Kate Sheehan-Finn
@katesfwriter.bsky.social
Writer, Untold Stories/Perspectives, Historical Fiction, Roman Archaeology, Ancient History, Pottery, Books, Travel, Gardens, Walking, Landscapes, #UNWC 2023/24, Winner #FNL #LFOW24 Jericho Writers
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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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‘You should read the great works of #literature,’ Tom said. ‘Dickens, Shakespeare, Tolstoy, for starters. I’ll lend you a few from my collection. Get you started.’
‘Have you any Austen, Brontë, or Eliot?’ I asked, running a finger along the books on his shelves.
‘No. Don’t read chic lit.’
#vss365
‘Have you any Austen, Brontë, or Eliot?’ I asked, running a finger along the books on his shelves.
‘No. Don’t read chic lit.’
#vss365
November 10, 2025 at 9:34 PM
‘You should read the great works of #literature,’ Tom said. ‘Dickens, Shakespeare, Tolstoy, for starters. I’ll lend you a few from my collection. Get you started.’
‘Have you any Austen, Brontë, or Eliot?’ I asked, running a finger along the books on his shelves.
‘No. Don’t read chic lit.’
#vss365
‘Have you any Austen, Brontë, or Eliot?’ I asked, running a finger along the books on his shelves.
‘No. Don’t read chic lit.’
#vss365
Funerary altar of A. Egrillus Magnus, from a tomb near #OstiaAntica, AD 50-100, carved in marble.
From a tomb like the one that fronts the main road leading into ancient Ostia, which was Rome’s main port near the mouth of the Tiber.
#AncientRome #RomanEmpire
#TombTuesday
📸 my own
From a tomb like the one that fronts the main road leading into ancient Ostia, which was Rome’s main port near the mouth of the Tiber.
#AncientRome #RomanEmpire
#TombTuesday
📸 my own
November 11, 2025 at 8:30 AM
Funerary altar of A. Egrillus Magnus, from a tomb near #OstiaAntica, AD 50-100, carved in marble.
From a tomb like the one that fronts the main road leading into ancient Ostia, which was Rome’s main port near the mouth of the Tiber.
#AncientRome #RomanEmpire
#TombTuesday
📸 my own
From a tomb like the one that fronts the main road leading into ancient Ostia, which was Rome’s main port near the mouth of the Tiber.
#AncientRome #RomanEmpire
#TombTuesday
📸 my own
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If I had known Kian's #history, I would have kept walking when the bottom fell out of his shopping bag, spilling apples, a carton of orange juice, two tins of beans — one of which was badly dented — and a pack of paracetamol, across the footpath. In my innocence, I helped. It was a mistake.
#vss365
#vss365
a person is writing in a book that says " palace to share the prisoners "
ALT: a person is writing in a book that says " palace to share the prisoners "
media.tenor.com
November 7, 2025 at 5:43 PM
Hang on, when did reading become so performative?
#AncientRome #Books #Reading
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#AncientRome #Books #Reading
www.gettyimages.co.uk/detail/news-...
November 10, 2025 at 9:44 PM
Hang on, when did reading become so performative?
#AncientRome #Books #Reading
www.gettyimages.co.uk/detail/news-...
#AncientRome #Books #Reading
www.gettyimages.co.uk/detail/news-...
‘You should read the great works of #literature,’ Tom said. ‘Dickens, Shakespeare, Tolstoy, for starters. I’ll lend you a few from my collection. Get you started.’
‘Have you any Austen, Brontë, or Eliot?’ I asked, running a finger along the books on his shelves.
‘No. Don’t read chic lit.’
#vss365
‘Have you any Austen, Brontë, or Eliot?’ I asked, running a finger along the books on his shelves.
‘No. Don’t read chic lit.’
#vss365
November 10, 2025 at 9:34 PM
‘You should read the great works of #literature,’ Tom said. ‘Dickens, Shakespeare, Tolstoy, for starters. I’ll lend you a few from my collection. Get you started.’
‘Have you any Austen, Brontë, or Eliot?’ I asked, running a finger along the books on his shelves.
‘No. Don’t read chic lit.’
#vss365
‘Have you any Austen, Brontë, or Eliot?’ I asked, running a finger along the books on his shelves.
‘No. Don’t read chic lit.’
#vss365
You are made of the sea and the stars, and one day, you are going to find yourself again.
From Saltwater by Finn Butler.
#Poetry #QOTD #Writing #Inspiration
From Saltwater by Finn Butler.
#Poetry #QOTD #Writing #Inspiration
November 10, 2025 at 8:40 PM
You are made of the sea and the stars, and one day, you are going to find yourself again.
From Saltwater by Finn Butler.
#Poetry #QOTD #Writing #Inspiration
From Saltwater by Finn Butler.
#Poetry #QOTD #Writing #Inspiration
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Piazzale delle Corporazioni #OstiaAntica faces the river Tiber.
Floor mosaics were laid in rooms flanking the square. Motifs were linked to commercial activities. Inscriptions name corporations of traders, ship-owners & entrepreneurs from Ostia & other significant trading communities.
#MosaicMonday
Floor mosaics were laid in rooms flanking the square. Motifs were linked to commercial activities. Inscriptions name corporations of traders, ship-owners & entrepreneurs from Ostia & other significant trading communities.
#MosaicMonday
November 10, 2025 at 10:37 AM
Piazzale delle Corporazioni #OstiaAntica faces the river Tiber.
Floor mosaics were laid in rooms flanking the square. Motifs were linked to commercial activities. Inscriptions name corporations of traders, ship-owners & entrepreneurs from Ostia & other significant trading communities.
#MosaicMonday
Floor mosaics were laid in rooms flanking the square. Motifs were linked to commercial activities. Inscriptions name corporations of traders, ship-owners & entrepreneurs from Ostia & other significant trading communities.
#MosaicMonday
The lawmaker presented the document to Abeis.
‘What’s this about?’ Abeis asked, his eyes narrowing with suspicion. He crushed the scroll in his fist. 'My people are governed by the strongest, not by written #law,' he growled.
'In Palmyra, the laws rule us,' Lady Bahria replied calmly.
#vss365
‘What’s this about?’ Abeis asked, his eyes narrowing with suspicion. He crushed the scroll in his fist. 'My people are governed by the strongest, not by written #law,' he growled.
'In Palmyra, the laws rule us,' Lady Bahria replied calmly.
#vss365
November 10, 2025 at 12:32 PM
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At the AD 3rd C Baths of Caracalla scraps of floor mosaics lean casually against the ancient walls.
#AncientRome #MosaicMonday #Archaeology
📸 my own, Rome.
#AncientRome #MosaicMonday #Archaeology
📸 my own, Rome.
November 3, 2025 at 9:39 PM
At the AD 3rd C Baths of Caracalla scraps of floor mosaics lean casually against the ancient walls.
#AncientRome #MosaicMonday #Archaeology
📸 my own, Rome.
#AncientRome #MosaicMonday #Archaeology
📸 my own, Rome.
Piazzale delle Corporazioni #OstiaAntica faces the river Tiber.
Floor mosaics were laid in rooms flanking the square. Motifs were linked to commercial activities. Inscriptions name corporations of traders, ship-owners & entrepreneurs from Ostia & other significant trading communities.
#MosaicMonday
Floor mosaics were laid in rooms flanking the square. Motifs were linked to commercial activities. Inscriptions name corporations of traders, ship-owners & entrepreneurs from Ostia & other significant trading communities.
#MosaicMonday
November 10, 2025 at 10:37 AM
Piazzale delle Corporazioni #OstiaAntica faces the river Tiber.
Floor mosaics were laid in rooms flanking the square. Motifs were linked to commercial activities. Inscriptions name corporations of traders, ship-owners & entrepreneurs from Ostia & other significant trading communities.
#MosaicMonday
Floor mosaics were laid in rooms flanking the square. Motifs were linked to commercial activities. Inscriptions name corporations of traders, ship-owners & entrepreneurs from Ostia & other significant trading communities.
#MosaicMonday
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Regina began to speak. Barates closed his eyes and listened. Her #language was musical, lilting, slow in parts, then rapid. Latin was briefer, it seemed to him.
When she fell silent, he opened his eyes to her frank scrutiny.
‘What?’ he asked. She shook her head.
‘You are a strange man.’
#vss365
When she fell silent, he opened his eyes to her frank scrutiny.
‘What?’ he asked. She shook her head.
‘You are a strange man.’
#vss365
November 8, 2025 at 1:00 PM
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Marble clad toilet seats in an ancient #Roman latrina in Ostia Antica - Toilets were shared spaces.
Nobody worried about sitting side by side and doing their business more publicly than we are comfortable with today.
#RomanSiteSaturday #AncientRome #Archaeology
📸 my own, #OstiaAntica.
Nobody worried about sitting side by side and doing their business more publicly than we are comfortable with today.
#RomanSiteSaturday #AncientRome #Archaeology
📸 my own, #OstiaAntica.
November 8, 2025 at 3:19 PM
Marble clad toilet seats in an ancient #Roman latrina in Ostia Antica - Toilets were shared spaces.
Nobody worried about sitting side by side and doing their business more publicly than we are comfortable with today.
#RomanSiteSaturday #AncientRome #Archaeology
📸 my own, #OstiaAntica.
Nobody worried about sitting side by side and doing their business more publicly than we are comfortable with today.
#RomanSiteSaturday #AncientRome #Archaeology
📸 my own, #OstiaAntica.
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A guest blog, which adds more detail to the narrative of detecting in England & Wales.
Thank you to my anonymous colleague for writing this important piece & for allowing me to host it on the Big Book of Torcs! 😊
#Archaeology #Detecting #Torcs #gold #Treasure
bigbookoftorcs.com/2025/11/08/w...
Thank you to my anonymous colleague for writing this important piece & for allowing me to host it on the Big Book of Torcs! 😊
#Archaeology #Detecting #Torcs #gold #Treasure
bigbookoftorcs.com/2025/11/08/w...
“Who Pays for the Hobby?”: Metal Detecting in England and Wales
[A download/print PDF version can be found at the end of the paper] This is a first for The Big Book of Torcs. Today, I open up BBoT to a guest blog, written by a friend and archaeological colleagu…
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November 8, 2025 at 6:32 AM
A guest blog, which adds more detail to the narrative of detecting in England & Wales.
Thank you to my anonymous colleague for writing this important piece & for allowing me to host it on the Big Book of Torcs! 😊
#Archaeology #Detecting #Torcs #gold #Treasure
bigbookoftorcs.com/2025/11/08/w...
Thank you to my anonymous colleague for writing this important piece & for allowing me to host it on the Big Book of Torcs! 😊
#Archaeology #Detecting #Torcs #gold #Treasure
bigbookoftorcs.com/2025/11/08/w...
Marble clad toilet seats in an ancient #Roman latrina in Ostia Antica - Toilets were shared spaces.
Nobody worried about sitting side by side and doing their business more publicly than we are comfortable with today.
#RomanSiteSaturday #AncientRome #Archaeology
📸 my own, #OstiaAntica.
Nobody worried about sitting side by side and doing their business more publicly than we are comfortable with today.
#RomanSiteSaturday #AncientRome #Archaeology
📸 my own, #OstiaAntica.
November 8, 2025 at 3:19 PM
Marble clad toilet seats in an ancient #Roman latrina in Ostia Antica - Toilets were shared spaces.
Nobody worried about sitting side by side and doing their business more publicly than we are comfortable with today.
#RomanSiteSaturday #AncientRome #Archaeology
📸 my own, #OstiaAntica.
Nobody worried about sitting side by side and doing their business more publicly than we are comfortable with today.
#RomanSiteSaturday #AncientRome #Archaeology
📸 my own, #OstiaAntica.
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Tarragona, Spain.
#Roman Tarraco, established by early 2nd C BC, had a good variety of entertainment venues, eg
*325m long circus for chariot racing w cement vaults to support stands above + for circulation;
*amphitheatre nr beach + Via Augusta, handy for bringing animals in. 🏺
#Roman Tarraco, established by early 2nd C BC, had a good variety of entertainment venues, eg
*325m long circus for chariot racing w cement vaults to support stands above + for circulation;
*amphitheatre nr beach + Via Augusta, handy for bringing animals in. 🏺
November 8, 2025 at 2:45 PM
Tarragona, Spain.
#Roman Tarraco, established by early 2nd C BC, had a good variety of entertainment venues, eg
*325m long circus for chariot racing w cement vaults to support stands above + for circulation;
*amphitheatre nr beach + Via Augusta, handy for bringing animals in. 🏺
#Roman Tarraco, established by early 2nd C BC, had a good variety of entertainment venues, eg
*325m long circus for chariot racing w cement vaults to support stands above + for circulation;
*amphitheatre nr beach + Via Augusta, handy for bringing animals in. 🏺
It is 15 degrees Celsius in Northumberland this lunchtime.
Normal this isn’t.
#COP30 #Brazil
#ClimateCrisis #Weather
📸 my own.
Normal this isn’t.
#COP30 #Brazil
#ClimateCrisis #Weather
📸 my own.
November 8, 2025 at 1:44 PM
It is 15 degrees Celsius in Northumberland this lunchtime.
Normal this isn’t.
#COP30 #Brazil
#ClimateCrisis #Weather
📸 my own.
Normal this isn’t.
#COP30 #Brazil
#ClimateCrisis #Weather
📸 my own.
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“You are made of the sea and the stars, and one day
you are going to find yourself again.”
— Finn Butler
writingforwellbeing.co.uk
you are going to find yourself again.”
— Finn Butler
writingforwellbeing.co.uk
November 8, 2025 at 11:34 AM
“You are made of the sea and the stars, and one day
you are going to find yourself again.”
— Finn Butler
writingforwellbeing.co.uk
you are going to find yourself again.”
— Finn Butler
writingforwellbeing.co.uk
Regina began to speak. Barates closed his eyes and listened. Her #language was musical, lilting, slow in parts, then rapid. Latin was briefer, it seemed to him.
When she fell silent, he opened his eyes to her frank scrutiny.
‘What?’ he asked. She shook her head.
‘You are a strange man.’
#vss365
When she fell silent, he opened his eyes to her frank scrutiny.
‘What?’ he asked. She shook her head.
‘You are a strange man.’
#vss365
November 8, 2025 at 1:00 PM
If I had known Kian's #history, I would have kept walking when the bottom fell out of his shopping bag, spilling apples, a carton of orange juice, two tins of beans — one of which was badly dented — and a pack of paracetamol, across the footpath. In my innocence, I helped. It was a mistake.
#vss365
#vss365
a person is writing in a book that says " palace to share the prisoners "
ALT: a person is writing in a book that says " palace to share the prisoners "
media.tenor.com
November 7, 2025 at 5:43 PM
Reposted by Kate Sheehan-Finn
#WriteCBC task from @jessicabull.bsky.social: Write an exchange in which a character says one thing but communicates something else entirely. Allow your narrator to draw their own conclusions as to what is really being said. Extra points if you make it festive!
November 6, 2025 at 11:00 AM
#WriteCBC task from @jessicabull.bsky.social: Write an exchange in which a character says one thing but communicates something else entirely. Allow your narrator to draw their own conclusions as to what is really being said. Extra points if you make it festive!
So warm today, 18 degrees Celsius in Northumberland - the trees know it’s late autumn 🍂 and that winter is coming, but the climate seems to have missed the memo.
#ClimateCrisis #Weather #Autumn
#ClimateCrisis #Weather #Autumn
November 6, 2025 at 11:05 PM
So warm today, 18 degrees Celsius in Northumberland - the trees know it’s late autumn 🍂 and that winter is coming, but the climate seems to have missed the memo.
#ClimateCrisis #Weather #Autumn
#ClimateCrisis #Weather #Autumn
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Wow! 😮🤩
There's a new interactive map of Every Known Road in the Roman Empire!! 🤓
itiner-e.org
We might have to have a lie-down.
There's a new interactive map of Every Known Road in the Roman Empire!! 🤓
itiner-e.org
We might have to have a lie-down.
November 6, 2025 at 5:07 PM
Wow! 😮🤩
There's a new interactive map of Every Known Road in the Roman Empire!! 🤓
itiner-e.org
We might have to have a lie-down.
There's a new interactive map of Every Known Road in the Roman Empire!! 🤓
itiner-e.org
We might have to have a lie-down.
Reposted by Kate Sheehan-Finn
She unfurled the map like a flag billowing in a breeze. Then she flattened it, held it down with her elbows, and said, ‘So show me where we are #Geography genius.’
I waved my iPhone at her, ‘Siri, state my location.’
She laughed.
‘Siri won’t help you on Kleton 2. It’s an old-school planet.’
#VSS365
I waved my iPhone at her, ‘Siri, state my location.’
She laughed.
‘Siri won’t help you on Kleton 2. It’s an old-school planet.’
#VSS365
#vss365 #prompt #Nov6
Good morning! The next word from my Xword book index is #geography - not one of my better subjects from school, though I enjoyed drawing maps.
I still prefer real maps - if I don't know where I am now, how can GPS tell me where to go next?
Good morning! The next word from my Xword book index is #geography - not one of my better subjects from school, though I enjoyed drawing maps.
I still prefer real maps - if I don't know where I am now, how can GPS tell me where to go next?
November 6, 2025 at 2:27 PM
She unfurled the map like a flag billowing in a breeze. Then she flattened it, held it down with her elbows, and said, ‘So show me where we are #Geography genius.’
I waved my iPhone at her, ‘Siri, state my location.’
She laughed.
‘Siri won’t help you on Kleton 2. It’s an old-school planet.’
#VSS365
I waved my iPhone at her, ‘Siri, state my location.’
She laughed.
‘Siri won’t help you on Kleton 2. It’s an old-school planet.’
#VSS365
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The Spinario is a bronze statue of a boy examining a thorn embedded in the sole of his foot.
Dated 50-1 BC.
His first hint that he is mortal? A lesson that youth and beauty are temporary? Or that life involves pain?
inv. S 1186, Capitoline Museums.
📸 my own.
#AncientRome #Archaeology
#Sculpture
Dated 50-1 BC.
His first hint that he is mortal? A lesson that youth and beauty are temporary? Or that life involves pain?
inv. S 1186, Capitoline Museums.
📸 my own.
#AncientRome #Archaeology
#Sculpture
November 2, 2025 at 10:08 AM
The Spinario is a bronze statue of a boy examining a thorn embedded in the sole of his foot.
Dated 50-1 BC.
His first hint that he is mortal? A lesson that youth and beauty are temporary? Or that life involves pain?
inv. S 1186, Capitoline Museums.
📸 my own.
#AncientRome #Archaeology
#Sculpture
Dated 50-1 BC.
His first hint that he is mortal? A lesson that youth and beauty are temporary? Or that life involves pain?
inv. S 1186, Capitoline Museums.
📸 my own.
#AncientRome #Archaeology
#Sculpture
She unfurled the map like a flag billowing in a breeze. Then she flattened it, held it down with her elbows, and said, ‘So show me where we are #Geography genius.’
I waved my iPhone at her, ‘Siri, state my location.’
She laughed.
‘Siri won’t help you on Kleton 2. It’s an old-school planet.’
#VSS365
I waved my iPhone at her, ‘Siri, state my location.’
She laughed.
‘Siri won’t help you on Kleton 2. It’s an old-school planet.’
#VSS365
#vss365 #prompt #Nov6
Good morning! The next word from my Xword book index is #geography - not one of my better subjects from school, though I enjoyed drawing maps.
I still prefer real maps - if I don't know where I am now, how can GPS tell me where to go next?
Good morning! The next word from my Xword book index is #geography - not one of my better subjects from school, though I enjoyed drawing maps.
I still prefer real maps - if I don't know where I am now, how can GPS tell me where to go next?
November 6, 2025 at 2:27 PM
She unfurled the map like a flag billowing in a breeze. Then she flattened it, held it down with her elbows, and said, ‘So show me where we are #Geography genius.’
I waved my iPhone at her, ‘Siri, state my location.’
She laughed.
‘Siri won’t help you on Kleton 2. It’s an old-school planet.’
#VSS365
I waved my iPhone at her, ‘Siri, state my location.’
She laughed.
‘Siri won’t help you on Kleton 2. It’s an old-school planet.’
#VSS365