Jen Matthews
@jenwritesagain.bsky.social
Often reading - sometimes writing.
Substack @ChaseTheWren
Editor @the4facedliar.bsky.social
Substack @ChaseTheWren
Editor @the4facedliar.bsky.social
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"We have included an advance copy of the hardcover edition of your diary, which Simon & Schuster will be releasing this winter. We think the photo of the time you laughed so hard in the school cafeteria that milk came out of your nose makes for a perfect cover."
We Regret to Inform You That Your Middle School Diary Has Lapsed into the Public Domain
This letter is to inform you (the author) that your intellectual property (middle school diary) has officially entered the public domain due to you...
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November 12, 2025 at 2:40 AM
"We have included an advance copy of the hardcover edition of your diary, which Simon & Schuster will be releasing this winter. We think the photo of the time you laughed so hard in the school cafeteria that milk came out of your nose makes for a perfect cover."
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Thanks to The Marrow Poetry for highlighting my poem ‘Long Haul’ today
www.themarrowpoetry.com/issue-five/l...
www.themarrowpoetry.com/issue-five/l...
November 10, 2025 at 6:14 AM
Thanks to The Marrow Poetry for highlighting my poem ‘Long Haul’ today
www.themarrowpoetry.com/issue-five/l...
www.themarrowpoetry.com/issue-five/l...
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french wikipedia is the only language that has a "list of bastards" article
November 9, 2025 at 8:03 AM
french wikipedia is the only language that has a "list of bastards" article
“For a short story to lure me in, I need one thing: great voice. If your narrator and/or character doesn’t have a unique or bizarre voice, I’m back to Netflix or staring at my neighbour across the road arguing with his bins.” — June Caldwell
I've updated the apersonalanthology.com website with @junec.bsky.social June Caldwell's selection of a dozen favourite short stories.
Check them out!
Check them out!
A Personal Anthology
Writers, critics and others dream-edit a personal anthology of their favourite short stories
apersonalanthology.com
November 9, 2025 at 11:05 AM
“For a short story to lure me in, I need one thing: great voice. If your narrator and/or character doesn’t have a unique or bizarre voice, I’m back to Netflix or staring at my neighbour across the road arguing with his bins.” — June Caldwell
“Because survival is insufficient.” 💙 #amreading
November 6, 2025 at 9:46 PM
“Because survival is insufficient.” 💙 #amreading
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MOM: You can’t spend all day moping. Not on Lottery’s Eve!
TESSIE: I have to find a way to get my life back. I don’t have time for the Lottery.
MOM: There's always time for family. Help your sister roll her wheelchair down to the creekbed to collect some stones for tomorrow.
TESSIE: I have to find a way to get my life back. I don’t have time for the Lottery.
MOM: There's always time for family. Help your sister roll her wheelchair down to the creekbed to collect some stones for tomorrow.
The Hallmark Channel Presents: Shirley Jackson’s “The Lottery”
INT. BIG CITY HEDGE FUND Tessie Jacobs (30-something, blonde) stares at a bar graph with two columns: “money” and “not money.” Her boss (you know h...
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October 28, 2025 at 1:20 AM
MOM: You can’t spend all day moping. Not on Lottery’s Eve!
TESSIE: I have to find a way to get my life back. I don’t have time for the Lottery.
MOM: There's always time for family. Help your sister roll her wheelchair down to the creekbed to collect some stones for tomorrow.
TESSIE: I have to find a way to get my life back. I don’t have time for the Lottery.
MOM: There's always time for family. Help your sister roll her wheelchair down to the creekbed to collect some stones for tomorrow.
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Submissions for issue 21 are open until midnight IST on Friday 31 October ✍️
Submissions for issue 21 (spring/summer 2026) are open until 31 October! Submission guidelines are at the link below. We're looking forward to reading your short fiction, poetry, flash & essays! ✨
bansheepress.org/submit
bansheepress.org/submit
Submit — Banshee Press
Banshee Press is open for book submissions from 1-15 October. We are also accepting submissions for issue 21 (spring/summer 2026) until 31 October!
bansheepress.org
October 27, 2025 at 6:25 PM
Submissions for issue 21 are open until midnight IST on Friday 31 October ✍️
Profound dignity throughout the poems in “In Her Jaws”, lighting a way through trauma towards persistence & survival. Loving, too, learning about women I hadn’t known of before liked Caroline Herschel and Dora Richter #amreading @rosamundtaylor.bsky.social
October 26, 2025 at 12:20 PM
Profound dignity throughout the poems in “In Her Jaws”, lighting a way through trauma towards persistence & survival. Loving, too, learning about women I hadn’t known of before liked Caroline Herschel and Dora Richter #amreading @rosamundtaylor.bsky.social
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We can't wait for our @dinglelit.bsky.social partnership event with award winning poet Gustav Parker Hibbett.
We will explore Gustav's work in 'High Jump as Icarus Story', a collection that gifts us visions of flight and falling.
Book via www.eventbrite.com/e/flight-and...
We will explore Gustav's work in 'High Jump as Icarus Story', a collection that gifts us visions of flight and falling.
Book via www.eventbrite.com/e/flight-and...
Flight and falling: Gustav Parker Hibbett in conversation with Liz Quirke
Join multi-award-winning poet Gustav Parker Hibbett as they read from and discuss their debut poetry collection 'High Jump as Icarus Story'
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October 22, 2025 at 2:32 PM
We can't wait for our @dinglelit.bsky.social partnership event with award winning poet Gustav Parker Hibbett.
We will explore Gustav's work in 'High Jump as Icarus Story', a collection that gifts us visions of flight and falling.
Book via www.eventbrite.com/e/flight-and...
We will explore Gustav's work in 'High Jump as Icarus Story', a collection that gifts us visions of flight and falling.
Book via www.eventbrite.com/e/flight-and...
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Join us next Thursday 30 October in @ucc.ie at 6pm to celebrate the launch of Banshee issue 20! Hear readings from our brilliant contributors and raise a glass to ten years of Banshee 📚
bansheepress.org/events/cork-...
bansheepress.org/events/cork-...
Cork launch of Banshee issue 20 — Banshee Press
Celebrate ten years of Banshee at the Cork launch of our speculative fiction-themed 20th issue. Join us at the Staff Common Room in the Quad, UCC , on Thursday 30 October at 6pm to raise a glass ...
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October 23, 2025 at 11:16 AM
Join us next Thursday 30 October in @ucc.ie at 6pm to celebrate the launch of Banshee issue 20! Hear readings from our brilliant contributors and raise a glass to ten years of Banshee 📚
bansheepress.org/events/cork-...
bansheepress.org/events/cork-...
Stunning poem by Anne Tannam 💙
#amreading
#amreading
October 18, 2025 at 11:02 AM
Stunning poem by Anne Tannam 💙
#amreading
#amreading
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I'd say "let's burn it all down" but putting AI in everything will kind of burn it down for us, soooooo
This is the future of Windows. Microsoft wants to rewrite Windows to turn computers into AI PCs that you talk to. It's now bringing AI features to all Windows 11 PCs today, in a bid to convince you to talk to your PC and let AI control it. Full details 👇 www.theverge.com/news/799768/...
Microsoft wants you to talk to your PC and let AI control it
Copilot Voice and Vision are now rolling out.
www.theverge.com
October 16, 2025 at 1:48 PM
I'd say "let's burn it all down" but putting AI in everything will kind of burn it down for us, soooooo
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I feel like most Irish and British writers who complain about being silenced have never done anything as brave as what Naoise has done here
Irish PEN/PEN na hÉireann Irish PEN/PEN na hÉireann is gravely concerned about the detention of writer Naoise Dolan...The flotilla was illegally intercepted last night and seized by armed Israeli forces in international waters.
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Thousand Madleens flotilla Statement - Irish PEN/PEN na hÉireann
8 October 2025 Irish PEN/PEN na hÉireann Irish PEN/PEN na hÉireann is gravely concerned about the detention of writer Naoise Dolan, one of several Irish citizens taking part in the Thousand Madleens f...
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October 9, 2025 at 8:21 AM
I feel like most Irish and British writers who complain about being silenced have never done anything as brave as what Naoise has done here
“The opportunity to move from despair to action.” 👏👏👏
Three of the kidnapped Irish participants on the Global Sumud Flotilla arrived home to a huge welcome last night. They talk about why they tried to break apartheid Israel's illegal siege of Gaza, acting because our governments refuse to. #FreePalestine #LiftTheSiege
Video RTÉ News
Video RTÉ News
October 7, 2025 at 11:37 AM
“The opportunity to move from despair to action.” 👏👏👏
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We are delighted to share the cover for a very special project we've been working on for Christmas 2025! An Alternative Irish Christmas is an anthology of stories, in traditional, unusual, extract, and essay form by some of our favourite authors. 1/🧵
October 7, 2025 at 9:50 AM
We are delighted to share the cover for a very special project we've been working on for Christmas 2025! An Alternative Irish Christmas is an anthology of stories, in traditional, unusual, extract, and essay form by some of our favourite authors. 1/🧵
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Greta Thunberg gives her first words after she was released from Israeli prison where she was beat and forced to kiss the Israeli flag. She says the story is not about them, the story is about Gaza.
October 6, 2025 at 4:00 PM
Greta Thunberg gives her first words after she was released from Israeli prison where she was beat and forced to kiss the Israeli flag. She says the story is not about them, the story is about Gaza.
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Aldi Pretty Horses
A beautiful day out there today, I’d suggest it’d be even more beautiful if you bought a book to go with it. - Michael
October 6, 2025 at 10:49 AM
Aldi Pretty Horses
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A great shop that’s so supportivr of writers, and run by the best people. They’re open today if you’re passing, or you can buy a book via their website. @booksupstairs.bsky.social www.irishtimes.com/crime-law/20...
‘Really shocking’: Independent Dublin bookstore damaged in arson attack
Books Upstairs manager hopes to partially open the D’Olier Street store later on Monday
www.irishtimes.com
October 6, 2025 at 12:43 PM
A great shop that’s so supportivr of writers, and run by the best people. They’re open today if you’re passing, or you can buy a book via their website. @booksupstairs.bsky.social www.irishtimes.com/crime-law/20...
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Via Sarah Clancy's partner Anne Mulhall:
"Friends I am so happy to tell you that Sarah and all the Irish flotilla heroes are in the air flying to Athens and will all be on flights home to Dublin tonight or tomorrow.
Sarah will be arriving into Dublin airport at 11pm tonight."
"Friends I am so happy to tell you that Sarah and all the Irish flotilla heroes are in the air flying to Athens and will all be on flights home to Dublin tonight or tomorrow.
Sarah will be arriving into Dublin airport at 11pm tonight."
October 6, 2025 at 3:50 PM
Via Sarah Clancy's partner Anne Mulhall:
"Friends I am so happy to tell you that Sarah and all the Irish flotilla heroes are in the air flying to Athens and will all be on flights home to Dublin tonight or tomorrow.
Sarah will be arriving into Dublin airport at 11pm tonight."
"Friends I am so happy to tell you that Sarah and all the Irish flotilla heroes are in the air flying to Athens and will all be on flights home to Dublin tonight or tomorrow.
Sarah will be arriving into Dublin airport at 11pm tonight."
“Are you well?
Such a useless question.”
Binging Anne Tannam this morning and have had two lovely cries already by page 25.
Such a useless question.”
Binging Anne Tannam this morning and have had two lovely cries already by page 25.
October 4, 2025 at 11:27 AM
“Are you well?
Such a useless question.”
Binging Anne Tannam this morning and have had two lovely cries already by page 25.
Such a useless question.”
Binging Anne Tannam this morning and have had two lovely cries already by page 25.
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If I may make a suggestion, call your local TDs and councillors. Being a constituent is important to these people, they hate hearing from us.
October 3, 2025 at 3:20 PM
If I may make a suggestion, call your local TDs and councillors. Being a constituent is important to these people, they hate hearing from us.
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There are lots of actions around the country in support of the Global Sumud Flotilla and Palestine today. #LiftTheSiege
October 2, 2025 at 2:36 PM
There are lots of actions around the country in support of the Global Sumud Flotilla and Palestine today. #LiftTheSiege
Just rang Dept of Foreign Affairs and was read an official statement that was an essentially a PFO. (BTW The woman on the line was very helpful, and I have no doubt they’ve put this down to someone who has no input or control.) She explained that they were noting the phone calls received. (1/2)
Sarah Clancy and Chris Andrews have both been kidnapped by the IDF.
Contact Dept of Foreign Affairs:
Address:
Iveagh House, 80 St Stephen’s Green, Dublin 2, D02 VY53
Website:
www.ireland.ie/dfa
Telephone:
+353 1 408 2000 #globalsumudflotilla
Contact Dept of Foreign Affairs:
Address:
Iveagh House, 80 St Stephen’s Green, Dublin 2, D02 VY53
Website:
www.ireland.ie/dfa
Telephone:
+353 1 408 2000 #globalsumudflotilla
October 3, 2025 at 11:46 AM
Just rang Dept of Foreign Affairs and was read an official statement that was an essentially a PFO. (BTW The woman on the line was very helpful, and I have no doubt they’ve put this down to someone who has no input or control.) She explained that they were noting the phone calls received. (1/2)
I’m so absorbed with worry about @sarahmaintains.bsky.social. I know so many of us are. She is the goodest of good eggs and one of the few people that actively fight for a better world in a meaningful way. This pain in our corner of the world— I cannot conceive of the pain in Gaza.
October 2, 2025 at 4:37 PM
I’m so absorbed with worry about @sarahmaintains.bsky.social. I know so many of us are. She is the goodest of good eggs and one of the few people that actively fight for a better world in a meaningful way. This pain in our corner of the world— I cannot conceive of the pain in Gaza.