Kate Sheehan-Finn
@katesfwriter.bsky.social
Writer, Historical Fiction, Roman Archaeology, Ancient History, Books, Travel, Walking, Landscapes, Photography.
Winner Jericho Writers Competition #LFOW24
https://linktr.ee/katesfwriter
Writing sprinkles life with stardust.
Winner Jericho Writers Competition #LFOW24
https://linktr.ee/katesfwriter
Writing sprinkles life with stardust.
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From Submission to Spotlight: The Journey of a Festival Friday Night Live Winner – Jericho Writers
If I can win a writing competition, then you can too. I received notification that I was in the Friday Night Live (but on Saturday) Final at London Festival of Writing on 21 June 2024. I was visiting ...
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Fab memory from last year’s festival of writing hosted by @jerichowriters.bsky.social - thanks for asking me to write about the experience of winning Friday Night Live in 2024.
#WritingCommunity #WritingLife #AmWriting
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#WritingCommunity #WritingLife #AmWriting
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Loved this report on the news this morning.
January 7, 2026 at 12:04 PM
Loved this report on the news this morning.
A Roman marble relief showing a teacher giving a lecture. From the Area Sacra of Via Della Foce, #OstiaAntica, late 4th C AD.
#ReliefWednesday #AncientRome
📸 my own.
#ReliefWednesday #AncientRome
📸 my own.
January 7, 2026 at 12:03 PM
A Roman marble relief showing a teacher giving a lecture. From the Area Sacra of Via Della Foce, #OstiaAntica, late 4th C AD.
#ReliefWednesday #AncientRome
📸 my own.
#ReliefWednesday #AncientRome
📸 my own.
This find is so special. And it’s an incredible story of recovery and conservation too.
The new series of #DiggingForBritain is now on #BBCiPlayer and this incredible find is featured in the program.
#Archaeology
The new series of #DiggingForBritain is now on #BBCiPlayer and this incredible find is featured in the program.
#Archaeology
January 7, 2026 at 11:40 AM
This find is so special. And it’s an incredible story of recovery and conservation too.
The new series of #DiggingForBritain is now on #BBCiPlayer and this incredible find is featured in the program.
#Archaeology
The new series of #DiggingForBritain is now on #BBCiPlayer and this incredible find is featured in the program.
#Archaeology
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More on the stunning Iron Age carnyx found in #Norfolk with boar standard and shield bosses
👇👇👇
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Found by PreConstruct Archaeology and featuring in episode 2 of the new series of #DiggingForBritain with @profaliceroberts.bsky.social on BBC2
Wowzers 🤩
👇👇👇
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Found by PreConstruct Archaeology and featuring in episode 2 of the new series of #DiggingForBritain with @profaliceroberts.bsky.social on BBC2
Wowzers 🤩
January 7, 2026 at 9:31 AM
More on the stunning Iron Age carnyx found in #Norfolk with boar standard and shield bosses
👇👇👇
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Found by PreConstruct Archaeology and featuring in episode 2 of the new series of #DiggingForBritain with @profaliceroberts.bsky.social on BBC2
Wowzers 🤩
👇👇👇
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Found by PreConstruct Archaeology and featuring in episode 2 of the new series of #DiggingForBritain with @profaliceroberts.bsky.social on BBC2
Wowzers 🤩
Ordered and on the way!
January 3, 2026 at 8:47 PM
Ordered and on the way!
Oh I want that book!
January 3, 2026 at 2:04 PM
Oh I want that book!
They are great, gathering lichens and little offerings just like the originals.
January 3, 2026 at 11:41 AM
They are great, gathering lichens and little offerings just like the originals.
From my photo archive for #RomanSiteSaturday - the sunken Mithraeum Temple outside the southwest corner of Brocolitia Roman Fort on #HadriansWall in early spring with its replica stone altars.
This place is often atmospheric especially around sunset.
#RomanBritain
This place is often atmospheric especially around sunset.
#RomanBritain
January 3, 2026 at 9:01 AM
From my photo archive for #RomanSiteSaturday - the sunken Mithraeum Temple outside the southwest corner of Brocolitia Roman Fort on #HadriansWall in early spring with its replica stone altars.
This place is often atmospheric especially around sunset.
#RomanBritain
This place is often atmospheric especially around sunset.
#RomanBritain
Doing a little dance of joy because my nose has finally stopped running.
I have survived the lurgy from hell.
I have survived the lurgy from hell.
a cartoon cat is holding a cup of coffee in its paws on a pink background .
ALT: a cartoon cat is holding a cup of coffee in its paws on a pink background .
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January 3, 2026 at 8:52 AM
Doing a little dance of joy because my nose has finally stopped running.
I have survived the lurgy from hell.
I have survived the lurgy from hell.
My photo shows the decorated rear and handle of a Roman bronze mirror, dated AD 50-70. The mirror was discovered in a pit during excavation of a Roman Villa in Devon.
Roman mirror ‘glass’ was typically highly polished tin or silver.
#FindsFriday #RomanBritain #Archaeology
📸 my own.
Roman mirror ‘glass’ was typically highly polished tin or silver.
#FindsFriday #RomanBritain #Archaeology
📸 my own.
January 2, 2026 at 10:54 AM
My photo shows the decorated rear and handle of a Roman bronze mirror, dated AD 50-70. The mirror was discovered in a pit during excavation of a Roman Villa in Devon.
Roman mirror ‘glass’ was typically highly polished tin or silver.
#FindsFriday #RomanBritain #Archaeology
📸 my own.
Roman mirror ‘glass’ was typically highly polished tin or silver.
#FindsFriday #RomanBritain #Archaeology
📸 my own.
Reposted by Kate Sheehan-Finn
Head of the pin in the form of a #Roman lady
An intricate bust of a Roman lady has been carved into this #hairpin from the Roman town of Caerwent, south-east #Wales.
#VentaSilurum #RomanBritain #FindsFriday #Archaeology
An intricate bust of a Roman lady has been carved into this #hairpin from the Roman town of Caerwent, south-east #Wales.
#VentaSilurum #RomanBritain #FindsFriday #Archaeology
January 2, 2026 at 10:23 AM
Head of the pin in the form of a #Roman lady
An intricate bust of a Roman lady has been carved into this #hairpin from the Roman town of Caerwent, south-east #Wales.
#VentaSilurum #RomanBritain #FindsFriday #Archaeology
An intricate bust of a Roman lady has been carved into this #hairpin from the Roman town of Caerwent, south-east #Wales.
#VentaSilurum #RomanBritain #FindsFriday #Archaeology
Happy New Year to you Mayken.
January 1, 2026 at 5:35 PM
Happy New Year to you Mayken.
Happy New Year 🥳
January 1, 2026 at 2:58 PM
Happy New Year 🥳
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My writing in 2026:
Show up for 1 hour per day. Draft at least 250 words.
Read from a book that resonates before lights out.
Eavesdrop and observe. Fill a notebook.
Walk in my protagonist’s shoes.
Finish Draft by April/First Edit by December.
And tell the lie that reveals a truth.
#WriteCBC
Show up for 1 hour per day. Draft at least 250 words.
Read from a book that resonates before lights out.
Eavesdrop and observe. Fill a notebook.
Walk in my protagonist’s shoes.
Finish Draft by April/First Edit by December.
And tell the lie that reveals a truth.
#WriteCBC
January 1, 2026 at 2:45 PM
My writing in 2026:
Show up for 1 hour per day. Draft at least 250 words.
Read from a book that resonates before lights out.
Eavesdrop and observe. Fill a notebook.
Walk in my protagonist’s shoes.
Finish Draft by April/First Edit by December.
And tell the lie that reveals a truth.
#WriteCBC
Show up for 1 hour per day. Draft at least 250 words.
Read from a book that resonates before lights out.
Eavesdrop and observe. Fill a notebook.
Walk in my protagonist’s shoes.
Finish Draft by April/First Edit by December.
And tell the lie that reveals a truth.
#WriteCBC
Reposted by Kate Sheehan-Finn
Happy New Year #WritingCommunity! 🎊
It's time for #WriteCBC, share your writing goal for 2026. Tell us in the replies to this post and you might win a course worth £230! Enter by 10am Fri 9 Jan.
Get some inspiration (and read T&Cs) here:
www.curtisbrowncreative.co.uk/blog/10-writ...
It's time for #WriteCBC, share your writing goal for 2026. Tell us in the replies to this post and you might win a course worth £230! Enter by 10am Fri 9 Jan.
Get some inspiration (and read T&Cs) here:
www.curtisbrowncreative.co.uk/blog/10-writ...
January 1, 2026 at 11:01 AM
Happy New Year #WritingCommunity! 🎊
It's time for #WriteCBC, share your writing goal for 2026. Tell us in the replies to this post and you might win a course worth £230! Enter by 10am Fri 9 Jan.
Get some inspiration (and read T&Cs) here:
www.curtisbrowncreative.co.uk/blog/10-writ...
It's time for #WriteCBC, share your writing goal for 2026. Tell us in the replies to this post and you might win a course worth £230! Enter by 10am Fri 9 Jan.
Get some inspiration (and read T&Cs) here:
www.curtisbrowncreative.co.uk/blog/10-writ...
My writing in 2026:
Show up for 1 hour per day. Draft at least 250 words.
Read from a book that resonates before lights out.
Eavesdrop and observe. Fill a notebook.
Walk in my protagonist’s shoes.
Finish Draft by April/First Edit by December.
And tell the lie that reveals a truth.
#WriteCBC
Show up for 1 hour per day. Draft at least 250 words.
Read from a book that resonates before lights out.
Eavesdrop and observe. Fill a notebook.
Walk in my protagonist’s shoes.
Finish Draft by April/First Edit by December.
And tell the lie that reveals a truth.
#WriteCBC
January 1, 2026 at 2:45 PM
My writing in 2026:
Show up for 1 hour per day. Draft at least 250 words.
Read from a book that resonates before lights out.
Eavesdrop and observe. Fill a notebook.
Walk in my protagonist’s shoes.
Finish Draft by April/First Edit by December.
And tell the lie that reveals a truth.
#WriteCBC
Show up for 1 hour per day. Draft at least 250 words.
Read from a book that resonates before lights out.
Eavesdrop and observe. Fill a notebook.
Walk in my protagonist’s shoes.
Finish Draft by April/First Edit by December.
And tell the lie that reveals a truth.
#WriteCBC
Roman #NewYear was January 1st (Kalends) after Julius Caesar's calendar reform.
Romans honored the 2-faced god Janus, who looked to both past and future. Feasting, gift-giving (honey, dates, coins for prosperity), new resolutions, wearing white togas, games, and public ceremonies for new consuls-my📸
Romans honored the 2-faced god Janus, who looked to both past and future. Feasting, gift-giving (honey, dates, coins for prosperity), new resolutions, wearing white togas, games, and public ceremonies for new consuls-my📸
January 1, 2026 at 12:48 PM
Roman #NewYear was January 1st (Kalends) after Julius Caesar's calendar reform.
Romans honored the 2-faced god Janus, who looked to both past and future. Feasting, gift-giving (honey, dates, coins for prosperity), new resolutions, wearing white togas, games, and public ceremonies for new consuls-my📸
Romans honored the 2-faced god Janus, who looked to both past and future. Feasting, gift-giving (honey, dates, coins for prosperity), new resolutions, wearing white togas, games, and public ceremonies for new consuls-my📸
Thank you so much. Hope you’re much better now. I’ve been reading a lot the past few days.
January 1, 2026 at 12:40 PM
Thank you so much. Hope you’re much better now. I’ve been reading a lot the past few days.
The next 365-day dance around the sun is about to begin.
Who’s on the dance floor?
#NewYear2026
#HappyNewYear
📸 my own, #Northumberland
Who’s on the dance floor?
#NewYear2026
#HappyNewYear
📸 my own, #Northumberland
December 31, 2025 at 11:54 PM
The next 365-day dance around the sun is about to begin.
Who’s on the dance floor?
#NewYear2026
#HappyNewYear
📸 my own, #Northumberland
Who’s on the dance floor?
#NewYear2026
#HappyNewYear
📸 my own, #Northumberland
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Trieste Cathedral was built over a Roman temple next to the forum and retains the original mosaic floor. #TilesOnTuesday 🗃️🏺
December 30, 2025 at 12:38 PM
Trieste Cathedral was built over a Roman temple next to the forum and retains the original mosaic floor. #TilesOnTuesday 🗃️🏺
I’ve been quiet on BlueSky for the month of December. Was very busy before Christmas like everyone else. Preparing, parties, etc.
Then came down with Flu on Boxing Day. Still in bed on NYE and feeling fatigued, nauseous, just miserable.
This isn’t a ‘pity me’ post.
It’s a Happy New Year post!
Then came down with Flu on Boxing Day. Still in bed on NYE and feeling fatigued, nauseous, just miserable.
This isn’t a ‘pity me’ post.
It’s a Happy New Year post!
a happy new year greeting card with fireworks in the background
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December 31, 2025 at 5:53 PM
I’ve been quiet on BlueSky for the month of December. Was very busy before Christmas like everyone else. Preparing, parties, etc.
Then came down with Flu on Boxing Day. Still in bed on NYE and feeling fatigued, nauseous, just miserable.
This isn’t a ‘pity me’ post.
It’s a Happy New Year post!
Then came down with Flu on Boxing Day. Still in bed on NYE and feeling fatigued, nauseous, just miserable.
This isn’t a ‘pity me’ post.
It’s a Happy New Year post!
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December 28, 2025 at 10:45 AM
I've made a small donation to help make a big difference to an underrepresented writer's career:
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A great reason to go back!
December 20, 2025 at 3:49 PM
A great reason to go back!
Yes. Hist Fic story about a young Roman woman who transgressed and was kicked out of home.
December 19, 2025 at 8:32 PM
Yes. Hist Fic story about a young Roman woman who transgressed and was kicked out of home.