Anne O'Leary
@anneoleary.bsky.social
#Writer from Cork, eejit, loves a quiet book
The artist formerly known as @wordherding on Twitter
Blog, often with competition listings: https://anneolearyblog.wordpress.com/
The artist formerly known as @wordherding on Twitter
Blog, often with competition listings: https://anneolearyblog.wordpress.com/
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Anne O'Leary
@anneoleary.bsky.social
· Oct 5
Irish literary journals 2025/2026
By far the most-read post on this blog has been a very simple one – a list of Irish literary magazines. The original post I compiled in 2022, and an updated version in 2023, have clocked up o…
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New blog post: an up-to-date list of Irish literary journals anneolearyblog.wordpress.com/2025/10/05/i...
Lovely post by @jmcm.bsky.social about UL Winter School in Doolin. It really is a special experience
In today's Frazzled Lit @frazzledlit.bsky.social post, I reflect on what for me feels like a major turning point in my literary career.
And it all happened in Doolin!
www.frazzledlit.com/p/i-fell-in-...
And it all happened in Doolin!
www.frazzledlit.com/p/i-fell-in-...
I fell in love in Doolin
Reflecting on the University of Limerick Creative Writing Winter School 2025
www.frazzledlit.com
November 23, 2025 at 3:31 PM
Lovely post by @jmcm.bsky.social about UL Winter School in Doolin. It really is a special experience
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If you’ve never seen it, this:
It's Friday. It's the shortest amount of time anyone has ever owned a trouser press.
youtu.be/tNqn5bKmKNc?...
youtu.be/tNqn5bKmKNc?...
Bullseye - The cruel mistress that is the Prize Board
YouTube video by ChristinaLMartin
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August 18, 2025 at 4:53 PM
If you’ve never seen it, this:
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Applications are open for the third year of the Paul McVeigh Residency!
This is an amazing opportunity for fiction and non-fiction writers living in the UK and Ireland.
Get more info here: paulmcveighwriter.com/2025/10/17/t...
Application deadline: 30th November, 2025
This is an amazing opportunity for fiction and non-fiction writers living in the UK and Ireland.
Get more info here: paulmcveighwriter.com/2025/10/17/t...
Application deadline: 30th November, 2025
November 13, 2025 at 3:05 PM
Applications are open for the third year of the Paul McVeigh Residency!
This is an amazing opportunity for fiction and non-fiction writers living in the UK and Ireland.
Get more info here: paulmcveighwriter.com/2025/10/17/t...
Application deadline: 30th November, 2025
This is an amazing opportunity for fiction and non-fiction writers living in the UK and Ireland.
Get more info here: paulmcveighwriter.com/2025/10/17/t...
Application deadline: 30th November, 2025
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Submissions Call: New Isles Press Anthology Issue 5
✨Deadline: 30th Nov 2025
'Will be part of Nth Belfast Festival '26...a wonderful opportunity to have your work published, shared with a growing readership, & performed live at a major festival event'
www.writing.ie/resources/ne...
#writersky
✨Deadline: 30th Nov 2025
'Will be part of Nth Belfast Festival '26...a wonderful opportunity to have your work published, shared with a growing readership, & performed live at a major festival event'
www.writing.ie/resources/ne...
#writersky
Submissions Call: New Isles Press Anthology Issue 5
Submissions deadline: 30th November 2025 Yellow House Publishing Issue 5 of the New Isles Press Anthology is now open for submissions. Our featured author for this issue is the acclaimed playwright…
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November 18, 2025 at 9:53 AM
Submissions Call: New Isles Press Anthology Issue 5
✨Deadline: 30th Nov 2025
'Will be part of Nth Belfast Festival '26...a wonderful opportunity to have your work published, shared with a growing readership, & performed live at a major festival event'
www.writing.ie/resources/ne...
#writersky
✨Deadline: 30th Nov 2025
'Will be part of Nth Belfast Festival '26...a wonderful opportunity to have your work published, shared with a growing readership, & performed live at a major festival event'
www.writing.ie/resources/ne...
#writersky
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This will be terrific 👌
www.gladstoneslibrary.org/event/the-si...
Want to do a six month writing course with me? Or looking for a great Christmas present for the writer in your life?
Sign up quickly as there are only 15 places.
I would love to see you there!
Want to do a six month writing course with me? Or looking for a great Christmas present for the writer in your life?
Sign up quickly as there are only 15 places.
I would love to see you there!
The Six-Month Writing Course with Kit de Waal - Gladstone's Library
Join Kit de Waal for a six-month journey into the art and discipline of storytelling, with two visits to the UK’s finest residential library.
www.gladstoneslibrary.org
November 17, 2025 at 6:05 PM
This will be terrific 👌
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How delightfully quaint some of these old Devon village names are, their etymologies lost in the mists of time.
November 17, 2025 at 3:24 PM
How delightfully quaint some of these old Devon village names are, their etymologies lost in the mists of time.
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Save the date! Submissions open for HOWL New Irish Writing 26 in February 2026 🐺 🖤
November 16, 2025 at 10:50 PM
Save the date! Submissions open for HOWL New Irish Writing 26 in February 2026 🐺 🖤
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Somebody in Cork REALLY loves Chrisrmas
November 16, 2025 at 7:51 PM
Somebody in Cork REALLY loves Chrisrmas
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Wore my new bright yellow raincoat to work.
"Good morning Captain Birdseye"
"Good morning Captain Birdseye"
I am calling upon the people of Ireland to immediately begin construction of a thread on this site about how you or someone you know was roasted for a fashion choice. We need it.
All roasts must have come from Irish people *only*. Please respect this important rule, it makes a difference.
Tanks
All roasts must have come from Irish people *only*. Please respect this important rule, it makes a difference.
Tanks
November 12, 2025 at 2:33 PM
Wore my new bright yellow raincoat to work.
"Good morning Captain Birdseye"
"Good morning Captain Birdseye"
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There’s another wave of author impersonators offering consultations/mentoring for a price. (I got one from “Claire Keegan” telling me I’m very promising!) I’m sure you are great, but I didn’t email to tell you how swell you are. Here’s info on book scams: www.penguinrandomhouse.com/prh-fraud/
November 11, 2025 at 4:40 PM
There’s another wave of author impersonators offering consultations/mentoring for a price. (I got one from “Claire Keegan” telling me I’m very promising!) I’m sure you are great, but I didn’t email to tell you how swell you are. Here’s info on book scams: www.penguinrandomhouse.com/prh-fraud/
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when the bouncers have reluctantly let me into the club but immediately realise they’ve made a horrible mistake
November 11, 2025 at 8:41 PM
when the bouncers have reluctantly let me into the club but immediately realise they’ve made a horrible mistake
♥️👏
Michael D Higgins, with his wife Sabina, has left Áras an Úachtaráin for the final time as president.
He was given a guard of honour by members of the Sanctuary Runners, a charity of which he is patron.
The President’s term of office ends at midnight.
@VirginMediaNews.bsky.social
He was given a guard of honour by members of the Sanctuary Runners, a charity of which he is patron.
The President’s term of office ends at midnight.
@VirginMediaNews.bsky.social
November 10, 2025 at 8:45 PM
♥️👏
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We’re open for submissions until the end of the month
thelonelycrowd.org/submissions/
thelonelycrowd.org/submissions/
Submissions
We are open for submissions until November 30th, 2025. Short stories can be anywhere between 500 and 5000 words in length. Please send no more than four poems. Please send in word docs rather than …
thelonelycrowd.org
November 10, 2025 at 10:43 AM
We’re open for submissions until the end of the month
thelonelycrowd.org/submissions/
thelonelycrowd.org/submissions/
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Bursary time! Please apply if you're eligible and join me and @emmadarwinwriter.bsky.social in January. 👇
Did you know...? Our best-selling Self-Edit Your Novel course now boasts ✨more than 100✨ published authors among its alumni! Quite the achievement for course leaders Debi Alper and Emma Darwin.
November 5, 2025 at 3:28 PM
Bursary time! Please apply if you're eligible and join me and @emmadarwinwriter.bsky.social in January. 👇
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Submissions Call for Tintreach, January 2026
Tintreach publishes creative work from across the artistic spectrum
✨Submissions are open until capacity is reached, or until midnight on Sunday, 30 November 2025
Read more:
www.writing.ie/guest-blogs/...
#Writingsky @smashingtimes.bsky.social
Tintreach publishes creative work from across the artistic spectrum
✨Submissions are open until capacity is reached, or until midnight on Sunday, 30 November 2025
Read more:
www.writing.ie/guest-blogs/...
#Writingsky @smashingtimes.bsky.social
November 5, 2025 at 10:37 AM
Submissions Call for Tintreach, January 2026
Tintreach publishes creative work from across the artistic spectrum
✨Submissions are open until capacity is reached, or until midnight on Sunday, 30 November 2025
Read more:
www.writing.ie/guest-blogs/...
#Writingsky @smashingtimes.bsky.social
Tintreach publishes creative work from across the artistic spectrum
✨Submissions are open until capacity is reached, or until midnight on Sunday, 30 November 2025
Read more:
www.writing.ie/guest-blogs/...
#Writingsky @smashingtimes.bsky.social
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I've been getting back into the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy series after many years, and the most relatable part is how everyday objects like doors and elevators have been imbued with artificial intelligence and it just makes them obnoxious and frustrating to use and everyone hates it.
November 1, 2025 at 8:55 PM
I've been getting back into the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy series after many years, and the most relatable part is how everyday objects like doors and elevators have been imbued with artificial intelligence and it just makes them obnoxious and frustrating to use and everyone hates it.
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Want to up your POV game? Uncover the mysteries of 1st, 2nd, 3rd and use of multiple POVs to deepen your reader experience. Come join my 4-week online course in November through @irishwriterscentre.bsky.social irishwriterscentre.ie/courses/flas...
Flash Fiction Point-of-View Deep Dive with Marie Gethins - Irish Writers Centre
The most distilled prose form, flash fiction relies on suggestion—layered meaning that is off the page.
irishwriterscentre.ie
September 24, 2025 at 5:16 PM
Want to up your POV game? Uncover the mysteries of 1st, 2nd, 3rd and use of multiple POVs to deepen your reader experience. Come join my 4-week online course in November through @irishwriterscentre.bsky.social irishwriterscentre.ie/courses/flas...
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Of course. Can't not have the Welkin. I've even been updating the Welkin website 😀 Had to find a solution to my website having too many pages without deleting stories 😬
November 1, 2025 at 10:58 AM
Of course. Can't not have the Welkin. I've even been updating the Welkin website 😀 Had to find a solution to my website having too many pages without deleting stories 😬
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Another Starter Pack for #IrishBookWeek: Literary Journals. Again, if I've forgotten anyone please let me know in the comments
go.bsky.app/EdG3Ruv
go.bsky.app/EdG3Ruv
October 20, 2025 at 11:19 AM
Another Starter Pack for #IrishBookWeek: Literary Journals. Again, if I've forgotten anyone please let me know in the comments
go.bsky.app/EdG3Ruv
go.bsky.app/EdG3Ruv
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Seeing as it's #IrishBookWeek, I've put together a Starter Pack of bricks 'n' mortar bookshops. Terrified I've forgotten someone obvious so please let me know of additions
go.bsky.app/G4kmxVq
go.bsky.app/G4kmxVq
October 18, 2025 at 5:50 PM
Seeing as it's #IrishBookWeek, I've put together a Starter Pack of bricks 'n' mortar bookshops. Terrified I've forgotten someone obvious so please let me know of additions
go.bsky.app/G4kmxVq
go.bsky.app/G4kmxVq
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Submissions for Tolka Issue Eleven are now open until 6 November. We publish all kinds of non-fiction – essays, memoir, reportage, autofiction and the things that fall in between.
Full submission guidelines here www.tolkajournal.org/submit
Full submission guidelines here www.tolkajournal.org/submit
October 16, 2025 at 9:24 AM
Submissions for Tolka Issue Eleven are now open until 6 November. We publish all kinds of non-fiction – essays, memoir, reportage, autofiction and the things that fall in between.
Full submission guidelines here www.tolkajournal.org/submit
Full submission guidelines here www.tolkajournal.org/submit
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A wonderful opportunity for a creative writing & poetry one day workshop
October 17, 2025 at 1:21 PM
A wonderful opportunity for a creative writing & poetry one day workshop
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The BBC are accidentally running the subtitles to Mrs Marple over the Mercury Prize, and it’s rather wonderful. A few of lines could plausibly have been written by Jarvis.
October 16, 2025 at 8:58 PM
The BBC are accidentally running the subtitles to Mrs Marple over the Mercury Prize, and it’s rather wonderful. A few of lines could plausibly have been written by Jarvis.