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Niamh Mac Cabe
@niamhmaccabe.bsky.social
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Writer, artist, stylite.
Fair to middling spinster.
Magpie apologist.
Good at everything.
Spouting nonsense from my roost in northwestern Ireland
https://niamhmaccabe.wixsite.com/mysite
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Delighted you think so, Emily!
February 11, 2026 at 8:23 AM
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Thank you for this, Gray 🤩
February 11, 2026 at 7:33 AM
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a poorly drawn square cat an orange and white cat tightly curled inside a small cardboard box, filling it perfectly into a square shape!
February 10, 2026 at 8:29 PM
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Thank you, David ♦️
seventydys.bsky.social David Hayden @seventydys.bsky.social · 21h
‘Four Night Seas’ is an exceptional first book of short stories. Niamh Mac Cabe takes the reader deep into the textures and instabilities of memory, desire and loss, with well-judged humour and vivid depictions of landscape and character. Published @lilliputpress.bsky.social March.
February 10, 2026 at 11:43 PM
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‘Sprong in het duister,’ ‘Geitenkop’ & ‘AF!’ #Painting by Pieter Pander #art
February 10, 2026 at 8:03 AM
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Woohoo!!! I look forward to it, Jessamine 🥂
February 9, 2026 at 1:28 PM
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mslexia.bsky.social
‘There is an appetite for daring, experimental writing, and community and collaboration are what matter most in the world of independent publishing.’

- Jess Chandler, @prototypepubs.bsky.social
February 9, 2026 at 8:55 AM
niamhmaccabe.bsky.social
Without naming your job, tell me something you say over and over again at work.

'Where is the heat? Go to the heat.'
irishlittimes.bsky.social Irish Literary Times @irishlittimes.bsky.social · 2d
Without naming your job, tell me something you say over and over again at work.

"Whose story is it, and what is the story?"
karl-jacoby.bsky.social Karl Jacoby @karl-jacoby.bsky.social · 3d
Without naming your job, tell me something you say over and over again at work.

"Yes, I will write you a letter of recommendation."
February 9, 2026 at 8:58 AM
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Blackfriars.
February 8, 2026 at 10:54 PM
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isaacpickell.bsky.social
A little science for #smallpoemsunday

@tomsnarsky.bsky.social
Ars poetica The long history of the hyoid bone, the u-shaped hull of a chin that supports the rudderless tongue, suggests humans have sung for a million years. Or at least developed the physical ability to sing. But, scientists agree, who wouldn’t sing that could.
February 8, 2026 at 1:41 PM
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👏👏👏
February 8, 2026 at 12:12 PM
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"I am not a spontaneous person, and aside from the context of marriage have exposed my adult body parts only to medics, & then reluctantly. But the river flickered light in the early autumn sun, the trees promised sanctuary, & [...] I felt momentarily like a participant in an impressionist painting"
fictivedream.bsky.social Fictive Dream @fictivedream.bsky.social · 2d
"Her body, small, slender, the skin very pale, belied the age I’d guessed she must be." Creatures of Our Time by Mike Fox @polyscribe70.bsky.social #shortstory #fiction #readingcommunity. Please click on the link below and enjoy fictivedream.com/2026/02/08/c...
February 8, 2026 at 12:11 PM
niamhmaccabe.bsky.social
Honoured to have my weird wee flash appear in this great publication. Thx to Tobias and all the Minor Lits team. If you need a story containing shape-shifting couriers and paramedic cats, scroll no further, my friends. 🛋🚪🩺
February 8, 2026 at 11:41 AM
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❤️‍🔥🎢🙏
February 8, 2026 at 10:23 AM
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Oh yes
February 7, 2026 at 11:48 PM
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dianewatt.bsky.social
Look what arrived today, or at least the ebook did. This is the first encyclopedia devoted exclusively to medieval women’s writing globally,focusing on the thousand-year period between 500-1500. Entries on about 250 women writers plus longer thematic essays. You’re welcome.
February 7, 2026 at 5:49 PM
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Zsa Zsa and Uno, being teens
February 7, 2026 at 5:40 PM
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🧵🪇♦️🎩👏👏
parsnip.bsky.social geoffrey @parsnip.bsky.social · 4d
i love european olympics opening ceremonies. the second the ioc names a european host city the prime minister calls the culture minister into their office and says "find me your strangest homosexuals. give each of them a period of our great nation's history, a kilo of cocaine, and Ten Million Euros"
February 7, 2026 at 11:52 AM
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"I hope that simple love and truth will be strong in the end. I hope that real love and truth are stronger in the end than any evil or misfortune in the world"

Charles Dickens 'David Copperfield' (1850)
🎨 Edward Burne-Jones 'Love' 1880s
#BookwormSat
This watercolour is subtitled 'Love with bow surrounded by children and standing beneath a cloud of doves'. It is inscribed with: "L'amor che muove il sole e l'altre stelle" (the love that moves the sun and the other stars), from Dante's 'Divina Commedia'
February 7, 2026 at 9:47 AM
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CORRECTION! The next online gathering will be on Thursday 19th February and feature authors Oscar Mardell and Kevin Boniface. Invitations go out to all subscribers next week. If you're not already on the list and would like to join us email me via my website: davidjcollard.wixsite.com/my-site
February 7, 2026 at 10:30 AM
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fictivedream.bsky.social
ICYMI Fictive Dream is open for submissions of contemporary #shortstories #flashfiction #microfiction and #translations #callforsubmissions. Please click on the link below for our guidelines... fictivedream.com/submission-g...
February 7, 2026 at 11:01 AM
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”It was the best of times; it was the worst of times...”
Charles Dickens, Victorian novelist born #OTD 1812; George Orwell noted “no English writer has written better about childhood...”
Portrait by Daniel Maclise, 1839, National Portrait Gallery, London | Cartoon Tom Gauld
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February 7, 2026 at 6:08 AM
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No shortage of practical guide books in the 18th century...
#history #food #medicine #disease #anatomy
A Treatise on the Virtues and Efficacy of a Crust of Bread: Eat Early in a Morning Fasting ... (1756) By Nicholas Robinson
February 2, 2026 at 4:41 PM
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We're open to submissions next Friday (13th February) for gorse 15: Eureka!/EYPHKA! Full details on the website:
gorse.ie/gorse-15-eur...
February 6, 2026 at 5:11 PM
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howlwriting.bsky.social
One week until submissions open.

HOWL New Irish Writing 26 opens on Feb 13th.

Poetry and prose in English and Irish.

We’re looking forward to reading what you’ve been working on.

📅 7 days
February 6, 2026 at 7:30 PM