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Come along. Especially if you usually don’t come along to such things. dublinbookfestival.com/event/writing-…

Writers! The 2024/25 GBP Short Story Prize is currently open to submissions. Prizes: Winner £2500; shortlist £200; longlist £50 book vouchers + 4-book subscription. Judges: Clare Pollard, Mathilde Merouani, and Claire Armitstead. For full details, include low-earner entries,

In partnership with The Arts Council / An Chomhairle Ealaíon, we are seeking a Writer-in-Residence for 2025: applications are welcome until 3rd October and information can be found here: my.corehr.com/pls/nuimrecrui… Maynooth University MUCreativeWriting Faculty of Arts and Humanities, MU Kildare Arts Service

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We're delighted to announce that our new Kildare Arts Service Writer-in-Residence is best-selling novelist Catherine Prasifka. Catherine is the author of two brilliant novels & we're thrilled to welcome her to Maynooth University! 🌟

🦻ISL Interpretation 🎟️riverbank.ticketsolve.com/shows/87364891… Belinda McKeon is a novelist, short story writer & playwright. She is author of Solace (2011) & Tender 2015). After almost 2 decades in the US, she is Associate Professor MU English Dept where she directs the MA in Creative Writing

Poetry with Seán Hewitt and Victoria Kennefick in conversation with Catherine Gander 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🇵🇸 on Thursday in Maynooth Community Library. Free tickets: buytickets.at/kildarereaders…

Absolutely thrilled and incredibly honoured that Trinity College Dublin have decided to name their main library after our mother Eavan Boland. It is a wonderful recognition of her accomplishments as an Irish poet but also will hopefully inspire countless future generations of trailblazers

Wonderful poetry and conversation this eve from @seanehewitt & Dr Victoria Kennefick (She/Her)🍉 with poet Catherine Gander 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🇵🇸 in packed Maynooth Community Library. Irish Writers Centre Poetry Ireland / Éigse Éireann The Maynooth Bookshop Kildare Readers Festival Brilliant Kildare Readers Festival this year

🪶 Michael Hartnett, 25 years today with the gods! ⚡️If you don't already have him on your shelf, here's a good place to begin ➡️ gallerypress.com/product/collec… The Gallery Press ⚡️

This looks great.

WP is nearly 10. Volume 10 will be ready at the end of the month. 📚📚📚

Love this badass photo of writer Mary Lavin on display today at the opening of a new space by the canal in her honour. Mary Lavin Place looked magical in a swirl of autumn leaves . Well done ⁦@IPUT_plc⁩ ⁦Caroline Kennedy⁩

Kate Zambreno & Danielle Dutton!! ✨✨ “…if I don’t view writing as a network…then it’s too isolating. It creates this culture of scarcity, which is what capitalism wants…I’m interested in trying to find ways of thinking in community that feel good.” thebeliever.net/an-interview-w…

Dr Hilary White, our brilliant We are now Research Ireland post-doc, has two gorgeous upcoming publications, a monograph with Edinburgh University Press and an edited volume with Manchester University Press that includes contributions from our own Catherine Gander 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🇵🇸 and j. walsh. Congratulations!!

Congrats to MU English Dept grads Oisín McKenna and Páraic Kerrigan, both of whom have books on the shortlists for the An Post Irish Book Awards. You can vote for Oisín (Best Newcomer) and Paraic (Best Irish Published Book) here - votes close tomorrow. irishbookawards.ie/vote/

★ A lot of care, collective experience, skill & ambition has gone into the design of this very special poetry workshop ★

Sally Rooney, Colm Toibin, Claire Keegan, Anna Burns — we ranked the best Irish novels from the past 15 years. trib.al/xKB5cqw

Congratulations to our Maynooth University colleague Rory Hearne new Social Democrats TD !! Research for policy 👌🏽

Adding our congrats for our colleague Rory Hearne on his election as a TD Social Democrats. Delighted for you, Rory.