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June Caldwell @junec.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Save the endangered pangolin! Netflix aired a super sad documentary about one guy's life journey, defo worth a watch. And after you sign the petition below, you can read a short story of mine of the same name, published by Royal College of Art's ARC journal in 2020. arc.maxkohler.com/2020/pieces/...

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June Caldwell @junec.bsky.social · 15h

#Vegetarian version of Full Irish I posted the other day. Our #AirBnb guests are non-dairy but egg-eating! Different breakfasts every day which is a challenge, carrot bacon for vegans, etc. This is: veg sausages, spinach, chilli tomato, baked mushroom, scrambled eggs, spinach, paprika spuds, toast.

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June Caldwell @junec.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

I wrote a #ShortStory about this #shark guy, published in The Globe & Scales #anthology (Marrowbone Books) along with Dermot Bolger, Emer Martin, Louise Nealon, Alicia Byrne Keane, etc. Scientists are hunting the #LongevityGene but do humans deserve to live longer? shop.marrowbone.ie/checkouts/cn...

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June Caldwell @junec.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Grammar Fail in isle 12 #IKEA on best side forward (!) @ikeaireland.bsky.social Employ writers to tackle this kind of thing for you. [I'd work for candlesticks]

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June Caldwell @junec.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Vegans for dinner last night so made a Beef, Mushroom & Guinness Pie using soya chunks soaked in stout & stock first, then a roux of mushrooms, porcini, Marmite, puff lid on top; colcannon with cabbage & spring onions, vegan butter, almond milk; homemade pesto for leftover greens, served with stout!

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The Atlantic @theatlantic.com · 27/09/2026

Mysterious AI-generated listings are emerging under real Amazon author pages—leeching their fanbases, stealing revenue, and confusing readers, @allypengelly.bsky.social reports:

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Your Favorite Author’s New Book Might Be an AI Fake

First, AI stole their books. Now it’s stealing their readers.

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June Caldwell @junec.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Yah! Nice one...

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June Caldwell @junec.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

My story 'Púca1' is over the line for 'Ag Dul Siar', an anthology published January 2027 by Hotel Doolin and Banner Books, to mark its 20th anniversary. Includes work from writers, musicians, artists, photographers, folklorists and cultural figures, whose work speaks to the spirit of the place.

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June Caldwell @junec.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Well worth a watch on #Netflix. Great storytelling, genuinely inventive and leads into the grim retelling of the Aileen Carol Wuornos story in a smart way. #Trauma in childhood, sometimes it makes homosapiens very very mad.

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June Caldwell @junec.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

The joys of being on LinkedIn

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June Caldwell @junec.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Also do a veggie & vegan version of this AirBnb Irish breakfast: roast potato bites in paprika & garlic, roast tomatoes with chilli oil & smoked salt, bacon, sausages, sautéed spinach in white pepper, butter & nutmeg, love-heart fried egg with seaweed. They also ate four slices of toast with butter!

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June Caldwell @junec.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

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June Caldwell @junec.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Trigger Warnings and all that jazz, but this is massively vile, cruel, pointless and horrific. Watch and think about your portion of #wings with your favourite sticky sauce. And a special callout to sanctimonious gobshites who claim to love animals (and the planet/climate) but eat them for tea.

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June Caldwell @junec.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Unreal, but then, very believable.

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June Caldwell @junec.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Impromptu trip yesterday to beautiful #Howth, then back to #BullIsland bird sanctuary, amidst talk of brown bears, UFOs over Colorado, art and a host of other warped nuggets. Then gorgeous lunch at #TheGravediggers, cemetary, #Botanics; home for liqueur and early night. Pretty much, the perfect day.

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June Caldwell @junec.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Closing soon: Arts Council Writer in Residence scheme for mid-career + writers at a number of Irish universities. www.linkedin.com/safety/go/?u...

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June Caldwell @junec.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Nothing beats a bowl of homemade #guacamole for lunch. I make mine by smashing two 🥑 + juice of half a lime (stops it browning); then add good pinch of seasalt, 5 cut cherry tomatoes, 1 small chopped red onion, chilli flakes, fresh coriander & rest of lime at end. Blanco Nino blue tortilla chips. 😋

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June Caldwell @junec.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

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Oisín McGann @oisinmcgann.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

It’s hard to comprehend how vast the resources are that are being poured into genAI, and the environmental cost that comes with it. So I’ll ask (again): If genAI disappeared today, what would we lose that is worth this world-changing quantity of resources? No ‘some day’ crap, I mean right now.

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Sinéad Gleeson @sineadgleeson.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

At last night's Q&A for The Lost Children of Tuam, director Frank Berry said he wants people to see the film and "get angry". Catherine Corless' dogged pursuit of why 796 infants were dumped in a septic tank at a M&B home is rage-making. In cinemas 25/9. TRAILER: www.youtube.com/watch?v=l6A7...

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June Caldwell @junec.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

This is when we got together 9 years ago, and today we are 3 years married & thriving 🍻 Happy Culture Night!

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June Caldwell @junec.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Midweek belly warmer of Nigella-seed Red Lentil Dal, baked with the tomato vines for flavour, and served with brown rice. Ordinary, vegan, but real nice!

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June Caldwell @junec.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Today: graveyards, Pasta Puttanesca, stove fire, cottage envy, seaweed, al-fresco beers, surviving Atlantic Drive, wool scarves.

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June Caldwell @junec.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Lil has popped by to say hello.

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June Caldwell @junec.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

We now have 140 X five-star reviews for our #AirBnb room if you're ever looking to stay in Dublin. Writers get a discount! www.airbnb.ie/h/pinkhoused...

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Home in Dublin · ★5.0 · 1 bedroom · 1 bed · 1 shared bathroom

Double Room in Glasnevin; free parking/airport bus

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Raven Books @ravenbooks.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

The president of the United States is in Ireland this weekend

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Helen Grant @helengrantsays.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

If you missed the last ever issue of GHOSTS & SCHOLARS, the M.R.James magazine, you can catch my short story "Reading Matter", which appeared in it, here! Beautifully read by David Longhorn. www.youtube.com/watch?v=5K2a...

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'Reading Matter' by Helen Grant

YouTube video by David Longhorn

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Rónán Hession @ronanhession.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Some news re a second season of the Leonard and Hungry Paul TV series (I'm not involved). They did a great job on the book adaptation, so I'm curious to see how this turns out. www.iftn.ie/filmography/...

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Leonard and Hungry Paul Season 2 | The Irish Film & Television Network

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June Caldwell @junec.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

The BBC National Short Story Award (in sponsorship with the University of Cambridge) 2026 shortlist is: Two Minutes to Midnight by Laura Beatty Little Lands by Lucy Caldwell Burning Bush by Merryn Glover A Second Opinion by Caoilinn Hughes Ditto by Cherise Saywell

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June Caldwell @junec.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Two days! This cottage is the size of a caravan, but it is total heaven; facing sideways to the sea on the shore in Achill, it takes in the changing light on the mountains, you hear the sea swish in and out, birds singing, sheep braying out on the road, and our two dog friends Lil & Phoebe. LOVE IT.

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Christodoulos Makris @cmakris.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Dublin Book Festival at DCU. Thursday 5 November. Booking now. dublinbookfestival.com/event/litera...

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ClodaghO @iamagnat.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Any writer available to seize this unexpected chance to join a writers' retreat in England next week? I suspect it will be the best writing week of your life.

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June Caldwell @junec.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

The weather for Mushroom Risotto!

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Winter Papers @winterpapers.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

We're really pleased to be sponsoring an artist residency at Drumnadubber Studios in Co Leitrim. It's an admin-light application process - closing date 30 Sept 26, do encourage interested artists to apply. Details on applications here: winterpapers.com/submissions

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Winter Papers Submissions

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Nessa O’Mahony @nessao.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

I’m far more used to posing the questions than answering them but Sue Leonard made it seem like fun

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London Review of Books @lrb.co.uk · 09/09/2026

‘On our final evening, I was sitting in a swing chair overlooking the view when my son called for me. When I asked why, he said: “Because there’s smoke coming over the hill.”’ Anne Enright on wildfires. www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

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Anne Enright · Diary: Fire on the Mountain

It was seven o’clock, still light. I took a photograph, zoomed the screen. On the phone the smoke looked dirtier and...

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Jack Fennell @jfennellauthor.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

I'm thrilled to share this, the first of three stories collected in "A Brilliant Void" to be dramatised by the Skerries Theatre Group! "The Diamond Lens" by Fitz-James O'Brien tells of a mad microscopist who's prepared to kill in his pursuit of knowledge, but ends up paying a surreal personal cost:

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The Diamond Lens

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June Caldwell @junec.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

We now have 140 X five-star reviews for our #AirBnb room if you're ever looking to stay in Dublin. Writers get a discount! www.airbnb.ie/h/pinkhoused...

airbnb.ie

Home in Dublin · ★5.0 · 1 bedroom · 1 bed · 1 shared bathroom

Double Room in Glasnevin; free parking/airport bus

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