Victorian couple trying not to laugh while they get their photograph taken. via Leeds Centre for Victorian Studies
Liam O'Marascal
@joemarshallauthor.bsky.social
Irish 🇮🇪 Liam O'Marascal, from County Laois, immigrant and emigrant, navigating a UMSL MFA, writing Irish fiction about families, social injustice, and rural life. Woodworker by day, writer by night. Unbound Book Festival board member. Featured in Past Ten.
This short story collection is Killer. See The Tree, How Big It's Grown is living in my head rent free. Find a copy and read it.
Delighted and humbled to see that the two short stories I submitted have both made the longlist. Thank you @frazzledlit.bsky.social for believing in my work. #shortstory #ireland #irish #competition #submissions #litmag #amquerying #litjournal #fiction #writing #publishing
Announcing the LONGLIST!
The stories that made our Short Story Award 2026 longlist
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So excited to announce that I have been accepted to an MFA program in University of Missouri St Louis starting in the fall.
@rid9way.bsky.social Just finished a galley of Dooneen my local bookstore sent over. Great stuff man. Nice to read a great Dublin novel again. Best of luck. I'll be posting reviews.
I've been down lately. All the changes here have me feeling every inch of my immigrant status. But today, out on my walk in my suburban American neighborhood, I found a 2025 copy of Granta in a little free library, and suddenly the world is a little brighter. @grantamag.bsky.social #shortstory
Can someone explain why so many literary journals and agents still do so much social media on Twitter? Every time I go there I'm confronted by screeds of hate, lies, and vitriol. Please, publishing industry, remove yourself from the hatersphere. #publishing #agents #literary #journals #writing
Delighted my short story was long listed at Frazzled Lit. Looking forward to submitting more.
Second short story in my collection finished. Really happy with this one. I'm very much enjoying the process of writing these. It's a wonderful distraction before I dive headlong into the third novel. I also feel I learn as much from a 2000 word short story as half a novel. #amwriting #shortstory
After you stop using the Duolingo app, it becomes that psycho ex that stalked you across your digital landscape, pestering for attention and validation like it has a serious personality disorder. Go get your own life, Owl. #LanguageLearning #french
I just found a Frustrated Writers group on Instagram. That could be a long lonely tunnel into a dark place. Yep. Not clicking on that. #writing #unpublished #querying #frustratedwriter #story
Writer @jmcm.bsky.social gives such generous support to the writing community in Ireland, through Frazzled Lit & the creative community sessions she organises - please consider supporting her in raising the funds she needs for a learning opportunity gofund.me/6663f9001
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I don't write long hand, as the result is indecipherable. But I share her irritation.
Matthew Noe@noethematt.bsky.social · 11mo ago"I DON'T NEED YOU TO FUCKING REWRITE WHAT I'VE JUST WRITTEN!"
The nice people at @wikimediaireland.bsky.social are hiring an Irish Language Officer! Check out wikimedia.ie
Wikimedia Community Ireland - Promoting Open Knowledge and Gaeilge in Ireland
Promoting Open Knowledge and Gaeilge in Ireland
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@aislingwalsh.bsky.social on the 30-year legacy of His Dark Materials and why Philip Pullman understands that “true evil is never about the distorted cravings of a single person.”
Why Philip Pullman’s Books Are More Important Than Ever in Speaking Truth to Power
When we first encounter Lyra Silvertongue, neé Belacqua, she is hidden in a wardrobe and listening intently to her uncle, Lord Asriel, give a presentation to Oxford scholars on his findings about D…
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Had a dream last night that I was trying to buy a cottage in Ireland, but couldn't understand the rules, or anything people said when trying to explain them. I had to ask them to repeat themselves over&over to both our discomfort. Is my mind trying to tell me I've spent too long in the USA? #dreams
My new manuscript, Swallow All the Light is finally ready to query. In a community where locals believe nature avenges those who harm it, a woman's battle against patriarchy and class leads to ecological disaster. #amwriting #irishfiction #ireland #historicalfiction #folklore #book #amquerying
@jessicaberg.bsky.social Hello Jessica. Can I ask if you know when you'll reopen for queries? I have an Irish rural noir that is a good match. Thanks, Liam.
Am I the only one that finds chickpea skin revolting? Why don't they come skinned in the can? If you don't peel them, that's gross, whole thing looks like a mess of peeled blisters: disgusting when they come loose in your food.
Clarity, dear reader, is key. Take this abomination, for instance. How was this giraffe dissected? Horizontally? Vertically? The arse end of the beast or the full neck, chest, shoulders, and fore legs. I can't think of a less dividable animal than a giraffe! Try using a whole rhino next time.
My twin boys are 18 today. I could not be more proud of these fine young men.
Wife: you can only bring one book to Ireland. Me: Of course, of course. See? One book.
@manchanmagan.bsky.social are there any plans to release an audiobook? I would love to hear all these beautiful words spoken.