Emma Donoghue

the invaluable @emmadarwinwriter.bsky.social explains the nuts and bolts of writing that many of us who've been working with those nuts and bolts all our lives have never understood (or maybe it's jut me)

📢 The Denis Donoghue Award 2025 is now open for applications!

🎓 For NUI undergrads (FT/PT) from under-represented groups
💶 €2,000–€5,000 available
⏰ Deadline: 24 Oct 2025

Generously funded by author Emma Donoghue in memory of her father, Denis.

Apply now 👉 www.nui.ie/awards/Grant...

Apple opts everyone into having their Photos analyzed by Al Settings -> Apps -> Photos -> Enhanced Visual Search (all the way at the bottom)

Apple is sneaking AI into everything. Turn off enhanced visual search on your photos:

Nor me, Becky!

Back in Dublin to celebrate the launch of The Correction of Taste, and learning yet another lesson from my beloved dad: death is no reason to stop publishing.

I so enjoyed this erudite and immersive response to #TheParisExpress.

photos of Emma Donoghue and Natalie Davey and Rebecca Davey of Ceres Productions

Hey Toronto, come chat with me on 8 June

I couldn't be happier to be heading to Dublin to see his last book launched. Like Henry James in this beautiful cover design, my father continues to cast a long shadow.

Oh hey, NYT, is it men they want barefoot, pregnant, and in the kitchen? So hard to determine.....

Flawless script, #TheBalladofWallisIsland made me laugh and cry simultaneously for an hour and a half

The worst poem ever

Okay, here is why I HATE AI. I'm trying to research poems about going into space, or famous quotes about escaping gravity. As the FIRST RESULT, Google gives me this SHITTY poem IT'S WRITTEN ITSELF, like it's fucking Adrian Mole and I'm John Tydeman at the BBC. HATE HATE HATE.

poster 'I'll be asking Meta to #DoTheWriteThing'

I am one of the authors whom Meta stole (sorry, ‘scraped’) from, by using their books to train Libgen. So I’m biased. But this from @mscaitlinmoran.bsky.social is👌

I need to read the one with the human-sized moth!

Naoise Dolan on The Paris Express by Emma Donoghue: Journeying into the past Historical novel based on one day in 1895 features anarchists, artists and aristocrats

Naoise Dolan on The Paris Express by Emma Donoghue: Journeying into the past
www.irishtimes.com/culture/book...

Protest Meta's Theft of Irish Writing I've just signed this petition protesting Meta's theft of Irish writing, which they've used to build their AI tool. Will you sign too?

I've just signed this petition protesting Meta's theft of Irish writing, which they've used to build their AI tool. Will you sign too? my.uplift.ie/petitions/pr...

screenshot of search for 'Emma Donoghue' in LibGen

91 results. That's every book I've published since 1993, in multiple languages, scraped without permission to train AI. They're robbing us in hopes of replacing us.

best habit I formed in Covid!

Remember that a character saying something is not exactly the author saying it.

It’s always bothered me when a character quote is posted like an interview quote. Uh, that was Satan, not Milton.

TODAY. ONE DAY ONLY. Don't buy anything today if you can--wait until tomorrow (or if you must, buy from a small business and use cash). Send a message. 👇👇👇

Thanks for suggestions, it could indeed be Manitoba as the subject enlisted there although born in the US...

image of a word on a 1915 form

hey can anyone tell me what this place name (probably in Virginia or Pennsylvania) on a 1915 military attestation might be? click for full view

If your boss or company tells you to do something unethical: don't say yes. Make them write it down.

'Puff' (used for cover quote since the early C.18) is a more honest metaphor that always makes me think of inflating an air mattress by mouth for an unexpected guest.

glorious!

Gislebertus Dream of the Magi 1120-30 Stone Cathedral of Saint-Lazare, Autun "Master Gislebertus was one of the greatest sculptors of the Middle Ages, who inscribed his name on the tympanum of the main portal of the Sainte-Lazare Cathedral at Autun. The majority of the capitals in the interior of the cathedral are also ascribed to him; most of them are on pilasters and therefore remain firmly connected to the surface. His sculptures are some of the most human, touching works that exist in Romanesque sculpture. The original capitals were removed and are on display in the Musée Rolin near to the Cathedral. The Dream of the Magi, the capital originally on the east side of the north-east crossing pillar, shows the three crowned figures together under a large, round cover. Two of them are still asleep, but the third has already been woken by the movingly gentle touch of the angel who is pointing the star out to him." (WGA)

Three Magi cuddle under a blue blanket as an angel appears in their dream British Library - Royal 1 D X fol-2v

Three kings sleep inside the letter E BnF Latin 7586; Isidorus Hispalensis, Etymologiarum libri XX; 11th century; France; f.45r (Bibliothèque nationale de France)

The Dream of the Magi, from the Queen Mary Psalter, England, 1310-20. (British Library)

It's Epiphany, which means it's time for Cuddling Kings in Medieval art

Hugo Burge Foundation Submission Manager

Residency for a writer at any stage of their career who is writing a new piece of work for theatre, with private studio, on-site accommodation, and a weekly stipend of £350. DunsPlayFest will stage a scratch reading or rehearsed reading as part of PlayFest 2025. Other awards also.

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