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Muiread O’Hanlon
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Irish Writer, lover of books, hiker of mountains ✍️📚

* Shortlisted Historical Writers Association / Dorothy Dunnett Society Short Story Prize 2024
* Shortlisted Doris Gooderson Short Story Award 2024
* Longlisted Bedford Writing Competition 2023
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Muiread O’Hanlon @muireadohanlon.bsky.social · Feb 1
Check out issue 3 of The Belfast Review with a short story ‘Tis the season’ by yours truly! Thanks @thebelfastreview.bsky.social for publishing my work. Free preview online - or better still buy a copy! #irishwriters #thetroubles #christmasstory #belfast
Front cover of Issue 3 The Belfast Review. Names of contributors including yours truly and colourful image of a man with two balloons.
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Love these recommendations 🎥 🍿
cethanleahy.com Cethan Leahy @cethanleahy.com · Oct 4
Possibly the chattiest footage of him yet! (Also Code Unknown rules)
Cillian Murphy’s Closet Picks
YouTube video by CRITERION
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October 4, 2025 at 8:32 AM
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For anyone new to me, I write thrillers (www.samblakebooks.com 😊 #TheKillingSense No 1 bestseller, out now! 🎉) I founded Europe's biggest writing resources website @writing.ie, Ireland's International Crime Writing Festival @murderonefest.bsky.social & run a fab online writers group, Writers Ink 💙📚
Sam Blake on stage at Murder One with the red and black festival banner behind her. She's sitting in a red leather Chesterfield armchair and speaking to the audience. Sam has red hair and tortoiseshell glasses and is wearing a black and white striped shirt.
January 27, 2025 at 9:39 PM
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It’s out! Our July roundup of opportunities for writers across Europe just hit subscriber inboxes📩

From mega grants to residencies and submission calls, we’re filling your dance card with deadlines to get you writing and achieve your dreams. Happy writing!
Opportunities for Writers in Europe
Summer round-up of literary events and opportunities, online and in person
europeanwriterssalon.substack.com
July 19, 2025 at 9:32 AM
muireadohanlon.bsky.social
We absolutely need a culture of reading for pleasure - it’s my past, present and future. It makes me sad for children that such a culture has declined so much. I fully support this initiative. #readingforpleasure
whatsfsaid.bsky.social SF Said @whatsfsaid.bsky.social · Jul 8
I totally support the National Year Of Reading initiative. We desperately need a culture of reading for pleasure to replace the culture of constant testing in schools, backed by proper government funding. And we need STORYTIME to be part of the school day, every day! #literacy

(Art: Chris Riddell)
Quote by Michael Morpurgo, illustrated by Chris Riddell: "Let there be half an hour of STORYTIME at the end of school in primary schools up and down the country. Make this the half hour they all long for, that they don't want to be over. Let the children go home dreaming of the story, reliving it, wondering." Illustration shows dreamy bookish child holding a book, bear with scarf, flying ship and dragon...
July 15, 2025 at 4:09 PM
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Wow 🤩 I’m so so happy to be amongst the winners of #iamwriting literary competition for my novel Henhouse. Thanks to the judges, especially @livmaidment.bsky.social for rating my work.
iaminprint.bsky.social I Am In Print @iaminprint.bsky.social · Jul 14
Our first year hosting the I Am Writing Literary/Upmarket Fiction proved to be a huge success. Agent @livmaidment.bsky.social had a REALLY difficult time choosing from such beautiful entries. Thank you for everything, Liv. And well done to these talented wordsmiths

#LiteraryFiction #UpmarketFiction
July 14, 2025 at 8:31 PM
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Short story writers!
Historical fiction writers!
We're EXTENDING the HWA Dorothy Dunnett Short Story Competition deadline to midnight on 1 August.
We're looking for up to 3,500 words, set all or mainly 35+ years ago.
Entry's still only £5. See more at historicalwriters.org/ddshwass-award-2025
July 4, 2025 at 12:39 PM
muireadohanlon.bsky.social
Imagine, say, a steel company stealing coal to power their plant, arguing it's fair use because they they require that material to develop their own industry. Most industries are required to purchase their raw materials. This is scandalous #corporatetheft.
March 20, 2025 at 3:25 PM
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thejournal.ie
Survivors of former mother and baby homes, Magdalene laundries and workhouses in Northern Ireland have been advised of a deadline to come forward and give testimony ahead of a public inquiry.
jrnl.ie/6626931
Call for testimony from Northern Ireland mother and baby home survivors ahead of deadline
The cut-off point to register to give testimony to the Truth Recovery Independent Panel process is 1 May.
jrnl.ie
February 19, 2025 at 7:32 AM
muireadohanlon.bsky.social
This is great news for everyone. Court rules that AI violates copyright. I hope this is the first of many cases and that the greed of tech firms thinking they are immune to charges of theft is quashed. Now we need some convictions! #AIviolatescopyright #authorsowncopyright #theftisnotfairuse
charlescmann.bsky.social 𝙲𝚑𝚊𝚛𝚕𝚎𝚜 𝙲. 𝙼𝚊𝚗𝚗 @charlescmann.bsky.social · Feb 12
In first intellectual property AI court ruling, judge rules that copying material for input into AI violates copyright. Case differs in some ways from the bigger ones to come, but it seems like it doesn't bode well for the AI industry.
Thomson Reuters' AI copyright win blows a hole in AI industry’s fair use defense
Thomson Reuters' AI copyright win blows a hole in AI industry’s fair use defense
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February 12, 2025 at 10:10 AM
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Dear applicant,
Please don’t use AI to write your job application.
Your sincerely, AI Company hiring team

#youcouldn’tmakeitup
callie.rebelwrath.co.uk Callie from Rebel Wrath @callie.rebelwrath.co.uk · Feb 5
Anthropic, an AI company, requires applicants not use AI during application process

They must have realised it's shit
Anthropic: ‘Please don’t use AI’
🎶 I just want something to hold on to / and a little of that human touch 🎶
www.ft.com
February 5, 2025 at 8:52 AM
muireadohanlon.bsky.social
Check out issue 3 of The Belfast Review with a short story ‘Tis the season’ by yours truly! Thanks @thebelfastreview.bsky.social for publishing my work. Free preview online - or better still buy a copy! #irishwriters #thetroubles #christmasstory #belfast
Front cover of Issue 3 The Belfast Review. Names of contributors including yours truly and colourful image of a man with two balloons.
February 1, 2025 at 4:52 PM
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bookwormvaught.bsky.social
www.bookbrunch.co.uk/page/free-ar...
Hooray #curae prize!
Thank you to @bookbrunch.bsky.social
for being so supportive and unpaid #carers: we see you 💙📚 #booksky
Picture of Curae prize coverage from Bookbrunch
January 26, 2025 at 11:10 AM
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Good evening #writers Just a little post to let you know our #writingcompetition is open ✒️ #flash #poetry #creativenonfiction and good ol’ #fiction 📑 Let’s see your work! Details on the website 👍🏻 @simonwhaley.bsky.social @gwynethbox.bsky.social @jaccigooding.bsky.social
January 21, 2025 at 7:52 PM
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@dublinairport.bsky.social #DublinAirport #Dublinbuses Do something about the bus station at the airport! After a flight that was delayed by five hours I’ve had to stand outside in an underpass in the cold for 25 mins. Why no waiting room? Why no info screens? #publictransport #bususers
January 9, 2025 at 8:22 PM
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kitdewaal.com
Sharpen your pencils. This themed prize opens on 1st Han. All genres of writing permitted, including fiction, non-fiction, and non-academic essays. Open to all nationalities. Link below. Please share :)
Writing Prize — The Alpine Fellowship
alpinefellowship.com
December 18, 2024 at 3:23 PM
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Something to get you into the festive spirit ✍️ #5ActFestiveStory competition with Curtis Brown @cbcreative.bsky.social Get writing 🖋️
cbcreative.bsky.social Curtis Brown Creative @cbcreative.bsky.social · Dec 9
Welcome to our #5ActFestiveStory competition!

Complete Act I by following on from @clotimms.bsky.social's #WritingPrompt: 'It was on the twelfth consecutive day of snow, the country held in an icy standstill, when a postcard arrived. Sodden and exposing just two words: I’m sorry.'
December 9, 2024 at 12:39 PM
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Off to London to see my wonderful daughter @ciarakadams.bsky.social in #follytobewise at The Hen and Chickens Theatre. Come along if you’re in London - tickets selling like hot cakes.
#dramaonstage #londontheatre www.scallywagstudios.co.uk/productions....
Cast: River Norris, Casey Taylor-Williams
www.scallywagstudios.co.uk
December 6, 2024 at 9:43 AM
muireadohanlon.bsky.social
Off to London to see my wonderful daughter @ciarakadams.bsky.social in #follytobewise at The Hen and Chickens Theatre. Come along if you’re in London - tickets selling like hot cakes.
#dramaonstage #londontheatre www.scallywagstudios.co.uk/productions....
Cast: River Norris, Casey Taylor-Williams
www.scallywagstudios.co.uk
December 6, 2024 at 9:43 AM
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The world’s richest 1% have more wealth than the bottom 95% put together, according to Oxfam.

There is no moral justification for this extraordinary level of inequality.

It's distorting politics, rigging our markets, and granting unprecedented power to a handful of people.
World’s top 1% own more wealth than 95% of humanity, as “the shadow of global oligarchy hangs over UN General Assembly,” says Oxfam | Oxfam International
www.oxfam.org
December 4, 2024 at 10:11 PM
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Are you a young Black British woman who is keen to develop skills in recording and creating the stories and histories of your community? Apply for this ground-breaking programme of training and support. speaking-volumes.org.uk/apply-women-...
Women Speak Volumes Between Generations – APPLY
Call for participants Young Black women aged 18-30 invited to join an exciting new hybrid programme for budding archivists and curators Booker Prize winning author and literary activist Professor B…
speaking-volumes.org.uk
December 4, 2024 at 6:31 PM
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There's free delivery at Bookshop.org all weekend. Please help support local bookstores.
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November 29, 2024 at 10:12 AM
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It's Black Friday, which is a big day for the big boys SO if you're a small or indie Irish retailer, bookseller, printmaker, craftperson (etc, etc) doing cool shit, please reply to this and lets share 'em as good as we can.
November 29, 2024 at 9:26 AM
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kitdewaal.com
Prize for new writing in three categories: poetry, short fiction, and short fiction and poetry in Irish. Please share. Link below. 👇🏽

www.cuirt.ie/cuirt-new-wr...
Photo of a reading with audience at a literary festival at Cuirt in Ireland
November 27, 2024 at 5:04 PM
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Got a teen in your life and need a stocking filler this Christmas? Congratulations @samblakebooks.bsky.social #teenbooks #yafiction #xmaslist #booksforchristmas
samblakebooks.bsky.social SAM BLAKE @samblakebooks.bsky.social · Nov 28
Absolutely wowed to win International Education Services Teen Book of the Year last night at the An Post Irish Book Awards for Something's About to Blow Up 🎉🎉🎉
Here with my agent Simon Trewin 😊 so lovely to share the night with @maireadhearne.bsky.social and the Irish Murderesses too!
Sam Blake wearing glasses and a black and gold dress, sitting beside her agent Simon Trewin, wearing a black tux, both smiling (lots) and holding the glass An Post Irish Book Awards trophy, a squarish piece of glass in the slightly abstract shape of a book on a black marble plinth, with the lettering in An Post green across the glass. Graphic banner with the red cover of Something's About to Blow Up on the right and Teen Book of the Year Winner on the left. The cover is scattered with hazard signs in yellow triangles and the tag line 'when chemistry gets explosive' and Sam Blake's name are written in a pale turquoise blue.
November 28, 2024 at 2:04 PM