Taidgh Lynch
@taidgh.bsky.social
Poet, book lover, former carer, and vilomah from KY 🇮🇪 living in SK 🇨🇦 Poetry: thewaxedlemon drawnpress PrairieFireMag TNOlitmag untethered FreeFall Pamphlet w/JackPinePress Supported by SaskArts Poetry Ed: GrainLitMag he/him 🚫 ai
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Taidgh Lynch
@taidgh.bsky.social
· Apr 21
A year ago today my baby Rowan died (3 yrs old). The hardest. I miss you all the time. You were bright and so curious. Loved cars so much I worried you might grow up to be a boy racer. I love you so much ♥️ ♥️
A creative funding opportunity! If you qualify—apply! 🌈 ✍️
Open Call | Creative Bursaries Scheme 2026 from Clare Arts Office
Clare Arts Office are now inviting applications under two strands of the Creative Bursaries Scheme 2026.
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Clare Arts Office are now inviting applications under two strands of the Creative Bursaries Scheme 2026.
visualartists.ie/advert/open-...
Open Call | Creative Bursaries Scheme 2026 from Clare Arts Office
Clare Arts Office are now inviting applications under two strands of the Creative Bursaries Scheme 2026. There are two strands to this Bursary: Creative
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November 25, 2025 at 3:01 PM
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A learning opportunity! Check out the info below ✍️
On 22 Dec at 5pm CET, I will run a small online event on how to use my lit mag rankings for submitting to journals. This event is for those: (i) new to submitting; and/or (ii) not comfortable with spreadsheets.
The event will be FREE but there are only 10 spots - sign up below!
The event will be FREE but there are only 10 spots - sign up below!
November 21, 2025 at 1:12 PM
A learning opportunity! Check out the info below ✍️
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Alice Wong, Presente. Thank you for everything.
“Don’t let the bastards grind you down. I love you all.”
November 15, 2025 at 1:31 PM
Alice Wong, Presente. Thank you for everything.
A submission opportunity! If you qualify don’t be shy — apply! As always read the guidelines and don’t be a jerk 🌈 ✍️
We'll be opening for submissions of all forms of art and writing from 15th December 2025 - 28th February 2026. We'll be open for submissions via Duosoma and Curatorspace. Our submission guidelines and previous issue are on our website. 🐌🌌🌞 metachrosislitmag.com #litmag #literarymagazine #opencall
November 14, 2025 at 6:40 PM
A submission opportunity! If you qualify don’t be shy — apply! As always read the guidelines and don’t be a jerk 🌈 ✍️
An event opportunity! Come to WOTS in Saskatoon at the Refinery, 15 Saturday. The fabulous Adam Pottle will be there and others! I’ll be there too as a volunteer! Come and say hi
I’ll be at the Word on the Street festival in Saskatoon on Saturday, November 15th! I’ll be reading from APPARITIONS and talking about prairie horror. Hope to see a big crowd!
thewordonthestreet.ca/saskatoon/
thewordonthestreet.ca/saskatoon/
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thewordonthestreet.ca
November 14, 2025 at 6:08 PM
An event opportunity! Come to WOTS in Saskatoon at the Refinery, 15 Saturday. The fabulous Adam Pottle will be there and others! I’ll be there too as a volunteer! Come and say hi
A poetry submission opportunity! You know what you have to do — submit to the West Trade Review!
Trill: Poems That Resonate
A weekly poetry project from West Trade Review: fearless, crafted writing
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November 13, 2025 at 6:49 PM
A poetry submission opportunity! You know what you have to do — submit to the West Trade Review!
A get yourself to an event opportunity!! If you’re in the Bay Area in the USA don’t miss this free, public event ✍️ 📖
Bay Area friends: Don't miss Believer editor Daniel Gumbiner in conversation with Only Son author Kevin Moffett later this month! The event is free and hosted by the International Library of Young Authors.
November 12, 2025 at 6:33 PM
A get yourself to an event opportunity!! If you’re in the Bay Area in the USA don’t miss this free, public event ✍️ 📖
A submission opportunity final call. Submit before midnight tonight! ✨ 🌙
Today is the deadline for Manitoba Kitchen Party! Last call for submissions!
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November 12, 2025 at 6:21 PM
A submission opportunity final call. Submit before midnight tonight! ✨ 🌙
A submission opportunity! @theberlinreview.bsky.social is open for submissions. If you’re the right fit go ahead and submit
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All work must be original and unpublished.If your work is accepted by us for publication, we will contact you to confirm your consent to grant The Berlin Literary Review first serial rights, after …
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November 12, 2025 at 3:32 PM
A submission opportunity! @theberlinreview.bsky.social is open for submissions. If you’re the right fit go ahead and submit
A micro~grants opportunity! Submit if you are the right fit 🌈 ✍️
Poetry Micro-Grants | Upstart & Crow
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November 9, 2025 at 1:46 PM
A micro~grants opportunity! Submit if you are the right fit 🌈 ✍️
An opportunity! Today’s the day! If you’re in Waterloo say hi to the crew from TNQ 🌈 📖
Join TNQ for a weekend of impressive Canadian literature, in-depth discussions, and immersive writing workshops at the 2025 Wild Writers Literary Festival! Check out the program today: wildwriters.ca/2025-program/
#wildwriters2025 #canlit #literaryfestival
#wildwriters2025 #canlit #literaryfestival
November 7, 2025 at 5:18 PM
An opportunity! Today’s the day! If you’re in Waterloo say hi to the crew from TNQ 🌈 📖
A writing opportunity! More deets to come! Stay tuned
NFFD will open our MicroFiction Comp ((up to 100 words) & subs to our new anthology (theme to be announced) on 1 Dec. More details coming soon!
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November 5, 2025 at 3:37 PM
A writing opportunity! More deets to come! Stay tuned
It’s nearly midnight! 🐈⬛ 🎃 Get those poems in now! A submission opportunity. If you qualify—apply!
Poets, @afterpoetry.com's month-long annual submissions window is almost over.
More than 115 of you have sent in your previously unpublished 'after' and ekphrastic poems – the highest number of subs of any year so far!
Not sent in YOUR poem yet? Don't leave it too late ...
afterpoetry.com/submit
More than 115 of you have sent in your previously unpublished 'after' and ekphrastic poems – the highest number of subs of any year so far!
Not sent in YOUR poem yet? Don't leave it too late ...
afterpoetry.com/submit
Submit to After... | Poems inspired by other art
Send a new, unpublished 'after' or ekphrastic poem to After... throughout October 2025
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October 31, 2025 at 6:11 PM
It’s nearly midnight! 🐈⬛ 🎃 Get those poems in now! A submission opportunity. If you qualify—apply!
Another writing opportunity! This time it’s a call for chapbooks by the fab @thirtywestph.com As usual, check if you qualify before you apply 🌈
A new era of monochrome chapbooks are coming soon from Thirty West & we're ready to read. Submit your best poetry, fiction, and nonfiction chapbooks from Halloween (10/31) until New Year's Eve (12/31). Together, we shall stop at nothing to escape the mundane in 2026.
thirtywestph.com/submit
thirtywestph.com/submit
October 27, 2025 at 9:21 PM
Another writing opportunity! This time it’s a call for chapbooks by the fab @thirtywestph.com As usual, check if you qualify before you apply 🌈
A submission opportunity. Time’s almost up! Send your subs to the fab @bansheepress.bsky.social Again, before you apply make sure you qualify!
Submissions for issue 21 are open until midnight IST on Friday 31 October ✍️
Submissions for issue 21 (spring/summer 2026) are open until 31 October! Submission guidelines are at the link below. We're looking forward to reading your short fiction, poetry, flash & essays! ✨
bansheepress.org/submit
bansheepress.org/submit
October 27, 2025 at 6:45 PM
A submission opportunity. Time’s almost up! Send your subs to the fab @bansheepress.bsky.social Again, before you apply make sure you qualify!
Of course! Why is it that the solution to everything is AI?! Maybe the plan could be to look after and support writers so that AI isn’t the answer? 🤷
I'm a writer who has beaten "writer's block" many times and will beat it again. Sometimes it's an issue of writing yourself into a corner or writing something you don't like. But very often it's caused by the stress of living in post-capitalist hell and struggling to meet the needs to survive.
What beats writers block is not treating your body like a factory. What beats writers block is healthcare. What beats writers block is gardening, & rest, & food, & companionship, & reading, & leisure, & anti-capitalism—but of course that’s not a very profitable thing to write, & won’t sell LLMs.
October 27, 2025 at 4:38 PM
Of course! Why is it that the solution to everything is AI?! Maybe the plan could be to look after and support writers so that AI isn’t the answer? 🤷
A writing prize opportunity from the fab Cúirt! www.cuirt.ie/cuirt-new-wr...
Cúirt New Writing Prize 2026 - Cúirt International Festival of Literature
Cúirt International Festival of Literature – Galway City
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October 23, 2025 at 6:08 PM
A writing prize opportunity from the fab Cúirt! www.cuirt.ie/cuirt-new-wr...
A reading opportunity! If you qualify, apply 🌈
Are you a speculative fiction author who identifies as a woman or nonbinary?
Then we want you to read with us!
Fill out the form below to let us know! ⤵️
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Then we want you to read with us!
Fill out the form below to let us know! ⤵️
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October 22, 2025 at 4:12 PM
A reading opportunity! If you qualify, apply 🌈
A poetry publishing opportunity! Submit if the rules fit
Announcing: HRB's Zimbabwean Speculative Poetry Competition 🥳🎉
#HRBZimSpecPo
Send us your speculative poetry featuring Zimbabwean myths, urban legends, and or/oral narratives. Make it utopian or dystopian, we don't mind! Be formal, or experimental. Challenge yourself! Challenge us!
#HRBZimSpecPo
Send us your speculative poetry featuring Zimbabwean myths, urban legends, and or/oral narratives. Make it utopian or dystopian, we don't mind! Be formal, or experimental. Challenge yourself! Challenge us!
October 21, 2025 at 3:14 PM
A poetry publishing opportunity! Submit if the rules fit
So jealous! Seems like a fab night 🤩
You should come out and join me for a live show next Friday night...
We have @jancarsonwrites.bsky.social, @neilhegarty.bsky.social, Tristan Rosenstock, live music from David Kitt, and live readings from a host of Irish actors...
www.paviliontheatre.ie/events/view/...
We have @jancarsonwrites.bsky.social, @neilhegarty.bsky.social, Tristan Rosenstock, live music from David Kitt, and live readings from a host of Irish actors...
www.paviliontheatre.ie/events/view/...
RTÉ Arena Live | Fri 24 Oct, 6.50pm - Pavilion Theatre
Join Arena and the RTÉ Short Story Competition judges for insights into the art of the short story, live music and performances from this year’s shortlist, and the announcement of the top prizes.
www.paviliontheatre.ie
October 17, 2025 at 5:23 PM
So jealous! Seems like a fab night 🤩
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October 16, 2025 at 8:13 AM
Hello new people of Bluesky! Please use alt text for all of your lovely images and gifs 🙏 It not only helps people with vision impairments, it also makes your images searchable! Win-win situation 💛
Apply if you qualify! Pamphlet submissions open till 30 November at the fab @brokensleepbooks.bsky.social
PAMPHLET SUBMISSIONS OPEN NOW!
We are open for poetry pamphlet/chapbook submissions until 30th November. Only a very small percentage of people who submit actually buy a book from us. If everybody who submitted bought a book it'd b...
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October 16, 2025 at 8:56 PM
Apply if you qualify! Pamphlet submissions open till 30 November at the fab @brokensleepbooks.bsky.social
So why hasn’t this happened already? A Glen Carter spin off. All he wants is a holiday!! He goes on a holiday in search of a safe. Every episode a different safe a different holiday
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October 16, 2025 at 2:51 AM
So why hasn’t this happened already? A Glen Carter spin off. All he wants is a holiday!! He goes on a holiday in search of a safe. Every episode a different safe a different holiday
Unhinged thought of the day:
people should subscribe to literary magazines
Tell me your most unhinged literary opinion, as a little treat
October 15, 2025 at 11:45 PM
Unhinged thought of the day:
Another opportunity. Apply if you qualify! 💫
October 14, 2025 at 10:27 PM
Another opportunity. Apply if you qualify! 💫