Write By the Sea KQ Literary Festival

Claire is pleased to announce a new course on fiction writing, which will be held over two half-days in Wexford Town in September 2025. If you’d like to attend, please send an email to clairekeeganfiction@gmail.com requesting a place.

IT’S PUBLICATION DAY!!

Attention people of LEEDS! We are going on the road with our new @ParachuteTester songs, sights and sounds! See you in Nov? @HPBCLeeds 23rd. Tickets on sale 9am tomorrow from @seetickets #leeds #livemusic #theparachutetesters

It’s an exciting day at the Irish Writers Centre! Our twelve #NovelFair winners are pitching their novels to top publishers and agents in our Dublin headquarters.

Pick yourself up a copy and check out the winning pieces from our 2024 Writing Competition! (Plus, a whole load more 😀)

Delighted to be appointed Cork Co Council's Reader in Residence. The brief merges my skills in writing, facilitating, coaching, mindfulness, as well as my love of reading. It's an honour to be part of a programme that connects all ages to creativity in a calm and safe environment

Thrilled to see my winning flash fiction, 'After My Father', published in this beautiful issue of The Waxed Lemon in Ireland. Thank you again, @write_KQ and @TheWaxedLemon

@CaoilinnHughes @parisreview @BillClegg_ Congratulations! What a gorgeous way to end the year 😍

Dream of the decade: to have a story in the @parisreview. 🫠 Issue 250 launches today. Pick it up from good bookshops or online. Huge thanks to Emily Stokes and Harriet Clark for the *exceptional* editing, and to @BillClegg_ x

@Nigella_Lawson @CharlotteMende1 @EttoMerrionRow Second Etto. Or Terra Madre on the quays, or the Vintage Kitchen.

@CharlotteMende1 I’m too late, obviously, but @EttoMerrionRow

Dinner, Dublin, delicious but not posh. TELL ME WHERE PLEASE

decided that this week’s column for @RTE_Culture was going to be all about ireland’s literary journal infrastructure. big props to @stingingfly @bansheelit @ThePigsBack1 @tolkajournal & others for their continued support of the arts here! rte.ie/culture/2024/1…

**ISSUE 8 COVER REVEAL** We are excited to reveal this cover by Cork-based Brazilian artist, Silvio Severino. Issue 8 will be launched as part of Waterford Writers Weekend on Sunday 27th Oct at 11am in the Waterford Gallery of Art @TheWaterfordGOA @WaterfordWrite1 @WaterfordArts

There is a limited number of free seats available on the door for our short story event, ‘Outlasting’ with Sylvia Cullen in the Old Market House Arts Centre, Dungarvan this evening. Doors open at 6.45pm.

@JanCarson7280 Same same!

@DublinCityofLit @JackieLynam @TheBookerPrizes @gauz @Terribleman @DublinLitAward @wexlibraries @wexfordcoco @Wexford_People @MumblinDeafRo Absolutely!

@JackieLynam @TheBookerPrizes @gauz @Terribleman @write_KQ @DublinLitAward @wexlibraries @wexfordcoco @Wexford_People @MumblinDeafRo They'll be in the best of hands!

This will be a fantastic night out :)

@michaelmagee__ @IrishTimes @LaureateFiction Congratulations, Michael!

no jokes, no messing about, just truly honoured to have won the John McGahern Prize for Fiction grateful to the organisers, and to Frank Shovlin for this gorgeous profile in @IrishTimes, and to Colm Tóibín (@LaureateFiction) for choosing Close to Home irishtimes.com/culture/books/…

COVER ART WANTED!! The Waxed Lemon is looking for cover art for its upcoming eighth issue. Send your art to waxedlemonsubs@gmail.com BEFORE SEPT 15th.

"If there was ever a crucial book for our current times," The Guardian has written, "it’s #PaulLynch’s Prophet Song." This September, the Laureate's #ArtofReading pick is the Booker Prize-winning #ProphetSong! So, pick up a copy and join us in reading this powerful novel!