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"Parking is such sweet sorrow"

The front cover of New Famous Phrases by Daniel Hinds published by Broken Sleep Books. An array of brown shades in slanting lines and oval shapes, suggestions of De Stijl, neoplasticism, but not so regimented, softened with a more mysterious vanishing point, a touch of Kandinsky

My signed copy of New Famous Phrases by Daniel Hinds (Broken Sleep Books) has arrived. I’ve heard Daniel read his poems twice now & relished their vitality, original phrasing & imagery, & erudition. Looking forward to exploring them further @danielghinds.bsky.social @brokensleepbooks.bsky.social

It is publication day for my debut poetry collection New Famous Phrases! I've been able to say I'm a poet for a few years now, but today is the 1st day I feel like An Author. Thanks to my publisher @brokensleepbooks.bsky.social & editor @godzillakent.bsky.social for making this dream a reality.

Brilliant, congratulations!

Róisín Ní Neachtain - I, bird | Broken Sleep Books Róisín Ní Neachtain's I, bird is a fragmented, lyrical reckoning with grief, trauma, and the porous boundary between body and voice. Structured in poetic prose and verse, the collection moves between ...

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Pre-orders up!!! Deeply grateful to @brokensleepbooks.bsky.social and all my teachers at UCD and the kind writers who wrote the blurbs including @gagebybell.bsky.social and @martinadalton.bsky.social and so many others …

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Orpea, kicked out of France, rebranded as Emeis, (rhymes with fleece, as in the verb To Fleece), landed in Ireland, leading to the shocking nursing home scenes televised on RTE. @carechampions.bsky.social @mothnews.bsky.social @rte.ie

Capitalism has come for our care industry, and it's only shareholders who benefit. #carehomes #ireland #irish #news #caresector @thesparklyshell.bsky.social @keefow.bsky.social @carechampions.bsky.social

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There's a new imprint in town, Walela Books for genre fiction that pushes creative boundaries, create bold and original stories.

Quirky, absurd narratives with twists and turns and novels that make you pause with wonder and glee.

Details in link.

Please share :)

If you are wanting to take part in this course, I'm proably only going to run it once more before taking a hiatus from my courses, so January might be your last chance:

www.mattkendrick.co.uk/wbtl-colourf...

PS - same for all my other courses, so if you're interested, get in touch

Welkin Enter An annual competition for microfiction up to 100 words. It is free to enter and aims to be a welcoming space for all writers. The competition is open to all forms of narrative prose. There is a whole ...

Want some nice news for a Friday?
This is your early warning that the Welkin Writing Prize WILL BE BACK! A long way to go until entries open in December, but I'm committing now so there's no backing out later in the year 😀 Bigger prize fund too!! 🥳
www.mattkendrick.co.uk/welkin-prize...

The national scandal that just keeps running www.youtube.com/watch?v=EZ0U... I’m on 42 minutes in.

Love All—a short story by Michelle Walshe - Books Ireland How she loathed London when she first arrived, that single bed in the dormitory at Viktor’s academy, her body stiff and her muscles aching from the relentless training.

A new short story. Thanks to Books Ireland booksirelandmagazine.com/michellewals...

The abuse in Emeis homes shows the cruelty of profit-driven care. Older people treated like commodities while standards collapse. We need a public, dignified, community-led care system, free from greed of for profit private companies.

www.irishtimes.com/ireland/soci...

Review of all nursing homes operated by Emeis Ireland requested by Department of Health Admissions to Portlaoise nursing home, one of two featured in RTÉ Investigates programme on Wednesday, halted due to ‘significant concerns’

Review of all nursing homes operated by Emeis Ireland requested by Department of Health

Serious care concerns found at leading private nursing home group Staff shortages, unsafe care and undignified treatment has been uncovered in homes run by State's leading private care provider Emeis Ireland

🧵 The RTÉ Investigates (@news.rte.ie) doc airing tonight will expose shocking conditions in Emeis-run nursing homes in Ireland.

#Emeis will say it’s not the norm. We know it is.

EPSU has seen the same pattern across Europe for years. We’re horrified, but not surprised.
www.rte.ie/news/investi...

HIQA to carry out review into Emeis Ireland nursing homes HIQA has confirmed it is carrying out a review of all nursing homes operated by the Emeis Ireland group, after multiple care failings and neglect of vulnerable older residents at two of its nursing ho...

HIQA has confirmed that it is carrying out a review of all nursing homes operated by the Emeis Ireland group, after multiple care failings and neglect of vulnerable older residents at two of its nursing homes were documented by RTÉ Investigates.

Review of all nursing homes operated by Emeis Ireland requested by Department of Health Admissions to Portlaoise nursing home, one of two featured in RTÉ Investigates programme on Wednesday, halted due to ‘significant concerns’

Review of all nursing homes operated by Emeis Ireland requested by Department of Health

Wanted to speak out after the RTE INVESTIGATES programme. Have been trying to get my voice heard since last December.

Welkin Mini The Welkin Mini is a biennial competition to celebrate micro fiction and creative non-fiction up to 100 words. Like the main Welkin Prize, it is free to enter and aims to be a welcoming space for all ...

Just 12 days, 5 hours and 31 minutes (or in Welkin time: 12 brontosauruses, 5 velociraptors and 31 chickens) until the deadline for the Welkin Mini. Not long now (but also plenty of time to write 100 words):

www.mattkendrick.co.uk/welkin-prize...

Donate to The Rick O'Shea Book Club Xmas Appeal 2024, organized by Rick O'Shea The Rick O'Shea Book Club is Ireland's largest book club with over 40,000 membe… Rick O'Shea needs your support for The Rick O'Shea Book Club Xmas Appeal 2024

Morning all. Sorry, I promise I'll stop hacking on about this soon, but it is for two genuinely great charities.

We're at €18,854 aiming for €20,000.

Almost there... Your 20 quid can make me shut up 😁

www.gofundme.com/f/therickosh...

Donate to The Rick O'Shea Book Club Xmas Appeal 2024, organized by Rick O'Shea The Rick O'Shea Book Club is Ireland's largest book club with over 40,000 membe… Rick O'Shea needs your support for The Rick O'Shea Book Club Xmas Appeal 2024

Hi, hi.

We are at 555 donations this year so far. I love round numbers, don't you?

600 donations would be amazing.... All goes to the UNICEF Ireland Gaza and Lebanon appeal and the DSPCA.

www.gofundme.com/f/therickosh...

€11,136 and rising.

9 grand more and I will have raised a quarter of a million euro in the last few years...

Welkin Mini The Welkin Mini is a biennial competition to celebrate micro fiction and creative non-fiction up to 100 words. Like the main Welkin Prize, it is free to enter and aims to be a welcoming space for all writers.

Entries are officially...

OPEN!!!

All details and entry form here: www.mattkendrick.co.uk/welkin-prize...

Good luck!

And we made €1,000 today.

50 quid more and we hit €10,000.

www.gofundme.com/f/therickosh...

€8,851 today...

We might make it :-)

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Fighting Words Northern Ireland are simply the nicest and most passionate people to work with, and I don't say that just because I'm on the board...

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Shares would be great!

Legendary. Went on for hours. Watched it all too.

Discoveries 2025 Calling all unpublished women writers! The Women’s Prize Trust, Audible, the Curtis Brown literary agency and Curtis Brown Creative have partnered to run the Discoveries novel-writing development prog...

The Discoveries writing development programme and prize for unpublished women writers in the UK accepts novels in any genre of adult fiction, with entrants invited to submit the first 10,000 words of their novel and a synopsis

Funny to see this now. I just finished this beautiful book and was thinking how ‘late I was to the party.’

blue background with the word 'courses' repeated in a curved pattern. Text reads: ANNOUNCEMENT: Winter Course Programme January - March 2025 Irish Writers Centre logo

❄️Winter Course Programme❄️

Browse our first batch of winter courses!

Starting as early as Jan 7th, we have a range of in-person and online courses including novel writing, short story writing, poetry and creative non-fiction✒️

Browse courses⬇️
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