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Meghan Flaherty

@msmeghanbean.bsky.social
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TANGO LESSONS (Mariner) I write prose. I like sheep. I’m much better on instagram. Lecturer in Creative Writing University of Glasgow mbflaherty.com msmeghanbean.substack.com she/her

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Jaime Green @jaimealyse.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Obsessed with this essay by @msmeghanbean.bsky.social about finding your stride in parenting raising feral D&D boys www.vqronline.org/spring-2026/...
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Little Monsters
The world is on fire. Across the seven continents of Htrae, an evil cadre of twisted nobles and their cultish followers, in their greed and their corruption, have begun to break down the best systems ...
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Meghan Flaherty @msmeghanbean.bsky.social · 20/06/2026
on teachers and learning and grief as regular as tides.
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where no birds sang
For N.
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Meghan Flaherty @msmeghanbean.bsky.social · 27/01/2026
I wrote a thing about grief and failing to resuscitate my sourdough.
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on the attempt
in the geometry / of knowing / we have no new thing / to tell
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Meghan Flaherty @msmeghanbean.bsky.social · 30/04/2025
Come through!
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Meghan Flaherty @msmeghanbean.bsky.social · 28/04/2025
"I wonder if there might not be another idea of human order than repression, another notion of human virtue than self-control, another kind of human self than one based on dissociation of inside and outside. Or indeed, another human essence than self." Anne Carson, "The Gender of Sound"
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Meghan Flaherty @msmeghanbean.bsky.social · 07/04/2025
Had the enormous honour of being a part of this series, in some incredible company.
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RSPB @rspb.bsky.social · 01/04/2025
WORLD-FIRST: Ground-breaking research published today in the Ornithologist Journal has, for the first time, translated common UK bird vocalisations into equivalent phrases in the human language. The results tell us a lot! Extracts below... 🧵
The front cover of a scientific journal titled Ornithologist, dated 1 April 2025. The main headline reads: “BIRDS: DECODED - Groundbreaking New Science.” Below that, a subheading says: “What are the UK’s birds really saying? Pioneering new research provides the answers.”
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Meghan Flaherty @msmeghanbean.bsky.social · 18/03/2025
Ten degrees in Glasgow and the kids are *sunbathing*
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Meghan Flaherty @msmeghanbean.bsky.social · 25/02/2025
I’ve lived several lifetimes this week and it’s only Tuesday.
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Meghan Flaherty @msmeghanbean.bsky.social · 18/02/2025
Pisces season, dreams: teeth popping out, anthropomorphic holly branches, waters breaking, and, in a meta twist, not being able to sleep.
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Guy Shrubsole @guyshrubsole.bsky.social · 29/01/2025
A "potential" 0.43% increase in GDP *by 2050* - in return for torching the UK's climate leadership and adding vast amounts of carbon to the atmosphere - is simply not worth it. No third runway. Grow the green economy, not airports. www.theguardian.com/politics/liv...
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Rachel Reeves confirms backing for third runway at Heathrow – UK politics live
The chancellor says she wants plan for runway brought forward by summer and criticises Conservatives for not acting to build runway
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Meghan Flaherty @msmeghanbean.bsky.social · 29/01/2025
Today I returned my children's woefully overdue library books. Naturally, I thought of Grace Paley and @rodgeglass.bsky.social. (hashtag: sycamores)
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Meghan Flaherty @msmeghanbean.bsky.social · 21/01/2025
This is such an important point. “It might be true that all human cultures tell inventive stories, but that isn’t enough to claim that there is a single definition of ‘fiction’ that can be applied transculturally.”
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Meghan Flaherty @msmeghanbean.bsky.social · 08/01/2025
Meanwhile, this weird miracle of winter light.
photo of a grey windowshade backlit by sunlight to make a moon shape, with the shadow of a vine across.
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Meghan Flaherty @msmeghanbean.bsky.social · 31/12/2024
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Meghan Flaherty @msmeghanbean.bsky.social · 28/12/2024
For me, it was the drum corps guy (choir director’s son) and the “knee pit erogenous zone.”
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Meghan Flaherty @msmeghanbean.bsky.social · 23/12/2024
Turns out, my kids think the words are “tender and wild” and that just about tracks.
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Meghan Flaherty @msmeghanbean.bsky.social · 21/12/2024
Back on my bullshit, in the bleak midwinter. Merry happy all the things, my dears. open.substack.com/pub/msmeghan...
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a certain Slant of light
"Heavenly Hurt, it gives us – / We can find no scar, / But internal difference – / Where the Meanings, are – "
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Meghan Flaherty @msmeghanbean.bsky.social · 20/12/2024
Do we think Santa can do book deals for Christmas?
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Meghan Flaherty @msmeghanbean.bsky.social · 17/12/2024
Theatre baby, on the roof: Smith College, Albright House. Loved a carabiner back then.
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Meghan Flaherty @msmeghanbean.bsky.social · 12/12/2024
My kid took it upon himself to decorate this tree. Yes, that is a garden glove (found on the pavement somewhere), and all his lil magpie treasures.
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Alexander Chee @alexanderchee.bsky.social · 09/12/2024
“Young person worry: what if nothing I do matters? Old person worry: what if everything I do does?” —Weather, by Jenny Offill
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Maris Kreizman @maris.bsky.social · 09/12/2024
“No, you do not understand,” Andrea said to me last month, describing her response. “This is intimately linked to the work my mother does.” www.nytimes.com/2024/12/08/m...
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What Alice Munro Knew
The Nobel-winning author’s husband was a pedophile who targeted her daughter and other children. Why did she stay silent?
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Meghan Flaherty @msmeghanbean.bsky.social · 08/12/2024
The helpful husband has hidden his own stocking stuffers in my closet.
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Meghan Flaherty @msmeghanbean.bsky.social · 06/12/2024
My mother used to call me her 'plain brown wren' (which... see my unpublished works), but I like to think she saw me as a lil walnut, or a Druid bird.
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Simon Kővesi @kovesi.bsky.social · 05/12/2024
New academic job: come join us in the School of Critical Studies @uofglasgow.bsky.social as Senior Lecturer in Communications, a new, exciting subject area for us. www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DKY766/s...
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Senior Lecturer in Communications at University of Glasgow
Recruiting now: Senior Lecturer in Communications on jobs.ac.uk. Click for details and explore more academic job opportunities on the top job board
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Meghan Flaherty @msmeghanbean.bsky.social · 01/12/2024
Mon, the wild oat wresters! lithub.com/rebecca-soln... @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social
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Rebecca Solnit: When the Hero is the Problem
For an embodiment of the word singlehanded you might turn to the heroine of the recent movie Woman at War. It’s about an Icelandic eco-saboteur who blows up rural power lines and hides in scenic sp…
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Kit de Waal @kitdewaal.com · 23/11/2024
The Discoveries writing development programme and prize for unpublished women writers in the UK accepts novels in any genre of adult fiction, with entrants invited to submit the first 10,000 words of their novel and a synopsis
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Discoveries 2025
Calling all unpublished women writers! The Women’s Prize Trust, Audible, the Curtis Brown literary agency and Curtis Brown Creative have partnered to run the Discoveries novel-writing development prog...
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Meghan Flaherty @msmeghanbean.bsky.social · 27/11/2024
Why do they make the Bake-off bakers wear the same clothes on consecutive days?
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Meghan Flaherty @msmeghanbean.bsky.social · 26/11/2024
I’m 41 years old today and finally remembered not to shampoo my hair the morning of a haircut.
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Meghan Flaherty @msmeghanbean.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
Hi, I'm Meg; I need to learn to not suffer so under the pangs of uncertainty.
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Meghan Flaherty @msmeghanbean.bsky.social · 18/11/2024
Rereading Margo Jefferson never doesn't blow my head off.
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Abir Mukherjee @radiomukhers.bsky.social · 21/09/2023
Coming soon! Preorder your copy here: www.penguin.co.uk/books/442833...
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