Thinking of submitting to NFFD’s FlashFlood (opens on Sunday for a week. Up to 300 words), why not have a read of last year’s stories? You can see the full list here: flashfloodjournal.blogspot.com?m=1
⭐️ SAVE the DATE ⭐️
The Bowen Society in association with @irishwriterscentre.bsky.social are holding a Bowen symposium in Dublin, Ireland, on 6th June 2026. In person & online.
Booking link soon!
#whybowenmatters #ElizabethBowen #ElizabethBowenSociety
In the new Modernist Review, from PhDer Tabitha Rowland: 'The Female Network: Gossip in the Life and Works of Elizabeth Bowen'.
Aims is to show that gossip is essential in the formation and potential destruction of identities and communities.
#modernistreview #tabitharowland #ElizabethBowen
Pushbike Prize for Flash Fiction
A new flash prize and I'm judging!
Crannóg Magazine is delighted to announce the inaugural Pushbike Prize for Flash Fiction judged by Nuala O'Connor.
€1500 in prizes
Subs open May 1st to 21st.
www.wordsonthestreet.com/pod.html?fbc...
🐣 Happy Easter from the Bowen Society 🐣
From Bowen's story, 'The Easter Egg Party':
"The glossy blues, the faint greens, the waxy buff-pinks, the freckles seemed to her to be for nothing: while the sisters, breathless...’"
Book Feature - *Elizabeth Bowen in Context*, ed. by Allan Hepburn.
Fr. @universitypress.cambridge.org
'*Elizabeth Bowen in Context* came into being because of the diversity and range of scholarship on her fiction that has emerged in the past couple decades. '
More here: share.google/eGtemIkmxXij...
Save the date! Next Reading Group: 27th May 7pm GMT, online.
We're reading *The Shelbourne* by Elizabeth Bowen, in which she takes us on an evocative tour through the history of the landmark Dublin hotel.
#ShelbourneHotel
Bowen Essay Competition 2026
⭐️DEADLINE 30th Sep. 2026⭐️
The editors of the Elizabeth Bowen Review invites undergrad and postgrad students to submit essays that focus on Bowen’s life or work.
4,000 wds
More info: Dr Nick Turner / Dr Nicola Darwood, at
bowen @ beds .ac .uk
Last call for The Last Day!
Bowen Reading Group: 25th Mar. 7pm GMT, online.
All welcome!
*The Last Day at Bowen's Court* by the late #eibhearwalshe, explores Bowen's rich and complex life, & particularly her long love affair.
www.tickettailor.com/events/eliza...
☘️ Lá 'le Pádraig faoi mhaise ☘️
☘️ Happy St Patrick's Day from the Bowen Society ☘️
'...though one can be callous in Ireland one cannot be wholly opaque or material. An unearthly disturbance works in the spirit; reason can never reconcile one to life; nothing allays the wants one cannot explain.' Elizabeth Bowen
We are reading this beautiful novel at the mo, ahead of our Reading Group: 25th Mar. 7pm GMT, online.
Booking link below. All welcome!
*The Last Day at Bowen's Court* by the late #eibhearwalshe, explores Bowen's rich and complex life, & a long love affair.
www.tickettailor.com/events/eliza...
For World Book Day, a visit to the Caitlín Maude poetry bench, with her poem Na Blátha, and my translation The Flowers, at the Uni of Galway.
Thanks @juno_mcl for pics.
#worldbookday #CaitlínMaude #poetrytranslation #filíocht
Cover image of The Lock -Keeper's Wife by John MacKenna showing a canal with green trees and a house
Congratulations to John MacKenna @lilliputpress.bsky.social on a wonderful and jam-packed launch in the gorgeous Athy Library @kildarelibrary.bsky.social
Booking link, March Reading Group: 25th, 7pm GMT, online.
*The Last Day at Bowen's Court* by #eibhearwalshe, exploring Bowen's complex life, particularly the love rectangle she formed w/ her lover Charles Ritchie, his wife Sylvia, and EB's husband Alan Cameron.
www.tickettailor.com/events/eliza...
Elizabeth Bowen died #otd in 1973, in University College Hospital, London, aged 73.
She is buried with her husband in St Colman's churchyard in Farahy, Co. Cork, close to the gates of her family seat, Bowen's Court.
Yvonne McCann, in Rush, has been running a rescue for hedgehogs for years now.
If you want to make a donation, even a small amount really helps the effort. There's also a list of items you can donate instead!
hedgehogrescuedublin.com
On a pod today talking poetry, hope, autism, and Emily Dickinson with excellent host @kpetruccelli-poet.bsky.social #melodyorwitchcraft
💗 Happy Valentine's Day 💗
'I am torn and demented by longing for you...I think you *are* my soul.' Elizabeth Bowen, in a letter to Charles Ritchie, April 1950.
Graphic featuring Zoe and Nuala's portraits.
In this episode, NLI Podcaster in Residence @zoecomyns.bsky.social's guest is writer @nualaoconnor.bsky.social – they discuss writing historical fiction and specifically the case of An Cailín Bán – Ellen Hanley.
🎧 Listen here: on.soundcloud.com/pddR057jUPNu...
A contemporary story, about a historic crime 🙌
Hear a new story I wrote for @nlireland.bsky.social podcaster-in-res @zoecomyns.bsky.social & an interview with me about the process, for her pod The Reader. Link below.
'White Ellen' is about the Colleen Bawn.
soundcloud.com/national_lib...
The lost, lovely Bowen's Court. It's in our next Reading Group pick *The Last Day at Bowen's Court* by the late #eibhearwalshe, in which he explored the love rectangle EB formed with her lover Charles Ritchie, his wife Sylvia, and EB's husband Alan Cameron.
25th Mar, 7pm GMT, online. Link soon.
💙 Happy birthday, Jim 💙
James Joyce, born February 2nd, 1882 in Dublin
#jamesjoyce #otd #collageart #candlemas
Fighting Words: We’re thrilled to announce the Brendan Behan Celebration on Saturday, February 7th from 11am to 3pm!
Join us as Dublin City Council unveils a new plaque honouring Brendan Behan’s legendary contributions to Irish literature at Behan
Square, the site of Brendan's childhood home.
