Very pleased to share an essay on the craft (& crafting) of essays in the Irish Writers Handbook 2026. Thank you to @ruthmckee.bsky.social for commissioning. @booksireland.bsky.social

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A note to say I've joined @irishwriterscentre.bsky.social panel for one-to-one mentoring in fiction, creative non-fiction and essays. More details, including how to engage me, on the IWC website.

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Last year I was a judge for the Irish Writers' Centre Novel Fair competition. This year they asked me for tips on how to write a synopsis. I started with this:
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Truth/False: Coughing is a form of love. (Yoko Ono) #valentinesday

.@galleybeggars.bsky.social asked me to pick my cultural highlights of the year. I went with books by artists who are writers, writers who are artists:

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Having the chats with Diarmuid Hester. His book, Nothing Ever Just Disappears: Seven Hidden Histories, "celebrates the courage it took for these queer people merely to exist, and exist honestly, in a hostile world."

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Bureau of the Centre for the Study of Surrealism and its Legacy, Mark Dion (2019).

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Was an absolute pleasure talking to Niamh McCann about her most recent exhibition, Hairline Crack [a dialogue], & her practice in general for @winterpapers.bsky.social 9.