Áine Greaney, author

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The Object(s) of My Affection, writing from heirlooms, photographs and memories, with Áine Greaney - Irish Writers Centre Join Aine Greaney for this two-hour online writing workshop that uses small heirlooms, keepsakes or beloved books as the inspiration our writing on Sat 1 Nov.

A few spots open in virtual #writing workshop from the @irishwriterscentre.bsky.social. Use heirlooms, keepsakes or a beloved book or photo to inspire a short memoir, story, essay. @irishexpat.bsky.social @writing.ie New writers or those trying a new genre are welcome. tinyurl.com/3zcnhjc6

#BBF2025 - Incredible day yesterday at Boston Book Festival. Our panel topic: how our creative writing confront issues of place, displacement and the concept of home. It was a thrill to see everyone coming together to honor literacy and literature. @belmontbooks.bsky.social
#BostonBookFestival

#BBF2025 - 📗Only 2+ days until Boston Book Festival on October 23. I'm on an author panel, "Place and Displacement: How We Find and Make Home," at 2pm. Discussing how we shape, and are shaped by, the places we call home. #writingcommunity #Authors #Immigrantwriters bostonbookfest.org/schedule/

Darling, You're Making a Scene a 60-minute workshop

#WritingCommunity✍️Join us for this virtual writing workshop w/ HerStories Project on Nov 3. For #fiction + #nonfiction writers! #writingworkshop
➡️ Opening scenes
➡️ Showing versus telling
➡️ Crafting dialogue (or not)
➡️ Closing scenes
Info, registration: www.theherstoriesproject.com/making-a-scene

Tips for writing during times of anxiety — Áine Greaney Six tips for writing to offset your private and public anxiety.

Have you noticed? From "The Atlantic" to "The New Yorker," quite a few publications are writing and sharing about our private and shared anxiety. Writing ✍can't be a cure-all, but it may help. Here are my 6 tips for writing during these anxious times: 👇 tinyurl.com/yuaexp3m

Another Reason to Write Because it's good for you!

Loved doing this interview on writing for wellness + how journaling can support our public-facing writing. Take a read. Or register for Monday, October 13th virtual workshop! #Writing #WritingCommunity #IrishBluesky #Authors&Writing
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YouTube video by WriteNow The NEW way to balance WRITING with a full-time job | Áine Greaney | Create Write Now! podcast 26

Are you a writer balancing your creative life with a day job? Enjoy my interview with @createwritenow.bsky.social and Kauffman. #writing #Authors
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One of my summer 2025 highlights was the week-long women's ✍writing retreat at The Pyramid Life Center, NY. On our final day, one workshop participant slipped a thank-you note onto my desk. It really doesn't get better than this. ❤️ 🙏 #Writing #writingandbooks #writingcommunity #writingworkshops

#WritingCommunity - New writing journal. I've been doing this since I was 14 and it still feels magical. Also, my writing pen was crafted from two old dining room chairs. #Authors

Note To Former Self: You're Way Too Young For College Too many mornings, I switched off the alarm rather than trek to a lecture hall where, for the first time in my life, no adult was watching, writes Aine Greaney.

#movinday #Writing #Backtoschool
And oldie but hopefully goodie personal essay:
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#Writing - This is a great list from Erika Dreyfus. www.erikadreifus.com/2012/01/frid...

writing for joy and meaning — Áine Greaney, Author How to ignore the markets and write for my own sense of joy. Writing as a way to change your mood, to discover inner thoughts and feel better.

#WritingCommunity - Latest blog post: How to find and keep the joy in our writing #Writing #Authors #Journalling www.ainegreaney.com/tipsforwrite...

Thanks for this--and for the #3 correction. Really appreciate it and these balance-life rules.

80 Best Magazines & Websites That Publish Personal Essays Looking for a list of magazines and sites that pay for personal essays? Here's a whole slew of such entities who will gladly consider your story.

#WritingCommunity - Places to submit our personal essays.
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Five Great Quotations for Aspiring Writers “If you want to be a writer, you must do two things above all others: read a lot and write a lot. There’s no way around these two things that I’m aware of, no shortcut.” – Stephen King“…

#authorship #creativewriting #editing #amwriting #writingcommunity inventingrealityediting.com/2...

Thank you!

Thanks for reading and for your kind words.

Willie Nelson and the Three G’s of Literary Citizenship By Áine Greaney Recently, I watched a short video in which Willie Nelson and his wife shared their three family rules: 1) Don’t be an a**hole. 2) Don’t be an a**hole. 3) Don’t be an a**hole. Now, w…

#Booksky #authors #writingcommunity - 📚Just had this piece, "Willie Nelson and the Three G’s of Literary Citizenship" published at Brevity Magazine brevity.wordpress.com/2025/07/24/w...

YouTube video by PortMedia Morning Show with Mary Jacobsen April 10th, 2025 Aine Greaney

My local TV interview. Sample topics:
📚 My latest book
✍️ Writing - writing about place
👨‍⚕️ Writing for #wellness

youtu.be/ucs6oX60ncg

No, unless it's something really tatty and old that I found someplace.

An essay on bereavement and loss and the folks who come to help us in our hour of need #Authors, #Writing #Irishwriters hopkinsmedicalhumanities.org/tendon-magaz...

Don’t Misuse – or Overuse – Dialogue Tags Novice writers sometimes grow bored with using the word said over and over so decide to add dialogue tags. These are words such as exclaimed and asked that let re…

#horrorwriter #amwriting #writingcommunity #indieauthor #indieauthors inventingrealityediting.com/2...

After five years of sweat, tears and elbow grease, I'm happy to announce that my memoir, #BarnGothic, will be published by @islandpress.bsky.social on November 13th, 2025.

It's a book that I owed my family and other farmers like them.

Unnatural (Braided Essay) This essay was first published in The Lowell Review , 2023.     For more of Áine's published writing and teaching information, visit her  au...

#WritingCommunity - I learned to knit when I was 4. I've been knitting ever since. Two years ago, I decided to combine my two loves (knitting and writing) in this braided, coming-of-age essay. Enjoy! #Bloomday ainegreaneywriting.blogspot.com/2024/07/unna...

American Prom Season: Fancy Gowns and Midlife Musings Nowadays, they say that 50 is the new 40, and, therefore, way too early for middle-aged laments or regrets.

Just had this essay published at The Wisdom Daily. It's about witnessing my first school prom in America. Yes, I break one of the 7 deadly sins here--but it was worth it! #writingandbooks #Irishwriters #essays #memoir #booksky tinyurl.com/3d4c8mpt

Stranger In Winter - Litro Magazine A lyrical account of the immigrant experience in America.

#Irishwriters #Authors #WritingCommunity - Have an essay or story that's your own, personal favorite? Share here! This is among my top three, pubbed in @litromagazine.bsky.social www.litromagazine.com/every-saturd...

Finding the best writers retreat — Áine Greaney, Author How do I choose the best writers retreat for me? Plus: 6 tips to get the most out of a writers retreat.

#WritingCommunity ✒️ - Get them while they're hot! 😎 "Tips for your 😎 summer writers retreat: www.ainegreaney.com/blog/tips-fo...

Thanks so much, Amy. See you on Saturday?

Poetry · Exile · Silence — The Creative Process A Conversation with Poet MAJA LUKIC I was born in Croatia, in the former Yugoslavia. We left that country when the civil war broke out, and I grew up in Canada, mostly, with a lot of subsequent moves...

I had the pleasure of doing this little interview with Creative Process Podcast recently 🖤 www.creativeprocess.info/writers-inte...