing in front of a Dublin Georgian door painted in rainbow flag)

Happy #DublinPride - keep kissing, keep loving, keep standing up for each other, keep fighting for #LGBTQ rights, keep showing the world that we exist and we won't be quiet and we won't hide in the shadows. #Pride #Equality #TransRights #GayRights (Photo from Dublin Pride 2023)

Me and fellow authors on stage in the Trapdoor theatre at UCD.

Panel photo outside the Trapdoor theatre.

I had a great time doing my first official author event today! A panel at the @ucddublin.bsky.social Festival, in the company of authors Roisin O’Donnell and Claire Coughlan, with fantastic moderation by @chandrikanm.bsky.social !

Massive thanks to @rickoshea.bsky.social for the opportunity.

Trinity College Dublin board votes to cut ties with Israeli universities and companies University will no longer facilitate Erasmus+ exchange agreements with Israeli colleges

Trinity College Dublin board votes to cut ties with Israeli universities and companies
Excellent news #speirgorm

www.irishtimes.com/ireland/educ...

A poster for an event ‘New Writing for 2025’.

Lots of literary events - plus festival fun for the fam - next weekend (June 7) at the UCD Festival in Dublin. Delighted to be part of it!

All lit events curated by @rickoshea.bsky.social - grab free tickets from his Linktree:
linktr.ee/rickoshea

@ucddublin.bsky.social
@chandrikanm.bsky.social

Photo of five people, black and white, young and older, looking happy

Call out for writers with lived experience of homelessness or poverty to submit monologues for a new anthology to highlight the complexity of the experiences of homelessness and poverty – struggles, resilience, hope, humour.

Please share :)

mtos.cardboardcitizens.org.uk/anthology/

This is massive news. There was so much data gathered and it's clear this scheme is necessary, especially for those who fell inbetween the cracks of AC funding. For the next round let's ensure it allows people to access funding without sacrificing their disability supports, a major flaw last time.

Reeling In The Queers with Dr Páraic Kerrigan and Moderator Chandrika Naryanan-Mohan - UCD Festival 2025 Join this conversation exploring Ireland’s rich and complex LGBTQ+ history with Dr Páraic Kerrigan, author of the Irish Times bestseller Reeling in the Queers: Tales of Ireland's LGBTQ Past.

At 3.45 it'll be @paraickerrigan.bsky.social talking to @chandrikanm.bsky.social about his 2024 Irish Times bestseller 'Reeling in the Queers: Tales of Ireland’s LGBTQ Past':

festival.ucd.ie/events/reeli...

New Writing for 2025 with Roisín O'Donnell, Sylvia Leatham and Claire Coughlan - UCD Festival 2025 Celebrate the future of fiction with Roisín O'Donnell, Sylvia Leatham and Claire Coughlan, some of Ireland’s most exciting literary voices. As always, the UCD Festival shines a spotlight on standout n...

We start at 12.30 with Roisín O’Donnell, @sylvialeatham.bsky.social and Claire Coughlan talking to @chandrikanm.bsky.social about recent and upcoming debut novels:

festival.ucd.ie/events/new-w...

Wired Our Own Way, Saturday 24th May at 16:00 at International literature festival Dublin

I'll be chatting on this panel about curating Wired Our Own Way (a book of #Autistic #Essays published by @newislandbooks.bsky.social ) this Saturday @ilfdublin.bsky.social with @jenwallacecreates.bsky.social @chandrikanm.bsky.social and @aislingwalsh.bsky.social

BREAKING: The Israeli military has issued forced evacuation orders for Khan Younis, Gaza’s second-largest city, warning there will be an “unprecedented attack”.

🔴 LIVE updates: aje.io/7w6uku

A sustainable writing career? - Books Ireland Building a sustainable writing career—free workshops with Chandrika Narayanan-Mohan.

📕Join Chandrika Narayanan-Mohan for workshops on building a sustainable writing career 📕

⭐️ FREE but ticketed ⭐️

@irishlittimes.bsky.social @irishwriterscentre.bsky.social @chandrikanm.bsky.social @childrensbooksireland.ie @daveruddenwrites.bsky.social
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Time to share this starter pack again - and ask who I've missed! Are you an Irish or Irish-based children's YA writer? Give me a shout, then go follow @childrensbooksireland.ie 😄

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