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t.m.d. lee
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Belfast, Northern Ireland
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Announcing my upcoming online workshop in #haiku and related forms @irishwriterscentre.bsky.social. It will run (in the evenings) for four weeks from Monday 12th January. All likes / shares / mentions much appreciated! 🙏🏻 irishwriterscentre.ie/courses/japa...
Japanese Short Forms with Maeve O'Sullivan - Irish Writers Centre
4-week online writing course looking at Japanese poetry forms with Maeve O'Sullivan. Starts Tuesday 12 January 2026, 6.30pm - 8.30pm.
irishwriterscentre.ie
December 9, 2025 at 1:57 PM
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❛A converted barn all to myself, beautiful countryside on the doorstep... I managed about a months worth of writing condensed into one inspired week. – Susan Allott, author

The Moth Retreat offers accommodation for writers and artists of all disciplines in rural Ireland.

www.themothmagazine.com
October 26, 2025 at 9:14 PM
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You can visit #Yeats: The Life and Works of #WilliamButlerYeats, a #free #exhibition at the National Library of Ireland on Kildare St, #Dublin.

📆 Open Monday to Sunday: https://www.nli.ie/exhibitions-events/exhibition-yeats-life-and-works-william-butler-yeats-0
October 16, 2025 at 10:35 AM
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The Moth Poetry Prize is now OPEN!

One of the biggest prizes in the world for individual unpublished poems is back for 2025 – and we're very excited to announce that this year Ishion Hutchinson is joining us as judge.

More info below and on our website: bit.ly/mothpoetry25
October 1, 2025 at 7:13 PM
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Volunteer as a Reader for the Orwell Youth Prize!

The @orwellprize.bsky.social is looking for experienced professionals across publishing, literature, academia, civil society (and more) to provide personalised feedback as part of their judging process.
Volunteering | The Orwell Foundation
How you can help support our young writers
www.orwellfoundation.com
October 5, 2025 at 9:26 AM
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ICYMI: The Royal Society for Blind Children has issued an urgent appeal to children’s authors, writers and publishers to donate stories to its new bedtime stories app, following its launch last week 👇 #BookSky
RSBC appeals for story donations for new audiobook app for visually impaired children
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September 27, 2025 at 11:46 AM
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BREAKING NEWS

Anthropic agree to pay $1.5 billion to settle claims that it downloaded pirated books to train its AI systems. This is the largest U.S. copyright settlement in history.

The settlement is still subject to the judge's approval.

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What Authors Need to Know About the $1.5 Billion Anthropic Settlement  - The Authors Guild
Today, Anthropic agreed to pay $1.5 billion to settle claims that it downloaded pirated books to train its AI systems—the largest U.S. copyright settlement in history. The parties in Bartz v…
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September 6, 2025 at 3:58 PM
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and as always, worth noting again: this settlement is for *pirating* works. the judge in the lawsuit ruled that the way anthropic *trained* on works was legal!
September 5, 2025 at 8:05 PM