Retreating from Our Known World How long before these breaking news headlines start to break me—or the deeper, real-er version of me?

#writing Here's an essay that took me a long time to write. Today, delighted to have it published at The Wisdom Daily. It's about places -- and how some places become our spatial and existential haven or retreat
#writingcommunity #retreat #authors
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Feeling happy. Just been for a walk to clear my head. Springtime by the river is beautiful. Black locust tree in full bloom. Without consciously thinking about it, worked out a few tricky knots in my WIP.
What helps you when you're stuck with your writing?
#WomenWritersNet #WritingCommunity

Getting outside and walking.

Public libraries, literacy and the public good — Áine Greaney After I graduated from college in Dublin, I set up house in a studio flat at the top of a house in a tiny, one-street town in the Irish midlands.

@booksky.club 📖It's #NationalLibraryWeek here in the U.S. As a lifelong library patron and fan, here's a little piece on our libraries as one of last bastions of public good. #writing #irishwriters #writers #literacy #publiclibraries ⬇️ ⬇️ www.ainegreaney.com/writingonwri...

Thanks so much for sharing!

Leading writing workshops - 5 questions to ask — Áine Greaney Writing workshops and the questions to ask before we agree to lead a retreat or single writing class.

@writingabtwriting.bsky.social What should you ask *before* signing that workshop contract? Today is International Day of Conversations that Matter. Here are my pre-workshop questions:
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How Much Money Do Writers Earn or Make? — Áine Greaney Writing is rarely a full-time job and authors or poets can rarely live on the proceeds from their work. Get the numbers and facts in this piece by the author of Writer with a Day Job.

@booksky.club It's Tax Day here in the U.S. DYK? In a 2022 Authors Guild study on writers' earnings, the median reported rate (from our writings alone) was (drum roll) $2,100. ✍️ Read more about our writing, our money and our day jobs.
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@writingcommunity.bsky.social ✍ Some writing conference + retreat venues for this summer 2026. Fiction + nonfiction. #writingworkshops #writing Also have a few lined up for Autumn 2026--and a few spots open for both creative and #wellness -writing workshops.

What Remains From the Pediatric Ward - Pulse I wake up in a hospital isolation room, where everything smells weird. It’s 1967 in Galway City, Ireland, and I’m four years old. The worst smell is the antiseptic—a word I don’t know yet. The second ...

@writingcommunity.bsky.social When I wrote, "What Remains from the Pediatric Ward," I decided to make #Easter and a gifted Easter basket the happy part of this illness narrative--because it really was. pulsevoices.org/stories/what...

What Is The Neuroscience Behind Journaling? We Ask An Expert A health optimization coach explains the idea of journaling as "mental training" and why it works.

@writeforwellbeing.bsky.social ✍ "It (journaling) activates multiple brain systems at once, including those involved in emotion, memory, decision-making, and self-reflection."
More on neuroscience behind the benefits of expressive writing at The Good Trade👇👇 tinyurl.com/548c4h4p

No, Colleen Hoover Did Not Email Me: Current Scams Targeting Authors | Jane Friedman If you receive solicitous emails from book clubs or famous authors, follow these simple steps before replying or clicking on any links.

#AprilFoolsDay for writers- Receiving some intrusive emails gushing over your writing and offering high-priced "marketing" support? Read this piece, "No, Colleen Hoover Did Not Email Me" from @janefriedman.com. #writers #authors @wrtrstat.bsky.social

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We Irish are more than folk songs and whiskey Too often Ireland is rendered as a reductive and clichéd version of a country that, like all nations, has its nuances, contradictions and dualities, writes Aine Greaney.

#StPatricksDay "In the case of Ireland, I think the offshore brand has been equal parts history, Hallmark and Hollywood."
An old piece of mine at @wbur.org Cognoscenti.
www.wbur.org/cognoscenti/... #irish #ireland

Short fiction by an Irish author in Massachusetts. Multigenerational stories set in Ireland, Cape Cod and greater Boston — Áine Greaney "Trespassers" (full title: Trespassers and Other Stories) is a short story collection by Áine Greaney, released in March 2025. It's her fifth book, featuring 11 literary fiction pieces that explore th...

☘️ @booksky.bsky.social 📖 If I had my way, I'd make March 17th about literature (not leprechauns). Today and tomorrow, I'm remembering my live-in grandfather, the man who introduced my six-year-old self to the power and beauty of orature and stories. #StPatricksDay www.ainegreaney.com/writingonwri...

Writing Advice From Famous Irish Authors Famous Irish authors offer writing advice on creativity, fiction writing and the writing life.

☘️ Irish writer quotes and some recommended #writing books--including your truly (blush). #Irishwriters #immigrantauthors
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Featured Friday | Meet Aine Greaney Today’s Featured Writer is Aine Greaney. Originally from Ireland, she now lives and teaches Creative Nonfiction in New England. Check out our interview below: Fem: How do you personally defin…

"We need to publicly acknowledge the fact that, for some women, the journey to personal or public power is much longer, with much bigger and more systemic obstacles to overcome along the way."
See my Q & A with "The Fem" Magazine thefemlitmagazine.wordpress.com/2015/05/15/f...

How We Change As Writers - Women Writers, Women's Books Last week I was trying to downsize one of my overflowing bookshelves when I came across a copy of my first novel, The Big House. The book was published in 2003 by Pocket Books, an imprint of Simon & S...

How we change as writers and as readers. #authors #readers #irishauthors
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Can Books Convert Us? For more of Áine's published writing and teaching information, visit her  author website .  © Under U.S. copyright laws, it is illegal to ...

📖 #Booksky #WorldBookDay
On World Book Day, I've revisited this old piece of mine, "Can Books Convert Us?" re: the power of reading to expand our experiences, mind view and empathy📖 #WorldBookDay2026
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Thanks for sharing!

ALA advocates walking towards the Capitol Building in Washington, DC

That's a wrap on National Library Legislative Day!

To every advocate who showed up #ForOurLibraries and brought your voice to Capitol Hill: thank you. From coast to coast & beyond, libraries are stronger because of you.

Stay tuned for more photos from #NLLD26 (& ways to take action from home 👀)

Tell me something – a small thing – you really really love. Mine is this quote from an interview with Mackenzie Crook about his writing shed: “It’s not a ‘man cave’, there’s no calendar of saucy ladies or beer cooler (although I do have a fridge where my tortoises hibernate in the colder months).”

I love this quote from William Trevor’s 1983 novel, “Fools of Fortune: “Incidents remain, isolated in my memory for reasons of their own. Moments and the mood of moments make up that distant childhood.” #Irishwriters #irelandreads

Where and when did you fall in love with reading and stories? For me, it happened in a VW van in my native County Mayo, Ireland. #Booksky #Irishwriters #irelandreads
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Congrats, Elijah.

Comhgairdeas!

Boat made out of book pages with small figure standing inside reading

‘You should read and read, to find out what kind of writer you want to be, and then write and write, to find out what kind of writer you actually are.’
— Colson Whitehead
writingforwellbeing.co.uk
#writing #WritingCommunity #WritersCommunity

Great event on Sunday at the Irish Center in Portland, Maine. We looked at the architecture of stories and the importance of immersive scenes for fiction authors, memoir writers et al. Lovely group of writers @irishexpat.bsky.social #Irish @writingcommunity.bsky.social @womenwritersnet.bsky.social

Anita Brookner

‘You never know what you will learn ’til you start writing. Then you discover truths you never knew existed.’
— Anita Brookner
writingforwellbeing.co.uk
#writing #WritingCommunity #WritersCommunity

Five Great Quotations about Journaling “Advice to Young Journal Keepers. Be lenient with yourself. Conceal your worst faults, leave out your most shameful thoughts, actions, and temptations. Give yourself all the good and interesting qu…

#author #indieauthor #amwriting #writingcommunity #authorsky inventingrealityediting.com/2...

World Journaling Day 2026 World Journaling Day is a celebration of journaling and journal writers everywhere! January 11 2026. Presentations & prizes.

#WJD2026 - @writingcommunity.bsky.social
It's World Journaling Day! Loving the first presentation with Dr. Eric Maisel and being in community with 269 worldwide #journal writers. #wellness TY to International Association for Journal Writing for this great opportunity! iajw.org/world-journa...

World Journaling Day 2026 World Journaling Day is a celebration of journaling and journal writers everywhere! January 11 2026. Presentations & prizes.

@writeforwellbeing.bsky.social Tomorrow, Jan 11 is #WorldJournalingDay, led by the International Association of Journal Writers (IAJW). Let's connect with other folks who practice self-care and #wellness via #journaling and #expressive writing. 👇 👇

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