It's here! Over 150 calls for literary competitions & submissions incl. poetry, fiction, creative nonfiction, art, photography & more - contests, literary journals, residencies, bursaries etc - open or with deadlines in August 2025. Good luck & pls share.

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I lost count how many times I submitted to @bansheepress.bsky.social, so I'm especially thrilled to take up four whole ass pages like quite the audacious madam (Issue 19 Spring/Summer).

I think I had the perfect Sunday; 'Gaslight', the mystery movie at @irishfilminstitute.bsky.social, followed by a talk on the new Gertrude Stein biography: @ilfdublin.bsky.social @francescawade.bsky.social

A beautiful close reading of Robert Hayden's 'Those Winter Sundays' by #PaulTran (and a gorgeous pink oufit). youtu.be/up0zfVyVvYs?...

A long held dream to be in @bansheepress.bsky.social, delighted! 🌟

My poem 'Homing' is residing gorgeously in Marina Park, Cork as part of Cork City Libraries' Poetry in the Park project, selected by @howlwriting.bsky.social in association w/ @poetryireland.bsky.social 💙💙

And I am an ally. If you are too, let the world know.

A gloriously sunny afternoon at Cork City Library reading poems with fellow Howl poets ❤️‍🔥💛✨☀️ as part of #IrelandReads Day @leggettbohan.bsky.social @mollytwomey.bsky.social #howlwriting #jenniferhorgan

This Saturday!❤️‍🔥

Gabriel Byrne reads "Late Fragment" by Raymond Carver

And did you get what
you wanted from this life, even so?
I did.
And what did you want?
To call myself beloved, to feel myself
beloved on the earth.

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