We are delighted to announce the awardees of the 2025 Annaghmakerrig Residencies! 🎉
The five selected writers are:
▪️ Emily Cooper
▪️ Emer Lyons
▪️ Rosa Mäkelä
▪️ Afric McGlinchey
▪️ Nuala O’Connor @nualaoconnor.bsky.social
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Fantastic review for Every One Still Here in @theguardian.com The collection is out now across UK with @grantabooks.bsky.social 📚
More readers for Liadan Ní Chuinn’s brilliant and important work! 💚
Book is also forthcoming in US with @fsgbooks.bsky.social 🙌
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hahaha - a T-shirt needs to be made
Our editor Emily is running an 8-week non-fiction editing course with the Irish Writer's Centre.
"Each week we will workshop the participants’ work-in-progress with a focus on peer feedback, editing and structure, with the aim of building self-editing skills."
Angel 🤍
Come and work with us in Drama and Film in Galway - newly advertised role covering at least 2 areas in performance studies, screen studies, acting, stage and screen design, playwriting, directing/devising, practice-based research, or short-form filmmaking.
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Very glad to have first glimpse of my essay 'Beach Trip to Gaza', in the latest issue of @bansheepress.bsky.social.
'There is nothing. It’s the body without being, and being without a body the nothing is limitless. Flesh turned to pixels, being is malleable.'
From issue 18 (now sold out), 'New Game / Options / Quit', a personal essay by @clairiefairie.bsky.social
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Have you picked up a copy of Mary MacSwiney by Leeann Lane yet?
• Available now in bookstores nationwide!
Mary MacSwiney is a comprehensive understanding of a misrepresented and marginalised voice in Irish politics.
🔗 You can also purchase the book at bit.ly/mary-macswiney
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:
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OK so waving a flag is terrorism but arming a terrorist colonial state currently starving thousands of children is not terrorism?
Malicious distraction tactics from the UK establishment.
Just one more day to submit for Tolka Issue Ten. Send us your non-fiction, memoir, essays, autofiction, and anything that falls in between. Submissions close midnight, Wednesday 21 May.
Because I have to fly out on monday for a job interview, there are two ILFD events I can't make:
Poetry
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DnD
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Send me a message if you want one of the tickets, or both.
@thebookseller.com Nibbies are go!
Gustav Parker Hibbett is the winner of the John Pollard International Poetry Prize! Congratulations Parker!! 💛🧡
Judge Eoin McNamee said of High Jump as Icarus Story: 'At once exalted and humble this is work of the highest order.'
@gphibbett.bsky.social
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We're delighted to announce a new literary award in collaboration between @irishwriterscentre.bsky.social and The @stingingfly.bsky.social 🎉
The aim of the prize is to discover, promote and encourage the talents of new, undiscovered voices in Irish writing.
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How am I only seeing this now? Thanks Elaine❤️
Coming up at @ilfdublin.bsky.social, with @wednesdayerskin.bsky.social Wendy Erskine and Lisa Harding. Come along too!
A lovely review from Fiona Noble in The Observer!
📣 Kneecap statement repost from X:
Seán Hewitt
John Patrick McHugh
Authors Seán Hewitt and John Patrick McHugh pictured in Kennys Bookshop. Their debut novels Open, Heaven and Fun and Games are out today. www.kennys.ie
We're thrilled that High Jump as Icarus Story by Gustav Parker Hibbett has been shortlisted for the Farmgate Café National Poetry Award! Great to see lots of Banshee contributors & friends on the shortlist too 💛 🧡
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One month today until the launch of Tolka Issue Nine! We're launching at the fabulous @ilfdublin.bsky.social. Free to attend but booking required: ilfdublin.com/whats-on/fes...
I don’t usually do this, but please read this piece - it’s about good people in terrible circumstances and the world has sort of forgotten them
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