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> March 1st

HOWL opens for subs for New Irish Writing once every two years, and that window is quickly approaching! From Feb 13th - Feb 23rd you can submit your poetry, fiction, and nonfiction to HOWL 26 at howlwriting.ie

We hope we are lucky enough to receive your work!

Maybe it's not 'harder', but just not worth it 🤷🏻‍♀️

❛A converted barn all to myself, beautiful countryside on the doorstep... I managed about a months worth of writing condensed into one inspired week. – Susan Allott, author

The Moth Retreat offers accommodation for writers and artists of all disciplines in rural Ireland.

www.themothmagazine.com

Yeats' glasses on display in an exhibit

You can visit #Yeats: The Life and Works of #WilliamButlerYeats, a #free #exhibition at the National Library of Ireland on Kildare St, #Dublin.

📆 Open Monday to Sunday: https://www.nli.ie/exhibitions-events/exhibition-yeats-life-and-works-william-butler-yeats-0

Arthur Rimbaud by Étienne Carjat (1871)

My biggest crush as a 15y-old 😅

Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman

Crowd Work by Sam Furlong

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Not his fault, he was trying to say 'How you doing' to the pretty gate agent for the flight to Paris, in the approximate French learned from Phoebe. He got distracted 😂

two men are talking in a kitchen and one of them is saying " i 'm getting a new brain " ALT: two men are talking in a kitchen and one of them is saying " i 'm getting a new brain "

Does soap actor count? 🤣

RSBC appeals for story donations for new audiobook app for visually impaired children

ICYMI: The Royal Society for Blind Children has issued an urgent appeal to children’s authors, writers and publishers to donate stories to its new bedtime stories app, following its launch last week 👇 #BookSky

Totally justified mistyping habit! T was born in February. H and N, conjoined twins on the keyboard, were born in December of the same year. A is the little vowel with a big mouth who's catching up, although born in the summer in between, it's a step-sibling trying to find its place in the family 😉

All Fours and The Scarlet Letter

The ceramic penguin in Misery.

Oh, and I recently enjoyed 'Supremacy' by Parmy Olson.

'This is Water' (David Foster Wallace's cautionary speech / essay) touches the need for power more than its nature, but I think about it a lot now the original target audience is 20 years older.

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'After you.' (knowing you arrived in the non-queue before them)
'After YOU.'
'You go on.'
'No no, YOU go on.'
'Aw, cheers.'

My mother worked on a mobile library and it was the most wonderful job!

Walden and Little Women

What Authors Need to Know About the $1.5 Billion Anthropic Settlement  - The Authors Guild Today, Anthropic agreed to pay $1.5 billion to settle claims that it downloaded pirated books to train its AI systems—the largest U.S. copyright settlement in history. The parties in Bartz v…

BREAKING NEWS

Anthropic agree to pay $1.5 billion to settle claims that it downloaded pirated books to train its AI systems. This is the largest U.S. copyright settlement in history.

The settlement is still subject to the judge's approval.

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authorsguild.org/news/what-au...

and as always, worth noting again: this settlement is for *pirating* works. the judge in the lawsuit ruled that the way anthropic *trained* on works was legal!

Katherine Mansfield

Seascraper and Butter

@mpproductions.bsky.social 👀

Starring Kerry Condon maybe