Catriona Shine

Leone Ross short story judges report

Delighted to see my short story Oboe highly commended in the Bridport Prize. @bridportprize.bsky.social
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A huge thanks to @daithitoms.bsky.social and Shane Tivenan for a great conversation at Prismatic Pages in Oslo last weekend.

Sosialdemokratiske spøkelser En syrlig allegori over det norske samfunnet anno 2025, der det sosiale — og materielle — fundamentet bokstavelig talt begynner å slå sprekker, skriver vår anmelder om boken «Habitat» av Catriona Shin...

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Israeli drones drop grenades near UN peacekeepers in Lebanon Force describes incident as ‘one of the most serious attacks on Unifil personnel and assets’ since end of Israel-Hizbullah war

Israeli drones drop grenades near UN peacekeepers in Lebanon

Ubehag i nabolaget Catriona Shines roman «Habitat», lagt til en norsk bygård i fritt forfall, er blitt hyllet i irske medier.

Dagens avis: klassekampen.no/utgave/2025-...

Catriona Shine @catrionashine.bsky.social is an Irish-Norwegian writer and architect. Her debut novel, Habitat, published by the Lilliput Press, was a Sunday Times, Irish Times and The Journal Most Anticipated Book of 2024, RTÉ Book of the Week, and was longlisted for the McKitterick Prize. Catriona

Great news!

Creators for Europe United Open letter to the Executive Vice-President of the EU Commission for Technological Sovereignty, Security and Democracy to protect Europe’s creative soul.

Calling all European creators, please read and sign this open letter to the European Commission for Tech Sovereignty, Security and Democracy calling for AI regulation, and copyright protection and enforcement.
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#AI #europe #creators #copyright

Thanks to all at Cork World Book Fest!

Greetings!

It has been a wonderful privilege to stay at Hawthornden Castle for a writers’ residency. It’s a beautiful place and I made some great friends. #writing #hawthornden #writingretreat #novel #edinburgh #scotland #castle

I'll have the pleasure of reading and conversing with Christine Dwyer Hickey, Kevin Curran (another Lilliput author) and Mary Morrissy at the opening to Cork World Book Festival this Tuesday 7pm at Cork City Library. Come along if you can!

Book Bridge - Competition - Ponta Lopud Creative Platform September 18 to 20, 2025 2025 BOOK BRIDGE The second edition of the Ponta Lopud Book Bridge will bring a nuanced creative buzz to Lopud exploring the relationship between Literature and social controv...

Free to enter #writing competition as part of annual #literaryfestival in lovely Ponta Lopud near #Dubrobnik #Croatia entry can be short story, poetry, essay. Theme is hotels: 'what do their walls feel+what stories do they long to tell?' Info and t+cs here

What are the good search engines now that Google is broken?

I’ve been using Ecosia for environmental reasons.

I wrote about Gaza, and about writing about Gaza www.irishtimes.com/opinion/2025...

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Making an effort to repost (not just like) all the posts on goodness, kindness, beauty, optimism. Be the change you want to see in the world (or at least on BlueSky) 😊

Read Mary Morrissey’s short essay on her Issue 14 short story, Mature People

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⌛Solvej Balle on Time, Wonder, & Writing the Impossible⏳

On this week's podcast Solvej Balle returns to the bookshop she once called home to discuss her monumental "On the Calculation of Volume".
🎧: pod.fo/e/2c6094

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Congratulations! This sounds wonderful!

Habitat: An Autopsy of Collective Collapse - Building Novels Habitat is the debut novel of Catriona Shine, an architect who grew up in Ireland and now works in Oslo, and the latest installment in Madeline Beach Carey's...

There's a lovely review of Habitat by Madeline Beach Carey in World-Architects Magazine today. #Habitat #buildingnovels #architecturebooks #architecture #novel #oslo
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Really lovely to have work included here in such brilliant company ✨️

A black-and-white photo of Mick Lally on Inis Meáin with the sea behind him. He's leaning his arm on a large painting of the Sacred Heart which sits on wooden table. There's a red Druid logo in the top left corner. In the bottom right, there's text which reads 'Druid's 50th Anniversary Season'.

Founded in 1975, this year marks Druid's 50th anniversary

We're celebrating with a double bill of Synge’s Riders to the Sea and Shakespeare’s Macbeth in Galway this July, followed by Macbeth in Dublin and Beckett’s Endgame in New York

Come join us in the celebrations 🎉

Protest Meta's Theft of Irish Writing I've just signed this petition protesting Meta's theft of Irish writing, which they've used to build their AI tool. Will you sign too?

I've just signed this petition protesting Meta's theft of Irish writing, which they've used to build their AI tool. Will you sign too? my.uplift.ie/petitions/pr...

Irish businesses will struggle to compete with Amazon ie, both online and in the high street.

Shop direct with your Irish retailers, who already exist.

Support local, not the billionaires.

Happy read-a-book-with-a-green-spine day! ☘️

All over the papers in Serbia. Lovely to see. Huge thank you to Suzanna and all Belgrade irish festival for stellar efforts to champion my books.

The 100 best Irish books of the 21st century: No 50 to No 26 A panel of more than 60 experts (authors, critics, academics, festival curators and booksellers) select their favourite Irish novels and short stories of the years 2020-2025

Honoured that Leonard and Hungry Paul has been included in the @irishtimes.com 100 best Irish books of the 21st century (so far), at 38. Thanks so much to the contributors who selected it.

(Ps. I was a contributor but didn't nominate or upvote my own book.)

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Well deserved. Shaping up to be a great list.

I have a feeling that one of the books I would have chosen, Habitat by Catriona Shine won't make the list. I'd also have chosen Pond (only at 83!) and A Line Made By Walking (only at 91!). But I expect the other books I would have chosen, Solar Bones, Milkman and A Girl Is will be towards the top.