Kate Sheehan-Finn
@katesfwriter.bsky.social
Writer, Historical Fiction, Roman Archaeology, Ancient History, Books, Travel, Walking, Landscapes, Photography.
Winner Jericho Writers Competition #LFOW24
https://linktr.ee/katesfwriter
Writing sprinkles life with stardust.
Winner Jericho Writers Competition #LFOW24
https://linktr.ee/katesfwriter
Writing sprinkles life with stardust.
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From Submission to Spotlight: The Journey of a Festival Friday Night Live Winner – Jericho Writers
If I can win a writing competition, then you can too. I received notification that I was in the Friday Night Live (but on Saturday) Final at London Festival of Writing on 21 June 2024. I was visiting ...
jerichowriters.com
Fab memory from last year’s festival of writing hosted by @jerichowriters.bsky.social - thanks for asking me to write about the experience of winning Friday Night Live in 2024.
#WritingCommunity #WritingLife #AmWriting
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#WritingCommunity #WritingLife #AmWriting
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‘Go!’ Crescens hisses, ‘You’ll scream for death if the lord sends you back.’
Barates swallows disgust, turns away.
In the dusty yard, Yarhai waits, astride a silver stallion. His slave steadies a roan.Taking the rein from him, Barates murmurs ‘Hello girl,’ into her twitching ear.
#WriteCBC
Barates swallows disgust, turns away.
In the dusty yard, Yarhai waits, astride a silver stallion. His slave steadies a roan.Taking the rein from him, Barates murmurs ‘Hello girl,’ into her twitching ear.
#WriteCBC
February 5, 2026 at 2:02 PM
‘Go!’ Crescens hisses, ‘You’ll scream for death if the lord sends you back.’
Barates swallows disgust, turns away.
In the dusty yard, Yarhai waits, astride a silver stallion. His slave steadies a roan.Taking the rein from him, Barates murmurs ‘Hello girl,’ into her twitching ear.
#WriteCBC
Barates swallows disgust, turns away.
In the dusty yard, Yarhai waits, astride a silver stallion. His slave steadies a roan.Taking the rein from him, Barates murmurs ‘Hello girl,’ into her twitching ear.
#WriteCBC
1. Ancient Rome
2. Pompeii
3. Ostia Antica
4. Herculaneum
📸 my own. Posting because I need a timeline cleanser.
#AncientRome #Archaeology #Campania
2. Pompeii
3. Ostia Antica
4. Herculaneum
📸 my own. Posting because I need a timeline cleanser.
#AncientRome #Archaeology #Campania
January 20, 2026 at 9:57 PM
1. Ancient Rome
2. Pompeii
3. Ostia Antica
4. Herculaneum
📸 my own. Posting because I need a timeline cleanser.
#AncientRome #Archaeology #Campania
2. Pompeii
3. Ostia Antica
4. Herculaneum
📸 my own. Posting because I need a timeline cleanser.
#AncientRome #Archaeology #Campania
This from Karl Ove Knausgard on his writing is so beautiful - worth a look.
Many of us will identify with this:
'It's like going to your day job and failing every day.'
He succeeded when he accepted that his writing was for him.
#WritingCommunity #WritingLife
youtu.be/Dr-dPzhzrxI?...
Many of us will identify with this:
'It's like going to your day job and failing every day.'
He succeeded when he accepted that his writing was for him.
#WritingCommunity #WritingLife
youtu.be/Dr-dPzhzrxI?...
Karl Ove Knausgård: The writer who broke the rules | Arts in Motion
YouTube video by BBC Global
youtu.be
January 20, 2026 at 3:12 PM
This from Karl Ove Knausgard on his writing is so beautiful - worth a look.
Many of us will identify with this:
'It's like going to your day job and failing every day.'
He succeeded when he accepted that his writing was for him.
#WritingCommunity #WritingLife
youtu.be/Dr-dPzhzrxI?...
Many of us will identify with this:
'It's like going to your day job and failing every day.'
He succeeded when he accepted that his writing was for him.
#WritingCommunity #WritingLife
youtu.be/Dr-dPzhzrxI?...
I've been a member of #BeingAWriter for several years. Wellbeing is crucial to my creativity, and creativity is crucial to my wellbeing. @thelitconsultancy.bsky.social have created community for writers that is safe, supportive and welcoming.
#WritingCommunity
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#WritingCommunity
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Being A Writer | Discover
A supportive writing community helping authors grow through craft, connection, and wellbeing.
discover.circle.so
January 19, 2026 at 12:09 PM
I've been a member of #BeingAWriter for several years. Wellbeing is crucial to my creativity, and creativity is crucial to my wellbeing. @thelitconsultancy.bsky.social have created community for writers that is safe, supportive and welcoming.
#WritingCommunity
discover.circle.so/product/bein...
#WritingCommunity
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I'm not here much at the moment. I'm in writing mode and it is taking up all of my headspace, as is meant to be. I'll be back sporadically when I come up for air.
#HistFic #AmWriting #WritingLife #WritingCommunity
#HistFic #AmWriting #WritingLife #WritingCommunity
a penguin is writing on a piece of paper with a quill pen
ALT: a penguin is writing on a piece of paper with a quill pen
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January 15, 2026 at 2:55 PM
I'm not here much at the moment. I'm in writing mode and it is taking up all of my headspace, as is meant to be. I'll be back sporadically when I come up for air.
#HistFic #AmWriting #WritingLife #WritingCommunity
#HistFic #AmWriting #WritingLife #WritingCommunity
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#HobbyGamesRecce
I offer a glimpse into my own adventure gaming hobby-based coping strategies so readers might find some inspiration for their own self care activities in these trying times. Thanks to @katesfwriter.bsky.social for her concise reminder to balance the despair with joy.
I offer a glimpse into my own adventure gaming hobby-based coping strategies so readers might find some inspiration for their own self care activities in these trying times. Thanks to @katesfwriter.bsky.social for her concise reminder to balance the despair with joy.
Coping Strategies with Game Hobbies
“ It is hardly possible to build anything if frustration, bitterness, and a mood of helplessness prevail.” — Lech Walesa I am resisting r...
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January 13, 2026 at 8:10 PM
#HobbyGamesRecce
I offer a glimpse into my own adventure gaming hobby-based coping strategies so readers might find some inspiration for their own self care activities in these trying times. Thanks to @katesfwriter.bsky.social for her concise reminder to balance the despair with joy.
I offer a glimpse into my own adventure gaming hobby-based coping strategies so readers might find some inspiration for their own self care activities in these trying times. Thanks to @katesfwriter.bsky.social for her concise reminder to balance the despair with joy.
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One of two fish shops on the Decumanus at #OstiaAntica One shop has a floor mosaic depicting a dolphin eating a squid and an inscription.
The inscription translates:
Envious creature, I trample you
Dolphins were thought to have disrupted fishermen.
#MosaicMonday #Archaeology #AncientRome
📸 my own
The inscription translates:
Envious creature, I trample you
Dolphins were thought to have disrupted fishermen.
#MosaicMonday #Archaeology #AncientRome
📸 my own
January 12, 2026 at 8:02 AM
One of two fish shops on the Decumanus at #OstiaAntica One shop has a floor mosaic depicting a dolphin eating a squid and an inscription.
The inscription translates:
Envious creature, I trample you
Dolphins were thought to have disrupted fishermen.
#MosaicMonday #Archaeology #AncientRome
📸 my own
The inscription translates:
Envious creature, I trample you
Dolphins were thought to have disrupted fishermen.
#MosaicMonday #Archaeology #AncientRome
📸 my own
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Many congratulations to Dr Alex Langlands & team from Swansea for this stunning new discovery from Margam Park in south Wales 😮🥳.
The coastal belt in south Wales is very heavily ploughed, but it sounds like this villa complex has been preserved below old parkland 👌
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
The coastal belt in south Wales is very heavily ploughed, but it sounds like this villa complex has been preserved below old parkland 👌
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Margam park Roman villa find could be 'Port Talbot's Pompeii'
The largest Roman villa ever found in Wales lies less than a metre under Margam Country Park.
www.bbc.co.uk
January 12, 2026 at 7:38 AM
Many congratulations to Dr Alex Langlands & team from Swansea for this stunning new discovery from Margam Park in south Wales 😮🥳.
The coastal belt in south Wales is very heavily ploughed, but it sounds like this villa complex has been preserved below old parkland 👌
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
The coastal belt in south Wales is very heavily ploughed, but it sounds like this villa complex has been preserved below old parkland 👌
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
One of two fish shops on the Decumanus at #OstiaAntica One shop has a floor mosaic depicting a dolphin eating a squid and an inscription.
The inscription translates:
Envious creature, I trample you
Dolphins were thought to have disrupted fishermen.
#MosaicMonday #Archaeology #AncientRome
📸 my own
The inscription translates:
Envious creature, I trample you
Dolphins were thought to have disrupted fishermen.
#MosaicMonday #Archaeology #AncientRome
📸 my own
January 12, 2026 at 8:02 AM
One of two fish shops on the Decumanus at #OstiaAntica One shop has a floor mosaic depicting a dolphin eating a squid and an inscription.
The inscription translates:
Envious creature, I trample you
Dolphins were thought to have disrupted fishermen.
#MosaicMonday #Archaeology #AncientRome
📸 my own
The inscription translates:
Envious creature, I trample you
Dolphins were thought to have disrupted fishermen.
#MosaicMonday #Archaeology #AncientRome
📸 my own
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On January 11th & 15th,Romans celebrated a festival to goddess Carmenta (or Carmentis) a goddess of prophecy and childbirth.She had power of looking back into the past and forward into the future.The festival was chiefly observed by women #Folklore #Myth www.vindolanda.com/blog/the-fes...
January 11, 2026 at 9:12 AM
On January 11th & 15th,Romans celebrated a festival to goddess Carmenta (or Carmentis) a goddess of prophecy and childbirth.She had power of looking back into the past and forward into the future.The festival was chiefly observed by women #Folklore #Myth www.vindolanda.com/blog/the-fes...
Meet Helena, mother of Roman emperor, Constantine (AD 249-325). The form of the statue is derived from a 5th C BC Greek work. The statue was once at the Vatican. Pope Pius V gifted it in 1566.
I love how popes owned items like this.
📸 mine Capitoline Museums.
#RomanWomen
#AncientRome #Archaeology
I love how popes owned items like this.
📸 mine Capitoline Museums.
#RomanWomen
#AncientRome #Archaeology
January 11, 2026 at 9:05 PM
Meet Helena, mother of Roman emperor, Constantine (AD 249-325). The form of the statue is derived from a 5th C BC Greek work. The statue was once at the Vatican. Pope Pius V gifted it in 1566.
I love how popes owned items like this.
📸 mine Capitoline Museums.
#RomanWomen
#AncientRome #Archaeology
I love how popes owned items like this.
📸 mine Capitoline Museums.
#RomanWomen
#AncientRome #Archaeology
Don’t #doomscroll. Fill your timeline with beautiful moments.
This is not ignoring the harsh stuff or unbearable news, and big things beyond your control.
It’s a balancing act. There is beauty and goodness. Lean into what makes you smile.
📸 my own. Reggie is adorable. He’s seeking doggie treats.
This is not ignoring the harsh stuff or unbearable news, and big things beyond your control.
It’s a balancing act. There is beauty and goodness. Lean into what makes you smile.
📸 my own. Reggie is adorable. He’s seeking doggie treats.
January 10, 2026 at 1:40 PM
Don’t #doomscroll. Fill your timeline with beautiful moments.
This is not ignoring the harsh stuff or unbearable news, and big things beyond your control.
It’s a balancing act. There is beauty and goodness. Lean into what makes you smile.
📸 my own. Reggie is adorable. He’s seeking doggie treats.
This is not ignoring the harsh stuff or unbearable news, and big things beyond your control.
It’s a balancing act. There is beauty and goodness. Lean into what makes you smile.
📸 my own. Reggie is adorable. He’s seeking doggie treats.
Reposted by Kate Sheehan-Finn
Very similar to the jet necklace found at Dunragit by #GuardArchaeology
www.guard-archaeology.co.uk/DunragitBlog...
www.guard-archaeology.co.uk/DunragitBlog...
January 10, 2026 at 12:27 PM
Very similar to the jet necklace found at Dunragit by #GuardArchaeology
www.guard-archaeology.co.uk/DunragitBlog...
www.guard-archaeology.co.uk/DunragitBlog...
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Necklace and bracelet from the Balgay Cist burial discovered in 1870s. Reconstructed with some replica beads, the jet jewellery dates to the Bronze Age (4000 years old), belonged to a high status woman.
#FindsFriday #Archaeology
📸 my own, McManus Museum, Dundee.
Necklace and bracelet from the Balgay Cist burial discovered in 1870s. Reconstructed with some replica beads, the jet jewellery dates to the Bronze Age (4000 years old), belonged to a high status woman.
#FindsFriday #Archaeology
📸 my own, McManus Museum, Dundee.
January 9, 2026 at 9:51 AM
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Necklace and bracelet from the Balgay Cist burial discovered in 1870s. Reconstructed with some replica beads, the jet jewellery dates to the Bronze Age (4000 years old), belonged to a high status woman.
#FindsFriday #Archaeology
📸 my own, McManus Museum, Dundee.
Necklace and bracelet from the Balgay Cist burial discovered in 1870s. Reconstructed with some replica beads, the jet jewellery dates to the Bronze Age (4000 years old), belonged to a high status woman.
#FindsFriday #Archaeology
📸 my own, McManus Museum, Dundee.
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#FindsFriday What's he got in his pocket today? Fresh from the ground in Suffolk, having been seriously mucked about in the past. Note the markings around the edge on the left image.
January 9, 2026 at 5:59 AM
#FindsFriday What's he got in his pocket today? Fresh from the ground in Suffolk, having been seriously mucked about in the past. Note the markings around the edge on the left image.
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Necklace and bracelet from the Balgay Cist burial discovered in 1870s. Reconstructed with some replica beads, the jet jewellery dates to the Bronze Age (4000 years old), belonged to a high status woman.
#FindsFriday #Archaeology
📸 my own, McManus Museum, Dundee.
Necklace and bracelet from the Balgay Cist burial discovered in 1870s. Reconstructed with some replica beads, the jet jewellery dates to the Bronze Age (4000 years old), belonged to a high status woman.
#FindsFriday #Archaeology
📸 my own, McManus Museum, Dundee.
January 9, 2026 at 9:51 AM
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Necklace and bracelet from the Balgay Cist burial discovered in 1870s. Reconstructed with some replica beads, the jet jewellery dates to the Bronze Age (4000 years old), belonged to a high status woman.
#FindsFriday #Archaeology
📸 my own, McManus Museum, Dundee.
Necklace and bracelet from the Balgay Cist burial discovered in 1870s. Reconstructed with some replica beads, the jet jewellery dates to the Bronze Age (4000 years old), belonged to a high status woman.
#FindsFriday #Archaeology
📸 my own, McManus Museum, Dundee.
Every time I want to post about my #writing on #Bluesky I find myself distracted by my furry assistant, who knows I should either be drafting my story or cuddling her. She thinks I should definitely NOT be spending time on SM.
🐈⬛ 🤷♀️
#CatSky #WritingLife
🐈⬛ 🤷♀️
#CatSky #WritingLife
January 8, 2026 at 7:58 PM
Every time I want to post about my #writing on #Bluesky I find myself distracted by my furry assistant, who knows I should either be drafting my story or cuddling her. She thinks I should definitely NOT be spending time on SM.
🐈⬛ 🤷♀️
#CatSky #WritingLife
🐈⬛ 🤷♀️
#CatSky #WritingLife
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We are back at our desks and ready to support you on your writing journey!
To celebrate the turning of the year, we are running our popular VISION BOARDING FOR WRITERS webinar. And, it's completely free!
📌29 Jan 2026, 6-7pm (UK)
Register on our website. #BeingAWriter member? Join us via Circle!
To celebrate the turning of the year, we are running our popular VISION BOARDING FOR WRITERS webinar. And, it's completely free!
📌29 Jan 2026, 6-7pm (UK)
Register on our website. #BeingAWriter member? Join us via Circle!
Vision Boarding for Writers - The Literary Consultancy
Come along to one of our most highly subscribed events and set your intentions for 2026
literaryconsultancy.co.uk
January 6, 2026 at 12:43 PM
We are back at our desks and ready to support you on your writing journey!
To celebrate the turning of the year, we are running our popular VISION BOARDING FOR WRITERS webinar. And, it's completely free!
📌29 Jan 2026, 6-7pm (UK)
Register on our website. #BeingAWriter member? Join us via Circle!
To celebrate the turning of the year, we are running our popular VISION BOARDING FOR WRITERS webinar. And, it's completely free!
📌29 Jan 2026, 6-7pm (UK)
Register on our website. #BeingAWriter member? Join us via Circle!
One of two of the Roman bath houses at Vindolanda, in the vicus, close to the fort’s west gate.
This fort was occupied by Coh IV Gallorum from the early 3rd C.
The baths served the soldiers and townspeople of #Vindolanda south of #HadriansWall.
#RomanFortThursday #RomanBritain #Archaeology
📸 my own.
This fort was occupied by Coh IV Gallorum from the early 3rd C.
The baths served the soldiers and townspeople of #Vindolanda south of #HadriansWall.
#RomanFortThursday #RomanBritain #Archaeology
📸 my own.
January 8, 2026 at 4:35 PM
One of two of the Roman bath houses at Vindolanda, in the vicus, close to the fort’s west gate.
This fort was occupied by Coh IV Gallorum from the early 3rd C.
The baths served the soldiers and townspeople of #Vindolanda south of #HadriansWall.
#RomanFortThursday #RomanBritain #Archaeology
📸 my own.
This fort was occupied by Coh IV Gallorum from the early 3rd C.
The baths served the soldiers and townspeople of #Vindolanda south of #HadriansWall.
#RomanFortThursday #RomanBritain #Archaeology
📸 my own.
If you listen carefully you might hear the softest sigh as Winter settles beneath her snowy blanket.
January 8, 2026 at 10:20 AM
If you listen carefully you might hear the softest sigh as Winter settles beneath her snowy blanket.
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A Roman marble relief showing a teacher giving a lecture. From the Area Sacra of Via Della Foce, #OstiaAntica, late 4th C AD.
#ReliefWednesday #AncientRome
📸 my own.
#ReliefWednesday #AncientRome
📸 my own.
January 7, 2026 at 12:03 PM
A Roman marble relief showing a teacher giving a lecture. From the Area Sacra of Via Della Foce, #OstiaAntica, late 4th C AD.
#ReliefWednesday #AncientRome
📸 my own.
#ReliefWednesday #AncientRome
📸 my own.
The humble whetstone was a must have item in every Roman soldier’s kit. The scrape of iron on stones like these would have been a common sound in Roman forts.
#RomanBritain #RomanFortThursday
#Archaeology
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...
#RomanBritain #RomanFortThursday
#Archaeology
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...
Archaeologists discover signs of Roman industrial hub at site in Sunderland
Discovery of more than 800 whetstones, used to sharpen weapons, seen as one of the most significant finds in northern England for a century
www.theguardian.com
January 8, 2026 at 7:44 AM
The humble whetstone was a must have item in every Roman soldier’s kit. The scrape of iron on stones like these would have been a common sound in Roman forts.
#RomanBritain #RomanFortThursday
#Archaeology
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...
#RomanBritain #RomanFortThursday
#Archaeology
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...
A Roman marble relief showing a teacher giving a lecture. From the Area Sacra of Via Della Foce, #OstiaAntica, late 4th C AD.
#ReliefWednesday #AncientRome
📸 my own.
#ReliefWednesday #AncientRome
📸 my own.
January 7, 2026 at 12:03 PM
A Roman marble relief showing a teacher giving a lecture. From the Area Sacra of Via Della Foce, #OstiaAntica, late 4th C AD.
#ReliefWednesday #AncientRome
📸 my own.
#ReliefWednesday #AncientRome
📸 my own.
This find is so special. And it’s an incredible story of recovery and conservation too.
The new series of #DiggingForBritain is now on #BBCiPlayer and this incredible find is featured in the program.
#Archaeology
The new series of #DiggingForBritain is now on #BBCiPlayer and this incredible find is featured in the program.
#Archaeology
January 7, 2026 at 11:40 AM
This find is so special. And it’s an incredible story of recovery and conservation too.
The new series of #DiggingForBritain is now on #BBCiPlayer and this incredible find is featured in the program.
#Archaeology
The new series of #DiggingForBritain is now on #BBCiPlayer and this incredible find is featured in the program.
#Archaeology
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More on the stunning Iron Age carnyx found in #Norfolk with boar standard and shield bosses
👇👇👇
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Found by PreConstruct Archaeology and featuring in episode 2 of the new series of #DiggingForBritain with @profaliceroberts.bsky.social on BBC2
Wowzers 🤩
👇👇👇
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Found by PreConstruct Archaeology and featuring in episode 2 of the new series of #DiggingForBritain with @profaliceroberts.bsky.social on BBC2
Wowzers 🤩
January 7, 2026 at 9:31 AM
More on the stunning Iron Age carnyx found in #Norfolk with boar standard and shield bosses
👇👇👇
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Found by PreConstruct Archaeology and featuring in episode 2 of the new series of #DiggingForBritain with @profaliceroberts.bsky.social on BBC2
Wowzers 🤩
👇👇👇
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Found by PreConstruct Archaeology and featuring in episode 2 of the new series of #DiggingForBritain with @profaliceroberts.bsky.social on BBC2
Wowzers 🤩