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Cristín Leach @cristinleach.bsky.social · 28/03/2026

John, movie reviewer extraordinaire from Arena last night, is here ⬇️⬇️

Cristín Leach @cristinleach.bsky.social · 28/03/2026

This was fun! Thank you fantastic contributors John Maguire, Sarina Bellissimo, Louise Bruton, Cian Sullivan and RTÉ Arena team for my first outing in the hot seat 🔥🎙️ and to @bibliocook.bsky.social my original arts show presenting buddy who I met in a student radio station @ucc.ie 30 years ago 🫶 📻

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Jonathan Gibbs @jonathangibbs.bsky.social · 31/01/2026

An interesting coincidence. This morning I took down from a shelf a book that's been there for a few years: Stories from the New Yorker 1950-1960. I'd decided to do something I'd intended for a while: read it cover to cover, with perhaps a reading thread to accompany it.

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Cristín Leach @cristinleach.bsky.social · 03/03/2026

Cork City was beautiful as I was on my way to do the post-screening Q&A with French film director Régis Wargnier after La Réparation at Cork French Film Festival. Someone brought him an (Oscar winning) Indochine movie poster to sign. He had stories to tell and the audience questions were superb. 🎥

Cork city with the river Lee reflections beautiful under a peachy sunset sky

Film director Régis Wargnier in a jaunty scarf signing a very big Indochine poster surrounded by onlookers close to the cinema screen in the Arc Cinema in Cork City, Ireland

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Niamh NicGhabhann Coleman @niamhroisin.bsky.social · 03/03/2026

I’ve been noticing hands in paintings and sculptures, and how different individuals are connected to each other, and in particular how they support each other - so I’m going to try a thread/ visual essay here as a way to keep track of them…

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Cristín Leach @cristinleach.bsky.social · 03/03/2026

I've been thinking again lately about the visibility and invisibility of Irish art and Irish visual artists abroad – that is outside Ireland, or thar lear as the lexicon in my mind prefers to consider it… First in a new series of occasional Art Thoughts for @rte.ie www.rte.ie/culture/2026...

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Art Thoughts: Is Irish visual art still overlooked overseas?

Thar lear is a phrase in Irish/as gaeilge that acknowledges in a vague yet specific way the island nature of this place: that anywhere not here is over there, somewhere across the water, past our shor...

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Art Thoughts: Is Irish visual art still overlooked overseas?

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Vicky Cosstick @cosstickv.bsky.social · 23/02/2026

Must read ....

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The Four Faced Liar @the4facedliar.bsky.social · 02/02/2026

We delighted to share the Issue 4 has arrived! Available from our shop www.the4facedliar.com/product-page...

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The Four Faced Liar @the4facedliar.bsky.social · 10/02/2026

Only one more week to go! We're very excited for our contributors to present their work at the launch of our competition issue, and we hope you are too. All are welcome to the official launch at Waterstones in Cork City on 17th February at 6:30pm

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Cristín Leach @cristinleach.bsky.social · 22/01/2026

I loved being a collaborator on this book. Ebook fans, look at this bargain!

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Cristín Leach @cristinleach.bsky.social · 22/01/2026

Launching in February. Can’t wait to see This Time Baby in print.

Photo of judge Róisín O’Donnell who has long red hair and a long red coat and some words congratulating the comp winners and saying RESULTS in red

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Cristín Leach @cristinleach.bsky.social · 22/01/2026

Collaboration baby!! So excited to see where this brilliant anthology I’m very lucky to be part of is going next 👏👏 Huge congrats to @lindzmcleod.bsky.social and the rest of the collaboration gang. #shortstory #craft #collaborativewriting

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Lindz McLeod - THE MISEDUCATION OF CAROLINE BINGLEY is out now! @lindzmcleod.bsky.social · 22/01/2026

I'm on the longlist for the British Science Fiction Association Awards TWICE this year! As editor of craft anthology An Honour and a Privilege from @stanchion.bsky.social, and also for my @apexmag.bsky.social short story, 'One by One'! This is AWESOME 🥳 please consider voting for me!

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Melissa Ren @melisfluous.bsky.social · 22/01/2026

This is absolutely incredible! The antho AN HONOUR AND A PRIVILEGE is longlisted for the BSFA awards! What an amazing project, and I'm thrilled to be a part of it. www.stanchionzine.com/product-page...

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An Honour & A Privilege | Stanchion

In collaboration with eleven writers, including The Handmaid's Tale screenwriter Lynn Renee Maxcy, Sunday Times bestseller Thomas D. Lee, and Nebula/WFA finalist Eugenia Triantafyllou, award-winning a...

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Cristín Leach @cristinleach.bsky.social · 22/01/2026

I loved being a collaborator on this book. Ebook fans, look at this bargain!

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Dr. Thomas D. Lee @thomasdlee.bsky.social · 22/01/2026

A ray of sunshine amongst all the doom and gloom. @lindzmcleod.bsky.social has informed me that her collaborative masterpiece An Honour & A Privilege has been longlisted for the British Science Fiction awards! A huge achievement for all of the authors involved. www.stanchionzine.com/product-page...

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Cristín Leach @cristinleach.bsky.social · 05/01/2026

For anyone interested in short story writing, collaborative short story writing, or collaborative writing - a craft book unlike any other ✅ www.stanchionzine.com/product-page...

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An Honour & A Privilege | Stanchion

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The Four Faced Liar @the4facedliar.bsky.social · 10/12/2025

We're excited to announce the cover for Issue 4 of The Four Faced Liar, our competition issue, with artwork by the wonderful Jenny Lawlor! @irishpen.bsky.social @irishwriterscentre.bsky.social @writing.ie

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The Four Faced Liar @the4facedliar.bsky.social · 05/01/2026

Cristín Leach's "This Time Baby" was selected by judge Roisín O'Donnell as the Runner Up in the short story category. Read more below about Cristín, and check out @cristinleach on Instagram and @cristinleach.bsky.social for more of her work

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Cristín Leach @cristinleach.bsky.social · 21/12/2025

One of my favourite things that happened this year is that my ‘Forest Memories’ from 2021 got a new outing among the trees in Peru 😮 🍃 🔊

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Cristín Leach @cristinleach.bsky.social · 21/12/2025

I love that this book is still finding readers. It declares its unorthodox, experimental intentions from the start and it’s really not what you think it might be. @rha-arts.bsky.social #FromTenTillDusk

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Cristín Leach @cristinleach.bsky.social · 21/12/2025

With an introduction by Dr Graham Robert Scott. And I’ve just re-located @jduckwriter.bsky.social and @melisfluous.bsky.social here 👏 Available from publishers @stanchion.bsky.social #AHAAP @lindzmcleod.bsky.social

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Niamh NicGhabhann Coleman @niamhroisin.bsky.social · 20/12/2025

Finally read ‘From Ten Till Dusk’ by @cristinleach.bsky.social - a most interesting perspective on Irish art, art writing, & art institutions in Ireland - beautifully designed by Oonagh Young.

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Cristín Leach @cristinleach.bsky.social · 11/12/2025

Whoop! Can’t wait to see my short story This Time Baby in print in the Winter ‘25 competition issue of @the4facedliar.bsky.social 💜

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Cristín Leach @cristinleach.bsky.social · 02/12/2025

It’s been very cool to be one of the collaborators on this short-story and craft of short fiction book with @lindzmcleod.bsky.social and gang. Can’t wait to get my hands on a physical copy. Available to order now 🎁

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Clare Archibald @archieislander.bsky.social · 26/11/2025

I went to the Jardín Botánico in Trujillo yesterday to choose the trees and test the volume and range etc using audio from 2021 contributors. The Peruvian iteration of 'if trees were lone women what would they sound like' is happening this Sunday as part of the Munanqui Festival de Mujeres Artistas

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Cristín Leach @cristinleach.bsky.social · 26/11/2025

A snippet of my Forest Memories, “I am walking on moss…” here at the start.

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Juliet E McKenna @julietemckenna.bsky.social · 27/11/2025

Excellent, honest thread on the reality of being a writer today.

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Cristín Leach @cristinleach.bsky.social · 26/11/2025

A snippet of my Forest Memories, “I am walking on moss…” here at the start.

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Cristín Leach @cristinleach.bsky.social · 26/11/2025

If you are in Trujillo, Peru, please go and listen! 🔊 How wonderful to hear my voice with others among the leaves 6,000 miles from home 💚

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Clare Archibald @archieislander.bsky.social · 26/11/2025

I've had some great contributions from Perú and think it's all going to sound so good together. One of the things I especially love is the pieces interacting with each other, as here with @cristinleach.bsky.social and unidentified others from 2021 (there are too many for me to remember at random)

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Stanchion @stanchion.bsky.social · 25/11/2025

You'll read marvelous stories, then conversations between @lindzmcleod.bsky.social & her co-authors discussing how they collaborated to create something from whole cloth. There's never been a craft writing book like this! STILL ON PRE-ORDER SALE! NOW SHIPPING! www.stanchionzine.com/product-page...

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Cristín Leach @cristinleach.bsky.social · 25/11/2025

Help 🙏 I’m moving into Ch2 of my PhD by PP, which focuses on the shift in practice embodied by my memoir Negative Space. If you know of any academic writing which references my work, I’d be very grateful to be pointed in its direction. @lilydunn.bsky.social @minxmarple.bsky.social please share? #phd

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Sage Tyrtle 🇨🇦 @sagetyrtle.bsky.social · 24/11/2025

Eeee! I'm in this #Writing craft book along with AMAZING authors like The Handmaid's Tale screenwriter Lynn Renee Maxcy, Sunday Times bestseller Thomas D. Lee, and Nebula/WFA finalist Eugenia Triantafyllou, order here!

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Lindz McLeod - THE MISEDUCATION OF CAROLINE BINGLEY is out now! @lindzmcleod.bsky.social · 21/11/2025

If you're a writer, I'd go so far as to say it's essential reading to develop your craft, to dig deep into your characters and their emotions (as well as your own), and to go eyeball-close with your line edits!

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Cristín Leach @cristinleach.bsky.social · 21/11/2025

One of the best collaboration projects I’ve been involved in is now a BRILLIANT BOOK. For anyone interested in the craft of #writing, what we learn from #collaboration, or who just wants to read some damn good #shortstories! I’m 1 of 11 writers. Order now for 🎄 www.stanchionzine.com/product-page...

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Cristín Leach @cristinleach.bsky.social · 16/11/2025

This is out on 2 December. Pre-orders are open now @stanchion.bsky.social

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Cristín Leach @cristinleach.bsky.social · 16/11/2025

This is out on 2 December. Pre-orders are open now @stanchion.bsky.social

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Cristín Leach @cristinleach.bsky.social · 06/11/2025

🙋‍♀️ I’m one of the eleven other (fantastic! talented! good-looking!) writers 😆😄 pre-orders open now 👏 @lindzmcleod.bsky.social

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Lindz McLeod - THE MISEDUCATION OF CAROLINE BINGLEY is out now! @lindzmcleod.bsky.social · 05/11/2025

With a little twist! Each of the eleven stories were collaboratively written by myself and one other writer, and then we wrote a non-fiction accompany piece to explain how/why we used the techniques we did, and how many drafts we did, and what worked (and what got cut, and why)

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