Winter Papers

@winterpapers.bsky.social

An annual anthology for the arts in Ireland and beyond. www.winterpapers.com Supported by the Arts Council Posts by Olivia.

Six weeks to work on your short story, from June 30th to August 25th. Learn from others, learn from yourself. See an idea through to a complete story that manages to surprise. Get published (every time, every course, I see people jump that wall!). An opportunity to focus.

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Reading in the garden, with some of the books that I scooped up yesterday at Books Upstairs, including @winterpapers.bsky.social, NEW ARCANA by @jesstraynor.bsky.social, An Alternative Irish Christmas, Anja Murray's new book, and a lovely new edition of WORDS ARE MY MATTER by @ursulakleguin.com.

Photo of books stacked on a wooden table in a sunny Irish garden. The books include: Winter Papers edited by Kevin Barry, Ten Thousand Years Deep: The Story of Ireland's Peatlands by Carsten Krieger, For and Against a United Ireland by Fintan O'Toole and Sam McBride, New Arcana by Jessica Traynor, Frog Routes, Polka-Dot Newts and Other Treasures of Irish Nature by Anya Murray, An Alternative Irish Christmas: An Anthology by Tramp Press, and Words are My Matter by Ursula K. Le Guin. The sky above is bright blue and the trees behind are evergreen. The background is blurry, so you can't really see all the seed heads and last of the summer's flowers by a stone wall and terracotta pots. Birds chirping, including robins, tit's, a meadow pipit, golcrest, and a buzzard high above.
Katie Holten@katieholten.bsky.social · 9mo ago

A dreamy day in Dublin, with Gallery Weekend, Book Festival, and sunshine. With only a few minutes to spare before catching the train home, I popped into @booksupstairs.bsky.social to scoop up some books. and now they have signed copies of THE LANGUAGE OF TREES 🌿

Photo of Books Upstairs, Dublin's oldest independent bookshop on D'Olier Street. The exterior is painted navy blue and the name's painted in gold lettering above the large front window, with the words Bookshop, Literary Venue, Cafe. 

The lovely Georgian bay window above on the first floor has the words END THE GENOCIDE filling the window panes. 

Books by Zadie Smith, Anja Murray, Anne Enright, Manchán Magan are in the window. 

The recent fire damage to the exterior of the ground floor is just out of the photo, on the left.