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Hilary Watson poet @poetryhilary.bsky.social · 09/03/2026

Publication date for my beautiful collaborative poetry collection *We'll Meet You There* from @dialectwriters.bsky.social is upon us. The online launch is 19 March - 18.30-19.30 😊 www.dialect.org.uk/events/diale... #thrutopia #thrutopoetry #HopefulFutures

Me - white woman with midlength brown hair smiling outside in a very yellow top and two tone teal checked shirt. I match my book, is the thing.

Very yellow book - We'll Meet You There, by Ilse Pedler, Hilary Watson and Alice Willitts

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Ian McMillan @imcmillan.bsky.social · 24/01/2026

I’m very moved by this poem by Polly Clark from Afterlife, her New and Selected Poems coming out next month from @bloodaxebooks.bsky.social

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Tobias Wilson-Bates @phdhurtbrain.bsky.social · 31/12/2025

Always worth a post

i am running into a new year
By Lucille Clifton

i am running into a new year
and the old years blow back
like a wind
that i catch in my hair
like strong fingers like
all my old promises and
it will be hard to let go
of what i said to myself
about myself
when i was sixteen and
twenty-six and thirty-six
even thirty-six but
i am running into a new year
and i beg what i love and
i leave to forgive me

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Hilary Watson poet @poetryhilary.bsky.social · 22/12/2025

Tis the season to manifest a brighter, joyful future. If you fancy submitting to #BendingTheArcMagazine in January, find all the details and read Edition 1 and 2 here: bendingthearcmagazine.substack.com/p/can-you-wr.... Submissions open: Monday 12th January to Sunday 1st February 2026. Can't wait!

Christmas ornament of books image with text: can you write our future? Festive greetings and submissions window open soon. 'Hello! thank you for reading Bending The Arc. We're so glad to have you with us on this journey into the future. BendingTheArcMagazine.Substack.com.

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Rue Baldry @ruebaldry.bsky.social · 11/12/2025

📣Announcement!📣 My debut novel, Dwell, will still be published in 2026 by @northodoxpress.bsky.social, despite changes there, but is now going to come out in June not Feb. If you preordered, thanks. Those preorders remain valid. If you haven’t, why not do that now with 25% off code NORTHODOXMAS?

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Carol Farrelly @carolfarrelly.bsky.social · 19/12/2025

This will be a wonderful start to 2026! Thank you so much to Paul McVeigh and the judges, Cathy Galvin and Hilary White. 😊 paulmcveighwriter.com/news/

Announcement graphic reading ‘Introducing the Winners of The Paul McVeigh West Cork Residency 2026’. The winners listed are Carol Farrelly, Greg Thorpe, and Stephanie Torrance.

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Jo Lloyd but jolly 🌍🐎 @jolloyds.bsky.social · 01/12/2025

Thought I might post some short stories for advent - but I may be overestimating my industry & your interest Still, here's day one at least - something quietly astonishing from the great David Means in Zoetrope www.all-story.com/preview-exce... (Not an excerpt despite what the link says)

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Preview Excerpt – Zoetrope: All-Story

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Scottish Book Trust @scottishbooktrust.bsky.social · 16/09/2025

There's only one week left to apply for a 2026 New Writers Award! Tell your talented writer friends. . . 📲

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Apply for the New Writers Awards

Applications for the New Writers Awards are now open!

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Jan Carson @jancarsonwrites.bsky.social · 05/07/2025

Someone needs to start a literary prize for short story collections. It seems really odd to me that we don’t have one in Ireland or the UK. Before everyone shouts about the Edgehill Prize, it doesn’t seem to be happening this year.

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RSPB @rspb.bsky.social · 02/07/2025

Did you know? Swifts eat, sleep, drink, mate, & even bathe on the wing...rarely landing except to nest. They can switch off one half of their brain to rest, drink by gliding low over water to take sips, & fly through rain to bathe! 🌧️ #SwiftAwarenessWeek 📽️ @theHALLofEINAR

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Laura McKee @lauramckee.bsky.social · 01/07/2025

I started to read a book which quotes this poem by Eavan Boland as epigraph and it blew me away. “Night and day / words fell on me./ Seeds. Raindrops./ Chips of frost”. www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazi...

EAVAN BOLAND
MOTHER IRELAND
At first
I was land.
I lay on my back to be fields
and when I turned on my side
I was a hill
under freezing stars.
I did not see.
I was seen.
Night and day words fell on me.
Seeds. Raindrops.
Chips of frost.
From one of them
I learned my name.
I rose up. I remembered it.
Now I could tell my story.
It was different
from the story told about me.
And now also it was spring.
I could see the wound I had left
in the land by leaving it.
I travelled west.
Once there
I looked with so much love at every field
as it unfolded
its rusted wheel and its pram chassis
and at the gorse-
bright distances
I had been that they misunderstood me.
Come back to us they said
Trust me I whispered.
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Ian Duhig @ianduhig.bsky.social · 18/05/2025

Paul Durcan wrote this, but I feel he had the soul of a hare as well

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Jonathan Gibbs @jonathangibbs.bsky.social · 17/05/2025

Featuring Personal Anthology debuts for: Carol Farrelly @carolfarrelly.bsky.social relly.bsky.social Tracy Fells @theliterarypig.bsky.social ypig.bsky.social Alice Fowler @alicefwrites.bsky.social writes.bsky.social Hana Gammon Robyn Jefferson Ross Raisin So congrats to them!

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Rue Baldry @ruebaldry.bsky.social · 02/05/2025

My anthology includes stories by @demimondaine.bsky.social (Robyn Jefferson), @theliterarypig.bsky.social (Tracy Fells), @carolfarrelly.bsky.social (Carol Farrelly) @alicefwrites.bsky.social (Alice Fowler) And from @flyonthewallpress.bsky.social

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Lauren Groff @legroff.bsky.social · 24/04/2025

Fellow authors, I love you, and I know it feels like we don’t have a choice, but B&N and Am*zon both scheduled sales this week to preempt Independent Bookstore Day, a hugely vital source of income for indie bookstores. Please don’t promote their sales; please promote your local indie this week.

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Lynsey May @lynseymay.com · 13/03/2025

My creepy new novel will be clawing its way out of the woods and onto shelves, with a big thank you to Polygon and my awesome agent Sara Langham birlinn.co.uk/2025/03/13/p...

Woman with long ginger hair and a black top facing the camera with the title Polygon Aquires Kin by Lynsey May above it

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Vicky MacKenzie @vickymackenzie.bsky.social · 14/03/2025

Happy first birthday to this electric blue paperback baby! 💙 FOR THY GREAT PAIN HAVE MERCY ON MY LITTLE PAIN explores the lives of medieval mystics #JulianofNorwich and #MargeryKempe. Winner of the Saltire First Book Award and a Book of the Year in the Guardian, Sunday Times and Irish Times! 😍📚

Photo of my novel, FOR THY GREAT PAIN, face out in Waterstones, with a staff recommendation shelf sign.

Piles and piles of my novel, FOR THY GREAT PAIN, in all its bright blue beauty.

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Little Toller Books @littletollerbooks.bsky.social · 06/03/2025

Final tweaks to Jan Morris's wonderful 'A Venetian Bestiary' before it goes to the printers. It's going to be a gorgeous pocket sized hardback. New Introduction by the author and journalist Sophy Roberts. Publishing in April. Feel free to pre order here! www.littletoller.co.uk/shop/books/l...

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Carol Farrelly @carolfarrelly.bsky.social · 17/01/2025

Thank you to the @scottishbooktrust.bsky.social for supporting my new writing project with an Ignite Fellowship. I'm thrilled. After emerging from a long hibernation, a door swings open. www.scottishbooktrust.com/writing-and-...

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Ignite Fellows 2025

The Ignite Fellowship offers tailored practical and financial support to professional authors. Meet our 2025 Fellows.

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Carol Farrelly @carolfarrelly.bsky.social · 16/01/2025

I can’t wait to read Rue Baldry’s novel ‘Dwell’. Congratulations, Rue! 💃🎉🙌

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Oisín McGann @oisinmcgann.bsky.social · 10/01/2025

Ireland's government is trialling a Basic Income for Artists programme. This is my argument for why it's necessary for the well-being of artists who contribute so much to the nation's economy, but are mined as a resource, instead of being treated as valued workers. oisinmcgann.com/how-the-crea...

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How the Creative Industries Are Built on Free Labour – Oisín McGann

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Kathleen Jamie @kathleenjamie.bsky.social · 01/01/2025

Happy New Year!

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Carol Farrelly @carolfarrelly.bsky.social · 24/12/2024

The challenge is to choose twenty books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for twenty days, in no particular order. No explanations. No reviews. Just covers. #BookSky #BookChallenge 20/20

Folio Society hardback edition of ‘Selected Poems’ by Thomas Hardy. Title page: poems selected by Robert Macfarlane, illustrated by Stanley Donwood. Frontispiece illustration of a rural scene: we look across a field to houses and trees on the horizon. A murmuration of birds crowd the sky.

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Carol Farrelly @carolfarrelly.bsky.social · 22/12/2024

Penguin paperback edition of ‘Villette’ by Charlotte Brontë. The cover illustration is of a young woman, eyes downward, opening a letter. She has a serious expression.

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Carol Farrelly @carolfarrelly.bsky.social · 21/12/2024

Paperback Harper Collins edition of ‘Purple Hibiscus’ by Chimimanda Ngozi Adichie. The front cover shows a hibiscus and the lower half of a woman’s face.

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Carol Farrelly @carolfarrelly.bsky.social · 19/12/2024

Paperback Faber edition of ‘The Complete Stories’ by Flannery O’Connor. The front cover shows a blue-toned photo of high-rise buildings and telephone lines. Printed stars, resembling those in the United States’ flag, float in the sky.

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Ed Newton-Rex @ednewtonrex.bsky.social · 17/12/2024

Today, the UK government announced a proposal to change copyright law - for the benefit of AI companies - that would cause huge, irreversible harm to creators. More info below, but most importantly here's what you can do (wherever you live): 1. Email your MP. Template letter in 🧵 👇 1/10

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Carol Farrelly @carolfarrelly.bsky.social · 18/12/2024

Hardback Stinging Fly edition of ‘The Springs of Affection’ by Maeve Brennan. The front cover splices together two images. On the bottom right, there is a photo of Maeve Brennan looking over her shoulder. Above, is a green-tinted rainy Dublin street scene. Figures huddle beneath umbrellas at a bus stop.

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Carol Farrelly @carolfarrelly.bsky.social · 17/12/2024

Paperback Hamish Hamilton edition of ‘How to Be Both’ by Ali Smith. The front cover features a photograph of Sylvie Vartan and Françoise Hardy walking together down a sunny shopping street.

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Carol Farrelly @carolfarrelly.bsky.social · 16/12/2024

Paperback Penguin edition of ‘The Dubliners’ by James Joyce. The front cover shows a Dublin street scene. Blurred figures, perhaps a family, stand on a corner and look back at the camera. The picture is overlaid with faint text.

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Carol Farrelly @carolfarrelly.bsky.social · 15/12/2024

Paperback Einaudi edition of ‘Se Questo E’ un Uomo’ by Primo Levi. The front cover shows a solitary figure walking away in a blank white landscape towards a wash of grey.

Hardback Folio Society edition of ‘If This Is a Man’ by Primo Levi, translated by Stuart Woolf. The front cover shows a a figure against a blue background. The figure stares up at a cross of barbed wire.

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Carol Farrelly @carolfarrelly.bsky.social · 14/12/2024

Hardback Virago edition of ‘How Much of These Hills Is Gold’ by C Pam Zhang. The front cover shows two wild horses rearing towards one another. We see plains and low hill range in the background.

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Carol Farrelly @carolfarrelly.bsky.social · 13/12/2024

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Carol Farrelly @carolfarrelly.bsky.social · 11/12/2024

Paperback Fourth Estate edition of ‘Close Range’ by Annie Proulx. Front cover, in sepia, shows a cowboy boot with glinting spur lying in the dirt.

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Carol Farrelly @carolfarrelly.bsky.social · 10/12/2024

Hardback Viking edition of ‘God’s Own Country’ by Ross Raisin. The front cover shows a sheep’s skull slung on barbed wire. In the background, clouds roll above moorland.

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Carol Farrelly @carolfarrelly.bsky.social · 09/12/2024

Paperback Granta edition of ‘West’ by Carys Davies. The front cover shows a figure and horse silhouetted against a desert and white sky.

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Carol Farrelly @carolfarrelly.bsky.social · 08/12/2024

Hardback Bloomsbury edition of ‘Diving Belles’ by Lucy Wood. The front cover features a surfacing mermaid peering at a twist of blue and gold waves, gulls and shells. In the bottom right corner, a fish swims by a sunken lantern.

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Carol Farrelly @carolfarrelly.bsky.social · 07/12/2024

Paperback Vintage edition of ‘The End of the Affair’ by Graham Greene. The front cover shows a gold ring lying on top of an open notebook.

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Carol Farrelly @carolfarrelly.bsky.social · 06/12/2024

Fourth Estate paperback edition of ‘The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Klay’ by Michael Chabon. The front cover illustration shows a figure swinging with a rope from the Empire State Building. One side of the building is illuminated with the image of a silver key.

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Carol Farrelly @carolfarrelly.bsky.social · 05/12/2024

Paperback Vintage edition of ‘Sula’ by Toni Morrison. Front cover shows scattered red petals and a pair of scissors against a snowy-white background.

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Carol Farrelly @carolfarrelly.bsky.social · 04/12/2024

Penguin paperback edition of ‘Don’t Look Now and Other Stories’ by Daphne du Maurier. The front cover shows an alarmed woman in a red coat against a Venetian cityscape.

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Carol Farrelly @carolfarrelly.bsky.social · 03/12/2024

Hardback of ‘The Ice Palace’ by Tarjei Vesaas. Peter Owen edition. The front cover is a cut-out icicle against a turquoise background. The cut-out reveals a person’s silhouette in a snowy mountainous landscape.

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Carol Farrelly @carolfarrelly.bsky.social · 02/12/2024

Penguin paperback edition of 'After Rain' by William Trevor. The front cover shows a black and white photo of a woman walking away through a series of sunlit porticoes.

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Lynsey May @lynseymay.com · 21/11/2024

I couldnt see one, so I started one! I literally just threw this up on my coffee break so will have missed many awesome people. Shout if you’re one of them go.bsky.app/MeKxG4G

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