Colm O'Shea
@colmoshea.bsky.social
[Untitled]: A Meditation, available from LJMcD Communications
Work in gorse, The Stinging Fly, Winter Papers, 3AM Magazine, The Tangerine among others
Winner of The Aleph Writing Prize 2019
www.astainonsilence.com
Work in gorse, The Stinging Fly, Winter Papers, 3AM Magazine, The Tangerine among others
Winner of The Aleph Writing Prize 2019
www.astainonsilence.com
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Colm O'Shea
@colmoshea.bsky.social
· Nov 7
My debut book, [Untitled]: A Meditation,
a work of experimental nonfiction, has been published by LJMcD Communications, and is available here:
lachlanjmcdougall.wordpress.com/books-and-sh...
a work of experimental nonfiction, has been published by LJMcD Communications, and is available here:
lachlanjmcdougall.wordpress.com/books-and-sh...
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I've updated the apersonalanthology.com website with @junec.bsky.social June Caldwell's selection of a dozen favourite short stories.
Check them out!
Check them out!
A Personal Anthology
Writers, critics and others dream-edit a personal anthology of their favourite short stories
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November 8, 2025 at 1:56 PM
I've updated the apersonalanthology.com website with @junec.bsky.social June Caldwell's selection of a dozen favourite short stories.
Check them out!
Check them out!
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The 2026 Leopold Bloom Prize for Innovative Narration is open!
We’re looking for short fiction exhibiting exceptional ingenuity and vision in narration. All entries receive a digital copy of Issue Seven and are considered for publication!
lespritliteraryreview.org/2026-leopold...
#modernism
#modernism
2026 Leopold Bloom Prize for Innovative Narration
L’Esprit Literary Review Judged by Michael Nath I like fiction that banquets the reader. Too much fiction now follows a strict diet. Michael Nath Original portrait of Leopold Bloom drawn by I…
lespritliteraryreview.org
September 14, 2025 at 8:10 PM
The 2026 Leopold Bloom Prize for Innovative Narration is open!
We’re looking for short fiction exhibiting exceptional ingenuity and vision in narration. All entries receive a digital copy of Issue Seven and are considered for publication!
lespritliteraryreview.org/2026-leopold...
#modernism
#modernism
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#callforsubmissions: L'Esprit seeks stories, essays, translation, reviews.
Consciousness-forward, language-driven, risk-adept. Send us writing beyond convention.
G’Lines + open calls: lespritliteraryreview.org/submission-g...
#modernism
#Essays
#bookreviews
#litmag
#shortstories
#creativewriting
Consciousness-forward, language-driven, risk-adept. Send us writing beyond convention.
G’Lines + open calls: lespritliteraryreview.org/submission-g...
#modernism
#Essays
#bookreviews
#litmag
#shortstories
#creativewriting
Submission Guidelines
L’Esprit Literary Review publishes work written in the fearless, risk-adept, and revolutionary spirit of High Modernism. We accept short fiction, creative non-fiction, novel extracts, literar…
lespritliteraryreview.org
July 5, 2025 at 4:27 PM
#callforsubmissions: L'Esprit seeks stories, essays, translation, reviews.
Consciousness-forward, language-driven, risk-adept. Send us writing beyond convention.
G’Lines + open calls: lespritliteraryreview.org/submission-g...
#modernism
#Essays
#bookreviews
#litmag
#shortstories
#creativewriting
Consciousness-forward, language-driven, risk-adept. Send us writing beyond convention.
G’Lines + open calls: lespritliteraryreview.org/submission-g...
#modernism
#Essays
#bookreviews
#litmag
#shortstories
#creativewriting
Happy Bloomsday, among other things, for all who observe, and a chance to share this.....https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kbF5hDU_F-U
June 16, 2025 at 8:18 AM
Happy Bloomsday, among other things, for all who observe, and a chance to share this.....https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kbF5hDU_F-U
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In honour of Joy Division's iconic album Unknown Pleasures being released on this day in 1979, I'm again sharing one of my favourite ever video clips (Peanuts vs Joy Division dance party)...
June 15, 2025 at 3:47 PM
In honour of Joy Division's iconic album Unknown Pleasures being released on this day in 1979, I'm again sharing one of my favourite ever video clips (Peanuts vs Joy Division dance party)...
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What an incredible talk by Eimear McBride. She's always so wonderfully relevant, extraordinary, and thought-provoking! Plus, I bumped into @colmoshea.bsky.social, who is a smiley mofo despite his pull on dark fiction.
May 25, 2025 at 1:16 PM
What an incredible talk by Eimear McBride. She's always so wonderfully relevant, extraordinary, and thought-provoking! Plus, I bumped into @colmoshea.bsky.social, who is a smiley mofo despite his pull on dark fiction.
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Colm’s story “Hiraeth” was the Second Place Winner in our 2025 Leopold Bloom Prize for Innovative Narration, and next up in our Issue Six release!
Check it out below!
@colmoshea.bsky.social
#fiction #shortstory #writing
Check it out below!
@colmoshea.bsky.social
#fiction #shortstory #writing
My short story 'Hiraeth', runner up in the 2025 Leopold Bloom Prize for Innovative Narration, organised by @lespritlit.bsky.social is now available to read here... lespritliteraryreview.org/2025/04/27/h...
Hiraeth
My eyes are closed. I am in my body. My eyes open. It is morning. Early. I am awake. I know where I am, when I am. I am in the cottage in the Welsh countryside. I am in bed. I am facing the wall, l…
lespritliteraryreview.org
May 22, 2025 at 7:49 AM
Colm’s story “Hiraeth” was the Second Place Winner in our 2025 Leopold Bloom Prize for Innovative Narration, and next up in our Issue Six release!
Check it out below!
@colmoshea.bsky.social
#fiction #shortstory #writing
Check it out below!
@colmoshea.bsky.social
#fiction #shortstory #writing
My short story 'Hiraeth', runner up in the 2025 Leopold Bloom Prize for Innovative Narration, organised by @lespritlit.bsky.social is now available to read here... lespritliteraryreview.org/2025/04/27/h...
Hiraeth
My eyes are closed. I am in my body. My eyes open. It is morning. Early. I am awake. I know where I am, when I am. I am in the cottage in the Welsh countryside. I am in bed. I am facing the wall, l…
lespritliteraryreview.org
May 19, 2025 at 7:39 PM
My short story 'Hiraeth', runner up in the 2025 Leopold Bloom Prize for Innovative Narration, organised by @lespritlit.bsky.social is now available to read here... lespritliteraryreview.org/2025/04/27/h...
Reposted by Colm O'Shea
A note to say I've joined @irishwriterscentre.bsky.social panel for one-to-one mentoring in fiction, creative non-fiction and essays. More details, including how to engage me, on the IWC website.
irishwriterscentre.ie/one-to-one-m...
irishwriterscentre.ie/one-to-one-m...
May 16, 2025 at 10:45 AM
A note to say I've joined @irishwriterscentre.bsky.social panel for one-to-one mentoring in fiction, creative non-fiction and essays. More details, including how to engage me, on the IWC website.
irishwriterscentre.ie/one-to-one-m...
irishwriterscentre.ie/one-to-one-m...
Right, Beckettians, who wants to buy the original Cooldrinagh (the childhood home of Beckett's mother)....
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Former Kildare hotel offers scope for redevelopment at €1.75m
Cooldrinagh House, famously known as the childhood home of Samuel Beckett’s mother, comes for sale
www.irishtimes.com
April 30, 2025 at 9:02 PM
Right, Beckettians, who wants to buy the original Cooldrinagh (the childhood home of Beckett's mother)....
www.irishtimes.com/property/com...
www.irishtimes.com/property/com...
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Monthly Dispatch #22 — ft. Jenkin Benson, Tim MacGabhann, @indigojackal.bsky.social Connor May, @ericracher.bsky.social @colmoshea.bsky.social Veronika Reichl (tr. Francesca Hyatt), Adam McPhee, Quyên Nguyễn-Hoàng & more ... — now live
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minorlits.substack.com/p/monthly-di...
Monthly Dispatch #22 — March 2025
A letter from the editor[s]
minorlits.substack.com
March 31, 2025 at 10:24 AM
Monthly Dispatch #22 — ft. Jenkin Benson, Tim MacGabhann, @indigojackal.bsky.social Connor May, @ericracher.bsky.social @colmoshea.bsky.social Veronika Reichl (tr. Francesca Hyatt), Adam McPhee, Quyên Nguyễn-Hoàng & more ... — now live
minorlits.substack.com/p/monthly-di...
minorlits.substack.com/p/monthly-di...
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ICYMI — last week @ minor lits ...
— meditations on memory from @colmoshea.bsky.social
minorliteratures.com/2025/03/04/u...
— @chalicotherex.bsky.social on Munir Hachemi's LIVING THINGS
minorliteratures.com/2025/03/05/i...
— fiction from Tim MacGabhann
minorliteratures.com/2025/03/06/g...
— meditations on memory from @colmoshea.bsky.social
minorliteratures.com/2025/03/04/u...
— @chalicotherex.bsky.social on Munir Hachemi's LIVING THINGS
minorliteratures.com/2025/03/05/i...
— fiction from Tim MacGabhann
minorliteratures.com/2025/03/06/g...
Greatly Failed — Tim MacGabhann
A Calendar Sun low in southwest sinking as I turn head sinking teeth into another crabapple: pale yellow crabapple, pale yellow air, pale yellow in bottles of instant clarity after crabapples let f…
minorliteratures.com
March 9, 2025 at 8:50 AM
ICYMI — last week @ minor lits ...
— meditations on memory from @colmoshea.bsky.social
minorliteratures.com/2025/03/04/u...
— @chalicotherex.bsky.social on Munir Hachemi's LIVING THINGS
minorliteratures.com/2025/03/05/i...
— fiction from Tim MacGabhann
minorliteratures.com/2025/03/06/g...
— meditations on memory from @colmoshea.bsky.social
minorliteratures.com/2025/03/04/u...
— @chalicotherex.bsky.social on Munir Hachemi's LIVING THINGS
minorliteratures.com/2025/03/05/i...
— fiction from Tim MacGabhann
minorliteratures.com/2025/03/06/g...
An extract from my book [Untitled]: A Meditation, has gone live on @minorliteratures.bsky.social ...
"Exactly two months ago today. Neither of us know what was going to happen, what was happening. It must have been happening by then ..."
[Untitled]: A Meditation — @colmoshea.bsky.social
minorliteratures.com/2025/03/04/u...
[Untitled]: A Meditation — @colmoshea.bsky.social
minorliteratures.com/2025/03/04/u...
[Untitled]: A Meditation — Colm O’Shea
“Nothing distinguishes memories from ordinary moments. Only later do they become memorable by the scars they leave.” ‘La Jetée’ (1962) Constraints: I knew someone. I told her once she was my…
minorliteratures.com
March 4, 2025 at 7:43 PM
An extract from my book [Untitled]: A Meditation, has gone live on @minorliteratures.bsky.social ...
Reposted by Colm O'Shea
We kiss.
I can’t remember what we talk about. If I could I would remember and record and repeat what we talk about, but I can’t.
It was only two months ago. Two months ago tonight.
An extract from [Untitled] — a memoir by @colmoshea.bsky.social
I can’t remember what we talk about. If I could I would remember and record and repeat what we talk about, but I can’t.
It was only two months ago. Two months ago tonight.
An extract from [Untitled] — a memoir by @colmoshea.bsky.social
March 4, 2025 at 9:10 AM
We kiss.
I can’t remember what we talk about. If I could I would remember and record and repeat what we talk about, but I can’t.
It was only two months ago. Two months ago tonight.
An extract from [Untitled] — a memoir by @colmoshea.bsky.social
I can’t remember what we talk about. If I could I would remember and record and repeat what we talk about, but I can’t.
It was only two months ago. Two months ago tonight.
An extract from [Untitled] — a memoir by @colmoshea.bsky.social
Taken in my home town, though the part I grew up in was "slightly" less posh, ahem........
Marianne Faithfull, Desmond Guinness & Mick Jagger, Leixlip Castle, 1968.
RIP Marianne.
RIP Marianne.
January 30, 2025 at 11:43 PM
Taken in my home town, though the part I grew up in was "slightly" less posh, ahem........
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Agnès Varda visits Dephine Seyrig and Alain Resnais, behind the scenes of Last Year at Marienbad, 1961.
December 19, 2024 at 10:37 PM
Agnès Varda visits Dephine Seyrig and Alain Resnais, behind the scenes of Last Year at Marienbad, 1961.
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I checked and I think you’re onto something…
December 12, 2024 at 3:53 PM
I checked and I think you’re onto something…
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A thread about @colmoshea.bsky.social's new book *[Untitled], a meditation* - a compulsive read, an emotional bomb refusing to go off, an uncomfortable lens-look at an affair that's unbearably sad, ending abruptly, with little agency or power, a woman who's a muse, turned into obsession. It's also a
December 8, 2024 at 9:55 AM
A thread about @colmoshea.bsky.social's new book *[Untitled], a meditation* - a compulsive read, an emotional bomb refusing to go off, an uncomfortable lens-look at an affair that's unbearably sad, ending abruptly, with little agency or power, a woman who's a muse, turned into obsession. It's also a
[Untitled]: A Meditation, my debut work of experimental nonfiction, is available from LJMcD Communications
lachlanjmcdougall.wordpress.com/books-and-sh...
lachlanjmcdougall.wordpress.com/books-and-sh...
November 22, 2024 at 8:37 PM
[Untitled]: A Meditation, my debut work of experimental nonfiction, is available from LJMcD Communications
lachlanjmcdougall.wordpress.com/books-and-sh...
lachlanjmcdougall.wordpress.com/books-and-sh...
Yesterday, the @stingingfly.bsky.social podcast discussed my short story 'Feeling Gravity's Pull'....
stingingfly.org/podcast/mary...
stingingfly.org/podcast/mary...
Mary O’Donoghue Reads Colm O’Shea – The Stinging Fly
stingingfly.org
November 21, 2024 at 9:38 AM
Yesterday, the @stingingfly.bsky.social podcast discussed my short story 'Feeling Gravity's Pull'....
stingingfly.org/podcast/mary...
stingingfly.org/podcast/mary...
Reposted by Colm O'Shea
This is a startlingly sad and gorgeous book.
My debut book, [Untitled]: A Meditation,
a work of experimental nonfiction, has been published by LJMcD Communications, and is available here:
lachlanjmcdougall.wordpress.com/books-and-sh...
a work of experimental nonfiction, has been published by LJMcD Communications, and is available here:
lachlanjmcdougall.wordpress.com/books-and-sh...
November 18, 2024 at 11:08 AM
This is a startlingly sad and gorgeous book.
My debut book, [Untitled]: A Meditation,
a work of experimental nonfiction, has been published by LJMcD Communications, and is available here:
lachlanjmcdougall.wordpress.com/books-and-sh...
a work of experimental nonfiction, has been published by LJMcD Communications, and is available here:
lachlanjmcdougall.wordpress.com/books-and-sh...
November 7, 2024 at 8:48 PM
My debut book, [Untitled]: A Meditation,
a work of experimental nonfiction, has been published by LJMcD Communications, and is available here:
lachlanjmcdougall.wordpress.com/books-and-sh...
a work of experimental nonfiction, has been published by LJMcD Communications, and is available here:
lachlanjmcdougall.wordpress.com/books-and-sh...
The first review of a piece of my work up here...
Our SEPTEMBER ISSUE is here🍂 We have life on the moon, a jail library, Bumble & more! https://buff.ly/47r6Plw
WORDS: Pegah Ouji, Caitlin Karasik, Kasey Butcher Santana, Max Pasakorn
ART: Moshtaba
PLUS: Hallel Yadin reviews May Jeong & @sean-carlson.bsky.social reviews @colmoshea.bsky.social
WORDS: Pegah Ouji, Caitlin Karasik, Kasey Butcher Santana, Max Pasakorn
ART: Moshtaba
PLUS: Hallel Yadin reviews May Jeong & @sean-carlson.bsky.social reviews @colmoshea.bsky.social
September 15, 2024 at 7:29 PM
The first review of a piece of my work up here...
Stumbled across this, Anthony Cronin's documentary on Patrick Kavanagh, Flann O'Brien, Brendan Behan, and 'Literary Dublin'...
The Literary Renaissance in Dublin youtu.be/ms9qeXB2_to?...
The Literary Renaissance in Dublin youtu.be/ms9qeXB2_to?...
April 19, 2024 at 6:50 PM
Stumbled across this, Anthony Cronin's documentary on Patrick Kavanagh, Flann O'Brien, Brendan Behan, and 'Literary Dublin'...
The Literary Renaissance in Dublin youtu.be/ms9qeXB2_to?...
The Literary Renaissance in Dublin youtu.be/ms9qeXB2_to?...
An extract from my piece IF.WHAT., published in the latest anthology by The Aleph Press, was recorded, and is included here, alongside the work of other contributors.
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astainonsilence.com/2023/12/29/a...
December 29, 2023 at 6:24 PM
An extract from my piece IF.WHAT., published in the latest anthology by The Aleph Press, was recorded, and is included here, alongside the work of other contributors.
astainonsilence.com/2023/12/29/a...
astainonsilence.com/2023/12/29/a...