Colm O'Shea

2026 Leopold Bloom Prize for Innovative Narration L’Esprit Literary Review Judged by Michael Nath I like fiction that banquets the reader. Too much fiction now follows a strict diet. Michael Nath Original portrait of Leopold Bloom drawn by I…

The 2026 Leopold Bloom Prize for Innovative Narration is open!

We’re looking for short fiction exhibiting exceptional ingenuity and vision in narration. All entries receive a digital copy of Issue Seven and are considered for publication!

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Submission Guidelines L’Esprit Literary Review publishes work written in the fearless, risk-adept, and revolutionary spirit of High Modernism. We accept short fiction, creative non-fiction, novel extracts, literar…

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Consciousness-forward, language-driven, risk-adept. Send us writing beyond convention.

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Happy Bloomsday, among other things, for all who observe, and a chance to share this.....https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kbF5hDU_F-U

In honour of Joy Division's iconic album Unknown Pleasures being released on this day in 1979, I'm again sharing one of my favourite ever video clips (Peanuts vs Joy Division dance party)...

What an incredible talk by Eimear McBride. She's always so wonderfully relevant, extraordinary, and thought-provoking! Plus, I bumped into @colmoshea.bsky.social, who is a smiley mofo despite his pull on dark fiction.

Colm’s story “Hiraeth” was the Second Place Winner in our 2025 Leopold Bloom Prize for Innovative Narration, and next up in our Issue Six release!

Check it out below!

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Hiraeth My eyes are closed. I am in my body. My eyes open. It is morning. Early. I am awake. I know where I am, when I am. I am in the cottage in the Welsh countryside. I am in bed. I am facing the wall, l…

My short story 'Hiraeth', runner up in the 2025 Leopold Bloom Prize for Innovative Narration, organised by @lespritlit.bsky.social is now available to read here... lespritliteraryreview.org/2025/04/27/h...

A note to say I've joined @irishwriterscentre.bsky.social panel for one-to-one mentoring in fiction, creative non-fiction and essays. More details, including how to engage me, on the IWC website.

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Former Kildare hotel offers scope for redevelopment at €1.75m Cooldrinagh House, famously known as the childhood home of Samuel Beckett’s mother, comes for sale

Right, Beckettians, who wants to buy the original Cooldrinagh (the childhood home of Beckett's mother)....
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Monthly Dispatch #22 — March 2025 A letter from the editor[s]

Monthly Dispatch #22 — ft. Jenkin Benson, Tim MacGabhann, @indigojackal.bsky.social Connor May, @ericracher.bsky.social @colmoshea.bsky.social Veronika Reichl (tr. Francesca Hyatt), Adam McPhee, Quyên Nguyễn-Hoàng & more ... — now live

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Greatly Failed — Tim MacGabhann A Calendar Sun low in southwest sinking as I turn head sinking teeth into another crabapple: pale yellow crabapple, pale yellow air, pale yellow in bottles of instant clarity after crabapples let f…

ICYMI — last week @ minor lits ...

— meditations on memory from @colmoshea.bsky.social

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— @chalicotherex.bsky.social on Munir Hachemi's LIVING THINGS

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— fiction from Tim MacGabhann

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An extract from my book [Untitled]: A Meditation, has gone live on @minorliteratures.bsky.social ...

We kiss.

I can’t remember what we talk about. If I could I would remember and record and repeat what we talk about, but I can’t.

It was only two months ago. Two months ago tonight.

An extract from [Untitled] — a memoir by @colmoshea.bsky.social

Taken in my home town, though the part I grew up in was "slightly" less posh, ahem........

Agnès Varda visits Dephine Seyrig and Alain Resnais, behind the scenes of Last Year at Marienbad, 1961.

Thanks Clare

I checked and I think you’re onto something…

A thread about @colmoshea.bsky.social's new book *[Untitled], a meditation* - a compulsive read, an emotional bomb refusing to go off, an uncomfortable lens-look at an affair that's unbearably sad, ending abruptly, with little agency or power, a woman who's a muse, turned into obsession. It's also a

Thank you June, I'm utterly Astonished at your incredibly kind words, you're too, too kind

[Untitled]: A Meditation, my debut work of experimental nonfiction, is available from LJMcD Communications
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Yesterday, the @stingingfly.bsky.social podcast discussed my short story 'Feeling Gravity's Pull'....

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This is a startlingly sad and gorgeous book.

My debut book, [Untitled]: A Meditation,
a work of experimental nonfiction, has been published by LJMcD Communications, and is available here:
lachlanjmcdougall.wordpress.com/books-and-sh...

The first review of a piece of my work up here...

Stumbled across this, Anthony Cronin's documentary on Patrick Kavanagh, Flann O'Brien, Brendan Behan, and 'Literary Dublin'...

The Literary Renaissance in Dublin youtu.be/ms9qeXB2_to?...

An extract from my piece IF.WHAT., published in the latest anthology by The Aleph Press, was recorded, and is included here, alongside the work of other contributors.

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