The front cover of this year's West Cork Literary Festival features Seán Keating's painting The Window. It was painted in 1924 and shows the artist's wife sitting in a window seat reading

The artwork on the front cover of our WCLF 2026 brochure will be Seán Keating's The Window (1924). We ADORE it and would like to thank everyone in @crawfordartgallery.bsky.social, IVARO (Irish Visual Artists Rights Organisation) and the estate of Seán Keating ❤️
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I am so happy for you ❤️🎉👏

Get those bookshelves ready, @martinadalton.bsky.social is on the way 🎉🎉🎉

Oh my goodness gracious! This is the best news! Huge congratulations Martina 🎉🎉💐💐❤️❤️

Isn’t this man just brilliant 🎉

For today's Sunday Poetry Series poem, I am delighted to share,"The Bodhi Tree" by @eoindevereuxwriter.bsky.social, a writer I have wanted to feature since first hearing him read on the poetry podcast, "Eat the Storms" @eatthestorms.com

SUBMISSIONS — always crashing Always Crashing Literary Magazine Submission Guidelines

Always Crashing is now open for print and online submissions

In print, we are especially looking for work that takes particular advantage of its status as a printed object

For online, we are particularly looking for work that opens our understand of what that space can be

Seamus Heaney: from ancient Greece to home turf, Northern shades and the Nobel Prize Nicholas Allen traces the terrains that inspired the poet’s late work

Treat your eyeballs to an extract from Late Heaney by @dedalusdenaries.bsky.social is in @irishtimes.com today.

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Seamus Heaney: from ancient Greece to home turf, Northern shades and the Nobel Prize

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Thank you so much for joining us Neil 🙏

Glad to be part of Words, in Other Places - a new festival coming to Dublin and Belfast in April.

I'm looking forward to my conversation with peerless @jancarsonwrites.bsky.social & @wednesdayerskin.bsky.social & Leontia Flynn.

With thanks to @eatthestorms.com @irishwriterscentre.bsky.social

We are delighted to announce a landmark new (free!) festival taking place this April: Words, In other places, in partnership with the European Parliament Liaison Office in Ireland and supported by the @artscouncilireland.bsky.social & Arts Council of NI.

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Aspiring novelists, pick up those pens… We’re thrilled to announce that entries to the Irish Writers Centre’s flagship competition for novelists, the International Debut Novel Competition, will open for 2026 on Wednesday 1 April!

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Are you a member of the global majority? Would you like to take a writing workshop in a supportive environment?

The first of our new global majority creative writing workshops will be facilitated by Melatu Uche Okorie on March 28!

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We're thrilled to announce the 2026 Young Writer Delegates who will attend and contribute to @cuirtfestival.bsky.social this year! 🥳

The 2026 Delegates are: Liam Carton, Luke Condon, Eddie Critchley, Shauna Murphy, and Val Carton!

Read more about them here: irishwriterscentre.ie/announcing-o...

Black-and-white graphic of a vintage typewriter seen from above. Torn paper strips sit in the typewriter reading “£1200 RAISED” and “WIN CASH” in bold lettering. Below, the hashtags “#TheBrokenSpineAward” and “#ByPoetsForPoets” are printed. The overall style is gritty, high-contrast, and zine-like.

We’re not pretending this prize is important.
We’re saying it’s honest.
It rewards favourites, pays poets, and exists because you helped make it.
#TheBrokenSpineAward #ByPoetsForPoets #PoemsAbout #LiftToTheSky

Obituary by Catherine Redford from her debut collection THE WAY THE WATER HELD ME 🩷

⭐ Publishing 19th March ~ Pre-order here: buff.ly/dg4W4gn ⭐

Every month, we bring you a round-up of opportunities for writers from around the world: from competitions to open submission windows, bursaries and residencies.

Check out our website for March's opportunities digest: irishwriterscentre.ie/opportunitie...

Galway launch of A Hosting: Interviews with Irish Writers 1991-2025 with Sarah Kenny of @kennysbookshop.bsky.social @lilliputpress.bsky.social

Not you can listen to the @irishwriterscentre.bsky.social on the go!!!

Back to beginnings, origins.
From my debut pamphlet,
Eat the Storms,
published by @hedgehogpress.co.uk
this is Shades of Blue.

#poetry #poetryfilm #shortfilm

Our monthly bulletin will land in inboxes next week, featuring literary listings, opportunities and more!

Penguin Books Ireland & @newislandbooks.bsky.social have also kindly offered giveaway copies of new books for 2 lucky subscribers.

Sign up for a chance to win:

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Scríbhenoirí filíocht agus béalfilíochta!

Beidh ceardlann speisialta slamfilíochta againn leis an bhfile Cormac Mac Gearailt mar pháirt de @SnaGaeilge ar Sathairn, 7ú Márta!

Níos mó eolais agus ticéid le fáil anseo: irishwriterscentre.ie/whats-on/sea...

Only a few spots remaining on Joanne Hayden's course on making childhood and child characters come ✨alive✨in your writing!

Book your place here: irishwriterscentre.ie/courses/writ...

Focail san Aer ag Cearnóg Parnell Táimid ag ceilúradh Seachtain na Gaeilge ag Áras Scríbhneoirí na hÉireann le eachtra speisialta béilfílíochta ar Déardaoin, 12ú Márta.

Táimid ag ceilúradh Seachtain na Gaeilge ag Áras Scríbhneoirí na hÉireann le eachtra speisialta béilfílíochta ar Déardaoin, 12ú Márta, 2026 ag 19 Cearnóg Parnell.

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We're delighted to announce our first 2026 'Writers in the Regions' masterclass!

Acclaimed novelist @conorkostick.bsky.social will present a two hour-long, lecture-style masterclass at the @yeatssocietysligo.bsky.social on 14 March.

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Advice from Writers - Irish Writers Centre Irish Writers Centre, Dublin, Ireland. Writing courses, literary events, professional development for writers, fiction, poetry, non-fiction, playwriting.

Our 'Advice from Writers' page now features new insights from best-selling author (and national treasure) Marian Keyes!

Watch what she has to say at the link 👇

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Anyone writing a memoir or non-fiction historical book - this is a don't-miss course for polishing your research skills with Kevin Connolly 🦴

Book a place: irishwriterscentre.ie/courses/digg...

New for 2026, each month we're bringing you a feature spotlighting one of the incredible Irish literary journals that offer vital platforms for some of the country’s finest emerging writers.

First up is Sligo's Scrimshaw!

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My new 8-week course ‘writing as a reader / reading as a writer’ is offered through the @irishwriterscentre.bsky.social Academy (Spring 2026 programme). This is an online course, and it starts on 5 March. Limited spaces. Full details and booking link: yesbutisitpoetry.blogspot.com/2026/01/new-...

FísDán: "Fiona, ag snámh" le Sam Ó Fearraigh YouTube video by Irish Writers Centre

Seo é an dara dán sa tionscadal FísDánta - 'Fiona, ag snámh', leis an bhfile Sam Ó Fearaigh. Sraith é FísDánta de REIC i comhar le Áras Scríbhneoirí na hÉireann.

Tacaíocht ó @irishwriterscentre.bsky.social @forasnagaeilge.bsky.social @artscouncilireland.bsky.social