from Mayo, often à Paris. Now in Belfast. Writer. Waterford Poetry Prize 2023, @writersweek Single Poem Award 2024, Cúirt New Writing Prize 2025
Mayo, Ireland
Joined April 2009
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put him in a pool and delete the ladder
People have noticed similarities in the way Elon Musk and Sims characters move and act. nitter.gq/DropPopHQ/status/18832…
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A place for every Storm ⚡️
‘This city is opportunity cost’
Fresh off the Boat is a poem by @Finolala featured in Issue 4 of The Storms, Dublin Days, from city to shore and across the sea, seen here by the Jeanie Johnston three-masted barque in the River Liffey
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Story-a-Day 24
'Stella Tyge wasn’t herself. Last Saturday, as the smoke wafted from the spent candles of her thirty-fourth birthday cake, she renounced her birth name, and said she would answer to Stella no longer.'
from 'Yesterday' by @Finolala
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NEW: announcing our 2025 Poetry Workshop with @NiChurr.
This new workshop will help poets working on developing a project or manuscript over a four-month period (January to May 2025). Applications are now open and will close at 5pm on Monday 9th December.
More information: stingingfly.org/poetry-works…
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This haunting poem by Leah Poole Osowski originally published in @PassagesNorth:
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OPEN CALL – Oct 17 to Nov 21 - OUT THERE
We want stories that go beyond the boundaries of the known world, that expand the limits of possibility and dive into experimental, speculative, or just plain weird!
MORE AT: sanspress.com/submissions
#ArtsIreland #publishing #amwriting
ALT Out There, Oct 17 to Nov 21, text over glowing photo of weird sea creature.
ALT Open Call for Stories, Nov 21 or 1,000 Subs. Cover art of twin black cats merging into one, their faces sharing the middle eye. Eyes bloom on their forehead and on flowers in the background.
ALT Text on blurry space photograph; THE RULES: One story per writer; Up to 5,000 words; Previously unpublished; Responding to title and/or cover artwork; Paying market (€200); Guidelines & form on website (sanspress.com/submissions).
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I really love Jack Gilbert's poems for their quietness. I wish there could be more future Jack Gilbert poems.
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Photos from the sites of last night’s air strikes in central Beirut. More than 1,500 people have been killed by Israeli attacks in Lebanon since September 16. 1/
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Hezbollah has organised a media tour in Beirut’s southern suburbs to show journalists the destruction from the last two weeks of Israeli air strikes (it wasn’t possible for most to get access before this). Here’s the first stop. #lebanon 1/
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really sad to see the short story and poetry categories axed from this year's Irish Book Awards - such integral parts of the Irish lit scene, yet so few major short story award opportunities left open to Irish writers, with Costa, IBAs, and Sunday Times all now gone.
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I've written an ADHD essay about writing an ADHD essay. Have I mentioned that I have ADHD?! With sincere thanks to the wonderful @oneflawediris for commissioning it & @stingingfly for giving it a perfect home 🦟 @Carcanet @MunLitCentre @CorkCountyArts @artscouncil_ie @RTERadio1
NEW: Victoria Kennefick on deadlines, distractions and writing with ADHD - the latest in our ‘This So-Called Writing Life’ series edited by @oneflawediris.
“I have been told, over and over that my way of doing things, of living, of being, is wrong.”
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1/2 ATTENTION!!
Last call for submissions for the FALL/AUTUMN ISSUE OF TRASNA.
SUBMISSIONS WILL CLOSE ON AUG 1st, midnight (Ireland standard time). Thank you to all the writers who have sent us their prose and poetry, we will be in touch as soon as possible.
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“Well, fuck the plot! That is for precocious schoolboys. What matters is the imaginative truth.” —Edna O’Brien buff.ly/49sDKXk
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The Eiffel Tower erected itself in my head,
we couldn’t find the lifts, climbed the stairs.
Of course there were fireworks.
—Victoria Kennefick with the #PoemOfTheDay on the first day of the Paris Olympics.
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