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Congratulations @markabowles.bsky.social and @galleybeggars.bsky.social !!! I loved this book so really delighted for you!🍾👏🏽🍾👏🏽

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The 2025 Ireland finalists for The British Book Awards 2025 Small Press of the Year are: @bansheepress.bsky.social👏 @lilliputpress.bsky.social👏 'Determined, original & inventive publishing... battled increased costs & a mixed economic outlook' Read more: www.writing.ie/news/small-p... #nibbies

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I wrote about my experience submitting short SFF non-stopping for ten years. It's out now in my newsletter! renanbernardo.substack.com/p/ten-years-...

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These reflections by @renanbernardo.com & @cornellwriter.bsky.social on subbing #SFF fiction & rejection are honest, inspiring, & necessary. So grateful to read these today as I head back into this world after a long hiatus due to health. Thank you so much PA & Renan, this gives me confidence!

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happy twin peaks day to all who celebrate

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JOIN US for the launch of Daragh Fleming’s new collection of essays, A Brief Inhalation, in @waterstones.bsky.social Cork on April 15th at 6:30pm. Introduced by the wonderful Lucy Holme, the launch will be followed by an after-party in the exclusive KILN Bar hosted by BEAMISH IRELAND!

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It was an honor to get to speak to you all about your work! 😌💗🔥

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Feel the hot breath of a freakishly large animal on the back of your neck? IT’S ME! HOPING YOU’LL RE-BLEET THIS GREAT DEAL ON MY BOOK! @saltpublishing.com @waterstones.bsky.social

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I am not British. And that’s just one of the reasons I was surprised to get a mention in the recent Cambridge History of the British Essay (2024). You can read the essay they mention here for free on @gorsejournal.bsky.social gorse.ie/provocation-...

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Wonderful @tiltedaxispress.bsky.social @nytimes.com "Groundbreaking, genre-defying literature in translation... 42 books translated from 18 languages, incl Indonesian, Thai, Vietnamese, Hindi, Telugu, Tamil, Eastern Armenian, Kazakh, Kannada, Bengali, Uzbek, Turkish" www.nytimes.com/2025/02/15/b...

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Leonora Carrington & Malcolm Lowry! Two writers I very much associate with my decade in Oaxaca. This looks fantastic & very tempting, having just finished Carrington’s memoir

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In person pay what you want short story workshop next Saturday. All welcome particularly people who are new to the whole thing belfastbookfestival.com/workshops/ma...

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At last. Turquoises & emeralds all around.

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My short story ‘Trouper’ is now available to read online! Thanks to one of my fave journals @thepigsback.bsky.social for publishing it here & in print 💛 www.thepigsback.ie/read/trouper

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'People like us don't become writers.' Tell me about it! I am still so often the only working-class person in one of these rooms. And it is not getting easier. www.theguardian.com/culture/2025...

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live now!

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Thanks so much to @marissavu.bsky.social and everyone at Violet Lichen for the announcement of this new book!

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My brother, absolutely unprompted: “hey is the island of Doctor Moreau a good movie?”

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The tenants' union CATU has compiled a list of Ireland's Top Evictors, which really should be a spin-off RTE show like Ireland's Fittest Families: topevictors.ie

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I have been speaking to Eslam for several months. She is real, she is desperate, she needs help. It’s distressing Bluesky keeps deleting her accounts and it’s distressing it’s so hard for her to get some support. Please share.

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a James Bond movie about him saving the franchise from Amazon

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LIVESTREAM tomorrow at 4pm UK/11am EST with Dr Moudhy Al-Rashid (@moudhy.bsky.social) We will dig into cuneiform tablets from ancient Mesopotamia and the world's first stories about the fantastic people who lived in Ur, Babylon, and elsewhere youtube.com/live/ox7FOvK...

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A wonderful review of RAKESFALL in Strange Horizons by @hramsaroop.bsky.social! “Masterfully constructed with sincere prose, Chandrasekera captures all the grief and fury associated with living under fascism while highlighting the importance of hope and advocating for collective liberation.”

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Closing date for nominations Feb 25th💫

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The cover is OUT!!! So stoked! Pre-orders now open at Undertow/Amazon/B&N. The Gillan foreword and @kellylink.bsky.social's kind words blew me away. Also you can see more of Ove Tøpfer's wild surreal oil paintings at his IG below. Can't wait until Sept!! 🥳 www.instagram.com/p/CeBHuBKoGtI/

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Physiotherapist says: “You need to buy a fascia release ball.” Phone records: “You need to buy a fascist release ball.” Touché

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Another amazing line-up from @cuirtfestival.bsky.social in Galway. They celebrate their 40th edition from 8 to 13 April www.cuirt.ie/whats-on/

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Interview: writer @robmclennan.bsky.social interviews me today in his 12 or 20 series, about writing process, plans, and so on. robmclennan.blogspot.com/2025/02/12-o...

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Whoa, look at this cool class on Black women in speculative fiction! It's being taught by Melissa A. Watkins, who is a book reviewer at Lightspeed and an amazing writer. midnight-indigo.com/products/bla...

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Good to be back in the glorious greyness that is the north of Ireland. (Not pictured: Seagulls holding a séance on my neighbour’s roof)

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First day in a long time being able to use my hands for several hours! Recovery going well. Made this gorgeous #puzzle of a #Japanese woodblock painting I found while working at UNESCO in Paris.

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THE SLOW ROAD NORTH Belfast book launch is two weeks from today, 4 March! In a happy coincidence, that’s Mardi Gras—so expect a party. Wanna be there? Great! Please register here: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/write-nigh...

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Excited to become a professional member of the Irish Writers Centre as of yesterday! (A goal of mine since moving almost 4 years ago!)

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I'm gonna be in TCD on Saturday to take part in a fabulous reanimation of the Irish Network for Gothic and Horror Studies. Hopefully I'll see you there!

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