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Quick reminder that I'm facilitating this 4-week #ShortStory course from 1st September @irishwriterscentre.bsky.social irishwriterscentre.ie/courses/quee...

Stale sourdough bread smelling like granny's tights? Make a panzanella for your tea! This one uses 800gms tomatoes, 2 red peppers, artichokes, roasted with 2 garlic cloves, 200g torn 🍞 , oil from jar of artichokes, s&p. Dressing of lemon, tarragon, olive oil, sea salt, throw spinach in at the end.

Stu Hennigan@stuhennigan.bsky.social · 5d ago

Fair play to you (Stu) for writing this!

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Short story #pamphlet #gorse 14. I wrote #TheWorkshop while at the Heinrich Böll #residency. I hadn't a clue how to 1. Separate a deliberate 'bad' story submission for a University creative writing workshop from 2. The tutor's response/rant where he allows zero comeback to his ego. Structure is key!

Marc de Faoite @marcdefaoite.bsky.social · last wk.

These little bad boys are a great way to start the day, a tenner a week basically, and worth it. #Lidl

Signal boosting this. I'm a certain number of chapters in and increasingly destabilized - in a very good way.

Guillermo Stitch@guillermostitch.bsky.social · 2w ago

Great to see the book get some support! Thanks to writer and critic Lee Rourke. #booksky

An instagram post by writer and critic Lee Rourke, calling The Coast of Everything by Guillermo Stitch "747 pages of sheer brilliance"

Adrian Weckler@adrianweckler.bsky.social · last wk.

Jesus...

RIP Glen Hansard. Motorcycle crash. www.independent.ie/irish-news/r...

Quick reminder that I'm facilitating this 4-week #ShortStory course from 1st September @irishwriterscentre.bsky.social irishwriterscentre.ie/courses/quee...

www.irishtimes.com/crime-law/co...

Hundreds of Irish writers set to share millions of euro after €1.31bn Anthropic settlement

Artificial intelligence giant settles copyright infringement case

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Total fan of #PolishShop coloured tomatoes, 5 big uns for €3.20 and you can make a kickass veggie tart for dinner...

gorse journal@gorsejournal.bsky.social · 2w ago

Is this 'typo' deliberate @stomaselli.bsky.social: 'preserving' instead of 'persevering' (lol!). Totally assume you're being brilliantly clipped and sarcastic, while hoping I won't notice.

Thank you June Caldwell for preserving. Resilience is everything in writing/rejections. Full details for g14: Multitudes soon.

Looking forward to my #Story THE WORKSHOP in gorse 14: 'Multitudes'. The issue is nine #pamphlets and an editorial to accompany. I was rejected TWICE by this lit journal prior! My offering is a story within a story, in a creative writing workshop, facilitated by a narky tutor with mean pen strokes.

June Caldwell @junec.bsky.social · last mo.

Every writer's group needs just one smiler...

September! irishwriterscentre.ie/courses/quee...

Queer People, Queer Prose with June Caldwell - Irish Writers Centre

4-week in person writing course on writing the short story with June Caldwell. Starts Tuesday 1 September 2026, 6.30pm - 8.30pm.

irishwriterscentre.ie

Nine years of "bye bye" to cheating assholes and "Yes, I said yes" to a new life of love and adventure.

Roast Courgette Pesto!

Almond milk latté in the garden with the bees causing a riot. #SmallPleasures

StrictlyChristo 🇺🇦🌻@strictlychristo.bsky.social · 3w ago

Class...

Online commenter shuts down FBI agents.

The Author, Séamas O'Reilly @seamas.bsky.social · 3w ago

I do love this #vegan recipe: 'Cuban-Style Sweet & Sour Squash with Peppers and Basil', baked in ginger, garlic, white vinegar, olive oil, chilli flakes, salt, 2tsp caster sugar...topped with pumpkin seeds & fresh Basil, served with yellow rice and yoghurt (Vg) or sour cream. 1hr10 mins. #BeforePic

Cowardly fraud @patrickfreyne.bsky.social is attempting to draw me out for a CAGE MATCH via another of his childish taunts. Well, I'm game if he is. Let's just say **everyone should buy tickets to this event** and I'd urge anyone in the front row to wear the plastic ponchos provided.

ADVERTISEMENT FOR MYSELF AND PATRICK FREYNE'S SHOWDOWN AT THE EDINBURGH FESTIVAL, highlighting that it is on Friday 21st August 2026 at 18.15, overlaid with my dear close personal friend Patrick's comment "I'm not saying this Edinburgh festival event with my literary foe is going to be a cage match but...".

Patrick looks windswept and handsome, albeit clasping a hand to his head in the manner of someone who's seen a better, more handsome author, summit the turnbuckle for a devastating moonsault.

I look beautiful, stately and serene, caught in a poignant reverie of that one time I smashed Patrick's face in with a chair at the Dalkey Book Festival

A lightly edited reprint of the famous Andre The Giant quote about Hulk Hogan, with his name changed to SEAMAS THE AUTHOR and Hogan's name changed to Patrick Freyne.

"I don't like to speak badly of people. I have grown up thinking and being told that if you cannot say something nice about someone, you should not say anything at all. But I must break that rule in this case because I hate Patrick Freyne very much. He is a big ugly goon and I want to squash his face.

June Caldwell @junec.bsky.social · 4w ago

The most consequential works of fiction do not yield easily to summary because they’re not plotty or propulsive, they are psychological. www.irishtimes.com/culture/book...

A brilliant book of fiction keeps breathing somewhere in the mind long after you close it

The so-called ‘quiet novel’ is rarely quiet in effect; it is only quiet in its refusal to perform spectacle

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Brilliant conversation with Tom Morris & Nicole Flattery on @stingingfly.bsky.social podcast about the small mortifications in a writing career, relentless rejection, the idea of career progression (or lack of), associated anxieties, process or practice, loneliness. stingingfly.org/podcast/tom-...

Thomas Morris – The Stinging Fly

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