Jayson Carcione
@carcionejay.bsky.social
Fiction: The London Magazine, The Forge, Lunate, Epoque Press, elsewhere
Best of the Net 2024 finalist
Deputy Production Editor: Irish Examiner
Cork via New York
Best of the Net 2024 finalist
Deputy Production Editor: Irish Examiner
Cork via New York
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Jayson Carcione
@carcionejay.bsky.social
· Sep 28
Delighted to have been awarded a 2025 Mentorship in Fiction Bursary with Frank O’Connor fellow @laurajeanmckay.bsky.social
@munsterlitcentre.bsky.social
@munsterlitcentre.bsky.social
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The 2026 lit mag rankings are now available from my website! They include an overall ranking, as well as separate rankings for fiction, flash fiction, non-fiction and poetry. If you find these helpful, please show your support by liking & sharing 🙏
November 9, 2025 at 7:41 PM
The 2026 lit mag rankings are now available from my website! They include an overall ranking, as well as separate rankings for fiction, flash fiction, non-fiction and poetry. If you find these helpful, please show your support by liking & sharing 🙏
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#BookHaiku a day Totally Gothic
a chilly mist crawls across
a lake of secrets
Beside a spooky
school with creepy staff,
fragile memories
trapped, set new pupil
Rosella on Edge ,
eerie Black Roses #CarnegieMedals
#Gothic
November 8, 2025 at 12:07 PM
#BookHaiku a day Totally Gothic
a chilly mist crawls across
a lake of secrets
Beside a spooky
school with creepy staff,
fragile memories
trapped, set new pupil
Rosella on Edge ,
eerie Black Roses #CarnegieMedals
#Gothic
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Absolutely thrilled that Black Gables has been nominated for the Carnegie Medal for Writing.
Huge thanks to all the librarians and readers @carnegiemedals.bsky.social
Special thanks to @everywithwords.bsky.social and Silvia @pfd
Congrats to all the nominees!
#Carnegies2026
Huge thanks to all the librarians and readers @carnegiemedals.bsky.social
Special thanks to @everywithwords.bsky.social and Silvia @pfd
Congrats to all the nominees!
#Carnegies2026
November 3, 2025 at 9:12 AM
Absolutely thrilled that Black Gables has been nominated for the Carnegie Medal for Writing.
Huge thanks to all the librarians and readers @carnegiemedals.bsky.social
Special thanks to @everywithwords.bsky.social and Silvia @pfd
Congrats to all the nominees!
#Carnegies2026
Huge thanks to all the librarians and readers @carnegiemedals.bsky.social
Special thanks to @everywithwords.bsky.social and Silvia @pfd
Congrats to all the nominees!
#Carnegies2026
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We’ve updated our submissions pages with news of our winter call, and info on the new ghost story call:
Short Story Submission Opportunities at The Fiction Desk
Information on submitting short stories to the Fiction Desk.
www.thefictiondesk.com
November 1, 2025 at 6:10 PM
We’ve updated our submissions pages with news of our winter call, and info on the new ghost story call:
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Happy Halloween!
Today, I am sharing a number of micro horror fiction stories shared with me by wonderful authors.
I hope you enjoy!
They can be found in the thread below. I'm adding them slowly.
Thank you to those who shared your stories with me!
#Halloween #Microfiction #Horror
Today, I am sharing a number of micro horror fiction stories shared with me by wonderful authors.
I hope you enjoy!
They can be found in the thread below. I'm adding them slowly.
Thank you to those who shared your stories with me!
#Halloween #Microfiction #Horror
October 31, 2025 at 3:50 PM
Happy Halloween!
Today, I am sharing a number of micro horror fiction stories shared with me by wonderful authors.
I hope you enjoy!
They can be found in the thread below. I'm adding them slowly.
Thank you to those who shared your stories with me!
#Halloween #Microfiction #Horror
Today, I am sharing a number of micro horror fiction stories shared with me by wonderful authors.
I hope you enjoy!
They can be found in the thread below. I'm adding them slowly.
Thank you to those who shared your stories with me!
#Halloween #Microfiction #Horror
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I'm so happy to be doing another fiction workshop, this time with the wonderful @munsterlitcentre.bsky.social in Ireland - online, join from anywhere (timezones permitting)! munsterlit.ie/fiction-work...
7 pm IST, 2 pm EDT, 9 am PDT, 1 am WIB / 4 am AEST / 6 am NZST (for the keenest beans 😍)
7 pm IST, 2 pm EDT, 9 am PDT, 1 am WIB / 4 am AEST / 6 am NZST (for the keenest beans 😍)
Online Fiction Workshop with Laura Jean McKay – Munster Literature Centre
munsterlit.ie
October 26, 2025 at 4:31 PM
I'm so happy to be doing another fiction workshop, this time with the wonderful @munsterlitcentre.bsky.social in Ireland - online, join from anywhere (timezones permitting)! munsterlit.ie/fiction-work...
7 pm IST, 2 pm EDT, 9 am PDT, 1 am WIB / 4 am AEST / 6 am NZST (for the keenest beans 😍)
7 pm IST, 2 pm EDT, 9 am PDT, 1 am WIB / 4 am AEST / 6 am NZST (for the keenest beans 😍)
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I’ve updated my Halloween book recommendations blogpost, adding in some recently published titles.
Happy spooky season reading!
#UkKidLit
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Happy spooky season reading!
#UkKidLit
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October 25, 2025 at 12:55 PM
I’ve updated my Halloween book recommendations blogpost, adding in some recently published titles.
Happy spooky season reading!
#UkKidLit
vsviewfromthebookshelves.home.blog/2025/10/25/h...
Happy spooky season reading!
#UkKidLit
vsviewfromthebookshelves.home.blog/2025/10/25/h...
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Lovely to see Black Gables on this fab list! Thanks @bookcraic.bsky.social 👻🏫🍁🖤💀🍂🧌
bookcraic.blog/2025/10/11/s...
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Spooky Season Recommendations …
Over the last year, I’ve read lots of books that are just perfect for spooky season so I thought I’d bring together some of my favourites. I’m sharing them in the order I read the…
bookcraic.blog
October 12, 2025 at 7:19 AM
Lovely to see Black Gables on this fab list! Thanks @bookcraic.bsky.social 👻🏫🍁🖤💀🍂🧌
bookcraic.blog/2025/10/11/s...
bookcraic.blog/2025/10/11/s...
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Children In Read is now LIVE! The largest signed book auction in the world. All proceeds are in aid of @childreninread.bsky.social
Delighted to have three signed spooky books with bookmarks in the bidding!
www.jumblebee.co.uk/childreninre... 📚✍️✨
Delighted to have three signed spooky books with bookmarks in the bidding!
www.jumblebee.co.uk/childreninre... 📚✍️✨
October 4, 2025 at 7:11 PM
Children In Read is now LIVE! The largest signed book auction in the world. All proceeds are in aid of @childreninread.bsky.social
Delighted to have three signed spooky books with bookmarks in the bidding!
www.jumblebee.co.uk/childreninre... 📚✍️✨
Delighted to have three signed spooky books with bookmarks in the bidding!
www.jumblebee.co.uk/childreninre... 📚✍️✨
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Over 160 calls for literary competitions & submissions including poetry, fiction, creative nonfiction, art, photography, & more - contests, literary journals, residencies, bursaries etc - open or with deadlines in October 2025. Please share & best of luck!
www.thisiswordbox.com/wordbox-blog...
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October 4, 2025 at 1:59 PM
Over 160 calls for literary competitions & submissions including poetry, fiction, creative nonfiction, art, photography, & more - contests, literary journals, residencies, bursaries etc - open or with deadlines in October 2025. Please share & best of luck!
www.thisiswordbox.com/wordbox-blog...
www.thisiswordbox.com/wordbox-blog...
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Great to see Black Gables included in this fab round up! 📚✍️
#BlackGables
#BlackGables
This week’s round up of book reviews did you. Thank you to all our fantastic reviewers this week:
justimagine.co.uk/childrens-bo...
justimagine.co.uk/childrens-bo...
October 3, 2025 at 8:49 AM
Great to see Black Gables included in this fab round up! 📚✍️
#BlackGables
#BlackGables
Delighted to have been awarded a 2025 Mentorship in Fiction Bursary with Frank O’Connor fellow @laurajeanmckay.bsky.social
@munsterlitcentre.bsky.social
@munsterlitcentre.bsky.social
September 28, 2025 at 2:43 PM
Delighted to have been awarded a 2025 Mentorship in Fiction Bursary with Frank O’Connor fellow @laurajeanmckay.bsky.social
@munsterlitcentre.bsky.social
@munsterlitcentre.bsky.social
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We are delighted to welcome 2025 Frank O’Connor International Short Story Fellow Laura Jean McKay to Cork and also to congratulate her on her recent good news that her translated novel ‘Les Animaux de ce pays’ has been shortlisted for a French literary prize - prixmaya.org/selection-ro...
September 19, 2025 at 1:14 PM
We are delighted to welcome 2025 Frank O’Connor International Short Story Fellow Laura Jean McKay to Cork and also to congratulate her on her recent good news that her translated novel ‘Les Animaux de ce pays’ has been shortlisted for a French literary prize - prixmaya.org/selection-ro...
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Delighted to announce that first prize of the Southword Creative Non-Fiction Award is Judy Crozier, whose winning story will be published in issue 49 of Southword (winter 2025). All the details on the other winners can be found on our website - munsterlit.ie/southword-cr...
September 18, 2025 at 1:08 PM
Delighted to announce that first prize of the Southword Creative Non-Fiction Award is Judy Crozier, whose winning story will be published in issue 49 of Southword (winter 2025). All the details on the other winners can be found on our website - munsterlit.ie/southword-cr...
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"I was trying to be as reportorially honest as possible. That I think links to your question about investigative journalism. I didn’t want to write a literary thing at all ..."
Tim MacGabhann talks to @monalisavitti.bsky.social about his memoir THE BLACK POOL
minorliteratures.com/2025/09/10/i...
Tim MacGabhann talks to @monalisavitti.bsky.social about his memoir THE BLACK POOL
minorliteratures.com/2025/09/10/i...
“I can’t write about [Dublin] because it’s been done to death. However, I can write about the nothing that came before and that is coming after”: An Interview with Tim MacGabhann—Cristina Politano
Tim MacGabhann is a Paris-based Irish writer whose recent memoir, The Black Pool, narrates his hallucination-littered descent into addiction and abjection, as well as his eventual redemption throug…
minorliteratures.com
September 10, 2025 at 11:55 AM
"I was trying to be as reportorially honest as possible. That I think links to your question about investigative journalism. I didn’t want to write a literary thing at all ..."
Tim MacGabhann talks to @monalisavitti.bsky.social about his memoir THE BLACK POOL
minorliteratures.com/2025/09/10/i...
Tim MacGabhann talks to @monalisavitti.bsky.social about his memoir THE BLACK POOL
minorliteratures.com/2025/09/10/i...
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Lovely to see Black Gables in this spooktacular book display @gutterbookshop.bsky.social
🖤👻🍁🍂 #BlackGables
🖤👻🍁🍂 #BlackGables
Best part of working in a bookshop are the themed displays 📚
September 9, 2025 at 6:50 PM
Lovely to see Black Gables in this spooktacular book display @gutterbookshop.bsky.social
🖤👻🍁🍂 #BlackGables
🖤👻🍁🍂 #BlackGables
I really enjoyed this gritty, tender tale of two lost souls in @fictivedream.bsky.social by @polyscribe70.bsky.social
Honoured to return to @fictivedream.bsky.social today with The Shape of Moments, a twin of an earlier story, Backgrounds. Very grateful to Laura, also to @kerryhp.bskyb.social and @barbaraccino@bskyb.social for encouragement to explore these characters further.
"Davy wouldn’t intrude, but he’d be around. And in his way I think he liked it that I was." The Shape of Moments by Mike Fox @polyscribe70.bsky.social #shortstory #fiction. Please click on the link and enjoy fictivedream.com/2025/09/05/t...
September 5, 2025 at 5:05 PM
I really enjoyed this gritty, tender tale of two lost souls in @fictivedream.bsky.social by @polyscribe70.bsky.social
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I know I'm banging on.
But we have to because we're a small press and need this limelight to let readers know about our books.
From Hebden to Hollywood via Dublin.
As Rónán said. 'It's like throwing a dart from Dublin and hitting the bullseye in New York.'
www.bbc.com/mediacentre/...
But we have to because we're a small press and need this limelight to let readers know about our books.
From Hebden to Hollywood via Dublin.
As Rónán said. 'It's like throwing a dart from Dublin and hitting the bullseye in New York.'
www.bbc.com/mediacentre/...
Julia Roberts to narrate new BBC series Leonard and Hungry Paul
The feel-good series follows two board-gaming friends in their thirties who meander through leafy suburban life finding solace in their quiet routines
www.bbc.com
September 1, 2025 at 10:23 AM
I know I'm banging on.
But we have to because we're a small press and need this limelight to let readers know about our books.
From Hebden to Hollywood via Dublin.
As Rónán said. 'It's like throwing a dart from Dublin and hitting the bullseye in New York.'
www.bbc.com/mediacentre/...
But we have to because we're a small press and need this limelight to let readers know about our books.
From Hebden to Hollywood via Dublin.
As Rónán said. 'It's like throwing a dart from Dublin and hitting the bullseye in New York.'
www.bbc.com/mediacentre/...
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Proof copy arrived in the post and I’m so excited that I ignored my inner cringe and recorded a video!
It’s really happening.
Proper dream come true stuff going on here.
Wild!
Thank you so much @rocktheboatnews @oneworldpublications
Cover art: @adamscarvalho
It’s really happening.
Proper dream come true stuff going on here.
Wild!
Thank you so much @rocktheboatnews @oneworldpublications
Cover art: @adamscarvalho
August 30, 2025 at 1:00 PM
Proof copy arrived in the post and I’m so excited that I ignored my inner cringe and recorded a video!
It’s really happening.
Proper dream come true stuff going on here.
Wild!
Thank you so much @rocktheboatnews @oneworldpublications
Cover art: @adamscarvalho
It’s really happening.
Proper dream come true stuff going on here.
Wild!
Thank you so much @rocktheboatnews @oneworldpublications
Cover art: @adamscarvalho
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Delighted to announce that my first book, THE LIE OF THE LAND, is due for publication on September 4th next via @penguinrandomhouse.bsky.social.
It's a frank assessment of Ireland and the #Climate emergency, with a roadmap towards a more food and energy-secure future.
It's a frank assessment of Ireland and the #Climate emergency, with a roadmap towards a more food and energy-secure future.
June 10, 2025 at 9:59 AM
Delighted to announce that my first book, THE LIE OF THE LAND, is due for publication on September 4th next via @penguinrandomhouse.bsky.social.
It's a frank assessment of Ireland and the #Climate emergency, with a roadmap towards a more food and energy-secure future.
It's a frank assessment of Ireland and the #Climate emergency, with a roadmap towards a more food and energy-secure future.
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Our summer short story submission call ends in exactly one month! The deadline is Friday, 26th September and details are on our website - see below.
This summer at The Fiction Desk
New short story submission opportunities coming this summer from The Fiction Desk.
www.thefictiondesk.com
August 26, 2025 at 11:01 AM
Our summer short story submission call ends in exactly one month! The deadline is Friday, 26th September and details are on our website - see below.
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Delighted to be part of @poetryireland.bsky.social Introductions 2025 💫✨
Huge thanks to @jesstraynor.bsky.social for including me among such a stellar group! 🙏🙏🙏
Huge thanks to @jesstraynor.bsky.social for including me among such a stellar group! 🙏🙏🙏
Announcing Poetry Ireland’s Introductions | Céadlínte poets for 2025!
Thanks to Jessica Traynor for selecting our Introductions poets and Aifric Mac Aodha for selecting our Céadlínte poets.
Supported by @artscouncilireland.bsky.social and Arts Council Northern Ireland National Lottery Funding.
Thanks to Jessica Traynor for selecting our Introductions poets and Aifric Mac Aodha for selecting our Céadlínte poets.
Supported by @artscouncilireland.bsky.social and Arts Council Northern Ireland National Lottery Funding.
August 27, 2025 at 6:53 AM
Delighted to be part of @poetryireland.bsky.social Introductions 2025 💫✨
Huge thanks to @jesstraynor.bsky.social for including me among such a stellar group! 🙏🙏🙏
Huge thanks to @jesstraynor.bsky.social for including me among such a stellar group! 🙏🙏🙏
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Short story "Blood Bound" by Jayson Carcione
“Someone screams. Lights explode in windows…The night is broken."
www.bloodhoneylit.com/fiction/bloo...
“Someone screams. Lights explode in windows…The night is broken."
www.bloodhoneylit.com/fiction/bloo...
blood bound — Blood+Honey
by Jayson Carcione “Someone screams. Lights explode in windows…The night is broken.
www.bloodhoneylit.com
August 20, 2025 at 11:18 PM
Short story "Blood Bound" by Jayson Carcione
“Someone screams. Lights explode in windows…The night is broken."
www.bloodhoneylit.com/fiction/bloo...
“Someone screams. Lights explode in windows…The night is broken."
www.bloodhoneylit.com/fiction/bloo...