Write a Short Story in Six Days - Circle of Misse
Workshop Summary – October 19-26 From nailing a solid idea to the excitement of penning that vital last sentence, this week-long intensive will examine the different elements of short story writing in...
I'm facilitating a week-long #ShortStoryWorkshop in October at the wonderful Circle of Missé, France. What circularity! I first visited this magical place in 2014 as part of @themothmagazine.bsky.social short story prize: returned twice, won again, and now:
www.circleofmisse.com/wp/writing-2...
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A note to say I've joined @irishwriterscentre.bsky.social panel for one-to-one mentoring in fiction, creative non-fiction and essays. More details, including how to engage me, on the IWC website.
irishwriterscentre.ie/one-to-one-m...
16.05.2025 10:45 — 👍 10 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
Announcing the 2025 International Lamplight Fellowship Awardees - Irish Writers Centre
Eight fiction writers have been awarded a place on the 2025 International Lamplight Fellowship, a two-week online programme in partnership with Varuna, National Writers’ House (Australia)
Announcing the 2025 International Lamplight Fellowship Awardees, and there's me in there (so it is)! Looking forward to working with these fabulous writers over a 2-week period in June. Many thanks to @irishwriterscentre.bsky.social and Varuna Writer's House in Australia for the opportunity.
30.04.2025 10:28 — 👍 22 🔁 4 💬 4 📌 0
My thoughts and reflections on Joakim Norling's announcement of the closure of @timglaseteditions.bsky.social : derekbeaulieu.ca/2025/03/16/t...
and thank you so much Joakim -- your vision and dedication has been inspirational.
16.03.2025 19:08 — 👍 29 🔁 9 💬 0 📌 0
Studio 6 Collective
A long & inspiring day w/ fellow collaborators on this collective project, Nathan O'Donnell, Clare Bell, Annemarie Ní Churreáin @oeiny.bsky.social @stomaselli.bsky.social Nithy Kasa & creative partners TBG+S
w/thanks @artscouncilireland.bsky.social for making such work possible
03.03.2025 10:53 — 👍 8 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
YouTube video by Back to the Past
French Kids Paying Tribute to Serge Gainsbourg (1988)
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06.02.2025 14:48 — 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Do away with book blurbs!
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Yeah, yeah. Alright.
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YouTube video by TECHNOIR
Adriano Celentano - Prisencolinensinainciusol
And working in this:
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31.01.2025 15:15 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
YouTube video by Alexey Shakhov (NNM_404)
Serge Gainsbourg - Chez Les Ye-Ye
And this:
youtu.be/2a2rrdti8XM?...
31.01.2025 15:14 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
YouTube video by orphan-drugs blogspot
Serge Gainsbourg - Requiem Pour Un Con
Writing about this:
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31.01.2025 15:12 — 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 1
Congratulations!
08.12.2024 21:57 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
A sneak peek at a very special issue of gorse. Coming early next year. #herecomesthesun #gorse14
22.11.2024 13:06 — 👍 19 🔁 5 💬 0 📌 1
Good list. But there's a short story collection on there.
21.11.2024 21:37 — 👍 9 🔁 0 💬 2 📌 1
Because there are just so many amazing writers and publications in Ireland we had to have a spillover starter pack!
Starter pack 1: go.bsky.app/M7713mj
Starter pack II: go.bsky.app/EvJAiPv
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Mary O’Donoghue Reads Colm O’Shea – The Stinging Fly
Yesterday, the @stingingfly.bsky.social podcast discussed my short story 'Feeling Gravity's Pull'....
stingingfly.org/podcast/mary...
21.11.2024 09:38 — 👍 11 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
TV listing for the movie Wizard of Oz.
Last year I was a judge for the Irish Writers' Centre Novel Fair competition. This year they asked me for tips on how to write a synopsis. I started with this:
irishwriterscentre.ie/its-the-beat...
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Prize — Galley Beggar Press
Absolute pleasure to judge the Galley Beggar Press Short Story Prize 2023/24. Here's the three stories on the shortlist:
www.galleybeggar.co.uk/prize
16.02.2024 15:31 — 👍 6 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
Truth/False: Coughing is a form of love. (Yoko Ono) #valentinesday
14.02.2024 13:35 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
illustration of "How to use a dial telephone". two black dials are shown. one on top has black letters and red numbers. one dial below has only numbers.
page is titled "BE A GOOD TELEPHONE NEIGHBOR." illustration of four different homes connected to the same telephone line that leads to the telephone central office. "Be a good neighbor on your party line. Good neighbors are always ready to let others share the line." Illustration of a woman talking on the phone and saying "we'd better stop now - someone else may want to use the line"
from Bell's 1951 “The Telephone and How We Use It”: instructions on how to use a dial telephone and how to be a good telephone neighbor #othernetworks
09.01.2024 18:01 — 👍 33 🔁 13 💬 1 📌 0
Dilettantish brattle. Words, paint and making, mainly.
Independent publisher of voices and stories not commonly featured in Irish literature. Passionate about storytelling and counter-storytelling in all its forms.
📚 Current: The Oasis by Charles Lang
📚 Forthcoming: This Is Not A Cookbook by Roxana Manouchehri
Writer. Poet. Pox.
Irish Novel Fair Finalist. Maker of weird and untrustworthy fictions.
https://linktr.ee/Sean_McNulty
indie bookshop in Sydenham, SE London | open since 1966
| new books | second hand books | children's books | gifts |
Mon-Sat 9:30-5 Sun 12-4 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️
London Review Bookshop. 20,000 titles on two floors in Bloomsbury, plus the best events in town
14 Bury Place, London, WC1A 2JL
London-based independent publisher of fiction, poetry, anthologies & interdisciplinary projects, committed to championing the work of new voices in free-form contemporary literature.
https://prototypepublishing.co.uk/
MAI is a peer-reviewed, open-access publication for feminist scholars, writers, artists and activists who address visual culture at large.
drinking spider, author of peasantcore
Associate Prof @UoBrisEnglish 🏳️🌈 A FLAT PLACE (Hamish Hamilton/MHP 2023) HARD LANGUAGE (OUP 2022) 🐨 AHRC/BBC New Generation Thinker 🐈⬛ rep: @mfredturner
Contemporary literary fiction & non-fiction translated from the French. Modern classics and English originals.
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artist/writer/lecturer (they/them).
co-editor at intergraphia.
'Showily abstruse'
https://linktr.ee/emmabolland?utm_source=linktree_profile_share<sid=8cf1d5e1-11dc-4194-80c5-73c01e6e7072
Writing about women & surrealism & film (Vinegar Syndrome/OCN, Arrow Video, Radiance Film). Cat lover. Small Brummie.
https://linktr.ee/SabinaStent
Political and cultural criticism. Since 1988. Online and in print. https://thebaffler.com/
Publisher of award-winning fiction, nonfiction, and poetry & home to a renowned writers’ workshop.
Nonprofit publishing house & literary arts center bringing the world together in conversation through literature. Deep Ellum, Dallas TX. deepvellum.org
Radiant ambiguity/unclassified residuum (historian of age, gender, reproduction, opinions my own and not my employer’s etc.)
https://www.colby.edu/people/people-directory/sarah-duff/
Author, teacher, maker of excellent soups, proud chairperson of the Glenarm Wildlife Group. 🐿️
My new book is THE SLOW ROAD NORTH: How I Found Peace in an Improbable Country
rosieschaap.net
St. Louis-based press distributed by New York Review Books. Fiction & near fiction. Two books every Fall. Renee Gladman. Leonora Carrington. Cristina Rivera Garza. Nathalie Léger. Amina Cain. Giada Scodellaro. Pip Adam. Kate Briggs. Etc. dorothyproject.com
Writer and editor. Proprietor of The Second Shelf, a feminist rare bookshop focused on first editions, ephemera, manuscripts, and collectable but often overlooked works by women and queer folks. First book, Train, forthcoming from Bloomsbury. She/her.
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