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Happy birthday, Elizabeth Bowen- born 7th June 1899, in Dublin. Join us to celebrate with our Annual Bowen Birthday Lecture, featuring Jessica Gildersleeve. Online - 7th June, 7pm, BST - free! Link in comments. www.tickettailor.com/events/eliza...

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Final reminder for our free, online Bowen Birthday lecture tomorrow. Join us! www.tickettailor.com/events/eliza...

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We're thrilled to have Nuala O'Connor as our judge for the competition, she's one of my literary heroes! We are open right now for submissions to the Frazzled Lit Short Story Award! www.frazzledlit.com/p/ready-to-s...

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Join us on Saturday @irishwriterscentre.bsky.social for a Mrs Dalloway Conference. 11am to 3pm, lots to enjoy, see the IWC site. At 1.30pm I'm with #ClaireLouiseBennett & @naoisedolan.bsky.social to consider the way Mrs Dalloway is made, and how we made our own novels. Moderated by Belinda McKeon.

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I'm judging this comp from the excellent @frazzledlit.bsky.social I love all sorts of stories, but v much like: vibrant language; hist fic; humour; moral complexity in characters; juicy details; fresh imagery; smart dialogue. None a prerequisite, but if these sound like your style, please enter 🙌

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BIRTHDAY LECTURE Join us for our Annual Bowen Birthday Lecture, with Jessica Gildersleeve. Online - 7th June, 7pm, BST - free! Christmas at Bowen’s Court: Elizabeth Bowen’s Christmas Ghost Stories. www.tickettailor.com/events/eliza...

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The time is now! We are open! Check out the link for all details! @jmcm.bsky.social @nualaoconnor.bsky.social www.frazzledlit.com/p/ready-to-s...

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3rd June, Belfast launch for #Menagerie, my new poetry collection! 3rd June: Irish Secretariat, Belfast, 6.30pm Joint launch for Menagerie & Washing Windows V both from #ArlenHouse Celebrating Arlen House at 50.

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Reminder. We open on the 1st June for just 30 days for our inaugural Frazzled Lit Short Story Award. Judged by the wonderful @nualaoconnor.bsky.social We three can't wait to read your words. www.frazzledlit.com/p/frazzled-l...

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This f*%£er, torturing that poor family for years when everyone knew he'd killed Tina. Horrendous man.

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I had such a joyous week teaching Flash Narratives at the Dingle Writers' Workshop. Brilliant students, beautiful surroundings 💚🙌

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Reminder. We open on the 1st June for just 30 days for our inaugural Frazzled Lit Short Story Award. Judged by the wonderful @nualaoconnor.bsky.social We three can't wait to read your words. www.frazzledlit.com/p/frazzled-l...

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Omar Hamad: ‘They stole our safety, love and peace. We were left sleeping on the sidewalks of doubt’ #Palestine www.image.ie/agenda/omar-...

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Belfast Bowenites! An afternoon Bowen birthday event for you at Crescent Arts centre on 7th June. Reading Elizabeth Bowen with Tessa Hadley Saturday 07 June 2025 2:00 PM - 4:00 PM £30 | £25 See @crescentarts.bsky.social for booking info.

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BOOKING LINK - BIRTHDAY LECTURE Join us for our Annual Bowen Birthday Lecture, featuring Jessica Gildersleeve. Online - 7th June, 7pm, BST - free! Christmas at Bowen’s Court: Elizabeth Bowen’s Christmas Ghost Stories www.tickettailor.com/events/eliza...

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Join us for our May Reading Group of Joining Charles. 28th May, 7pm GMT www.tickettailor.com/events/eliza... (Quote is Banville!)

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My latest #WritersChat is with @nualaoconnor.bsky.social on her incredible novel #seaborne @newislandbooks.bsky.social shaunagilliganwriter.com/2025/05/18/w...

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Ar bís mo dhán a fheiscint sa duanaire seo! Míle buíochas le @arlenhouse.bsky.social is le @nualaoconnor.bsky.social

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New Seaborne interview over at Writers Chat - thank you writer @shaunagilligan.bsky.social for having me. shaunagilliganwriter.com/2025/05/18/w...

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We'd love it if you checked this out! @nualaoconnor.bsky.social @jmcm.bsky.social

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Delighted to add my copy of Washing Windows V to my collection! Thanks to @booksupstairs.bsky.social 📚 Very honoured to have poems included in four of these very special anthologies 💫✨ Huge gratitude to @arlenhouse.bsky.social and @nualaoconnor.bsky.social 🙏🙏

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An absolute joy to attend and read at the launch of ‘Washing Windows V, @arlenhouse.bsky.social, edited by Alan Hayes & @NualaOConnor.bsky.social at Charlie Byrne’s Bookstore in Galway this evening. The anthology includes an incredibly diverse range of poems by 303 poets #poetry #WashingWindowsV

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Christmas in June? Why not! Save the date for our Annual Bowen Birthday Lecture, featuring Jessica Gildersleeve. Online - 7th June - link to follow. Christmas at Bowen’s Court: Elizabeth Bowen’s Christmas Ghost Stories

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Want to win a prize? The Frazzled Lit Short Story Award 2025 opens 1st-30th June. Details here. open.substack.com/pub/authorjm... Shares and comments appreciated!

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Galway!! Book launch, 16th May, 6pm: Charlie Byrne's Bookshop in Galway City. Joint launch for Menagerie & Washing Windows V both from Arlen House. All welcome!

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Congratulations to @nualaoconnor.bsky.social on publication of her poetry collection Menagerie which was launched last night @booksupstairs.bsky.social @arlenhouse.bsky.social Nuala read beautiful poems about her daughter, sister, mother, brother and herself. Gorgeous cover art is by Elena Duff.

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Wonderful support from the @saloneurope.bsky.social European Writers Salon for the first Frazzled Lit Short Story Award judged by Nuala O'Connor @nualaoconnor.bsky.social Opens 1st-30th June. Thanks European Writers Salon. We appreciate you!

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#WashingWindowsV launches today. It's such an honour to be part of it, & to have a seat at the table with so many wonderful & talented writers. Thank you @arlenhouse.bsky.social @nualaoconnor.bsky.social for bringing it into being, & #StrokestownPoetry for our first wonderful event last Saturday. 💚

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Arlen House & dlr Libraries warmly invite you to group readings from the bestselling anthology Washing Windows V: Women Revolutionise Irish Poetry, 1975-2015 Dundrum Library, Wed 7 May, 6pm dlr LexIcon, Dún Laoghaire (level 3), Sat 10 May, 2pm ALL WELCOME @nualaoconnor.bsky.social

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Dublin launch! 9th May! #Menagerie, my new poetry collection is launching tomorrow. 9th May: @booksupstairs.bsky.social in Dublin City, 6.30pm Joint launch for Menagerie & Washing Windows V both from #ArlenHouse Celebrating Arlen House at 50

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Launches for #Menagerie, my new poetry collection: 9th May: Books Upstairs in Dublin City, 6.30pm 16th May: Charlie Byrnes bookshop Galway 6pm 3rd June: Irish Secretariat, Belfast, 6.30pm Joint launches for Menagerie & Washing Windows V both from #ArlenHouse Celebrating Arlen House at 50

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Join us this weekend in stunning Strokestown for the poetry festival nualaoconnor.com/strokestown-...

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Reminder for our May Reading Group. 28th May, 7pm GMT Join us online for the next Elizabeth Bowen Society Reading Group, where we will discuss Joining Charles (1929), Bowen’s third short story collection. www.tickettailor.com/events/eliza...

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🐅 Galway! May 16th, 6pm, at Charlie Byrne's Bookshop now also added! 🐅

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Honoured to have a poem included in this very special anthology! 📚 Huge thanks to @arlenhouse.bsky.social and @nualaoconnor.bsky.social 💫✨

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Grateful to @robmclennan.bsky.social, who has reviewed Menagerie at his blog. A taster: ’…a curious assemblage of prose poem narratives and short scenes that hold a thickness of detail and a lush sense of the lyric…These poems are quite magical, honestly.’ robmclennan.blogspot.com/2025/04/nual...

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Nuala O’Connor, Menagerie / @nualaoconnor.bsky.social @arlenhouse.bsky.social ; robmclennan.blogspot.com/2025/04/nual...

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Celebrating Arlen House at 50 Launching Nuala O'Connor's acclaimed poetry Menagerie 4 May: Strokestown Poetry, 8.30pm 9 May: Books Upstairs, 6.30pm 10 May: LexIcon, Dún Laoghaire, 2pm 16 May: Charlie Byrne's, Galway, 6pm 3 June: Irish Secretariat, Belfast, 6.30pm @nualaoconnor.bsky.social

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I will be on Poetry People at 7pm-ish tonight on @rteradio1 with poet Rachael Hegarty. Reading & discussing a few poems from my new collection Menagerie, including one about Daphne Caruana Galizia (pictured) & another about my daughter's worship of Sephora. Image: #Gattaldo

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Strokestown Poetry Festival Join us May Bank Hol w'end. Lots to enjoy. My events: 2:15pm | Stables Arlen House Book Launch Washing Windows V, featuring work of women poets. Free event. 8:30pm | Café Reading Paddy Bushe, Nuala O'Connor & Gerard Smyth. €10 strokestownpoetryfest.ie/programme-ye...

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Launches for #Menagerie, my new poetry collection! Dublin: 9th May @booksupstairs.bsky.social 6.30pm Belfast 3rd June, Irish Secretariat, time tbc Joint launch and wine reception for Menagerie & Washing Windows V both from #ArlenHouse

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What a beautiful anthology edited by @arlenhouse.bsky.social @nualaoconnor.bsky.social - thanks for including my poem and what a stunning cover and great subtitle - can't wait to read it! Congratulations to all the contributors.

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