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Amanda Hill @roguepi.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Today I am timing and practising my reading for the Cork International Short Story Festival. Making yourself cry with your own writing is fine fine fine ... until you need to be able to read it out loud... @howlwriting.bsky.social @munsterlitcentre.bsky.social www.corkshortstory.net/friday.html

corkshortstory.net

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The Cork International Short Story Festival, produced by the Munster Literature Centre

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Amanda Hill @roguepi.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Delighted to be participating in the Cork Short Story Festival this year as part of the HOWL showcase! @howlwriting.bsky.social @munsterlitcentre.bsky.social www.corkshortstory.net/friday.html

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Amanda Hill @roguepi.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

Taking a wee break from writing post dissertation and doing other fun things :)

Lego E.T. with flower pot and lit heart :)

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Amanda Hill @roguepi.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

And it's done. Dissertation submitted. One month off before returning to salaried drudgery. Week in Edinburgh upcoming :)

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Amanda Hill @roguepi.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

For the last round of edits on my creative writing dissertation, I am recording myself reading the stories. Fine. I like reading out loud. Then I'm listening to it. Aaarrgh! The horror! (It's really helpful though)

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Amanda Hill @roguepi.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

Today I went to pay my respects to Glen Hansard. The queue was deservedly long but well managed and fast moving. Afterwards I explored the Formal Gardens and approached this statue as Her Mercy from Glen's last album was playing. It just worked.

Statue of a woman at end of path in hedged garden

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Amanda Hill @roguepi.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

This gift will last forever. Thank you, Glen Hansard. Rest well.

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Amanda Hill @roguepi.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

Luckily, you have the perfect cure on hand. Pick up your daughter and see what she sees.

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Amanda Hill @roguepi.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

I was lucky enough to attend the Summer School for the fiction workshop led by Cathy Sweeney. An amazing and exhausting week. Fantastic workshops and afternoon talks. The back of my head features below :)

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Amanda Hill @roguepi.bsky.social · 29/06/2026

As she should! And it's the greatest gift you can give her - to be able to take you for granted.

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Amanda Hill @roguepi.bsky.social · 13/06/2026

Love that collection! Especially "Love" as inspired by NHS infosheet on pneumonia

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Amanda Hill @roguepi.bsky.social · 07/06/2026

And that's the third of three colliding writing deadlines out the door! Phew! Very much looking forward to attending The Stinging Fly Summer School and workshopping the heftiest of them :) But for right now, I feel some classy cinema is required. He-man, anyone? @stingingfly.bsky.social

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Amanda Hill @roguepi.bsky.social · 25/05/2026

Had a grand time volunteering at International Literature Festival Dublin. Got to work and attend some great events. Grateful for the nice weather on the last day so I could wear my Skulduggery Pleasant dress to coordinate with Derek's awesome shirt :) @ilfdublin.bsky.social @dereklandy.bsky.social

Derek Landy and I at festival book signing. Derek has a cool skeleton head shirt, and I, my favourite skeletons and flowers dress.

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Amanda Hill @roguepi.bsky.social · 25/05/2026

Very excited to be included in the next issue of Howl! @howlwriting.bsky.social

Text reads:Howl I'm a selected contributor

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Amanda Hill @roguepi.bsky.social · 03/05/2026

Congratulations to the three of you! And indeed your whole newly expanded family :)

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Amanda Hill @roguepi.bsky.social · 23/04/2026

Yesterday saw our last day of classes on the MA. Some pesky portfolios to submit and then it's a summer of climate fiction dissertation! We celebrated last night with a class reading in @booksupstairs.bsky.social to launch our gorgeous zine.

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Amanda Hill @roguepi.bsky.social · 08/02/2026

Achieved shodan today in ZNKR iaido :)

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Amanda Hill @roguepi.bsky.social · 06/02/2026

I seem to remember enjoying the maritime museum in Talinn - but it was a long time ago!

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Amanda Hill @roguepi.bsky.social · 30/01/2026

What better way to celebrate trimester 1 results day than to take on another class to audit? Quick wander around a wind swept St Anne's Park before meeting up with class. Out to Bull Island for a talk about its history and future and to get some environmental writing ideas.

Path through woodland with sunlight coming through trees

Beach with stormy skies, rough waves, and lots of sand

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Amanda Hill @roguepi.bsky.social · 29/01/2026

Yes! Totally here for more Jessica Jones!

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Amanda Hill @roguepi.bsky.social · 07/12/2025

Yay! All my term 1 portfolios have just been submitted! And I got to read a short snippet from my poetry portfolio at the Irish Writers Centre Christmas party yesterday :) Now back to the Bones binge...

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Amanda Hill @roguepi.bsky.social · 08/11/2025

I'm in this so everyone should buy it! :)

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Amanda Hill @roguepi.bsky.social · 06/11/2025

I should probably practice or something... (but excited!)

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Amanda Hill @roguepi.bsky.social · 05/11/2025

No, *you've* already got too many books still to read and shouldn't be buying anymore! Mine are dissertation research. Totally legit.

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Amanda Hill @roguepi.bsky.social · 28/10/2025

Looking forward to reading from my work at this event!

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Amanda Hill @roguepi.bsky.social · 16/10/2025

Reading week ambitions. Might even be achievable... if not for the pesky writing ambitions alongside!

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Amanda Hill @roguepi.bsky.social · 16/10/2025

Very excited and grateful to be a contributor to this issue!

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Amanda Hill @roguepi.bsky.social · 16/09/2025

I like to imagine that somewhere out there something wonderful happened because what caused my bad travel day made the stars align to put someone else in place at just the right time. May your tomorrow be brighter!

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Amanda Hill @roguepi.bsky.social · 03/09/2025

I'm baa-ack! And torn between "And so it begins" and "This is where the fun begins".

Photo of square inside UCD Arts block (sorry, Newman Building) with UCD craft frosted on patio doors

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Amanda Hill @roguepi.bsky.social · 30/08/2025

All the things I'm trying to get read and returned to the library before the Masters takes over my life...

Photo of 3 library books: "Winter's Gifts" and "The Masquerades of Spring# by Ben Aaronovitch and "Vianne" by Joanne Harris.

Photo of 3 library books: "Just an Ordinary Day" by Shirley Jackson, "The Haunted Wood" by Sam Leith, and "What Abigail Did That Summer" by Ben Aaronovitch.

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Amanda Hill @roguepi.bsky.social · 30/08/2025

Excellent couple of sessions at IWC open day today. Always encouraging to hear successful writers talk about how they started. And a great "Top 10 tips" for polishing that novel. @irishwriterscentre.bsky.social

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Amanda Hill @roguepi.bsky.social · 26/08/2025

Recent new arrivals! I stumbled upon the Irish Kidlit for Palestine appeal a couple weeks ago and somehow ended up with these arriving in the post :) Both beautifully personalised with notes and art and i can't wait to dig in! @kelmenton.bsky.social @susancahill.bsky.social @rurooie.bsky.social

Image of "The World Between The Rain" by Susan Cahill and "A Fix Of Light" by Kel Menton

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Amanda Hill @roguepi.bsky.social · 26/08/2025

Finished reading this over the weekend. I bought it for a friend due to a staff picks note on the bookshelf. Was totally enthused at when I went to pay... so picked up a library copy :) Worth the enthusiasm and first book in a while I've voraciously "consumed". @emiliahart.bsky.social

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Amanda Hill @roguepi.bsky.social · 24/08/2025

I'd say Gen X. We're using it with our cohort - and inflicting its use on our kids who are only using it for family groups and such.

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Patrick Ness @patricknessbooks.bsky.social · 13/08/2025

A reminder of John Boyne’s own words and why decent-minded people might not wish to be on a prize list with him. He thinks women who support trans rights are “ready to pin a handmaiden down while her husband rapes her.” No one’s “cancelling” him; we just don’t want to be associated with him.

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Amanda Hill @roguepi.bsky.social · 12/08/2025

Where are the indie kids when we need them?

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Alt CDC (they/them) @altcdc.altgov.info · 11/08/2025

Thanks to RFKJ’s rhetoric, CDC staff got our “shots” early this year. Dark humor aside, live posting our way through this domestic terrorism event at a Federal agency was scary. 180 bullets, an officer lost his life, and workers are traumatized. Why the fu** isn’t this getting more attention?

CDC building with red circles marking many bullet holes in the glass office windows

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Amanda Hill @roguepi.bsky.social · 11/08/2025

Every right to be proud of this! Hopefully they'll fall down the rabbit hole of all the neighbouring books on the shelf once they do finish it :)

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Amanda Hill @roguepi.bsky.social · 10/08/2025

As an aspiring writer, I can only imagine how heart breaking this must be for the authors (especially the first timers) to have the incredible achievement of being longlisted, only to be faced with this tough decision. Regardless of whether they stay or withdraw.

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Amanda Hill @roguepi.bsky.social · 10/08/2025

My growing list of books to buy...

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Ruth Ennis @rurooie.bsky.social · 05/08/2025

There are still SO many bookish goodies you can get on the website. Keep sharing, keep talking about Palestine 🇵🇸 @sineadohart.bsky.social www.ruthennis.com/irish-kidlit...

ruthennis.com

Irish KidLit for Palestine — Ruth Ennis

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