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Carol Farrelly
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Fiction writer. Ignite Fellow 2025: Scottish Book Trust. Winner: Canada & Europe, 2021 Commonwealth Short Story Prize. Stories: Granta, New Writing Scotland, BBC Radio 4. Www.carolfarrelly.com
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Carol Farrelly @carolfarrelly.bsky.social · Jan 17
Thank you to the @scottishbooktrust.bsky.social for supporting my new writing project with an Ignite Fellowship.

I'm thrilled.

After emerging from a long hibernation, a door swings open.

www.scottishbooktrust.com/writing-and-...
Ignite Fellows 2025
The Ignite Fellowship offers tailored practical and financial support to professional authors. Meet our 2025 Fellows.
www.scottishbooktrust.com
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jolloyds.bsky.social
Thought I might post some short stories for advent - but I may be overestimating my industry & your interest

Still, here's day one at least - something quietly astonishing from the great David Means in Zoetrope www.all-story.com/preview-exce...

(Not an excerpt despite what the link says)
Preview Excerpt – Zoetrope: All-Story
www.all-story.com
December 1, 2025 at 12:41 PM
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scottishbooktrust.bsky.social
There's only one week left to apply for a 2026 New Writers Award! Tell your talented writer friends. . . 📲
Apply for the New Writers Awards
Applications for the New Writers Awards are now open!
www.scottishbooktrust.com
September 16, 2025 at 8:46 AM
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jancarsonwrites.bsky.social
Someone needs to start a literary prize for short story collections. It seems really odd to me that we don’t have one in Ireland or the UK. Before everyone shouts about the Edgehill Prize, it doesn’t seem to be happening this year.
July 5, 2025 at 5:02 PM
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vickymackenzie.bsky.social
New Substack post!
open.substack.com/pub/victoria...
In Defence of Historical Fiction
Things I'm writing, things I'm reading, things I'm teaching...
open.substack.com
July 2, 2025 at 11:52 AM
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rspb.bsky.social
Did you know? Swifts eat, sleep, drink, mate, & even bathe on the wing...rarely landing except to nest.

They can switch off one half of their brain to rest, drink by gliding low over water to take sips, & fly through rain to bathe! 🌧️

#SwiftAwarenessWeek

📽️ @theHALLofEINAR
July 2, 2025 at 11:21 AM
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lauramckee.bsky.social
I started to read a book which quotes this poem by Eavan Boland as epigraph and it blew me away.

“Night and day / words fell on me./
Seeds. Raindrops./
Chips of frost”.

www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazi...
EAVAN BOLAND MOTHER IRELAND At first I was land. I lay on my back to be fields and when I turned on my side I was a hill under freezing stars. I did not see. I was seen. Night and day words fell on me. Seeds. Raindrops. Chips of frost. From one of them I learned my name. I rose up. I remembered it. Now I could tell my story. It was different from the story told about me. And now also it was spring. I could see the wound I had left in the land by leaving it. I travelled west. Once there I looked with so much love at every field as it unfolded its rusted wheel and its pram chassis and at the gorse- bright distances I had been that they misunderstood me. Come back to us they said Trust me I whispered. poetryfoundation.org
July 1, 2025 at 6:47 PM
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ianduhig.bsky.social
Paul Durcan wrote this, but I feel he had the soul of a hare as well
May 18, 2025 at 3:45 PM
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jonathangibbs.bsky.social
Featuring Personal Anthology debuts for:

Carol Farrelly @carolfarrelly.bsky.social relly.bsky.social
Tracy Fells @theliterarypig.bsky.social ypig.bsky.social
Alice Fowler @alicefwrites.bsky.social writes.bsky.social
Hana Gammon
Robyn Jefferson
Ross Raisin

So congrats to them!
May 17, 2025 at 4:58 PM
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ruebaldry.bsky.social
My anthology includes stories by @demimondaine.bsky.social (Robyn Jefferson), @theliterarypig.bsky.social (Tracy Fells), @carolfarrelly.bsky.social (Carol Farrelly) @alicefwrites.bsky.social (Alice Fowler)
And from @flyonthewallpress.bsky.social
May 2, 2025 at 4:23 PM
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legroff.bsky.social
Fellow authors, I love you, and I know it feels like we don’t have a choice, but B&N and Am*zon both scheduled sales this week to preempt Independent Bookstore Day, a hugely vital source of income for indie bookstores. Please don’t promote their sales; please promote your local indie this week.
April 23, 2025 at 11:52 PM
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lynseymay.com
My creepy new novel will be clawing its way out of the woods and onto shelves, with a big thank you to Polygon and my awesome agent Sara Langham
birlinn.co.uk/2025/03/13/p...
Woman with long ginger hair and a black top facing the camera with the title Polygon Aquires Kin by Lynsey May above it
March 13, 2025 at 3:22 PM
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vickymackenzie.bsky.social
Happy first birthday to this electric blue paperback baby! 💙 FOR THY GREAT PAIN HAVE MERCY ON MY LITTLE PAIN explores the lives of medieval mystics #JulianofNorwich and #MargeryKempe.
Winner of the Saltire First Book Award and a Book of the Year in the Guardian, Sunday Times and Irish Times! 😍📚
Photo of my novel, FOR THY GREAT PAIN, face out in Waterstones, with a staff recommendation shelf sign. Piles and piles of my novel, FOR THY GREAT PAIN, in all its bright blue beauty.
March 14, 2025 at 10:16 AM
carolfarrelly.bsky.social
My happy place.
#MoniackMhor
A writing desk with a window view of gorse, fields and distant snow-capped mountains.
March 13, 2025 at 12:48 PM
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theguardian.com
Jenni Fagan’s ‘visceral’ memoir of growing up in care wins Gordon Burn prize
Jenni Fagan’s ‘visceral’ memoir of growing up in care wins Gordon Burn prize
The author said she hopes resulting publicity ‘is used to help stop other children falling through all safety nets as I did repeatedly’ A memoir about growing up in care has won this year’s Gordon Burn prize. Jenni Fagan was revealed as the winner of…
www.theguardian.com
March 6, 2025 at 10:14 PM
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littletollerbooks.bsky.social
Final tweaks to Jan Morris's wonderful 'A Venetian Bestiary' before it goes to the printers. It's going to be a gorgeous pocket sized hardback. New Introduction by the author and journalist Sophy Roberts.

Publishing in April.

Feel free to pre order here!
www.littletoller.co.uk/shop/books/l...
March 6, 2025 at 2:19 PM
carolfarrelly.bsky.social
Thank you to the @scottishbooktrust.bsky.social for supporting my new writing project with an Ignite Fellowship.

I'm thrilled.

After emerging from a long hibernation, a door swings open.

www.scottishbooktrust.com/writing-and-...
Ignite Fellows 2025
The Ignite Fellowship offers tailored practical and financial support to professional authors. Meet our 2025 Fellows.
www.scottishbooktrust.com
January 17, 2025 at 1:54 PM
carolfarrelly.bsky.social
David Lynch quote: ‘People might bring up Vincent van Gogh as an example of a painter who did great work in spite of,or because of, his suffering. I like to think that van Gogh would have been even more prolific and even greater if he wasn’t so restricted by the things tormenting him. I don’t think it was pain that made him so great, I think his painting brought him whatever happiness he had.’
January 16, 2025 at 8:23 PM
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iammilliam.bsky.social
2025 is the new 2016. David Lynch RIP.
January 16, 2025 at 6:30 PM
carolfarrelly.bsky.social
I can’t wait to read Rue Baldry’s novel ‘Dwell’.

Congratulations, Rue! 💃🎉🙌
ruebaldry.bsky.social Rue Baldry @ruebaldry.bsky.social · Jan 13
I am very proud and excited to be able to announce that my novel, Dwell, will be published by @northodoxpress.bsky.social in 2026!
I couldn’t hope for a better publisher for my historical lit fic gay love story. I’m really looking forward to this!
🌈📖🎉
northodoxpress.bsky.social Northodox Press 📖 @northodoxpress.bsky.social · Jan 13
🚨AUTHOR ANNOUNCEMENT🚨

We are ecstatic to announce the signing of the incredible @ruebaldry.bsky.social and her novel Dwell!

Dwell is the story of two traumatised young men falling in forbidden love with each other in 1919.

This brilliant, literary historical novel is coming 2026!
January 16, 2025 at 5:10 PM
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oisinmcgann.bsky.social
Ireland's government is trialling a Basic Income for Artists programme. This is my argument for why it's necessary for the well-being of artists who contribute so much to the nation's economy, but are mined as a resource, instead of being treated as valued workers.

oisinmcgann.com/how-the-crea...
How the Creative Industries Are Built on Free Labour – Oisín McGann
oisinmcgann.com
January 10, 2025 at 10:20 AM
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kathleenjamie.bsky.social
Happy New Year!
January 1, 2025 at 4:20 PM
carolfarrelly.bsky.social
The challenge is to choose twenty books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for twenty days, in no particular order. No explanations. No reviews. Just covers.
#BookSky
#BookChallenge

20/20
Folio Society hardback edition of ‘Selected Poems’ by Thomas Hardy. Title page: poems selected by Robert Macfarlane, illustrated by Stanley Donwood. Frontispiece illustration of a rural scene: we look across a field to houses and trees on the horizon. A murmuration of birds crowd the sky.
December 24, 2024 at 5:07 PM
carolfarrelly.bsky.social
The challenge is to choose twenty books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for twenty days, in no particular order. No explanations. No reviews. Just covers.
#BookSky
#BookChallenge

19/20
Penguin paperback edition of ‘Villette’ by Charlotte Brontë. The cover illustration is of a young woman, eyes downward, opening a letter. She has a serious expression.
December 22, 2024 at 9:54 AM
carolfarrelly.bsky.social
The challenge is to choose twenty books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for twenty days, in no particular order. No explanations. No reviews. Just covers.
#BookSky
#BookChallenge

18/20
Paperback Harper Collins edition of ‘Purple Hibiscus’ by Chimimanda Ngozi Adichie. The front cover shows a hibiscus and the lower half of a woman’s face.
December 21, 2024 at 3:48 PM
carolfarrelly.bsky.social
The challenge is to choose twenty books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for twenty days, in no particular order. No explanations. No reviews. Just covers.
#BookSky
#BookChallenge

17/20
Paperback Faber edition of ‘The Complete Stories’ by Flannery O’Connor. The front cover shows a blue-toned photo of high-rise buildings and telephone lines. Printed stars, resembling those in the United States’ flag, float in the sky.
December 19, 2024 at 1:43 PM