Nuala O'Connor

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Join us on Saturday 4th of October, 2.30pm, in Ballinasloe Library for the official launch of 'Forged in Fire', a collaborative fine art exhibition by #group8ballinasloe members. #Ballinasloe

Cover image of the forthcoming gift edition of Joyce's The Dead, showing a snow covered Georgian doorway, superimposed on a snowy landscape. Introduction by novelist Nuala O'Connor.

Coming from @newislandbooks.bsky.social this November is a handsome gift edition of the classic short story from Joyce's Dubliners - The Dead, with a new introduction written by @nualaoconnor.bsky.social ( author of the bestselling Nora) - Preorder here - thebookshop.ie/james-joyce-...

FLASH WRITERS! I'm judging the Allingham Flash Fiction Comp and it's been extended!

The deadline extended to Sunday, 12 Oct at 23:59 / 11:59 pm. Applies to both on-line and postal submissions. All other competition rules and guidelines remain in effect; see www.allinghamfestival.com/fiction-poet...

Board nember @nualaoconnor.bsky.social has written a report on Evensong 2025, in memory of Elizabeth Bowen, at St Colman's Church, Farahy.
It's now on the Bowen Society website.
www.bowensociety.com/commemoration/

Landscape format in acrylics on canvas. Coastal scene with a bay of pale blue coming in from the right in the foreground to a stony shoreline of orange and dark magenta, almost black, seaweed and grey rocks. Further back, running across the centre line the rocks and seaweed are a paler magenta and peach, and the water a paler blue with a hint of teal. The land behind the rocky shoreline is a patchwork of lime green and olive green very small rough fields enclosed by dozens of undulating grey dry stone walls. Some bushes are in foreground behind a broken wall by the shore at the bottom of the picture. Further back about two-thirds of the way up the painting, just left of centre, is a small single story cottage of cream, with a grey roof, almost blending into the walls and fields around it. Some dark trees are dotted around in the far fields before the horizon where there are clumps of very dark blue-green pine trees contrasting with the pale field. Behind them is a wine narrow slope on the left, a large dark blue mountain sloping up to the right edge, a large paler turquoise pyramidal mountain behind it left of centre, and other steep mountains behind, receding in paler shades of blue. Sky is watery smokey white and pale blue of a sunny day with light indistinct clouds and very light touches of yellow and even green towards the left. Signed bottom right in magenta on the blue water, Liam Daly

A new #painting. "Cill Chiaráin". Kilkieran if you prefer. One ridiculous perfect day in South Connemara I was painting by the side of a road. Everywhere I looked I saw more paintings I knew I'd paint later. This is later. I love this part of the world. Love it. #ArtYear #SpeirGhorm #MountainMonday

Bowen Essay Comp for under and postgrads. See more:
Latest News – The Elizabeth Bowen Society share.google/oixUWFDLWnFI...

Delighted to be shortlisted for this award alongside winner #JudyCrozier and Karen J McDonnell of down the road, and others. My essay, about autism and Pythia, will be in Southword in 2026. Thanks to all at Munster Lit & @southword.bsky.social 🙌

Next Wednesday we have the September Bowen Reading Group.

24th Sep - 7pm BST - online. Free! All welcome.

We're reading & discussing *Look at All Those Roses*. 🌹

In the Collected volume, the stories we're considering run from 'Reduced' to 'Summer Night'.
www.tickettailor.com/checkout/vie...

Culture Night, I'm in @tertuliabookshop.bsky.social in Westport for a Brainstorm with artist #bredaburns, talking about neurodivergent vs neurotypical brains/life/living/creativity. Fun!

6pm - Tertulia, Westport, Co. Mayo

Image: 'Living With A Brain Like Mine' collage by Nuala O'Connor

⚡️Meet the Stormers of Issue V

@nualaoconnor.bsky.social’s fifth poetry collection Menagerie (Arlen House) was published in 2025. She’s currently writing a memoir about late-diagnosed autism. She is a member of Aosdána.

The Storms is supported by #fingalarts #dublinUNESCOcityoflit

Arrives Nov 2025

Yay!

Flowers for Elizabeth from the Bowen Society ahead of her annual memorial at St Colman's, Farahy, which commences shortly.

Tomorrow in Cork, remembering Elizabeth Bowen 🌸

Join us for the September Bowen Reading Group - link in bio!

24th Sep - 7pm BST - online. Free! All welcome.

We're reading & discussing *Look at All Those Roses*. 🌹

In the Collected volume, the stories we're considering run from 'Reduced' to 'Summer Night'. www.tickettailor.com/checkout/vie...

FORTHCOMING:
*The Aesthetic of Elizabeth Bowen’s Novels - Light, Atmosphere, Fragmentation, and Sensation* (2026) by Diana Hirst

This is the first monograph to evaluate Elizabeth Bowen’s ‘verbal painting’, and the first to acknowledge the influence of the East Kent landscape in her novels.

My news! Thank you @artscouncilireland.bsky.social

'I don’t know why it’s been banned. For describing what an American theological dictatorship could look like? Because it portrays evil? Is it evil to portray evil? If so, bye-bye Bible and Shakespeare.' Margaret Atwood

Elizabeth Bowen features in a 1970 BBC documentary currently available to watch on the BBC iPlayer.

Omnibus - Virginia Woolf: A Night's Darkness, A Day's Sail

'I know she was a genius.' EB on VW

www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/epis...

Issue 3 Has Landed! Welcome to our Frazzled Lit Short Story Award 2025 issue!

And we are live with Issue 3!

Thanks to all who made this possible, including the wonderful @nualaoconnor.bsky.social for judging the competition that brought this issue to life.

www.frazzledlit.com/p/issue-3-ha...

Wednesday, 10th Sep

Green Carnations: Remembering Eibhear Walshe

FREE - Book: Eventbrite

The School of English and Digital Humanities, UCC, invites you to a symposium in honour of the late Dr Eibhear Walshe.

12:30 - 7:30pm
www.eventbrite.ie/e/green-carn...

Link for our September @bowensociety.bsky.social Reading Group.

Keep your eyes well peeled this coming Sunday for what is a terrific issue of Frazzled Lit. The best of the best of Short Story Writers, as judged by Nuala O'Connor @nualaoconnor.bsky.social are in this tight packed issue.

An excerpt from the winner!
@finnegag.bsky.social

The Madrid Review - Issue 5 - August 28th Issue – A Preview Issue 5 of The Madrid Review drops on August 28th with a cover as striking as the voices within. Designed by the amazing Álvaro P-FF of The Fly Factory – who is also interviewed by Lis Iglesias inside...

All the writers, all the details @tracychevalier.bsky.social @salenagodden.bsky.social @cristinajurado.bsky.social @nualaoconnor.bsky.social @matthewtree.bsky.social
themadridreview.com/f/the-madrid...
#newissue #news #breakingnews #free #freestuff #freepalestine #writing #writers #gaza #litmag

How the Bendigo writers’ festival’s code of conduct caused a walkout and claims of censorship The last-minute code of conduct and the backlash are the latest in a string of controversies ‘symptomatic of the current environment’ in the arts

If the writers are being censored, who have we got?
'How the Bendigo writers’ festival’s code of conduct caused a walkout and claims of censorship.' #palestine share.google/Z1D9xR5kZQCu...

Please fill this in, artist or not!
ec.europa.eu/eusurvey/run...

I'm judging the Allingham Flash Award
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🌹 A little reading reminder for the next Bowen Reading Group 🌹

24th Sep - 7pm BST - online.

We're reading & discussing *Look at All Those Roses*.

Link soon.

#bowenreadinggroup #ElizabethBowen #ElizabethBowenSociety #lookatallthoseroses #shortfiction #shortstories

Still a couple of places left on my poetry course this Saturday in Co. Galway. Sign up asap!

Congratulations Emily 🙌💙