Áine Greaney, author
@ainegreaney.bsky.social
Irish writer in Boston area. Words at New York Times, Boston Globe, Books Ireland, Best American Essays, et al. 5th book, "Trespassers" available now. Free writing resources + workshop list (and my 5 books!) at https://linktr.ee/ainegreaney
"Naming and loving. They’re not the same thing ... Just like the bird songs, each of our stories is unique." Enjoy this piece o' mine on nature vs being codified by our alpha-numeric identifiers. @writingcommunity.bsky.social @massaabb.bsky.social @naturewriting.bsky.social 🔽🔽
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My Morning Bird Song
By Áine Greaney — Naming and loving. They’re not the same thing. Over the years, I’ve had a gazillion identifiers. I’ve been Alien Resident Number 123 or
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December 3, 2025 at 6:40 PM
"Naming and loving. They’re not the same thing ... Just like the bird songs, each of our stories is unique." Enjoy this piece o' mine on nature vs being codified by our alpha-numeric identifiers. @writingcommunity.bsky.social @massaabb.bsky.social @naturewriting.bsky.social 🔽🔽
tinyurl.com/5brsh2ej
tinyurl.com/5brsh2ej
Looking forward to virtual workshop, "Writing Your Personal Essay" at the @irishwriterscentre.bsky.social. Enrollments now full, so it'll be (as always) a lively group. Look at the centre's other workshops and programs. irishwriterscentre.ie #irishwriters #writingworkshops ⬇️ ⬇️
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Ireland's leading resource and development organisation. Find courses, mentoring programmes, events, resources, and more.
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November 22, 2025 at 1:58 PM
Looking forward to virtual workshop, "Writing Your Personal Essay" at the @irishwriterscentre.bsky.social. Enrollments now full, so it'll be (as always) a lively group. Look at the centre's other workshops and programs. irishwriterscentre.ie #irishwriters #writingworkshops ⬇️ ⬇️
A few spots open in virtual #writing workshop from the @irishwriterscentre.bsky.social. Use heirlooms, keepsakes or a beloved book or photo to inspire a short memoir, story, essay. @irishexpat.bsky.social @writing.ie New writers or those trying a new genre are welcome. tinyurl.com/3zcnhjc6
The Object(s) of My Affection, writing from heirlooms, photographs and memories, with Áine Greaney - Irish Writers Centre
Join Aine Greaney for this two-hour online writing workshop that uses small heirlooms, keepsakes or beloved books as the inspiration our writing on Sat 1 Nov.
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October 27, 2025 at 3:02 PM
A few spots open in virtual #writing workshop from the @irishwriterscentre.bsky.social. Use heirlooms, keepsakes or a beloved book or photo to inspire a short memoir, story, essay. @irishexpat.bsky.social @writing.ie New writers or those trying a new genre are welcome. tinyurl.com/3zcnhjc6
#BBF2025 - Incredible day yesterday at Boston Book Festival. Our panel topic: how our creative writing confront issues of place, displacement and the concept of home. It was a thrill to see everyone coming together to honor literacy and literature. @belmontbooks.bsky.social
#BostonBookFestival
#BostonBookFestival
October 26, 2025 at 10:17 PM
#BBF2025 - Incredible day yesterday at Boston Book Festival. Our panel topic: how our creative writing confront issues of place, displacement and the concept of home. It was a thrill to see everyone coming together to honor literacy and literature. @belmontbooks.bsky.social
#BostonBookFestival
#BostonBookFestival
#BBF2025 - 📗Only 2+ days until Boston Book Festival on October 23. I'm on an author panel, "Place and Displacement: How We Find and Make Home," at 2pm. Discussing how we shape, and are shaped by, the places we call home. #writingcommunity #Authors #Immigrantwriters bostonbookfest.org/schedule/
October 22, 2025 at 7:08 PM
#BBF2025 - 📗Only 2+ days until Boston Book Festival on October 23. I'm on an author panel, "Place and Displacement: How We Find and Make Home," at 2pm. Discussing how we shape, and are shaped by, the places we call home. #writingcommunity #Authors #Immigrantwriters bostonbookfest.org/schedule/
#WritingCommunity✍️Join us for this virtual writing workshop w/ HerStories Project on Nov 3. For #fiction + #nonfiction writers! #writingworkshop
➡️ Opening scenes
➡️ Showing versus telling
➡️ Crafting dialogue (or not)
➡️ Closing scenes
Info, registration: www.theherstoriesproject.com/making-a-scene
➡️ Opening scenes
➡️ Showing versus telling
➡️ Crafting dialogue (or not)
➡️ Closing scenes
Info, registration: www.theherstoriesproject.com/making-a-scene
Darling, You're Making a Scene
a 60-minute workshop
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October 21, 2025 at 10:18 PM
#WritingCommunity✍️Join us for this virtual writing workshop w/ HerStories Project on Nov 3. For #fiction + #nonfiction writers! #writingworkshop
➡️ Opening scenes
➡️ Showing versus telling
➡️ Crafting dialogue (or not)
➡️ Closing scenes
Info, registration: www.theherstoriesproject.com/making-a-scene
➡️ Opening scenes
➡️ Showing versus telling
➡️ Crafting dialogue (or not)
➡️ Closing scenes
Info, registration: www.theherstoriesproject.com/making-a-scene
Have you noticed? From "The Atlantic" to "The New Yorker," quite a few publications are writing and sharing about our private and shared anxiety. Writing ✍can't be a cure-all, but it may help. Here are my 6 tips for writing during these anxious times: 👇 tinyurl.com/yuaexp3m
Tips for writing during times of anxiety — Áine Greaney
Six tips for writing to offset your private and public anxiety.
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October 15, 2025 at 8:52 PM
Have you noticed? From "The Atlantic" to "The New Yorker," quite a few publications are writing and sharing about our private and shared anxiety. Writing ✍can't be a cure-all, but it may help. Here are my 6 tips for writing during these anxious times: 👇 tinyurl.com/yuaexp3m
Loved doing this interview on writing for wellness + how journaling can support our public-facing writing. Take a read. Or register for Monday, October 13th virtual workshop! #Writing #WritingCommunity #IrishBluesky #Authors&Writing
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tinyurl.com/4xhcyar5
Another Reason to Write
Because it's good for you!
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October 10, 2025 at 9:52 PM
Loved doing this interview on writing for wellness + how journaling can support our public-facing writing. Take a read. Or register for Monday, October 13th virtual workshop! #Writing #WritingCommunity #IrishBluesky #Authors&Writing
tinyurl.com/4xhcyar5
tinyurl.com/4xhcyar5
Are you a writer balancing your creative life with a day job? Enjoy my interview with @createwritenow.bsky.social and Kauffman. #writing #Authors
www.youtube.com/watch?v=NxTB...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=NxTB...
The NEW way to balance WRITING with a full-time job | Áine Greaney | Create Write Now! podcast 26
YouTube video by WriteNow
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October 1, 2025 at 8:52 PM
Are you a writer balancing your creative life with a day job? Enjoy my interview with @createwritenow.bsky.social and Kauffman. #writing #Authors
www.youtube.com/watch?v=NxTB...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=NxTB...
One of my summer 2025 highlights was the week-long women's ✍writing retreat at The Pyramid Life Center, NY. On our final day, one workshop participant slipped a thank-you note onto my desk. It really doesn't get better than this. ❤️ 🙏 #Writing #writingandbooks #writingcommunity #writingworkshops
September 8, 2025 at 10:02 PM
One of my summer 2025 highlights was the week-long women's ✍writing retreat at The Pyramid Life Center, NY. On our final day, one workshop participant slipped a thank-you note onto my desk. It really doesn't get better than this. ❤️ 🙏 #Writing #writingandbooks #writingcommunity #writingworkshops
#WritingCommunity - New writing journal. I've been doing this since I was 14 and it still feels magical. Also, my writing pen was crafted from two old dining room chairs. #Authors
August 24, 2025 at 6:00 PM
#WritingCommunity - New writing journal. I've been doing this since I was 14 and it still feels magical. Also, my writing pen was crafted from two old dining room chairs. #Authors
#movinday #Writing #Backtoschool
And oldie but hopefully goodie personal essay:
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And oldie but hopefully goodie personal essay:
www.wbur.org/cognoscenti/...
Note To Former Self: You're Way Too Young For College
Too many mornings, I switched off the alarm rather than trek to a lecture hall where, for the first time in my life, no adult was watching, writes Aine Greaney.
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August 16, 2025 at 9:47 PM
#movinday #Writing #Backtoschool
And oldie but hopefully goodie personal essay:
www.wbur.org/cognoscenti/...
And oldie but hopefully goodie personal essay:
www.wbur.org/cognoscenti/...
#Writing - This is a great list from Erika Dreyfus. www.erikadreifus.com/2012/01/frid...
Where to Publish Flash Nonfiction & Micro-Essays - Erika Dreifus
LATEST LIST UPDATE: JULY 2025 As promised, I’ve compiled what I am calling here a guide to journals and magazines that publish flash nonfiction/micro-essays. Before I present the list, I need to issue...
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August 12, 2025 at 9:48 PM
#Writing - This is a great list from Erika Dreyfus. www.erikadreifus.com/2012/01/frid...
#WritingCommunity - Latest blog post: How to find and keep the joy in our writing #Writing #Authors #Journalling www.ainegreaney.com/tipsforwrite...
writing for joy and meaning — Áine Greaney, Author
How to ignore the markets and write for my own sense of joy. Writing as a way to change your mood, to discover inner thoughts and feel better.
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August 6, 2025 at 10:44 PM
#WritingCommunity - Latest blog post: How to find and keep the joy in our writing #Writing #Authors #Journalling www.ainegreaney.com/tipsforwrite...
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#Booksky #authors #writingcommunity - 📚Just had this piece, "Willie Nelson and the Three G’s of Literary Citizenship" published at Brevity Magazine brevity.wordpress.com/2025/07/24/w...
Willie Nelson and the Three G’s of Literary Citizenship
By Áine Greaney Recently, I watched a short video in which Willie Nelson and his wife shared their three family rules: 1) Don’t be an a**hole. 2) Don’t be an a**hole. 3) Don’t be an a**hole. Now, w…
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July 29, 2025 at 10:42 PM
#Booksky #authors #writingcommunity - 📚Just had this piece, "Willie Nelson and the Three G’s of Literary Citizenship" published at Brevity Magazine brevity.wordpress.com/2025/07/24/w...
My local TV interview. Sample topics:
📚 My latest book
✍️ Writing - writing about place
👨⚕️ Writing for #wellness
youtu.be/ucs6oX60ncg
📚 My latest book
✍️ Writing - writing about place
👨⚕️ Writing for #wellness
youtu.be/ucs6oX60ncg
Morning Show with Mary Jacobsen April 10th, 2025 Aine Greaney
YouTube video by PortMedia
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July 5, 2025 at 9:10 PM
My local TV interview. Sample topics:
📚 My latest book
✍️ Writing - writing about place
👨⚕️ Writing for #wellness
youtu.be/ucs6oX60ncg
📚 My latest book
✍️ Writing - writing about place
👨⚕️ Writing for #wellness
youtu.be/ucs6oX60ncg
An essay on bereavement and loss and the folks who come to help us in our hour of need #Authors, #Writing #Irishwriters hopkinsmedicalhumanities.org/tendon-magaz...
On Being Saved – Center for Medical Humanities & Social Medicine
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June 26, 2025 at 7:46 PM
An essay on bereavement and loss and the folks who come to help us in our hour of need #Authors, #Writing #Irishwriters hopkinsmedicalhumanities.org/tendon-magaz...
Reposted by Áine Greaney, author
#horrorwriter #amwriting #writingcommunity #indieauthor #indieauthors inventingrealityediting.com/2...
Don’t Misuse – or Overuse – Dialogue Tags
Novice writers sometimes grow bored with using the word said over and over so decide to add dialogue tags. These are words such as exclaimed and asked that let re…
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June 25, 2025 at 10:01 PM
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After five years of sweat, tears and elbow grease, I'm happy to announce that my memoir, #BarnGothic, will be published by @islandpress.bsky.social on November 13th, 2025.
It's a book that I owed my family and other farmers like them.
It's a book that I owed my family and other farmers like them.
May 22, 2025 at 12:28 PM
After five years of sweat, tears and elbow grease, I'm happy to announce that my memoir, #BarnGothic, will be published by @islandpress.bsky.social on November 13th, 2025.
It's a book that I owed my family and other farmers like them.
It's a book that I owed my family and other farmers like them.
#WritingCommunity - I learned to knit when I was 4. I've been knitting ever since. Two years ago, I decided to combine my two loves (knitting and writing) in this braided, coming-of-age essay. Enjoy! #Bloomday ainegreaneywriting.blogspot.com/2024/07/unna...
Unnatural (Braided Essay)
This essay was first published in The Lowell Review , 2023. For more of Áine's published writing and teaching information, visit her au...
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June 16, 2025 at 3:36 PM
#WritingCommunity - I learned to knit when I was 4. I've been knitting ever since. Two years ago, I decided to combine my two loves (knitting and writing) in this braided, coming-of-age essay. Enjoy! #Bloomday ainegreaneywriting.blogspot.com/2024/07/unna...
Just had this essay published at The Wisdom Daily. It's about witnessing my first school prom in America. Yes, I break one of the 7 deadly sins here--but it was worth it! #writingandbooks #Irishwriters #essays #memoir #booksky tinyurl.com/3d4c8mpt
American Prom Season: Fancy Gowns and Midlife Musings
Nowadays, they say that 50 is the new 40, and, therefore, way too early for middle-aged laments or regrets.
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June 13, 2025 at 8:34 PM
Just had this essay published at The Wisdom Daily. It's about witnessing my first school prom in America. Yes, I break one of the 7 deadly sins here--but it was worth it! #writingandbooks #Irishwriters #essays #memoir #booksky tinyurl.com/3d4c8mpt
#Irishwriters #Authors #WritingCommunity - Have an essay or story that's your own, personal favorite? Share here! This is among my top three, pubbed in @litromagazine.bsky.social www.litromagazine.com/every-saturd...
Stranger In Winter - Litro Magazine
A lyrical account of the immigrant experience in America.
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June 12, 2025 at 7:47 PM
#Irishwriters #Authors #WritingCommunity - Have an essay or story that's your own, personal favorite? Share here! This is among my top three, pubbed in @litromagazine.bsky.social www.litromagazine.com/every-saturd...
#WritingCommunity ✒️ - Get them while they're hot! 😎 "Tips for your 😎 summer writers retreat: www.ainegreaney.com/blog/tips-fo...
Finding the best writers retreat — Áine Greaney, Author
How do I choose the best writers retreat for me? Plus: 6 tips to get the most out of a writers retreat.
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June 9, 2025 at 10:58 PM
#WritingCommunity ✒️ - Get them while they're hot! 😎 "Tips for your 😎 summer writers retreat: www.ainegreaney.com/blog/tips-fo...