Dónall Mac Cathmhaoill
donallmac.bsky.social
Dónall Mac Cathmhaoill
@donallmac.bsky.social
Writer and academic, with interests in film, theatre, politics, and languages.

Scríbhneoir agus taighdeoir: scannáin / drámaíocht / polaitíocht / teangacha.
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“How wonderful it is to be able to write someone a letter" (Haruki Murakami). Join the Open University for an international celebration of Letters and Literature, November 5-7. Full programme at
digital-humanities.open.ac.uk/letters2025/...

@carcanet.bsky.social
@thepostalmuseum.bsky.social
October 30, 2025 at 9:28 AM
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Sigrid Nunez, one of the USA’s most esteemed authors, talks to Open University novelist Emma Claire Sweeney about the letters of Virginia Woolf and Susan Sontag.

mklitfest.org/sigridnunez

#openuniversity
#creativewriting
#lettersandliterature
#sigridnunez
October 19, 2025 at 7:02 PM
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What a privilege to get to call this work. Please do join
Sigrid Nunez and me online on Friday 7 November at 8pm (UK time). Secure your free spot here: mklitfest.org/sigridnunez
Sigrid Nunez, one of the USA’s most esteemed authors, talks to Open University novelist Emma Claire Sweeney about the letters of Virginia Woolf and Susan Sontag.

mklitfest.org/sigridnunez

#openuniversity
#creativewriting
#lettersandliterature
#sigridnunez
October 27, 2025 at 8:26 PM
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Excited to have poems included in Selected Poetry: Autumn 2025

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October 27, 2025 at 10:54 PM
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Postcards continue to arrive from speakers all over the globe as we prepare for the upcoming international conference, Letters and Literature. Full details of the programme at
digital-humanities.open.ac.uk/letters2025/...
@modernistudies.bsky.social
@mklitfest.bsky.social
@ies-sas.bsky.social
October 28, 2025 at 9:18 AM
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The first of a series of postcards for our free online conference: Letters and Literature 1500-2025, 5-7 November 2025. Full programme: digital-humanities.open.ac.uk/letters2025/...

Every day we'll share a postcard sent to us by one of our guest speakers. Watch out for tomorrow’s!
October 27, 2025 at 3:03 PM
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Great write-up in @thenorthernecho.bsky.social for The Writers' Nook at UHNT: tinyurl.com/ya9wu4jz
Over 200 visitors in less than a week! Well done @poetrysiobhan.bsky.social, Mel McEvoy, @drsallybd.bsky.social and all involved. @ouhealtharts.bsky.social
@ncch.bsky.social
@thechc.bsky.social
October 23, 2025 at 3:56 PM
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Only 12 more days to our conference: Letters and Literature 1500-2025, 5-7 November 2025.
Full conference programme here: digital-humanities.open.ac.uk/letters2025/...

@oulibrary.bsky.social
@openuniversity.bsky.social
@openarc.bsky.social
@ouscotland.bsky.social
@ouireland.bsky.social
October 23, 2025 at 4:10 PM
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We are delighted to be supporting the W&A Working-Class Writers' Prize 2025 with
@writersandartists.bsky.social
@ruppin.bsky.social, @societyofauthors.bsky.social and @openuniversity.bsky.social
Submissions open on 1st November 2025. www.writersandartists.co.uk/about-wa-wor...
PLEASE SHARE
October 21, 2025 at 11:16 AM
Galánta ar fad!
Genevieve Galarneau ag ceol ag searmanas oscailte Féile Frances Browne i lár Thír Chonaill. An-fhéile go dtí seo. Comhghairdeachas le buaiteoirí na gcomórtaisí filíochta ach go háirithe
October 13, 2025 at 11:01 AM
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Excited to announce the launch of the Writers’ Nook in Café Wilbers, Tees Restaurant, UHNT, Stockton on Tees, developed with Dr. Siobhan Campbell of @openuniversity.bsky.social and Nurse Consultant Mel McEvoy.

Official unveiling on Tuesday 14 October, 3pm.

PLEASE SHARE AND COME ALONG!
October 10, 2025 at 12:48 PM
Just had a blissful half hour listening to my colleague, Ed Hogan's story, Little Green Man, on R4. Really compelling storytelling, beautifully written. It's available on Listen Now: www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
BBC National Short Story Award - BBC National Short Story Award 2025 - Little Green Man by Edward Hogan - BBC Sounds
Edward Hogan's tender story is in the running for the 20th BBC National Short Story Award.
www.bbc.co.uk
September 18, 2025 at 3:18 PM
Greatly looking forward to hearing my Colleague Ed Hogan's story this afternoon!
We are delighted to reveal that our colleague Ed Hogan has been shortlisted for the BBC National Short Story Award. His story, Little Green Man, will be broadcast today at 15:30 on BBC Radio 4: www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
BBC Radio 4 - BBC National Short Story Award, BBC National Short Story Award 2025, Little Green Man by Edward Hogan
Edward Hogan's tender story is in the running for the 20th BBC National Short Story Award.
www.bbc.co.uk
September 18, 2025 at 11:15 AM
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Ed will also feature on tonight's episode of Front Row on BBC Radio 4 at 19:15: www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
September 18, 2025 at 11:10 AM
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We are delighted to reveal that our colleague Ed Hogan has been shortlisted for the BBC National Short Story Award. His story, Little Green Man, will be broadcast today at 15:30 on BBC Radio 4: www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
BBC Radio 4 - BBC National Short Story Award, BBC National Short Story Award 2025, Little Green Man by Edward Hogan
Edward Hogan's tender story is in the running for the 20th BBC National Short Story Award.
www.bbc.co.uk
September 18, 2025 at 10:51 AM
Andrey Kurkov, acclaimed Ukrainian novelist and author of Death and the Penguin, is speaking TONIGHT. Please repost. @mklitfest.bsky.social

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@AKurkov
@bucklitfest
@OUPolitics

#andreykurkov
Book a Ticket – An Evening with Andrey Kurkov: The Literature and Politics of Ukraine – Zoom
Note: for tickets to watch a live screening at The Vinson Bulding, University of Buckingham, please click here. 'At first we di...
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June 11, 2025 at 9:57 AM
Very much looking forward to An Evening with Andrey Kurkov in conversation with Christina Lamb The Sunday Times @mklitfest.bsky.social
Wednesday 11 June 2025, 7.00 - 8.00pm
Tickets here: www.mklitfest.org/andreykurkov
All profits donated to International Women’s Club of Kyiv
An Evening with Andrey Kurkov | MK Lit Fest 2025
Ukrainian novelist and author of the international bestseller Death and the Penguin, Andrey Kurkov, is an ambassador for his country’s literature, culture, identity and independence. Now writing and c...
www.mklitfest.org
June 9, 2025 at 11:00 AM
Great afternoon session at #OUCreatingWorlds with OU Creative Writing colleagues on Writing The Coast.
May 28, 2025 at 3:09 PM
Prof Nicola J. Watson giving a fascinating talk on literary place making: how tours, visitor centres, objects, and houses work in dialogue with literary texts. A great start to #OUCreatingWorlds
May 28, 2025 at 10:07 AM
Good crowd @ #OUCreatingWorlds waiting for Dr Joanne Reardon’s opening remarks
May 28, 2025 at 9:31 AM
Just about to start at the #OUCreatingWorlds symposium in Senate House, London!
May 28, 2025 at 9:27 AM