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Hello Bluesky #WritingCommunity! We're the home of The Moth Magazine, an iconic Irish printed art & lit magazine, and The Moth Poetry Prize, one of the world's biggest prizes for a single poem. Plus annual short story and nature writing prizes, and much more...
❛ I need a few months to live scuzzy to finish a book, you know, to not wash my hair, to just sit in the same room for hours and eat with my hands...
From our interview with author Claire Kilroy, originally in Issue 13: bit.ly/pastmoths
From our interview with author Claire Kilroy, originally in Issue 13: bit.ly/pastmoths
January 30, 2026 at 6:34 PM
❛ I need a few months to live scuzzy to finish a book, you know, to not wash my hair, to just sit in the same room for hours and eat with my hands...
From our interview with author Claire Kilroy, originally in Issue 13: bit.ly/pastmoths
From our interview with author Claire Kilroy, originally in Issue 13: bit.ly/pastmoths
January 28, 2026 at 8:38 PM
❛ One of the deep secrets of life is that all that is really worth the doing is what we do for others.
Lewis Carroll, who was born #OTD in 1832.
Lewis Carroll, who was born #OTD in 1832.
January 27, 2026 at 10:28 PM
❛ One of the deep secrets of life is that all that is really worth the doing is what we do for others.
Lewis Carroll, who was born #OTD in 1832.
Lewis Carroll, who was born #OTD in 1832.
❛ What really knocks me out is a book that, when you're all done reading it, you wish the author that wrote it was a terrific friend of yours and you could call him up on the phone whenever you felt like it. That doesn't happen much, though.
J. D. Salinger, who died #OTD in 2010.
J. D. Salinger, who died #OTD in 2010.
January 27, 2026 at 8:59 PM
❛ What really knocks me out is a book that, when you're all done reading it, you wish the author that wrote it was a terrific friend of yours and you could call him up on the phone whenever you felt like it. That doesn't happen much, though.
J. D. Salinger, who died #OTD in 2010.
J. D. Salinger, who died #OTD in 2010.
This week's Moth Studios Challenge is to produce a portrait of a friend/family member. Complete your artwork within 2 hours and submit to The Moth Studios (via Facebook DM) submitted from 9-11pm on Tuesday evening.
Open to everyone. Please share and good luck!
🎨 Edward Le Bas
Open to everyone. Please share and good luck!
🎨 Edward Le Bas
January 26, 2026 at 6:48 PM
This week's Moth Studios Challenge is to produce a portrait of a friend/family member. Complete your artwork within 2 hours and submit to The Moth Studios (via Facebook DM) submitted from 9-11pm on Tuesday evening.
Open to everyone. Please share and good luck!
🎨 Edward Le Bas
Open to everyone. Please share and good luck!
🎨 Edward Le Bas
❛ dream / of Yorkshire fog and lilacs and the dark salt sea / but even if you die here, you won't belong here.
Aniqah Choudhri's 'The Unloving Ground', winner of The Moth Poetry Prize 2021.
Aniqah Choudhri's 'The Unloving Ground', winner of The Moth Poetry Prize 2021.
January 25, 2026 at 9:48 PM
❛ dream / of Yorkshire fog and lilacs and the dark salt sea / but even if you die here, you won't belong here.
Aniqah Choudhri's 'The Unloving Ground', winner of The Moth Poetry Prize 2021.
Aniqah Choudhri's 'The Unloving Ground', winner of The Moth Poetry Prize 2021.
This #SharingSaturday, we'd love to see your favourite poems for the month of January in the comments.
We'll start first, with one we like from Alex Dimitrov.
We'll start first, with one we like from Alex Dimitrov.
January 24, 2026 at 7:48 PM
This #SharingSaturday, we'd love to see your favourite poems for the month of January in the comments.
We'll start first, with one we like from Alex Dimitrov.
We'll start first, with one we like from Alex Dimitrov.
Perfect for a grey Wednesday — 'The Sky is White as Clay' by American artist Lu Cong, originally from Issue 5. ☁️ #MothArchives
January 21, 2026 at 8:40 PM
Perfect for a grey Wednesday — 'The Sky is White as Clay' by American artist Lu Cong, originally from Issue 5. ☁️ #MothArchives
❛ Experimentation is the key. I believe that there are sounds we have not heard. I believe that there are colors we have not seen. And I believe that there are feelings yet to be felt.
Artist Jack Whitten, who died #OTD in 2018.
Artist Jack Whitten, who died #OTD in 2018.
January 20, 2026 at 9:06 PM
❛ Experimentation is the key. I believe that there are sounds we have not heard. I believe that there are colors we have not seen. And I believe that there are feelings yet to be felt.
Artist Jack Whitten, who died #OTD in 2018.
Artist Jack Whitten, who died #OTD in 2018.
The theme of this week's Moth Studios Challenge is Greenland. Complete your artwork within 2 hours and submit to The Moth Studios (via Facebook DM) from 9-11pm on Tuesday evening.
The challenge is open to everyone. Please share and good luck!
🎨 Kent Rockwell
The challenge is open to everyone. Please share and good luck!
🎨 Kent Rockwell
January 19, 2026 at 8:11 PM
The theme of this week's Moth Studios Challenge is Greenland. Complete your artwork within 2 hours and submit to The Moth Studios (via Facebook DM) from 9-11pm on Tuesday evening.
The challenge is open to everyone. Please share and good luck!
🎨 Kent Rockwell
The challenge is open to everyone. Please share and good luck!
🎨 Kent Rockwell
❛ I think I was just always extremely naively optimistic about what I could personally achieve... probably better that I didn’t understand how the industry was structured. I didn’t know enough to be intimidated by it.
From our interview with Sally Rooney, from Issue 30. #MothArchives
From our interview with Sally Rooney, from Issue 30. #MothArchives
January 18, 2026 at 8:30 PM
❛ I think I was just always extremely naively optimistic about what I could personally achieve... probably better that I didn’t understand how the industry was structured. I didn’t know enough to be intimidated by it.
From our interview with Sally Rooney, from Issue 30. #MothArchives
From our interview with Sally Rooney, from Issue 30. #MothArchives
❛ I invent everything in my painting. And I stylize whatever it was that I saw or felt.
Brazilian painter Tarsila do Amaral, who died #OTD in 1973.
Brazilian painter Tarsila do Amaral, who died #OTD in 1973.
January 17, 2026 at 8:10 PM
❛ I invent everything in my painting. And I stylize whatever it was that I saw or felt.
Brazilian painter Tarsila do Amaral, who died #OTD in 1973.
Brazilian painter Tarsila do Amaral, who died #OTD in 1973.
‘There are numerous high-quality literary journals being published in Ireland, but surely none is more gorgeous than The Moth. I always go straight for the interviews’ Rob Doyle
Iconic interviews from Sally Rooney, Sharon Olds, Kit de Waal, and more.
💚 bit.ly/pastmoths
Iconic interviews from Sally Rooney, Sharon Olds, Kit de Waal, and more.
💚 bit.ly/pastmoths
January 16, 2026 at 7:06 PM
‘There are numerous high-quality literary journals being published in Ireland, but surely none is more gorgeous than The Moth. I always go straight for the interviews’ Rob Doyle
Iconic interviews from Sally Rooney, Sharon Olds, Kit de Waal, and more.
💚 bit.ly/pastmoths
Iconic interviews from Sally Rooney, Sharon Olds, Kit de Waal, and more.
💚 bit.ly/pastmoths
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Open now! 🌟 The Caterpillar Poetry Prize is an annual prize for unpublished poems written by adults for children aged 7–11.
We are delighted to have Robert Schechter as this year's judge.
1st prize: €1,000 + a week at The Moth Retreat
Closes 31 March: bit ly/tcpp26
We are delighted to have Robert Schechter as this year's judge.
1st prize: €1,000 + a week at The Moth Retreat
Closes 31 March: bit ly/tcpp26
January 15, 2026 at 10:46 PM
Open now! 🌟 The Caterpillar Poetry Prize is an annual prize for unpublished poems written by adults for children aged 7–11.
We are delighted to have Robert Schechter as this year's judge.
1st prize: €1,000 + a week at The Moth Retreat
Closes 31 March: bit ly/tcpp26
We are delighted to have Robert Schechter as this year's judge.
1st prize: €1,000 + a week at The Moth Retreat
Closes 31 March: bit ly/tcpp26
❛ If you do not breathe through writing, if you do not cry out in writing, or sing in writing, then don't write, because our culture has no use for it.
French writer Anaïs Nin, who died #OTD in 1977.
French writer Anaïs Nin, who died #OTD in 1977.
January 14, 2026 at 7:10 PM
❛ If you do not breathe through writing, if you do not cry out in writing, or sing in writing, then don't write, because our culture has no use for it.
French writer Anaïs Nin, who died #OTD in 1977.
French writer Anaïs Nin, who died #OTD in 1977.
❛ we still have that brecht quote the darkness the singing / devastation brings its own kind of beauty
New year optimism, courtesy of Wye Haze, from Issue 46. 🔥 #MothArchives
New year optimism, courtesy of Wye Haze, from Issue 46. 🔥 #MothArchives
January 13, 2026 at 8:55 PM
❛ we still have that brecht quote the darkness the singing / devastation brings its own kind of beauty
New year optimism, courtesy of Wye Haze, from Issue 46. 🔥 #MothArchives
New year optimism, courtesy of Wye Haze, from Issue 46. 🔥 #MothArchives
The Moth Studios Challenge is back!
This week's theme, the first of 2026, is power. Complete your artwork within 2 hours and submit from 9-11pm on Tuesday evening to The Moth Studios (via Facebook DM).
Open to all. Please share and good luck!
🎨 George Bellows
This week's theme, the first of 2026, is power. Complete your artwork within 2 hours and submit from 9-11pm on Tuesday evening to The Moth Studios (via Facebook DM).
Open to all. Please share and good luck!
🎨 George Bellows
January 12, 2026 at 10:23 PM
The Moth Studios Challenge is back!
This week's theme, the first of 2026, is power. Complete your artwork within 2 hours and submit from 9-11pm on Tuesday evening to The Moth Studios (via Facebook DM).
Open to all. Please share and good luck!
🎨 George Bellows
This week's theme, the first of 2026, is power. Complete your artwork within 2 hours and submit from 9-11pm on Tuesday evening to The Moth Studios (via Facebook DM).
Open to all. Please share and good luck!
🎨 George Bellows
❛ The more you fail, the more you succeed. It is only when everything is lost and - instead of giving up - you go on, that you experience the momentary prospect of some slight progress.
Sculptor Alberto Giacometti, who died #OTD in 1966.
Sculptor Alberto Giacometti, who died #OTD in 1966.
January 11, 2026 at 7:59 PM
❛ The more you fail, the more you succeed. It is only when everything is lost and - instead of giving up - you go on, that you experience the momentary prospect of some slight progress.
Sculptor Alberto Giacometti, who died #OTD in 1966.
Sculptor Alberto Giacometti, who died #OTD in 1966.
❛ It’s nice to go home and say, oh, so and so gave me a good review, and to have everyone be like, who?
From our interview with Seán Hewitt, Issue 47.
From our interview with Seán Hewitt, Issue 47.
January 8, 2026 at 7:45 PM
❛ It’s nice to go home and say, oh, so and so gave me a good review, and to have everyone be like, who?
From our interview with Seán Hewitt, Issue 47.
From our interview with Seán Hewitt, Issue 47.
January 6, 2026 at 8:58 PM
❛ There should be someone to talk to. But because such a person is not there in our life, that’s why we need to paint.
Artist Yoshitomo Nara, born #OTD in 1959.
Artist Yoshitomo Nara, born #OTD in 1959.
January 5, 2026 at 9:18 PM
❛ There should be someone to talk to. But because such a person is not there in our life, that’s why we need to paint.
Artist Yoshitomo Nara, born #OTD in 1959.
Artist Yoshitomo Nara, born #OTD in 1959.
❛ We ate / apples until winter. Were you / expecting snow? And now / there's falling in all their graves
Taylor Supplee's poem 'Vanishing', from Issue 31 ❄️ #MothArchives
Taylor Supplee's poem 'Vanishing', from Issue 31 ❄️ #MothArchives
January 4, 2026 at 6:54 PM
❛ We ate / apples until winter. Were you / expecting snow? And now / there's falling in all their graves
Taylor Supplee's poem 'Vanishing', from Issue 31 ❄️ #MothArchives
Taylor Supplee's poem 'Vanishing', from Issue 31 ❄️ #MothArchives
New year's resolution to work on your writing or try something new?
Why not check out our interviews with the likes of Sally Rooney, Simon Armitage, Evie Wyld, Helen Oyeyemi, Colm Toibin, and Eimear McBride for inspiration...
✨ bit.ly/pastmoths
Why not check out our interviews with the likes of Sally Rooney, Simon Armitage, Evie Wyld, Helen Oyeyemi, Colm Toibin, and Eimear McBride for inspiration...
✨ bit.ly/pastmoths
January 3, 2026 at 7:59 PM
New year's resolution to work on your writing or try something new?
Why not check out our interviews with the likes of Sally Rooney, Simon Armitage, Evie Wyld, Helen Oyeyemi, Colm Toibin, and Eimear McBride for inspiration...
✨ bit.ly/pastmoths
Why not check out our interviews with the likes of Sally Rooney, Simon Armitage, Evie Wyld, Helen Oyeyemi, Colm Toibin, and Eimear McBride for inspiration...
✨ bit.ly/pastmoths