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colm-keegan.bsky.social @colm-keegan.bsky.social · 01/12/2025

Howya - just figured out how to really switch from X/Twitter and I'm properly here now! (I think) If we've never met WHAT IS THE CRAIC! This is my website colmkeeganpoetry.com And here's an example of the type of poems I write Nice to meet you 👋

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Simon Pegg @simonpegg.bsky.social · 19/10/2025

"Parking is such sweet sorrow"

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Paul Connolly @thepaulconnolly.bsky.social · 07/10/2025

My signed copy of New Famous Phrases by Daniel Hinds (Broken Sleep Books) has arrived. I’ve heard Daniel read his poems twice now & relished their vitality, original phrasing & imagery, & erudition. Looking forward to exploring them further @danielghinds.bsky.social @brokensleepbooks.bsky.social

The front cover of New Famous Phrases by Daniel Hinds published by Broken Sleep Books. An array of brown shades in slanting lines and oval shapes, suggestions of De Stijl, neoplasticism, but not so regimented, softened with a more mysterious vanishing point, a touch of Kandinsky

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Daniel Hinds @danielghinds.bsky.social · 31/03/2025

It is publication day for my debut poetry collection New Famous Phrases! I've been able to say I'm a poet for a few years now, but today is the 1st day I feel like An Author. Thanks to my publisher @brokensleepbooks.bsky.social & editor @godzillakent.bsky.social for making this dream a reality.

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Shell @thesparklyshell.bsky.social · 21/08/2025

Orpea, kicked out of France, rebranded as Emeis, (rhymes with fleece, as in the verb To Fleece), landed in Ireland, leading to the shocking nursing home scenes televised on RTE. @carechampions.bsky.social @mothnews.bsky.social @rte.ie

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MOTH News @mothnews.bsky.social · 19/08/2025

Capitalism has come for our care industry, and it's only shareholders who benefit. #carehomes #ireland #irish #news #caresector @thesparklyshell.bsky.social @keefow.bsky.social @carechampions.bsky.social

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Kit de Waal @kitdewaal.com · 17/08/2025

There's a new imprint in town, Walela Books for genre fiction that pushes creative boundaries, create bold and original stories. Quirky, absurd narratives with twists and turns and novels that make you pause with wonder and glee. Details in link. Please share :)

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Walela Books Submission Manager

Submit to Walela Books (a project of CafeLit). Powered by Duosuma: Duotrope's Submission Manager.

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Matt Kendrick @mattkendrick.bsky.social · 17/08/2025

If you are wanting to take part in this course, I'm proably only going to run it once more before taking a hiatus from my courses, so January might be your last chance: www.mattkendrick.co.uk/wbtl-colourf... PS - same for all my other courses, so if you're interested, get in touch

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Colourful Characters | MattKendrick.co.uk

How do we bring our characters to life? How do we get them to interact in their own unique fashion with the world around them? This flash fiction course explores body language, senses, dialogue, inter...

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The Welkin Press @welkinpress.bsky.social · 08/08/2025

Want some nice news for a Friday? This is your early warning that the Welkin Writing Prize WILL BE BACK! A long way to go until entries open in December, but I'm committing now so there's no backing out later in the year 😀 Bigger prize fund too!! 🥳 www.mattkendrick.co.uk/welkin-prize...

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Welkin Enter

An annual competition for microfiction up to 100 words. It is free to enter and aims to be a welcoming space for all writers. The competition is open to all forms of narrative prose. There is a whole ...

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Shell @thesparklyshell.bsky.social · 08/08/2025

The national scandal that just keeps running www.youtube.com/watch?v=EZ0U... I’m on 42 minutes in.

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Conor Kelly People Before Profit @conorkellypbp.bsky.social · 06/06/2025

The abuse in Emeis homes shows the cruelty of profit-driven care. Older people treated like commodities while standards collapse. We need a public, dignified, community-led care system, free from greed of for profit private companies. www.irishtimes.com/ireland/soci...

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EPSU @epsu.bsky.social · 04/06/2025

🧵 The RTÉ Investigates (@news.rte.ie) doc airing tonight will expose shocking conditions in Emeis-run nursing homes in Ireland. #Emeis will say it’s not the norm. We know it is. EPSU has seen the same pattern across Europe for years. We’re horrified, but not surprised. www.rte.ie/news/investi...

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Serious care concerns found at leading private nursing home group

Staff shortages, unsafe care and undignified treatment has been uncovered in homes run by State's leading private care provider Emeis Ireland

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RTÉ News @news.rte.ie · 05/06/2025

HIQA has confirmed that it is carrying out a review of all nursing homes operated by the Emeis Ireland group, after multiple care failings and neglect of vulnerable older residents at two of its nursing homes were documented by RTÉ Investigates.

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HIQA to carry out review into Emeis Ireland nursing homes

HIQA has confirmed it is carrying out a review of all nursing homes operated by the Emeis Ireland group, after multiple care failings and neglect of vulnerable older residents at two of its nursing ho...

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Shell @thesparklyshell.bsky.social · 18/06/2025

Wanted to speak out after the RTE INVESTIGATES programme. Have been trying to get my voice heard since last December.

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The Welkin Press @welkinpress.bsky.social · 21/12/2024

Just 12 days, 5 hours and 31 minutes (or in Welkin time: 12 brontosauruses, 5 velociraptors and 31 chickens) until the deadline for the Welkin Mini. Not long now (but also plenty of time to write 100 words): www.mattkendrick.co.uk/welkin-prize...

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Welkin Mini

The Welkin Mini is a biennial competition to celebrate micro fiction and creative non-fiction up to 100 words. Like the main Welkin Prize, it is free to enter and aims to be a welcoming space for all ...

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Rick O'Shea @rickoshea.bsky.social · 16/12/2024

Morning all. Sorry, I promise I'll stop hacking on about this soon, but it is for two genuinely great charities. We're at €18,854 aiming for €20,000. Almost there... Your 20 quid can make me shut up 😁 www.gofundme.com/f/therickosh...

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Donate to The Rick O'Shea Book Club Xmas Appeal 2024, organized by Rick O'Shea

The Rick O'Shea Book Club is Ireland's largest book club with over 40,000 membe… Rick O'Shea needs your support for The Rick O'Shea Book Club Xmas Appeal 2024

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Rick O'Shea @rickoshea.bsky.social · 15/12/2024

Hi, hi. We are at 555 donations this year so far. I love round numbers, don't you? 600 donations would be amazing.... All goes to the UNICEF Ireland Gaza and Lebanon appeal and the DSPCA. www.gofundme.com/f/therickosh...

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Donate to The Rick O'Shea Book Club Xmas Appeal 2024, organized by Rick O'Shea

The Rick O'Shea Book Club is Ireland's largest book club with over 40,000 membe… Rick O'Shea needs your support for The Rick O'Shea Book Club Xmas Appeal 2024

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Rick O'Shea @rickoshea.bsky.social · 02/12/2024

€11,136 and rising. 9 grand more and I will have raised a quarter of a million euro in the last few years...

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Rick O'Shea @rickoshea.bsky.social · 28/11/2024

And we made €1,000 today. 50 quid more and we hit €10,000. www.gofundme.com/f/therickosh...

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Rick O'Shea @rickoshea.bsky.social · 27/11/2024

€8,851 today... We might make it :-) www.gofundme.com/f/therickosh...

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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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Irish Writers Centre @irishwriterscentre.bsky.social · 22/11/2024

❄️Winter Course Programme❄️ Browse our first batch of winter courses! Starting as early as Jan 7th, we have a range of in-person and online courses including novel writing, short story writing, poetry and creative non-fiction✒️ Browse courses⬇️ irishwriterscentre.ie/courses/

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Shell @thesparklyshell.bsky.social · 26/01/2024

Thank you @welkinprize.bsky.social it’s been wonderful to be a part of this competition. 🌟⭐️✨

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Shell @thesparklyshell.bsky.social · 01/11/2023

Beautiful feature on C4 now about ‘What you need to be warm’ @neilhimself.neilgaiman.com

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Nuala O'Connor @nualaoconnor.bsky.social · 25/10/2023

New novel on the way, April 24. Seaborne, about Irish pirate Anne Bonny 💙 www.newisland.ie/blog/2023/10...

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Lucy Caldwell @lucycaldwell.bsky.social · 26/10/2023

The stories so far… I am so thrilled to be able to tell you that Faber will be publishing my third collection of stories, Openings, in May 2024 ✨

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Shell @thesparklyshell.bsky.social · 22/10/2023

Launch of The Storms journal at St Audoen’s Church.

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June O’Sullivan @sullyj.bsky.social · 16/10/2023

Love this cover. And delighted to have a story here.

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Shell @thesparklyshell.bsky.social · 15/10/2023

www.facebook.com/watch?v=9653... The amazing, astonishing, awesome Iceland Writers Retreat offers scholarships. The application portal is open until October 31st. For more info, have a listen!

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1.mp4 | The Iceland Writers Retreat Alumni Award offers talented...

The Iceland Writers Retreat Alumni Award offers talented writers in need of financial support an opportunity to attend the Iceland Writers Retreat in...

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Ger Holland @ghollandphoto.bsky.social · 06/10/2023

Pre-orders are now OPEN for my 2024 A4 and desk calendars, featuring some of my favourite images from this year. You can order yours at www.gerhollandphotography.com/calendars with the option for FREE pickup at Pine Cone Coffee near Deansgrange in Dublin! 😁

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Anne O'Leary @anneoleary.bsky.social · 06/10/2023

I'm thrilled to have placed 2nd in the Aurora Prize for Writing - Fiction. Huge congratulations to winner Alia Wilhelm, Joe Bedford in 3rd place and regional winner David Martin. V emotional hearing the wonderful Joanna Cannon say nice things about my work! writingeastmidlands.co.uk/for-writers/...

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Kit de Waal @kitdewaal.com · 05/10/2023

Fabulous mention of my memoir Without Warning & Only Sometimes and for Joanna Cannon's anthology on mental health Will You Read This Please, by Louise Doughty on Simon Mayo's Books of the Year. Link to podcast here. podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/s...

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‎Simon Mayo's Books Of The Year: Louise Doughty Q&A on Apple Podcasts

‎Show Simon Mayo's Books Of The Year, Ep Louise Doughty Q&A - 4 Oct 2023

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sheila armstrong @sheelanogig.bsky.social · 04/10/2023

First post over here and its a good'un. Hopefully safer to talk about how excruciating filming a five-minute segment is. Realising you have arms for the first time and have no idea what they are or where they're supposed to go. www.bbc.co.uk/mediacentre/...

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Shell @thesparklyshell.bsky.social · 25/09/2023

#InnerLight - the book of Ukrainian memoir pieces all written by women that I edited earlier this year is now an exhibition at the Central Bank. Readings from the writers at 11.30am this Wednesday.

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Jane Johnson @janejohnsonbakrim.bsky.social · 24/09/2023

There have been so many horror stories coming out of my adoptive country of Morocco that I wanted to focus on some of the beautiful, miraculous and poignant tales that have emerged in the fortnight since the earthquake struck. Here are 3 of my favourites: www.janejohnsonbooks.com/2023/09/stor...

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Stories from the Moroccan earthquake - Jane Johnson

There have been so many horror stories coming out of Morocco that I wanted to focus on some of the beautiful, miraculous and poignant tales that have emerged in the fortnight since the earthquake stru...

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@Galleybeggars @galleybeggars.bsky.social · 20/09/2023

Just moved in: Hi there! ... If you could share this and help us find our old (and hopefully some new) friends, we'd be very grateful.

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Shell @thesparklyshell.bsky.social · 05/09/2023

Delighted to have been awarded a residency at this beautiful place!

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Shell @thesparklyshell.bsky.social · 02/09/2023

Another writer friend, another book launch! Congratulations Molly Hennigan.

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Nuala O'Connor @nualaoconnor.bsky.social · 26/08/2023

Free exhib at Farmleigh, Dublin, of my sister's exquisite photos.

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Shell @thesparklyshell.bsky.social · 26/08/2023

A final workshop at the stunning Dun Laoghaire baths studio 4 by artist in residence Laura Sarah Dowdall.

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Kit de Waal @kitdewaal.com · 24/08/2023

PAID WRITING OPPORTUNITY: @unbounders are looking for essays for #OneinFive - an anthology about the realities of living in poverty. They are particularly keen to hear from writers of colour. £200 per essay. E-mail aliya@unbound.co.uk for more information. unbound.com/books/one-in...

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