Issue 5 Submissions open from Mar 23 - Apr 6th with @artscouncilireland.bsky.social support. Issue 4 is available from our shop to see the kind of Poetry/CNF/Short Stories/Flash we publish www.the4facedliar.com @irishwriterscentre @writing.ie @poetryireland.bsky.social @munsterlitcentre.bsky.social
We're delighted to host this event @myiadt.bsky.social for Seachtain na Gaeilge! Fáilte roimh chách ✨️
Le 26 mars, 12h-18h, les bibliothèques de l’UQAM organisent un marathon d’édition FR @wikipedia.org
Il se déroule dans le cadre du Printemps de la recherche et de la création @uqam.ca.
On rendra Wikipédia + inclusive pour ses 25 printemps 🎂 (ohohoh) 🎉
Venez !
uqam-ca.libcal.com/calendar/vrr...
So disappointed by Mark Carney’s response. The PM of Spain has called it correctly. As @fannielafontaine.bsky.social says in La Presse today, « Réfléchis-y à deux fois, Canada. » www.lapresse.ca/dialogue/opi...
If you're in New York on March 25th you're very welcome to this talk in memory of the great Robert Silvers.
www.showclix.com/tickets/fint...
Want to know more about my new course? Want a video sneak peek? Want a fun little thing you can try to create emotional distance from your work?
Find out more about "The Editorial Funnel" here: prattlefogandgravelrap.substack.com/p/the-editor...
Elizabeth Bishop wrote sixteen drafts of "One Art." The first is practically a journal entry. The last is one of the greatest poems in English. What happened in between was play. I wrote a new Substack post on drafting, play, and forgetting what you know: substack.com/home/post/p-...
(so we're back in a war where little girls are killed in parentheses)
Days burn, the pages
Turn, paragraphs of muted
Laughs, chapters of grief.
#ThingsToWriteAbout #pages #haiku #senryu #poem #writing #writingcommunity
@thingstowriteabout.bsky.social
A poem by Jane Kenyon, Collected Poems Depression ... a mote. A little world. Dusty. Dusty. The universe is dust. Who can bear it? Christ comes. The women feed him, bathe his feet with tears, bring spices, find the empty tomb, burst out to tell the men, are not believed. ...
#smallpoemsunday #poetry
#poem #blueskypoetry
From Jane Kenyon, Collected Poems
Reading “To Avenge a Dead Glacier”, a cracking collection of stories by Shane Tivenan. (His 2020 RTE Francis McManus winner is well worth a read too - on the RTE website)
The Planter’s Daughter is for sale in the following bookshops:
Carmel’s Cove (Cobh)
Midleton Books
Bantry Bookshop
Leaf and Bower (Ballincollig)
Carrigaline Books
Or available online in paperback and ebook at the link below.
Reading for pleasure? Reading for survival. Reading for the human condition. Reading for thinking.
Great piece by Charlotte Higgins & I can't think of a time when I haven't wanted to the world to just stop and read.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
still can't get over how one of the neatest tricks of writing is writing the wrong thing and thinking "this is wrong" and fixing it to the right thing, but never really being able to write the "right" thing first
Less than two weeks to give your views on Dublin's College Green plans. Anything I should add to my own? You can give your views here:
engage.dublincity.ie/en-IE/projec...
I needed this reminder...
We didn't bastardise the English language into "ye", "yiz", "youse" and "yousins" to have Irish people unconnected to the US or other places it's used in saying "y'all", unless you're referring to the town in Cork we've PERFECTLY ADEQUATE second person plural pronouns at HOME
I’m so happy this is out in the world, and I feel like people might enjoy a TV ad for TAT-8. Yes, a subsea cable with TV ad youtu.be/KklN1DCRmCU?...
They say write what you know & I hope this isn't why for so many weeks I've written nothing.
1/2 Two new blog pieces. In which I have opinions about GenAI and open-source: https://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/202x/2026/02/16/GenAI-and-OSS-opinion
#GenAI #opensource
This is coming up on Saturday night, in the Heaney heartland of south Derry, with Nicholas @dedalusdenaries.bsky.social & Iarla: do join us if you're in the area.
@shhomeplace.bsky.social
“But what if clicking it a second time causes it to unlock? Better click it again.” - me, every time, even though I know better.
Well, dreeping is slower and wetter than drizzling, more persistent than dripping. Could be a description of a character, now that I think of it…
No other word has done more damage to the craft of writing in recent years than “content”. Even if you’re using the word “content” ironically, or as a cute little joke, don’t. When someone calls writing “content” they’re pissing on someone’s hard work & passion. “Content” is Technosatan’s henchword.
Congratulations to Team USA.
Your government still sucks but your hockey team is solid.
✌️❤️🇨🇦🇺🇸
Så där ja Kanada.
Just One More Goal
Bill Brownridge
2013
I love the adventurous spirit of this poem by Sheenagh Pugh:
