iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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June Caldwell @junec.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

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!

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Colm O'Shea @colmoshea.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

A friend spotted this in the latest @privateeyenews.bsky.social ...I approve this message...

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Howard A. Rodman @rodman.bsky.social · 13/04/2026

Honoring the 120th birthday of Samuel Beckett. "Writing becomes not easier, but more difficult for me. Every word is like an unnecessary stain on silence and nothingness."

Black-and-white photograph of Samuel Becket, looking at a strip of 35mm film.

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June Caldwell @junec.bsky.social · 25/02/2026

#gorse12 (Language is a virus) has just arrived in the house from the printers and I flick open on this illustration by @badaude.bsky.social! Lord, it must be a sign that the world will survive after all 😃

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gorse journal @gorsejournal.bsky.social · 03/02/2026

Taking pre-orders for gorses 12 + 13: gorse.ie/book/no-12/ gorse.ie/book/no-13/ (Double release, like Tom Waits' Alice + Blood Money.)

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June Caldwell @junec.bsky.social · 23/01/2026

My course is going ahead again in France this year (October) if anyone is interested. Circle of Misse writing retreat is special ❤️ www.circleofmisse.com/wp/writing-2...

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Colm O'Shea @colmoshea.bsky.social · 05/12/2025

What the FUCK is this on Blusky, I don't mean the image of the prize (and there's a LOT to go into there), it's the citation running in the banner at the bottom of the image, I didn't see it in any of the posts relating to the image, who added it!!???

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Jonathan Gibbs @jonathangibbs.bsky.social · 08/11/2025

I've updated the apersonalanthology.com website with @junec.bsky.social June Caldwell's selection of a dozen favourite short stories. Check them out!

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A Personal Anthology

Writers, critics and others dream-edit a personal anthology of their favourite short stories

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L'Esprit Literary Review @lespritlit.bsky.social · 14/09/2025

The 2026 Leopold Bloom Prize for Innovative Narration is open!  We’re looking for short fiction exhibiting exceptional ingenuity and vision in narration. All entries receive a digital copy of Issue Seven and are considered for publication!  lespritliteraryreview.org/2026-leopold...  #modernism

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2026 Leopold Bloom Prize for Innovative Narration

L’Esprit Literary Review Judged by Michael Nath I like fiction that banquets the reader. Too much fiction now follows a strict diet. Michael Nath Original portrait of Leopold Bloom drawn by I…

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Colm O'Shea @colmoshea.bsky.social · 16/06/2025

Happy Bloomsday, among other things, for all who observe, and a chance to share this.....https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kbF5hDU_F-U

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Adam Sharp @adamcsharp.bsky.social · 15/06/2025

In honour of Joy Division's iconic album Unknown Pleasures being released on this day in 1979, I'm again sharing one of my favourite ever video clips (Peanuts vs Joy Division dance party)...

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June Caldwell @junec.bsky.social · 25/05/2025

What an incredible talk by Eimear McBride. She's always so wonderfully relevant, extraordinary, and thought-provoking! Plus, I bumped into @colmoshea.bsky.social, who is a smiley mofo despite his pull on dark fiction.

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L'Esprit Literary Review @lespritlit.bsky.social · 22/05/2025

Colm’s story “Hiraeth” was the Second Place Winner in our 2025 Leopold Bloom Prize for Innovative Narration, and next up in our Issue Six release! Check it out below! @colmoshea.bsky.social #fiction #shortstory #writing

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Susan Tomaselli 🍉 🏳️‍🌈 @stomaselli.bsky.social · 16/05/2025

A note to say I've joined @irishwriterscentre.bsky.social panel for one-to-one mentoring in fiction, creative non-fiction and essays. More details, including how to engage me, on the IWC website. irishwriterscentre.ie/one-to-one-m...

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minor literature[s] @minorliteratures.bsky.social · 31/03/2025

Monthly Dispatch #22 — ft. Jenkin Benson, Tim MacGabhann, @indigojackal.bsky.social Connor May, @ericracher.bsky.social @colmoshea.bsky.social Veronika Reichl (tr. Francesca Hyatt), Adam McPhee, Quyên Nguyễn-Hoàng & more ... — now live minorlits.substack.com/p/monthly-di...

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Monthly Dispatch #22 — March 2025

A letter from the editor[s]

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minor literature[s] @minorliteratures.bsky.social · 09/03/2025

ICYMI — last week @ minor lits ... — meditations on memory from @colmoshea.bsky.social minorliteratures.com/2025/03/04/u... — @chalicotherex.bsky.social on Munir Hachemi's LIVING THINGS minorliteratures.com/2025/03/05/i... — fiction from Tim MacGabhann minorliteratures.com/2025/03/06/g...

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Greatly Failed — Tim MacGabhann

A Calendar Sun low in southwest sinking as I turn head sinking teeth into another crabapple: pale yellow crabapple, pale yellow air, pale yellow in bottles of instant clarity after crabapples let f…

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Colm O'Shea @colmoshea.bsky.social · 04/03/2025

An extract from my book [Untitled]: A Meditation, has gone live on @minorliteratures.bsky.social ...

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Joseph Schreiber @roughghosts.bsky.social · 04/03/2025

We kiss. I can’t remember what we talk about. If I could I would remember and record and repeat what we talk about, but I can’t. It was only two months ago. Two months ago tonight. An extract from [Untitled] — a memoir by @colmoshea.bsky.social

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Colm O'Shea @colmoshea.bsky.social · 30/01/2025

Taken in my home town, though the part I grew up in was "slightly" less posh, ahem........

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Bertrom. @bertrom.bsky.social · 19/12/2024

Agnès Varda visits Dephine Seyrig and Alain Resnais, behind the scenes of Last Year at Marienbad, 1961.

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James Plunkett @jamestplunkett.bsky.social · 12/12/2024

I checked and I think you’re onto something…

A chart tracking the health of global democracy by the Economist Intelligence Unit. A label has been added at 2016 marked ‘David Bowie dies’. After this the health of democracy falls sharply.

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June Caldwell @junec.bsky.social · 08/12/2024

A thread about @colmoshea.bsky.social's new book *[Untitled], a meditation* - a compulsive read, an emotional bomb refusing to go off, an uncomfortable lens-look at an affair that's unbearably sad, ending abruptly, with little agency or power, a woman who's a muse, turned into obsession. It's also a

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Colm O'Shea @colmoshea.bsky.social · 22/11/2024

[Untitled]: A Meditation, my debut work of experimental nonfiction, is available from LJMcD Communications lachlanjmcdougall.wordpress.com/books-and-sh...

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Colm O'Shea @colmoshea.bsky.social · 21/11/2024

Yesterday, the @stingingfly.bsky.social podcast discussed my short story 'Feeling Gravity's Pull'.... stingingfly.org/podcast/mary...

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Mary O’Donoghue Reads Colm O’Shea – The Stinging Fly

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June Caldwell @junec.bsky.social · 18/11/2024

This is a startlingly sad and gorgeous book.

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Colm O'Shea @colmoshea.bsky.social · 07/11/2024

My debut book, [Untitled]: A Meditation, a work of experimental nonfiction, has been published by LJMcD Communications, and is available here: lachlanjmcdougall.wordpress.com/books-and-sh...

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Colm O'Shea @colmoshea.bsky.social · 15/09/2024

The first review of a piece of my work up here...

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Colm O'Shea @colmoshea.bsky.social · 19/04/2024

Stumbled across this, Anthony Cronin's documentary on Patrick Kavanagh, Flann O'Brien, Brendan Behan, and 'Literary Dublin'... The Literary Renaissance in Dublin youtu.be/ms9qeXB2_to?...

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Colm O'Shea @colmoshea.bsky.social · 29/12/2023

An extract from my piece IF.WHAT., published in the latest anthology by The Aleph Press, was recorded, and is included here, alongside the work of other contributors. astainonsilence.com/2023/12/29/a...

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