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Nicky Denovan

@nickydenovan.com

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UK writer | Playwright & screenwriter | Edinburgh Fringe, BBC radio, theatre all over (New York to New Zealand) | Plays, scripts, pics, publications & performances at 🔗 www.nickydenovan.com

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Nicky Denovan @nickydenovan.com · Nov 17

Best thing anyone has ever said to me as a writer?

“Sleep well, knowing you are a household name in Racine, Wisconsin.”

Nicky Denovan @nickydenovan.com · 8d

This is very exciting! (The impending nuptials, not the cheese. Although…also the cheese.)

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Stephen Graham @stephengraham.bsky.social · 15d

Drama School, Day 1: This clip.
Day 2: Collect diploma.

Future Games Show @futuregamesshow.bsky.social · 16d

the Command & Conquer series is 30 years old today we so have an excuse to share this iconic moment with Tim Curry

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David K. Boo-urns @davidkbarnes.com · 17d

A moment of high drama in Doctor Who as the Master menaces a cherry bakewell

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Nicky Denovan @nickydenovan.com · 19d

Nick Cave received an Honorary Degree at the RCA tonight. Permission to have this iconic image modelled as a cake topper, to be brought out for special occasions (also whenever I feel like it).

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waltydunlop @waltydunlop.bsky.social · 20d

Repost for Irish Film Classifications by Damien Owens, because it's just come up in FB memories and it's still *brilliant*.

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Nicky Denovan @nickydenovan.com · 20d

Talking of poetry (*drags meaningfully on a Gauloise and adjusts beret*), here’s one of my favourite Roger McGough poems.

Nicky Denovan @nickydenovan.com · 20d

Please enjoy my deeply moving ode to the month of September.

Nicky Denovan @nickydenovan.com · 21d

I had a play on in Mexico this week - here’s write-up of The Bravo! Theatre’s 10-Minute Play Festival in The Guadalajara Reporter 🇲🇽 🌵

theguadalajarareporter.net/index.php/ar...

Bravo proves the best drama comes in small packages

Guadalajara's Best English-language Newspaper!

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womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 22d

Are YOU interested in writing a book review & receiving a FREE book??!
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If you have want to write a review of my book 'Reframing Women Printmakers', live in the UK, and have a popular blog, magazine or are part of sites like GoodReads please email me [email protected]

Four images, three of the work of printmakers and one is a photo of a book

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Nicky Denovan @nickydenovan.com · 23d

Everyone in the UK after an unseasonally warm day.

Nicky Denovan @nickydenovan.com · 25d

News from my website: Shortlisted for Wells Festival of Literature Short Story Competition ✍️ 📚

🔗 www.nickydenovan.com/news/2025/9/...

#writing #writercommunity #amwriting #shortstory #shortstories

Shortlisted for Wells Festival of Literature Short Story Prize — NICKY DENOVAN

I like to set myself a new writing challenge each year and, for 2025, I decided that I wanted to expand from writing plays into the daunting world of authoring prose fiction. I was therefore hugely ...

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Nicky Denovan @nickydenovan.com · 26d

I’m enormously excited to have been shortlisted for the Wells Festival of Literature international short story prize for my short story "Belongings".

Thank you to the judges for recognising my work! 📚

🔗https://wellsfestivalofliterature.org.uk/

#shortstories #writing #shortfiction

Nicky Denovan @nickydenovan.com · 27d

Giusto.

Nicky Denovan @nickydenovan.com · 27d

I bet she had a LOT to tell you.

Nicky Denovan @nickydenovan.com · 27d

*What* a gif. [Immediately files]

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Nicky Denovan @nickydenovan.com · 27d

Delighted with this - Semi-Finalist for ALAN HAS LEFT THE CHAT in the Filmmatic Comedy Screenplay Awards 2025! 🎥 🍿 🎬

Nicky Denovan @nickydenovan.com · 28d

The only way to describe this is to describe it:

It’s an immaculately suited Peter O’Toole arriving on Letterman while smoking a fag and riding a camel, which he proceeds to give a refreshing can of Heineken.

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Letterman - Peter O'Toole enters on a camel

YouTube video by Both Stuff And Things

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Nicky Denovan @nickydenovan.com · Sep 11

Nicky Denovan @nickydenovan.com · Sep 9

What’s the weirdest thing you’ve ever seen in Costco? I’ll start:

Badly-Carved Bear Trapped Pointlessly in Log

Nicky Denovan @nickydenovan.com · Sep 9

Iconique.

Nicky Denovan @nickydenovan.com · Sep 9

Deserved, Queen. 👸

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Emo Philips @emophilips.bsky.social · Sep 5

No man is poor who has a cameo in a comic book about a ventriloquist

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Nicky Denovan @nickydenovan.com · Sep 4

I think he’d have surprised a lot of people. I’m forever mentally casting him in films and book adaptations.

Nicky Denovan @nickydenovan.com · Sep 4

I think John Candy would have had an extraordinary second act in his later years. A hugely gifted actor, no part would have been beyond him. I will definitely watch this and I will probably* cry.

*Definitely

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John Candy: I Like Me - Official Trailer | Prime Video

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