Jamie Feldman

Duende: Why Flamenco and Creative Writing Have Everything in Common Are we discounting duende in favour of marketing and losing our audience in the process?

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Newfoundland author, Michael Crummey, has won the 2025 Dublin Literary Award.
(As a fellow Atlantic Canadian, I’m thrilled! 🙌🏻)

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This is a new low. The Chicago Sun Times posted a summer reading list clearly written by AI. It’s got some real authors… and a lot of fake books.

Hey Canadian pals, have you voted yet? 🗳️❤️

I love street art ❤️. This was taken a while back at the old Bernard Shaw, Dublin.

Elbows up, Creatives! Don't wait for someone else to take over your craft before you see the value in it yourself.

#elbowsup creatives!
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Spring Cleaning for Creative Flow On tidying up our spaces and our minds.

It’s that time of year again! (Even for us messy creative types 😉)

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Walton Goggins’s Wild Ride to Stardom Three decades after he arrived in Hollywood with $300 in his pocket, Goggins is finally a bona fide star, with another season of the smash hit Fallout on deck and a risky, personal role in HBO’s The W...

If you enjoyed Ricks character arc on The White Lotus, wait til you hear about Walton Higgins’ real life arc about returning to Thailand. (Also, this interview is fab!)
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The White Lotus is a masterclass in character arcs. Belinda’s, especially with that echo to Tonya, was superb!

Thrilled to be a finalist!! Congrats to everyone 😊

Happy World Theatre Day! 🎭
What’s the first show you fell in love with?

Happy spring equinox! 🌸

Lovely to have longlisted for the Disquiet Literary Prize 😊

Hey! Always great to connect with fellow inkies!

Many thanks to Eamon and everyone at The Sunflower Sessions for inviting me to contribute to Flare’s 25th issue! If you happen to be in Dublin, the issue will be launched tomorrow night, upstairs at The Lord Edward. 🌻

No Oxford giant blueberry? Surly that’s a much more famous NS roadside attraction.

There’s a new David Gray album out today, and it’s like wonderful relaxing balm for the soul 🥰

When the Body says CREATE! Why artists can't just give it up. (And why we get sick if we do).

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Dublin Literary Award 2025: Seven Irish authors on longlist for €100,000 prize Irish authors Paul Lynch, Colin Barrett, John Boyne, Sinéad Gleeson and Nuala O’Connor also among 71 nominees for €100,000 fiction prize

The 2025 Dublin Literary Award long list is out. Some good stuff here! www.irishtimes.com/culture/book...

About as succinct as it gets

Best of Writer Beware: 2024 in Review - Writer Beware Hard to believe another year has rolled around–it seems like five minutes ago I was preparing this annual overview for 2023. As always, it’s been a busy year of writing scams, publisher implosions, ex...

The 2024 Writer Beware roundup of all the scams, publisher implosions, and controversies in the publishing/writing world is here:
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I finished watching Succession last night and my god it is absolutely brilliant! Why do we often consider television a lesser art form? The writing, character development, and plotting are top notch and deserve just as much praise as an acclaimed novel or film.
More please!

Happy Holidays! What books did everyone get from Santa?

Happy Solstice! Bring on the light! ✨

Never mind the Die Hard and Love Actually discourse, GREMLINS is actually the best Christmas movie!

Got whamageddoned by a guy in a horse mask drumming buckets in his bathtub. IYKYK

🎶We’ll rise again! Like a tugboat from the ocean… 🎶

I miss album notes. And blooper reels. And directors’ commentaries. And music video discourse. And local indie zines.

Unpopular opinion, but Garfield’s Christmas is the best Christmas show. 🎄

Just finished The Rachel Incedent by Caroline O’Donoghue and it’s such a good read! Well crafted, perfect ending. *chef’s kiss*