Gemma Marren
@gemmamarren.bsky.social
... writer, west of Ireland 💚 Repped by Juliet Pickering at Blake Friedmann
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May 7, 2025 at 2:03 PM
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Sligo event:
The Word on Wednesday
29th Jan, 6.30pm, Sligo Central Library
I will be interviewed by Niamh McCabe.
With Mags Kilcoyne, Singer-Songwriter Poet based in Sligo.
Audience Q&A
Free and unticketed with limited seating.
Stream on FB on the night: //www.facebook.com/SligoCountyLibrary/
The Word on Wednesday
29th Jan, 6.30pm, Sligo Central Library
I will be interviewed by Niamh McCabe.
With Mags Kilcoyne, Singer-Songwriter Poet based in Sligo.
Audience Q&A
Free and unticketed with limited seating.
Stream on FB on the night: //www.facebook.com/SligoCountyLibrary/
January 22, 2025 at 10:47 AM
Sligo event:
The Word on Wednesday
29th Jan, 6.30pm, Sligo Central Library
I will be interviewed by Niamh McCabe.
With Mags Kilcoyne, Singer-Songwriter Poet based in Sligo.
Audience Q&A
Free and unticketed with limited seating.
Stream on FB on the night: //www.facebook.com/SligoCountyLibrary/
The Word on Wednesday
29th Jan, 6.30pm, Sligo Central Library
I will be interviewed by Niamh McCabe.
With Mags Kilcoyne, Singer-Songwriter Poet based in Sligo.
Audience Q&A
Free and unticketed with limited seating.
Stream on FB on the night: //www.facebook.com/SligoCountyLibrary/
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“There is a crack, a crack in everything/That's how the light gets in”
Reminded of a line or two by Leonard Cohen. The sky is giving gifts today.
Reminded of a line or two by Leonard Cohen. The sky is giving gifts today.
January 10, 2025 at 11:48 PM
“There is a crack, a crack in everything/That's how the light gets in”
Reminded of a line or two by Leonard Cohen. The sky is giving gifts today.
Reminded of a line or two by Leonard Cohen. The sky is giving gifts today.
Aren't I gorgeous?
January 9, 2025 at 7:27 PM
Aren't I gorgeous?
In the Republic of Ireland most income from writing and musical composition is tax-free – not because its government is staffed by Yeats-quoting aesthetes, but because it appreciates the hard-nosed business case.
Yet another reason to feel blessed to be Irish.💚
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Yet another reason to feel blessed to be Irish.💚
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Impoverished authors are told they should do it for the love. Try saying that to a dentist | Gareth Rubin
The average income for a writer is now £7,000. For our sake and the country’s, we need financial assistance
www.theguardian.com
January 6, 2025 at 6:17 PM
In the Republic of Ireland most income from writing and musical composition is tax-free – not because its government is staffed by Yeats-quoting aesthetes, but because it appreciates the hard-nosed business case.
Yet another reason to feel blessed to be Irish.💚
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Yet another reason to feel blessed to be Irish.💚
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Just finished Juno Loves Legs by Karl Geary, and am feeling a little bit broken.
January 5, 2025 at 5:37 PM
Just finished Juno Loves Legs by Karl Geary, and am feeling a little bit broken.
"You've been kidnapped. The characters from the last TV show you watched are trying to rescue you. Who is coming to save you?”
January 5, 2025 at 5:21 PM
"You've been kidnapped. The characters from the last TV show you watched are trying to rescue you. Who is coming to save you?”
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‘Whatever story you want to tell, tell it at the right size.’ Richard Linklater. Are you forcing a novel into a short story or stretching a short story into a novel? #writing #writingcommunity #editing
a person is typing on an old typewriter with the letters a and b visible
ALT: a person is typing on an old typewriter with the letters a and b visible
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January 5, 2025 at 9:44 AM
‘Whatever story you want to tell, tell it at the right size.’ Richard Linklater. Are you forcing a novel into a short story or stretching a short story into a novel? #writing #writingcommunity #editing
Breathtaking views from the summit of the Croagh Patrick today. Feeling blessed.🙏
January 3, 2025 at 11:54 PM
Breathtaking views from the summit of the Croagh Patrick today. Feeling blessed.🙏
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A rare actual good news story: bees – both honey bees and wild bees – seem to be doing better in the UK.
Bee-friendly planting, less pesticide use and an uptick in beekeeping are all having results 🐝 🎉 inews.co.uk/inews-lifest...
Bee-friendly planting, less pesticide use and an uptick in beekeeping are all having results 🐝 🎉 inews.co.uk/inews-lifest...
The good news about bees: Why they're returning to British gardens
Thanks to a combination of efforts by beekeepers, better farming practices and reduced pesticide use, populations are showing signs of recovery
inews.co.uk
December 27, 2024 at 12:15 PM
A rare actual good news story: bees – both honey bees and wild bees – seem to be doing better in the UK.
Bee-friendly planting, less pesticide use and an uptick in beekeeping are all having results 🐝 🎉 inews.co.uk/inews-lifest...
Bee-friendly planting, less pesticide use and an uptick in beekeeping are all having results 🐝 🎉 inews.co.uk/inews-lifest...
Without downloading any new pics, what’s your energy going into 2025.
December 27, 2024 at 8:57 PM
Without downloading any new pics, what’s your energy going into 2025.
Strandhill, Sligo.
December 27, 2024 at 7:08 PM
Strandhill, Sligo.
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Words To Live by Number 169
Taking a little time to count little blessings this morning 🫶
December 23, 2024 at 1:21 PM
Words To Live by Number 169
Over in the other place I was always being followed by big boobed scantily clad women, here I'm being pursued by bare chested men whose posts consist of bare chested pictures of themselves, sometimesin bed with their dogs.😖
What's going on?🤔
What's going on?🤔
December 24, 2024 at 10:22 AM
Over in the other place I was always being followed by big boobed scantily clad women, here I'm being pursued by bare chested men whose posts consist of bare chested pictures of themselves, sometimesin bed with their dogs.😖
What's going on?🤔
What's going on?🤔
A review that mentions Anita Brookner, Penelope Lively and Penelope Fitzgerald is definitely worth a read.
Well, it’s lunchtime, and it’s the season when serious people with public profiles write reviews of the year. Politics; analysis – you know the kind of thing. But after *this* year? Fuck that. Instead, here’s one written by an idiot
Christopher’s Christmas Cracker 2024
Every year, historian and travel writer John Julius Norwich published a Christmas Cracker — a collection of anecdotes, trivia and…
mulberryhall.medium.com
December 23, 2024 at 7:45 PM
A review that mentions Anita Brookner, Penelope Lively and Penelope Fitzgerald is definitely worth a read.
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THIS poem from @toddedillard.bsky.social’s Ragnarök at the Father-Daughter Dance (Variant Lit) has absolutely pinned itself to my heart! ♥️
“She’s so unafraid it makes me afraid.”
“She’s so unafraid it makes me afraid.”
December 18, 2024 at 4:55 PM
THIS poem from @toddedillard.bsky.social’s Ragnarök at the Father-Daughter Dance (Variant Lit) has absolutely pinned itself to my heart! ♥️
“She’s so unafraid it makes me afraid.”
“She’s so unafraid it makes me afraid.”
A blissful afternoon nap.
December 11, 2024 at 6:43 PM
A blissful afternoon nap.
Stir-up Wednesday? Better late than never🎄
December 11, 2024 at 6:29 PM
Stir-up Wednesday? Better late than never🎄
At last.👏👏👏
RTÉ to adapt Marian Keyes bestsellers into new series www.irishtimes.com/culture/tv-r...
RTÉ to adapt Marian Keyes bestsellers into new series
The Walsh Sisters, which is set to begin filming in 2025, has been billed as a ‘comedy about serious things’
www.irishtimes.com
December 3, 2024 at 6:03 PM
At last.👏👏👏
Show me a picture on your phone that has your energy that isn't a selfie.
November 27, 2024 at 1:04 PM
Show me a picture on your phone that has your energy that isn't a selfie.
What I am seeing is lots of cats.🐈
I see the narrative around BlueSky, in the other place & in right wing media, is that it’s a woke ‘safe space’ & an echo chamber. I’m not seeing that, what I am seeing is old school moderation taking place & mutual respect.
November 24, 2024 at 3:22 PM
What I am seeing is lots of cats.🐈
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November 23, 2024 at 2:34 PM