Black-and-white photograph of Samuel Becket, looking at a strip of 35mm film.
Honoring the 120th birthday of Samuel Beckett.
"Writing becomes not easier, but more difficult for me. Every word is like an unnecessary stain on silence and nothingness."
Y'know, for kids.....
#gorse12 (Language is a virus) has just arrived in the house from the printers and I flick open on this illustration by @badaude.bsky.social! Lord, it must be a sign that the world will survive after all 😃
Taking pre-orders for gorses 12 + 13:
gorse.ie/book/no-12/
gorse.ie/book/no-13/
(Double release, like Tom Waits' Alice + Blood Money.)
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...
What the FUCK is this on Blusky, I don't mean the image of the prize (and there's a LOT to go into there), it's the citation running in the banner at the bottom of the image, I didn't see it in any of the posts relating to the image, who added it!!???
I've updated the apersonalanthology.com website with @junec.bsky.social June Caldwell's selection of a dozen favourite short stories.
Check them out!
The 2026 Leopold Bloom Prize for Innovative Narration is open!
We’re looking for short fiction exhibiting exceptional ingenuity and vision in narration. All entries receive a digital copy of Issue Seven and are considered for publication!
lespritliteraryreview.org/2026-leopold...
#modernism
#callforsubmissions: L'Esprit seeks stories, essays, translation, reviews.
Consciousness-forward, language-driven, risk-adept. Send us writing beyond convention.
G’Lines + open calls: lespritliteraryreview.org/submission-g...
#modernism
#Essays
#bookreviews
#litmag
#shortstories
#creativewriting
Happy Bloomsday, among other things, for all who observe, and a chance to share this.....https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kbF5hDU_F-U
In honour of Joy Division's iconic album Unknown Pleasures being released on this day in 1979, I'm again sharing one of my favourite ever video clips (Peanuts vs Joy Division dance party)...
What an incredible talk by Eimear McBride. She's always so wonderfully relevant, extraordinary, and thought-provoking! Plus, I bumped into @colmoshea.bsky.social, who is a smiley mofo despite his pull on dark fiction.
Colm’s story “Hiraeth” was the Second Place Winner in our 2025 Leopold Bloom Prize for Innovative Narration, and next up in our Issue Six release!
Check it out below!
@colmoshea.bsky.social
#fiction #shortstory #writing
My short story 'Hiraeth', runner up in the 2025 Leopold Bloom Prize for Innovative Narration, organised by @lespritlit.bsky.social is now available to read here... lespritliteraryreview.org/2025/04/27/h...
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...
Right, Beckettians, who wants to buy the original Cooldrinagh (the childhood home of Beckett's mother)....
www.irishtimes.com/property/com...
Monthly Dispatch #22 — ft. Jenkin Benson, Tim MacGabhann, @indigojackal.bsky.social Connor May, @ericracher.bsky.social @colmoshea.bsky.social Veronika Reichl (tr. Francesca Hyatt), Adam McPhee, Quyên Nguyễn-Hoàng & more ... — now live
minorlits.substack.com/p/monthly-di...
ICYMI — last week @ minor lits ...
— meditations on memory from @colmoshea.bsky.social
minorliteratures.com/2025/03/04/u...
— @chalicotherex.bsky.social on Munir Hachemi's LIVING THINGS
minorliteratures.com/2025/03/05/i...
— fiction from Tim MacGabhann
minorliteratures.com/2025/03/06/g...
An extract from my book [Untitled]: A Meditation, has gone live on @minorliteratures.bsky.social ...
We kiss.
I can’t remember what we talk about. If I could I would remember and record and repeat what we talk about, but I can’t.
It was only two months ago. Two months ago tonight.
An extract from [Untitled] — a memoir by @colmoshea.bsky.social
Taken in my home town, though the part I grew up in was "slightly" less posh, ahem........
Agnès Varda visits Dephine Seyrig and Alain Resnais, behind the scenes of Last Year at Marienbad, 1961.
Thanks Clare
I checked and I think you’re onto something…
A thread about @colmoshea.bsky.social's new book *[Untitled], a meditation* - a compulsive read, an emotional bomb refusing to go off, an uncomfortable lens-look at an affair that's unbearably sad, ending abruptly, with little agency or power, a woman who's a muse, turned into obsession. It's also a
Thank you June, I'm utterly Astonished at your incredibly kind words, you're too, too kind
[Untitled]: A Meditation, my debut work of experimental nonfiction, is available from LJMcD Communications
lachlanjmcdougall.wordpress.com/books-and-sh...
Yesterday, the @stingingfly.bsky.social podcast discussed my short story 'Feeling Gravity's Pull'....
stingingfly.org/podcast/mary...
This is a startlingly sad and gorgeous book.
My debut book, [Untitled]: A Meditation,
a work of experimental nonfiction, has been published by LJMcD Communications, and is available here:
lachlanjmcdougall.wordpress.com/books-and-sh...
