Cristín Leach
@cristinleach.bsky.social
Irish Writer. Art Critic. Author, art/divorce memoir Negative Space; RHA From Ten Till Dusk. Fiction, non-fiction, journalism: RTÉ Culture, Irish Arts Review, Winter Papers. Hybrid texts, collaborations. 20yrs ✍🏻 Sunday Times. https://linktr.ee/cristinleach
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Thanks so much to competition judge & brilliant Irish author Roisín O’Donnell (read her debut novel Nesting if you have not yet), for these gorgeous words about my short story, This Time Baby. Very proud of this one. Can’t wait to see it in print in @the4facedliar.bsky.social soon. Congrats to all🥈💚
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🙋♀️ I’m one of the eleven other (fantastic! talented! good-looking!) writers
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pre-orders open now 👏 @lindzmcleod.bsky.social
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pre-orders open now 👏 @lindzmcleod.bsky.social
I spent over a year of my life writing this collaborative craft book with eleven other (fantastic! talented! good-looking!) writers.
"Sometimes a story emerges fully formed in your mind, and sometimes it’s an onion, requiring several ‘peels’ to get to the real, eye-watering heart of the matter."
"Sometimes a story emerges fully formed in your mind, and sometimes it’s an onion, requiring several ‘peels’ to get to the real, eye-watering heart of the matter."
November 6, 2025 at 1:45 AM
🙋♀️ I’m one of the eleven other (fantastic! talented! good-looking!) writers
😆😄
pre-orders open now 👏 @lindzmcleod.bsky.social
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pre-orders open now 👏 @lindzmcleod.bsky.social
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With a little twist! Each of the eleven stories were collaboratively written by myself and one other writer, and then we wrote a non-fiction accompany piece to explain how/why we used the techniques we did, and how many drafts we did, and what worked (and what got cut, and why)
November 5, 2025 at 11:08 PM
With a little twist! Each of the eleven stories were collaboratively written by myself and one other writer, and then we wrote a non-fiction accompany piece to explain how/why we used the techniques we did, and how many drafts we did, and what worked (and what got cut, and why)
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Also, the pre-order is on sale atm! Get it while it's hot!
An Honour & A Privilege | Stanchion
In collaboration with eleven writers, including The Handmaid's Tale screenwriter Lynn Renee Maxcy, Sunday Times bestseller Thomas D. Lee, and Nebula/WFA finalist Eugenia Triantafyllou, award-winning a...
www.stanchionzine.com
November 5, 2025 at 9:13 PM
Also, the pre-order is on sale atm! Get it while it's hot!
🙋♀️ I’m one of the eleven other (fantastic! talented! good-looking!) writers
😆😄
pre-orders open now 👏 @lindzmcleod.bsky.social
😆😄
pre-orders open now 👏 @lindzmcleod.bsky.social
I spent over a year of my life writing this collaborative craft book with eleven other (fantastic! talented! good-looking!) writers.
"Sometimes a story emerges fully formed in your mind, and sometimes it’s an onion, requiring several ‘peels’ to get to the real, eye-watering heart of the matter."
"Sometimes a story emerges fully formed in your mind, and sometimes it’s an onion, requiring several ‘peels’ to get to the real, eye-watering heart of the matter."
November 6, 2025 at 1:45 AM
🙋♀️ I’m one of the eleven other (fantastic! talented! good-looking!) writers
😆😄
pre-orders open now 👏 @lindzmcleod.bsky.social
😆😄
pre-orders open now 👏 @lindzmcleod.bsky.social
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This was a really wonderful installation to be part of in 2021. There’s a Perú update coming. If you contributed to 'if trees were lone women what would they sound like' in its Scottish iteration & haven’t seen an email from Clare, check your spam or get in touch if she’s accidentally missed you. 🔊
A picture of me alone in the dark at night crossing the Rio Seco (dry river) where I currently live in Perú. If you contributed to my 2021 sound installation for Sanctuary Lab in Galloway Forest then please check your email/spam. I would appreciate you sharing this post in case I've missed people.
October 29, 2025 at 10:48 AM
This was a really wonderful installation to be part of in 2021. There’s a Perú update coming. If you contributed to 'if trees were lone women what would they sound like' in its Scottish iteration & haven’t seen an email from Clare, check your spam or get in touch if she’s accidentally missed you. 🔊
This was a really wonderful installation to be part of in 2021. There’s a Perú update coming. If you contributed to 'if trees were lone women what would they sound like' in its Scottish iteration & haven’t seen an email from Clare, check your spam or get in touch if she’s accidentally missed you. 🔊
A picture of me alone in the dark at night crossing the Rio Seco (dry river) where I currently live in Perú. If you contributed to my 2021 sound installation for Sanctuary Lab in Galloway Forest then please check your email/spam. I would appreciate you sharing this post in case I've missed people.
October 29, 2025 at 10:48 AM
This was a really wonderful installation to be part of in 2021. There’s a Perú update coming. If you contributed to 'if trees were lone women what would they sound like' in its Scottish iteration & haven’t seen an email from Clare, check your spam or get in touch if she’s accidentally missed you. 🔊
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A picture of me alone in the dark at night crossing the Rio Seco (dry river) where I currently live in Perú. If you contributed to my 2021 sound installation for Sanctuary Lab in Galloway Forest then please check your email/spam. I would appreciate you sharing this post in case I've missed people.
October 28, 2025 at 7:54 PM
A picture of me alone in the dark at night crossing the Rio Seco (dry river) where I currently live in Perú. If you contributed to my 2021 sound installation for Sanctuary Lab in Galloway Forest then please check your email/spam. I would appreciate you sharing this post in case I've missed people.
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Candy-pink brushstrokes, in Piles of French Novels, Van Gogh, 1887
October 24, 2025 at 7:04 AM
Candy-pink brushstrokes, in Piles of French Novels, Van Gogh, 1887
Thanks so much to competition judge & brilliant Irish author Roisín O’Donnell (read her debut novel Nesting if you have not yet), for these gorgeous words about my short story, This Time Baby. Very proud of this one. Can’t wait to see it in print in @the4facedliar.bsky.social soon. Congrats to all🥈💚
October 20, 2025 at 3:57 PM
Thanks so much to competition judge & brilliant Irish author Roisín O’Donnell (read her debut novel Nesting if you have not yet), for these gorgeous words about my short story, This Time Baby. Very proud of this one. Can’t wait to see it in print in @the4facedliar.bsky.social soon. Congrats to all🥈💚
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Seeing as it's #IrishBookWeek, I've put together a Starter Pack of bricks 'n' mortar bookshops. Terrified I've forgotten someone obvious so please let me know of additions
go.bsky.app/G4kmxVq
go.bsky.app/G4kmxVq
October 18, 2025 at 5:50 PM
Seeing as it's #IrishBookWeek, I've put together a Starter Pack of bricks 'n' mortar bookshops. Terrified I've forgotten someone obvious so please let me know of additions
go.bsky.app/G4kmxVq
go.bsky.app/G4kmxVq
Bring back arranging the internet alphabetically so Art comes first. 1994 was the year I got an email address and had only one person to email. Used to sit on the floor of the lab in UCC queuing while reading a book until a computer was available. Had command instructions handwritten in a notebook.
With so much cruft on the Internet these days, wouldn't it be nice to get a little guidance?
October 19, 2025 at 10:33 PM
Bring back arranging the internet alphabetically so Art comes first. 1994 was the year I got an email address and had only one person to email. Used to sit on the floor of the lab in UCC queuing while reading a book until a computer was available. Had command instructions handwritten in a notebook.
✨ Highly Commended for On The Couch in the 2025 Katherine Mansfield Sparkling Prose Competition ✨
Congrats to all 👏
I was in Birr in the middle of my residency when the Zoom awards were held. 7pm in Aotearoa New Zealand is 7am in Ireland. Worth getting up for 😄 ☕️ www.youtube.com/watch?v=DW3w...
Congrats to all 👏
I was in Birr in the middle of my residency when the Zoom awards were held. 7pm in Aotearoa New Zealand is 7am in Ireland. Worth getting up for 😄 ☕️ www.youtube.com/watch?v=DW3w...
October 18, 2025 at 8:34 PM
✨ Highly Commended for On The Couch in the 2025 Katherine Mansfield Sparkling Prose Competition ✨
Congrats to all 👏
I was in Birr in the middle of my residency when the Zoom awards were held. 7pm in Aotearoa New Zealand is 7am in Ireland. Worth getting up for 😄 ☕️ www.youtube.com/watch?v=DW3w...
Congrats to all 👏
I was in Birr in the middle of my residency when the Zoom awards were held. 7pm in Aotearoa New Zealand is 7am in Ireland. Worth getting up for 😄 ☕️ www.youtube.com/watch?v=DW3w...
What a remarkable time I had as a 2025 Writer in Residence at Brendan House in Birr, County Offaly last week! My time coincided with the brilliant Sadhbh Moriarty. With thanks to Offaly Arts Office and to Rosalind Fanning, a host as utterly unique as her home. ✍🏻
October 18, 2025 at 8:19 PM
What a remarkable time I had as a 2025 Writer in Residence at Brendan House in Birr, County Offaly last week! My time coincided with the brilliant Sadhbh Moriarty. With thanks to Offaly Arts Office and to Rosalind Fanning, a host as utterly unique as her home. ✍🏻
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Global Warning: Ep 2 Against the tide.
How do we adapt to what is coming?
The nice people at Al Jazeera have made this series free to watch. I hope you all share it widely.
#Climate #ClimateCrisis #PublicServiceBroadcasting
📺 👉 www.aljazeera.com/video/featur...
How do we adapt to what is coming?
The nice people at Al Jazeera have made this series free to watch. I hope you all share it widely.
#Climate #ClimateCrisis #PublicServiceBroadcasting
📺 👉 www.aljazeera.com/video/featur...
October 18, 2025 at 8:27 AM
Global Warning: Ep 2 Against the tide.
How do we adapt to what is coming?
The nice people at Al Jazeera have made this series free to watch. I hope you all share it widely.
#Climate #ClimateCrisis #PublicServiceBroadcasting
📺 👉 www.aljazeera.com/video/featur...
How do we adapt to what is coming?
The nice people at Al Jazeera have made this series free to watch. I hope you all share it widely.
#Climate #ClimateCrisis #PublicServiceBroadcasting
📺 👉 www.aljazeera.com/video/featur...
Second place! Thanks to judge Roisín O’Donnell and congrats to everyone. The stories will all be published in Issue 4 of The Four Faced Liar.
October 12, 2025 at 4:02 PM
Second place! Thanks to judge Roisín O’Donnell and congrats to everyone. The stories will all be published in Issue 4 of The Four Faced Liar.
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Brilliant!!
This is such a clever idea on taking kids to museums/galleries
www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...
www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...
October 12, 2025 at 2:33 PM
Brilliant!!
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My first review. And book of the week!
I reviewed this superb book about memoir for @rte.ie RTÉ Culture this week.
“Both erudite and utterly conversational in tone… @lilydunn.bsky.social argues that memoir writing can function as a form of radical transformation, for reader and writer alike.”
www.rte.ie/culture/2025...
“Both erudite and utterly conversational in tone… @lilydunn.bsky.social argues that memoir writing can function as a form of radical transformation, for reader and writer alike.”
www.rte.ie/culture/2025...
October 8, 2025 at 10:18 AM
My first review. And book of the week!
I reviewed this superb book about memoir for @rte.ie RTÉ Culture this week.
“Both erudite and utterly conversational in tone… @lilydunn.bsky.social argues that memoir writing can function as a form of radical transformation, for reader and writer alike.”
www.rte.ie/culture/2025...
“Both erudite and utterly conversational in tone… @lilydunn.bsky.social argues that memoir writing can function as a form of radical transformation, for reader and writer alike.”
www.rte.ie/culture/2025...
October 7, 2025 at 9:39 PM
I reviewed this superb book about memoir for @rte.ie RTÉ Culture this week.
“Both erudite and utterly conversational in tone… @lilydunn.bsky.social argues that memoir writing can function as a form of radical transformation, for reader and writer alike.”
www.rte.ie/culture/2025...
“Both erudite and utterly conversational in tone… @lilydunn.bsky.social argues that memoir writing can function as a form of radical transformation, for reader and writer alike.”
www.rte.ie/culture/2025...
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I’ll be in conversation with Ciara O’Connor about her remarkable exhibition, Grief’s Current Shape, at Garter Lane Arts Centre in Waterford on the 9th of October at 11.30am. Join us! Free but link to book: garterlane.ie/events/c-p-d...
September 30, 2025 at 6:32 PM
I’ll be in conversation with Ciara O’Connor about her remarkable exhibition, Grief’s Current Shape, at Garter Lane Arts Centre in Waterford on the 9th of October at 11.30am. Join us! Free but link to book: garterlane.ie/events/c-p-d...
And the results for this one will be out in October too ✍🏻
Ngā mihi nui Thank you! to the folks at I te Kokoru At the Bay. My short story On the Couch has been shortlisted for the 2025 Katherine Mansfield Sparkling Prose Competition in Aotearoa New Zealand 🤩
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atthebay.org/sparkling-pr...
Sparkling Prose: Katherine Mansfield story competition ~ At The Bay ~ I Te Kokoru ~ Aotearoa Stories
This year’s competition is for works of fiction up to 1888 words – a reference to the year of Mansfield’s birth. All submissions must follow the theme, however loosely, of ‘haunted’.
atthebay.org
September 30, 2025 at 8:49 PM
And the results for this one will be out in October too ✍🏻
Delighted to have a short story anonymously on the longlist for the Four Faced Liar Short Story Competition, judged by Roisín O’Donnell. Shortlist and results in October. 🤞(Wondering about the name of this journal? See alt text on the third/logo image.)
September 30, 2025 at 6:52 PM
Delighted to have a short story anonymously on the longlist for the Four Faced Liar Short Story Competition, judged by Roisín O’Donnell. Shortlist and results in October. 🤞(Wondering about the name of this journal? See alt text on the third/logo image.)
I’ll be in conversation with Ciara O’Connor about her remarkable exhibition, Grief’s Current Shape, at Garter Lane Arts Centre in Waterford on the 9th of October at 11.30am. Join us! Free but link to book: garterlane.ie/events/c-p-d...
September 30, 2025 at 6:32 PM
I’ll be in conversation with Ciara O’Connor about her remarkable exhibition, Grief’s Current Shape, at Garter Lane Arts Centre in Waterford on the 9th of October at 11.30am. Join us! Free but link to book: garterlane.ie/events/c-p-d...
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quote of the week just dropped
AI is the asbestos we are shoveling into the walls of our society and our descendants will be digging it out for generations”
Doctorow on the impending economic collapse when the AI bubble bursts. pluralistic.net/2025/09/27/e...
September 30, 2025 at 6:25 PM
quote of the week just dropped
“She Died Young affirms the necessity of memoir in Irish life, both as literary form and as social document.” 👏 Brilliant review of Brenda Fricker’s memoir by @sineadoshea.bsky.social in The IrishTimes. (TW: SA, SH) Subscriber only @irishtimes.com: www.irishtimes.com/culture/book...
Brenda Fricker’s She Died Young: Oscar winner looks back on her public success and private trauma
Brenda Fricker has written an unsentimental, brilliant and often shocking memoir
www.irishtimes.com
September 28, 2025 at 6:55 PM
“She Died Young affirms the necessity of memoir in Irish life, both as literary form and as social document.” 👏 Brilliant review of Brenda Fricker’s memoir by @sineadoshea.bsky.social in The IrishTimes. (TW: SA, SH) Subscriber only @irishtimes.com: www.irishtimes.com/culture/book...
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Journalism used to be the bread on which daily advertising jam was delivered. The Internet broke this old financial model for delivering ads to consumers via traditional media (newspapers, tv, radio) and digital delivery isn’t working as well. Now journalism AND fridges are in trouble. Is my theory.
Samsung has rolled out a software update to its smart fridges that will display ads, despite saying they had "no plans" to do so. We're headed for a future where you will have to pay extra for appliances without ads.
Samsung brings ads to US fridges
Samsung’s ‘screens everywhere’ initiative is morphing into ads everywhere.
www.theverge.com
September 19, 2025 at 11:08 AM
Journalism used to be the bread on which daily advertising jam was delivered. The Internet broke this old financial model for delivering ads to consumers via traditional media (newspapers, tv, radio) and digital delivery isn’t working as well. Now journalism AND fridges are in trouble. Is my theory.