Deadline Extended: Poet in Residence 2025-2027 🖌 We have extended the deadline to apply for the role of Poet in Residence 2025-2027 to Friday 31st October at 5:00 p.m. For more details visit www.poetryireland.ie/education/ne... Supported by @brinkerhoffpoetry.bsky.social

Details of the Leonard and Hungry Paul TV in today's Irish Independent. It starts on Friday 17th October at 9pm on BBC One. Do tune in!

Bottled some up for a dreich teatime in late November 🌅👍🏼💛

I can

Showered in a beam of light as is proper & correct: my new Oxfam jug 🩵🤍

This is the venue for our #BCLT2025 events today, co-organised with @writerscentre.bsky.social and @bcltuea.bsky.social Thank you to @hughespeg.bsky.social for a backstage tour of beautiful Dragon Hall before the audiences arrived! 🐉

A @writerscentre.bsky.social podcast: @michaelpedersen.bsky.social talks with @hughespeg.bsky.social about fusing genres, placing fantastic elements in real-world settings, & how pushing the boundaries of literary categories can enhance your writing 💙📚 nationalcentreforwriting.org.uk/writing-hub/...

Writing between genres: Michael Pedersen on Muckle Flugga

In this episode of The Writing Life podcast, prize-winning poet and writer Michael Pedersen shares his experience writing between genres.

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Norwich Puppet Theatre! 😍 History Festival has begun! norwichhistoryfestival.co.uk

‘Portstewart Strand'

Total pleasure to chat with David Nicholls on Friday. Here we are in sound check and then with our lovely big audience. I really loved You Are Here: beards, walks, knitwear, lovelorn-ness, pies and pints, real talk, and big weather - emotional and otherwise: only gorgeous and funny and wise ❤️

Unexpected to see The Nolans referenced in a Japanese short story.

Join us for the Ro of Tralee. @wednesdayerskin.bsky.social and I will be in Tralee on 5 July at 3pm. It's pay-what-you-can but booking essential as there are only fifty seats. Do come! 👇 siamsatire.com/event/author...

Conversations with writers Wendy Erskine & Ronan Hession presented by The OtherSide - Siamsa Tíre

Authors' Talk with Wendy Erskine & Ronan Hession presented by The OtherSide. Siamsa Tíre Theatre, Tralee, Co. Kerry.

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am very proud of The Benefactors audiobook. I do the main narration but over 30 others - family, friends, strangers - recorded the 50 voices that form the book’s monologues. Most had zero experience. All were BRILLIANT. Thanks to @hachetteaudio.bsky.social www.thebookseller.com/news/hodder-...

Hodder & Stoughton assembles largest-ever cast for The Benefactors audiobook

Hodder & Stoughton has brought together its largest-ever cast for the audiobook of Wendy Erskine’s debut novel The Benefactors, a polyphonic presentation of modern-day Northern Ireland.

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Honestly, Norwich tonight! 😍☀️💡🍑

A little garden-themed reading list selected by me for you up on @writerscentre.bsky.social! 🌿🌿 nationalcentreforwriting.org.uk/writing-hub/...

NCW recommends... five books inspired by gardens | National Centre for Writing | NCW

From poetry to essays, gardening tips to memoir, here are five books inspired by gardens as recommended by CEO Peggy Hughes.

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( it’s been a flowery week! )

Pleasure to have Québec City writer Vanessa Bell at @writerscentre.bsky.social with us this week. Here she is in our podcast studio after chatting with me about her book, Monuments. Catch as she travels on to events at Manchester’s Festival of Libraries, & in Nottingham & Exeter, cities of lit all!

Busy houses today for Norfolk & Norwich Festival x @writerscentre.bsky.social ❤️

‘Translated literature is a way of communicating over a border, under a wall, beyond an algorithm’s reach’ Listen to Max Porter’s wonderful speech from the International Booker Prize 2025 ceremony last night. youtu.be/fc80efFKK6o

Max Porter announces the winner of the International Booker Prize 2025 | The Booker Prize

YouTube video by The Booker Prizes

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THE SWIFTS ARE BACK.

I almost start to believe that someone is leaving stuff in my local Oxfam especially for me

Postcard from London today 🌞

I’m really enjoying The Lost Folk by Lally MacBeth, out from Faber 19th June, seen here in proof among wir lilacs!

It may be the hottest day of the year but IMO that’s no excuse to walk past this vintage Littlewoods Shetland wool item (& in the Age UK charity shop too! ❤️)

I love to see that this particular Bee has landed! 👏🏼

New Writing North@newwritingnorth.bsky.social · last yr.

Say hello to @beelitmag.bsky.social! The Bee is a new showcase of working-class writing from the UK and beyond, comprising a website, a literary magazine, The Working Class Library podcast, and The Beehive, an online space for new and emerging working-class writers.

I love #BelfastBookFestival at @crescentarts.bsky.social. I’m getting to talk to some of my favourite writers and people, including @lucycaldwell.bsky.social, @declanmeade.bsky.social, Kathryn Scanlan, @kathrynferguson.bsky.social, Stacey Gregg…..

Tis the season!

They don’t make them like they used to. 🐉

Norfolk bird charity finds Britain’s oldest known oystercatchers

Norfolk bird charity finds Britain’s oldest known oystercatchers

Birds in their 40s wintering on mudflats and coastal wetlands of the Wash received leg rings in early 1980s If your ears are assaulted by the shrill piping calls of an excitable bird on the east coast of England, fear not: it’s probably an oystercatcher experiencing a midlife crisis. Two of the handsome black and white birds with bright red-orange bills have been found to be the oldest known oystercatchers ever recorded in Britain, clocking up at least 41 and 43 years on the mudflats of the Wash. Continue reading...

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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...

Tolka Journal Issue Nine Launch

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