Catriona Shine
@catrionashine.bsky.social
Writer, architect, occasional actor. Debut novel, Habitat, published March 2024 by the Lilliput Press http://bio.site/CatrionaShine
Delighted to see my short story Oboe highly commended in the Bridport Prize. @bridportprize.bsky.social
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October 20, 2025 at 8:19 PM
Delighted to see my short story Oboe highly commended in the Bridport Prize. @bridportprize.bsky.social
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A huge thanks to @daithitoms.bsky.social and Shane Tivenan for a great conversation at Prismatic Pages in Oslo last weekend.
I'm excited to chat with Shane Tivenan and Catriona Shine about (built) environments and their works To Avenge A Dead Glacier and Habitat respectively in October here in #Oslo. Both out from @lilliputpress.bsky.social
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October 18, 2025 at 12:00 PM
A huge thanks to @daithitoms.bsky.social and Shane Tivenan for a great conversation at Prismatic Pages in Oslo last weekend.
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Israeli drones drop grenades near UN peacekeepers in Lebanon
Israeli drones drop grenades near UN peacekeepers in Lebanon
Force describes incident as ‘one of the most serious attacks on Unifil personnel and assets’ since end of Israel-Hizbullah war
www.irishtimes.com
September 3, 2025 at 7:54 AM
Israeli drones drop grenades near UN peacekeepers in Lebanon
Dagens avis: klassekampen.no/utgave/2025-...
Ubehag i nabolaget
Catriona Shines roman «Habitat», lagt til en norsk bygård i fritt forfall, er blitt hyllet i irske medier.
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August 13, 2025 at 5:25 PM
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Catriona Shine @catrionashine.bsky.social is an Irish-Norwegian writer and architect. Her debut novel, Habitat, published by the Lilliput Press, was a Sunday Times, Irish Times and The Journal Most Anticipated Book of 2024, RTÉ Book of the Week, and was longlisted for the McKitterick Prize. Catriona
August 5, 2025 at 4:31 PM
Catriona Shine @catrionashine.bsky.social is an Irish-Norwegian writer and architect. Her debut novel, Habitat, published by the Lilliput Press, was a Sunday Times, Irish Times and The Journal Most Anticipated Book of 2024, RTÉ Book of the Week, and was longlisted for the McKitterick Prize. Catriona
Calling all European creators, please read and sign this open letter to the European Commission for Tech Sovereignty, Security and Democracy calling for AI regulation, and copyright protection and enforcement.
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#AI #europe #creators #copyright
creators-for-europe-united.eu
#AI #europe #creators #copyright
Creators for Europe United
Open letter to the Executive Vice-President of the EU Commission for Technological Sovereignty, Security and Democracy to protect Europe’s creative soul.
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May 3, 2025 at 3:26 PM
Calling all European creators, please read and sign this open letter to the European Commission for Tech Sovereignty, Security and Democracy calling for AI regulation, and copyright protection and enforcement.
creators-for-europe-united.eu
#AI #europe #creators #copyright
creators-for-europe-united.eu
#AI #europe #creators #copyright
Thanks to all at Cork World Book Fest!
Cork World Book Fest starts today!
Hope to see you later along with Laurie Legrande, ER Murray, Lord Mayor of Cork Cllr Dan Boyle @theformerdanboyle.bsky.social Christine Dwyer Hickey, Catriona Shine @catrionashine.bsky.social Kevin Curran, Mary Morrissy, William Wall & Liam Ronayne.
Hope to see you later along with Laurie Legrande, ER Murray, Lord Mayor of Cork Cllr Dan Boyle @theformerdanboyle.bsky.social Christine Dwyer Hickey, Catriona Shine @catrionashine.bsky.social Kevin Curran, Mary Morrissy, William Wall & Liam Ronayne.
April 25, 2025 at 11:00 AM
Thanks to all at Cork World Book Fest!
It has been a wonderful privilege to stay at Hawthornden Castle for a writers’ residency. It’s a beautiful place and I made some great friends. #writing #hawthornden #writingretreat #novel #edinburgh #scotland #castle
April 19, 2025 at 10:45 AM
It has been a wonderful privilege to stay at Hawthornden Castle for a writers’ residency. It’s a beautiful place and I made some great friends. #writing #hawthornden #writingretreat #novel #edinburgh #scotland #castle
I'll have the pleasure of reading and conversing with Christine Dwyer Hickey, Kevin Curran (another Lilliput author) and Mary Morrissy at the opening to Cork World Book Festival this Tuesday 7pm at Cork City Library. Come along if you can!
April 17, 2025 at 12:48 PM
I'll have the pleasure of reading and conversing with Christine Dwyer Hickey, Kevin Curran (another Lilliput author) and Mary Morrissy at the opening to Cork World Book Festival this Tuesday 7pm at Cork City Library. Come along if you can!
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Free to enter #writing competition as part of annual #literaryfestival in lovely Ponta Lopud near #Dubrobnik #Croatia entry can be short story, poetry, essay. Theme is hotels: 'what do their walls feel+what stories do they long to tell?' Info and t+cs here
Book Bridge - Competition - Ponta Lopud Creative Platform
September 18 to 20, 2025 2025 BOOK BRIDGE The second edition of the Ponta Lopud Book Bridge will bring a nuanced creative buzz to Lopud exploring the relationship between Literature and social controv...
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April 15, 2025 at 2:08 PM
Free to enter #writing competition as part of annual #literaryfestival in lovely Ponta Lopud near #Dubrobnik #Croatia entry can be short story, poetry, essay. Theme is hotels: 'what do their walls feel+what stories do they long to tell?' Info and t+cs here
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What are the good search engines now that Google is broken?
April 14, 2025 at 11:46 AM
What are the good search engines now that Google is broken?
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I wrote about Gaza, and about writing about Gaza www.irishtimes.com/opinion/2025...
April 14, 2025 at 11:48 AM
I wrote about Gaza, and about writing about Gaza www.irishtimes.com/opinion/2025...
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Making an effort to repost (not just like) all the posts on goodness, kindness, beauty, optimism. Be the change you want to see in the world (or at least on BlueSky) 😊
April 13, 2025 at 8:52 AM
Making an effort to repost (not just like) all the posts on goodness, kindness, beauty, optimism. Be the change you want to see in the world (or at least on BlueSky) 😊
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Read Mary Morrissey’s short essay on her Issue 14 short story, Mature People
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April 13, 2025 at 9:31 AM
Read Mary Morrissey’s short essay on her Issue 14 short story, Mature People
thelonelycrowd.org/2025/04/13/a...
thelonelycrowd.org/2025/04/13/a...
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⌛Solvej Balle on Time, Wonder, & Writing the Impossible⏳
On this week's podcast Solvej Balle returns to the bookshop she once called home to discuss her monumental "On the Calculation of Volume".
🎧: pod.fo/e/2c6094
@thebookerprizes.bsky.social @faberbooks.bsky.social @ndbooks.bsky.social #BookSky
On this week's podcast Solvej Balle returns to the bookshop she once called home to discuss her monumental "On the Calculation of Volume".
🎧: pod.fo/e/2c6094
@thebookerprizes.bsky.social @faberbooks.bsky.social @ndbooks.bsky.social #BookSky
April 10, 2025 at 1:24 PM
⌛Solvej Balle on Time, Wonder, & Writing the Impossible⏳
On this week's podcast Solvej Balle returns to the bookshop she once called home to discuss her monumental "On the Calculation of Volume".
🎧: pod.fo/e/2c6094
@thebookerprizes.bsky.social @faberbooks.bsky.social @ndbooks.bsky.social #BookSky
On this week's podcast Solvej Balle returns to the bookshop she once called home to discuss her monumental "On the Calculation of Volume".
🎧: pod.fo/e/2c6094
@thebookerprizes.bsky.social @faberbooks.bsky.social @ndbooks.bsky.social #BookSky
There's a lovely review of Habitat by Madeline Beach Carey in World-Architects Magazine today. #Habitat #buildingnovels #architecturebooks #architecture #novel #oslo
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Habitat: An Autopsy of Collective Collapse - Building Novels
Habitat is the debut novel of Catriona Shine, an architect who grew up in Ireland and now works in Oslo, and the latest installment in Madeline Beach Carey's...
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April 8, 2025 at 12:26 PM
There's a lovely review of Habitat by Madeline Beach Carey in World-Architects Magazine today. #Habitat #buildingnovels #architecturebooks #architecture #novel #oslo
www.world-architects.com/en/architect...
www.world-architects.com/en/architect...
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Really lovely to have work included here in such brilliant company ✨️
There's a @winterpapers.bsky.social archive online with work by Claire Kilroy, Hugh O'Connor, Jess Traynor, June Caldwell, Sara Baume, Brian Leyden, Peter Murphy, Martin Dyar, Jess Raymon, me, and an interview with Cathal Coughlan by Siobhán Kane. winterpapers.com/selected-work
Winter Papers Selected Work
Winter Papers
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April 2, 2025 at 11:46 AM
Really lovely to have work included here in such brilliant company ✨️
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Founded in 1975, this year marks Druid's 50th anniversary
We're celebrating with a double bill of Synge’s Riders to the Sea and Shakespeare’s Macbeth in Galway this July, followed by Macbeth in Dublin and Beckett’s Endgame in New York
Come join us in the celebrations 🎉
We're celebrating with a double bill of Synge’s Riders to the Sea and Shakespeare’s Macbeth in Galway this July, followed by Macbeth in Dublin and Beckett’s Endgame in New York
Come join us in the celebrations 🎉
April 2, 2025 at 11:44 AM
Founded in 1975, this year marks Druid's 50th anniversary
We're celebrating with a double bill of Synge’s Riders to the Sea and Shakespeare’s Macbeth in Galway this July, followed by Macbeth in Dublin and Beckett’s Endgame in New York
Come join us in the celebrations 🎉
We're celebrating with a double bill of Synge’s Riders to the Sea and Shakespeare’s Macbeth in Galway this July, followed by Macbeth in Dublin and Beckett’s Endgame in New York
Come join us in the celebrations 🎉
I've just signed this petition protesting Meta's theft of Irish writing, which they've used to build their AI tool. Will you sign too? my.uplift.ie/petitions/pr...
Protest Meta's Theft of Irish Writing
I've just signed this petition protesting Meta's theft of Irish writing, which they've used to build their AI tool. Will you sign too?
my.uplift.ie
March 28, 2025 at 5:27 PM
I've just signed this petition protesting Meta's theft of Irish writing, which they've used to build their AI tool. Will you sign too? my.uplift.ie/petitions/pr...
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Irish businesses will struggle to compete with Amazon ie, both online and in the high street.
Shop direct with your Irish retailers, who already exist.
Support local, not the billionaires.
Shop direct with your Irish retailers, who already exist.
Support local, not the billionaires.
March 18, 2025 at 11:34 AM
Irish businesses will struggle to compete with Amazon ie, both online and in the high street.
Shop direct with your Irish retailers, who already exist.
Support local, not the billionaires.
Shop direct with your Irish retailers, who already exist.
Support local, not the billionaires.
Happy read-a-book-with-a-green-spine day! ☘️
March 17, 2025 at 12:14 PM
Happy read-a-book-with-a-green-spine day! ☘️
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All over the papers in Serbia. Lovely to see. Huge thank you to Suzanna and all Belgrade irish festival for stellar efforts to champion my books.
March 14, 2025 at 2:42 PM
All over the papers in Serbia. Lovely to see. Huge thank you to Suzanna and all Belgrade irish festival for stellar efforts to champion my books.
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Honoured that Leonard and Hungry Paul has been included in the @irishtimes.com 100 best Irish books of the 21st century (so far), at 38. Thanks so much to the contributors who selected it.
(Ps. I was a contributor but didn't nominate or upvote my own book.)
www.irishtimes.com/culture/book...
(Ps. I was a contributor but didn't nominate or upvote my own book.)
www.irishtimes.com/culture/book...
The 100 best Irish books of the 21st century: No 50 to No 26
A panel of more than 60 experts (authors, critics, academics, festival curators and booksellers) select their favourite Irish novels and short stories of the years 2020-2025
www.irishtimes.com
March 14, 2025 at 8:14 AM
Honoured that Leonard and Hungry Paul has been included in the @irishtimes.com 100 best Irish books of the 21st century (so far), at 38. Thanks so much to the contributors who selected it.
(Ps. I was a contributor but didn't nominate or upvote my own book.)
www.irishtimes.com/culture/book...
(Ps. I was a contributor but didn't nominate or upvote my own book.)
www.irishtimes.com/culture/book...
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I have a feeling that one of the books I would have chosen, Habitat by Catriona Shine won't make the list. I'd also have chosen Pond (only at 83!) and A Line Made By Walking (only at 91!). But I expect the other books I would have chosen, Solar Bones, Milkman and A Girl Is will be towards the top.
March 13, 2025 at 8:21 AM
I have a feeling that one of the books I would have chosen, Habitat by Catriona Shine won't make the list. I'd also have chosen Pond (only at 83!) and A Line Made By Walking (only at 91!). But I expect the other books I would have chosen, Solar Bones, Milkman and A Girl Is will be towards the top.