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Poet and memoirist Afric McGlinchey will lead an immersive creative writing workshop at the 2025 Allingham Festival on “Setting and Weather as Metaphor”.
The two-hour workshop for 15 participants will be held from 9:30 to 11:30 am in Kilbarron House, Ballyshannon on Saturday morning, November 8.

Great line up for this year. Looking forward to this.

Welcome — Allingham Festival

Heading for Ballyshannon, Co. Donegal with a selection of stories and readings from my childhood memoir - This Boy's Heart. Sean Perry is our host and tickets for Sun. Nov. 9th are available here. Looking forward to book signing and chat afterwards. Hup! www.allinghamfestival.com/welcome#alli...

Colmcille Press authors to guest at Donegal Litfests Autumn is becoming the season for literature in Donegal and we're delighted to say that our authors will be giving readings and lectures at the county's three keynote festivals over the next couple of...

Authors to give talks at the Allingham Arts Festival, the Letterkenny Cathedral Quarter Festival and the Frances Brown Literary Festival.

Is Was — my new exhibition of paintings, drawings and photographs — is now live on the Kenny Gallery website.

Over forty new works, made from the streets, light and shifting memory of Galway.

www.thekennygallery.ie

The finale of this year's RTE Short Story Competition is coming up:

Friday 25 Oct at the Pavilion, Dún Laoghaire - and live at 7pm on Arena, RTE Radio One, with @rickoshea.bsky.social.

What a pleasure it has been! - and thanks to fellow judges @jancarsonwrites.bsky.social and Tristan Rosenstock.

⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

BBC Radio 4 - Short Works, Homing by Marie-Louise McGuinness A seemingly ordinary day inspires a woman to reflect on what led her to this life.

I've been so excited about this! My short story "Homing" will be featured on BBC Radio 4 on 7th November, Read by Charlotte McCurry

www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

RTÉ Arena Live | Fri 24 Oct, 6.50pm - Pavilion Theatre Join Arena and the RTÉ Short Story Competition judges for insights into the art of the short story, live music and performances from this year’s shortlist, and the announcement of the top prizes.

You should come out and join me for a live show next Friday night...

We have @jancarsonwrites.bsky.social, @neilhegarty.bsky.social, Tristan Rosenstock, live music from David Kitt, and live readings from a host of Irish actors...

www.paviliontheatre.ie/events/view/...

Short Story Competition: Corrán na Maidine, by Niall Ó Siadhail We present another story from the RTÉ Short Story Competition shortlist 2025...

Tá mo scéal 'Corrán na Maidine', atá ar ghearrliosta chomórtas Francis MacManus @rteradio1.bsky.social le léamh anseo anois: www.rte.ie/culture/2025...

They claimed the song was an account of something that happened to them on tour outside NY 🛸 👽

YouTube video by YanksOnTop Hot Chocolate - No doubt about it

www.youtube.com/watch?v=Weiu...

Broadcast schedule for the 2025 shortlist Broadcast schedule for the 2025 shortlist

Best wishes to this year's finalists starting this evening with
Witness, by Lynda McCarthy and read by Eileen Walsh

www.rte.ie/radio/radio1...

Congratulations 🥂

It seems cruel especially to the control group for the pilot. If a scheme has generated a 39% return to the State then the sensible thing would be to expand it to an additional 2000 applicants and not mothball it till next September. That's an awful big cliff for people to drop off in February.

Guess I was wrong about that.

Irish literary journals 2025/2026 By far the most-read post on this blog has been a very simple one – a list of Irish literary magazines. The original post I compiled in 2022, and an updated version in 2023, have clocked up o…

New blog post: an up-to-date list of Irish literary journals anneolearyblog.wordpress.com/2025/10/05/i...

Delighted to have been awarded a 2025 Mentorship in Fiction Bursary with Frank O’Connor fellow @laurajeanmckay.bsky.social
@munsterlitcentre.bsky.social

A quiet afternoon for reading. Have a good week.

RTÉ Short Story Competition 2025 shortlisted authors announced RTÉ has announced details of the ten exciting new stories which have been shortlisted for the RTÉ Short Story Competition 2025 in honour of Francis MacManus, from 2,200 entries submitted.

Some very happy looking judges. Congratulations to everyone on the shortlist 🥂

www.rte.ie/culture/2025...

Huge congratulations to all the prize winners of the 2025 Seán Ó Faoláin International Short Story Competition. First prize went to Tim Collyer. Full list of winners are available on our website: munsterlit.ie/o-faolain-sh...
#writing #shortstory #competitions

Writing Ghost Stories with June Caldwell - Irish Writers Centre % Are you looking to have a decent draft of a ghost story in time for Halloween? Sign up to June Caldwell's new course at the Irish Writers Centre (Dublin). Starts Tues 9 Sept 2025, 6.30 - 8.30pm

Writing Ghost Stories with June Caldwell 👻

In this six-week course, participants will learn all the necessary tools for completing a solidly spooky story.

Topics covered will include 'finding your ghost', 'the Irish púca' and 'floating off in style'...

irishwriterscentre.ie/courses/writ...

Statement on arrests following Palestine peaceful protest in London - Irish PEN/PEN na hÉireann The arrest yesterday in the UK of dozens of peaceful protestors, including the world renowned poet Alice Oswald, seems excessive and heavy-handed. While noting that Palestine Action is currently a pro...

'To arrest and charge with terrorist offences those expressing their opposition to genocide seems like an unnecessary and unwelcome form of censorship': our statement on the recent arrest of peaceful protestors - including poet Alice Oswald - in London.

irishpen.com/2025/08/13/s...

Would you like to contribute to the public consultation about the Basic Income for the Arts? 💡

Fill out this survey from Minister O’Donovan at the Department of Culture, Communications and Sport: ec.europa.eu/eusurvey/run...

I've followed Amanda's progress as a writer since reading this a few years ago. It's great to see talented people doing well.

www.irishtimes.com/culture/book...

It's a great to see a talented writer and story-teller doing so well. Congratulations Amanda.🥂

This day week should you be interested. The whole festival is fabulous (as is Sligo).

Thanks Jackie. I had one short story rejected 27 times over a couple of years before it found a really great home. I knew it had *something* Just needed to get it in front of the right eyes. A normal human being would've taken the hint. Can't even bring myself to look at my submittable page anymore

Here's the thing: people have been creative for millennia without using ecocide-plagiarism machines. What tech bros want is for us to forget that there are non-tech ways of doing things. Better ways, even.

A portrait of Brother Kevin by Eoin Mac Lochlainn. Rest in peace Brother Kevin.

@eoinmaclochlainn.bsky.social #BrotherKevin