June Caldwell

Tomorrow night authors Louise Nealon and Claire Hennessy are taking part in this event, as well as documentary maker Amy Bracken, musician & composer Allesandro Loro and David McLoughlin of Metropolitan Pictures, one of Ireland’s leading and longest established production companies. #CreativeCareers

WRITING 2026 - Circle of Misse Mentored Writing Weeks This year (2026), we are offering four weeks with focus for writers who want to work with a mentor. I have persuaded four brilliant mentors to join us this year. Dates are as fo...

Mentored writing retreats at Circle of Misse 🇫🇷 in #2026: Paul McVeigh delving into novel writing, there's myself for a deep dive into the #ShortStory, Susan Tomaselli on #SelfEditing and Barbara Clarke to wrench writing projects further down the long aul road! www.circleofmisse.com/wp/writing-2...

Oh I must nab that one, she's a great writer. Enjoy your cosy afternoon, you grafted enough this morning!

Top Man! Happy St. Brigid's Day from 🇮🇪

Trauma

That's crazy! Taking aside the #dna lottery (my Da's siblings and father all died of bowel cancer in their 50s and my bro from same condition at 47); your school year stat is bizarre.

That's astonishing, life expectancy is also reversing for our generation, lots of mid-life sickness. In the near past (one generation back) how many smoked, for instance? That had a huge impact. We've now turned our back on that carcinogen, booze is the big one. And chem-shit food in our generation.

HOWL 26 Subs Open Soon We’re delighted to announce that submissions for HOWL 26 will open from February 13 to February 23.

We’re delighted to announce that submissions for HOWL 26 will open from February 13 to February 23.

We’ll be accepting poetry, fiction, and nonfiction for our next collection of New Irish Writing.

More @: www.howlwriting.ie/post/submiss...

My course is going ahead again in France this year (October) if anyone is interested. Circle of Misse writing retreat is special ❤️ www.circleofmisse.com/wp/writing-2...

Free event! Claire Carroll, Saoirse Exton & Ariel Saramandi, join editor Lisa McInerney and publisher Declan Meade to discuss work. The non-fiction blew me away (no pun) and it's good to engage with other writers on how best to approach these #ClimateCrisis concerns. us02web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

Going to buy it, sounds brilliant 👏

Massive congratulations 👏

This looks like an interesting event for anyone with an interest in mythical Ireland; Ger Moane is a brilliant academic and a fab writer.

Early dinner of Celeriac Steaks in a Café de Paris Sauce with Watercress & Rocket Salad. This recipe is from #FitGreenMind online and is #vegan, though it can be #bastardised into #vegetarian too, depending on how you swing.

Will do that, thanks.

It was gas crack, so many lovely people, relaxed atmos but loads going on (to do/see/attend), gorgeous location and we were spoilt. Went for little wave-watching drives most days too, stunning coastline. There's just no other writer's festival like it!

Doolin Arts on Instagram: "Still buzzing from Doolin Writers’ Weekend 📚 Huge thanks to every writer who travelled, every reader who listened, everyone who read, wrote, shared, questioned, laughed and... 72 likes, 9 comments - doolin_arts on January 22, 2026: "Still buzzing from Doolin Writers’ Weekend 📚 Huge thanks to every writer who travelled, every reader who listened, everyone who read, wrote, s...

Lovely video clips here of Doolin Writers Weekend 2026 in action. Such a fantastic time; a stellar programme thanks to the hard work of Donal Minihane & Elizabeth Reapy. Really interesting, engaging and chill festival attended by #sounders share.google/5p4teV1vWFU1...

My course is going ahead again in France this year (October) if anyone is interested. Circle of Misse writing retreat is special ❤️ www.circleofmisse.com/wp/writing-2...

I've said it before - yes, I'm monomaniacal - but this recipe for Patatas Bravas is horny devil fare. So horny we eat it as a dinner on its tod. Thick sweet & smoky paprika sauce on crispy oven-baked spuds, toasted cumin seeds, garlicky tomato pulp & yoghurt 😋

www.theguardian.com/food/2023/se....

It's the first recipe listed here, I replaced spuds with leeks and it worked well: www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...

It really worked, t'was part-recipe, part fridge leftovers. I'm obsessed with baby turnips though 😋 and they seem to have them in Dunnes all the time. The dressing was fab.

More zany combinations of #Veg: a roasting tin of quartered baby turnips, chopped leek, garlic, fennel & caraway seeds, salt, harissa, orange peel, olive oil. Roast for 40, stirring every 15. Layer with watercress and dressing of toasted/crushed fennel seeds, orange & lemon juice, s&p, e/virgin oil.

Thank you, Lilliput!
Awesome to see the Proofs, even more awesome to read blurbs about your own work
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Rafael Mendes & Aisling Walsh on representation and ethics in writing. Is being close to, enough? How do you write about identities, sexualities, lived experience that are not your own? Where are the lines drawn for/at appropriation against a canon that were 'writers' without an added 'other' label?

The Blessing of the Rags and Happy Stigmata at an alternative #Mass at #DoolinWritersWeekend "We'll heal what ails you"...

Crazy display of [free] food here for #SundayMass at the utterly brilliant #DoolinWritersWeekend The programme is 100% kickass this year, trying my best to get to as much as I can before collapsing into bed every night. Feels like part freaky wedding, part fab festival.

The interview/chat with Roddy Doyle & Elizabeth Reapy was so chill and enthralling. Roddy is so down to earth and sensible, but his honesty is unusual in this lit-climate. He laughed at a terrible review of his first book, spoke about writing as 'labour' and dissed too much editorial interference.

Here at THE LOOK, Ian Maleany's workshop on Filmic Techniques in Written Narrative. #DoolinWritersWeekend

Mary read an incredible essay (a meditation on the state of the world) at #DoolinWritersWeekend last night; the entire audience held its breath. Can't wait for this novel.

Thank you Joyce! I'm reading this story tomorrow night at #DoolinWritersWeekend