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Jayson Carcione

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Fiction: The London Magazine, The Forge, Lunate, Epoque Press, elsewhere Best of the Net 2024 finalist Deputy Production Editor: Irish Examiner Cork via New York

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Jayson Carcione @carcionejay.bsky.social · 10d

Delighted to have been awarded a 2025 Mentorship in Fiction Bursary with Frank O’Connor fellow @laurajeanmckay.bsky.social
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Eibhlís Carcione @eibhliscarcione.bsky.social · 4d

Children In Read is now LIVE! The largest signed book auction in the world. All proceeds are in aid of @childreninread.bsky.social
Delighted to have three signed spooky books with bookmarks in the bidding!
www.jumblebee.co.uk/childreninre... 📚✍️✨

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Angela T. Carr @angelatcarrpoetry.bsky.social · 4d

Over 160 calls for literary competitions & submissions including poetry, fiction, creative nonfiction, art, photography, & more - contests, literary journals, residencies, bursaries etc - open or with deadlines in October 2025. Please share & best of luck!
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Background image shows an open notebook and pen on a wooden table. The text reads: Publishing Your Work - October 2025, Poetry & Writing Submissions - Journals, Competitions, Bursaries, Residencies. www.thisiswordbox.com

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Jayson Carcione @carcionejay.bsky.social · 5d

Thank you Sarah!

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Eibhlís Carcione @eibhliscarcione.bsky.social · 5d

Great to see Black Gables included in this fab round up! 📚✍️
#BlackGables

Just Imagine @justimaginecentre.bsky.social · 6d

This week’s round up of book reviews did you. Thank you to all our fantastic reviewers this week:
justimagine.co.uk/childrens-bo...

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Jayson Carcione @carcionejay.bsky.social · 10d

Delighted to have been awarded a 2025 Mentorship in Fiction Bursary with Frank O’Connor fellow @laurajeanmckay.bsky.social
@munsterlitcentre.bsky.social

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Munster Literature Centre @munsterlitcentre.bsky.social · 19d

We are delighted to welcome 2025 Frank O’Connor International Short Story Fellow Laura Jean McKay to Cork and also to congratulate her on her recent good news that her translated novel ‘Les Animaux de ce pays’ has been shortlisted for a French literary prize - prixmaya.org/selection-ro...

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Munster Literature Centre @munsterlitcentre.bsky.social · 20d

Delighted to announce that first prize of the Southword Creative Non-Fiction Award is Judy Crozier, whose winning story will be published in issue 49 of Southword (winter 2025). All the details on the other winners can be found on our website - munsterlit.ie/southword-cr...

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minor literature[s] @minorliteratures.bsky.social · 28d

"I was trying to be as reportorially honest as possible. That I think links to your question about investigative journalism. I didn’t want to write a literary thing at all ..."

Tim MacGabhann talks to @monalisavitti.bsky.social about his memoir THE BLACK POOL

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“I can’t write about [Dublin] because it’s been done to death. However, I can write about the nothing that came before and that is coming after”: An Interview with Tim MacGabhann—Cristina Politano

Tim MacGabhann is a Paris-based Irish writer whose recent memoir, The Black Pool, narrates his hallucination-littered descent into addiction and abjection, as well as his eventual redemption throug…

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Eibhlís Carcione @eibhliscarcione.bsky.social · 29d

Lovely to see Black Gables in this spooktacular book display @gutterbookshop.bsky.social
🖤👻🍁🍂 #BlackGables

Ruth Ennis @rurooie.bsky.social · Sep 7

Best part of working in a bookshop are the themed displays 📚

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Jayson Carcione @carcionejay.bsky.social · Sep 5

I really enjoyed this gritty, tender tale of two lost souls in @fictivedream.bsky.social by @polyscribe70.bsky.social

Mike Fox @polyscribe70.bsky.social · Sep 5

Honoured to return to @fictivedream.bsky.social today with The Shape of Moments, a twin of an earlier story, Backgrounds. Very grateful to Laura, also to @kerryhp.bskyb.social and @[email protected] for encouragement to explore these characters further.

Fictive Dream @fictivedream.bsky.social · Sep 5

"Davy wouldn’t intrude, but he’d be around. And in his way I think he liked it that I was." The Shape of Moments by Mike Fox @polyscribe70.bsky.social #shortstory #fiction. Please click on the link and enjoy fictivedream.com/2025/09/05/t...

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Bluemoose Books @ofmooseandmen.bsky.social · Sep 1

I know I'm banging on.

But we have to because we're a small press and need this limelight to let readers know about our books.

From Hebden to Hollywood via Dublin.

As Rónán said. 'It's like throwing a dart from Dublin and hitting the bullseye in New York.'

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Julia Roberts to narrate new BBC series Leonard and Hungry Paul

The feel-good series follows two board-gaming friends in their thirties who meander through leafy suburban life finding solace in their quiet routines

www.bbc.com

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Stephen Daly 🏳️‍🌈 @thatstephendaly.bsky.social · Aug 30

Proof copy arrived in the post and I’m so excited that I ignored my inner cringe and recorded a video!

It’s really happening.

Proper dream come true stuff going on here.

Wild!

Thank you so much @rocktheboatnews @oneworldpublications

Cover art: @adamscarvalho

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John Gibbons 🇵🇸 🇺🇦 🇪🇺 @thinkorswim.bsky.social · Jun 10

Delighted to announce that my first book, THE LIE OF THE LAND, is due for publication on September 4th next via @penguinrandomhouse.bsky.social.

It's a frank assessment of Ireland and the #Climate emergency, with a roadmap towards a more food and energy-secure future.

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The Fiction Desk @thefictiondesk.com · Aug 26

Our summer short story submission call ends in exactly one month! The deadline is Friday, 26th September and details are on our website - see below.

This summer at The Fiction Desk

New short story submission opportunities coming this summer from The Fiction Desk.

www.thefictiondesk.com

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Jayson Carcione @carcionejay.bsky.social · Aug 27

Congrats Martina!

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Martina Dalton @martinadalton.bsky.social · Aug 27

Delighted to be part of @poetryireland.bsky.social Introductions 2025 💫✨

Huge thanks to @jesstraynor.bsky.social for including me among such a stellar group! 🙏🙏🙏

Poetry Ireland / Éigse Éireann @poetryireland.bsky.social · Aug 26

Announcing Poetry Ireland’s Introductions | Céadlínte poets for 2025!

Thanks to Jessica Traynor for selecting our Introductions poets and Aifric Mac Aodha for selecting our Céadlínte poets.

Supported by @artscouncilireland.bsky.social and Arts Council Northern Ireland National Lottery Funding.

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Jayson Carcione @carcionejay.bsky.social · Aug 22

Thanks so much June

Jayson Carcione @carcionejay.bsky.social · Aug 22

Thanks so much Mike

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Blood+Honey @bloodhoneylit.bsky.social · Aug 20

Short story "Blood Bound" by Jayson Carcione

“Someone screams. Lights explode in windows…The night is broken."

www.bloodhoneylit.com/fiction/bloo...

blood bound — Blood+Honey

by Jayson Carcione “Someone screams. Lights explode in windows…The night is broken.

www.bloodhoneylit.com

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HALLOWEIRD @johnnymains.co.uk · Aug 19

ILLUSIONS OF PRESENCE has a cover!!

Really happy with how this one has turned out, it's going to be *THE* book to get this Christmas!!

Links to order below! Please share this one far and wide!

#christmasghoststories #santasshinyshiny

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Fictive Dream @fictivedream.bsky.social · Aug 17

"As we waited for things to start, I turned to Frank. ‘Have you booked a room?’ I whispered, ‘…or..?’" Performance by Kerry Hadley-Pryce @kerryhp.bsky.social #shortstory #fiction #writingcommunity. Please click on the link and enjoy fictivedream.com/2025/08/17/p...

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Eibhlís Carcione @eibhliscarcione.bsky.social · Aug 15

Special book post! Delighted to have new children’s poems in this wonderful Northern Gravy Anthology!📚✍️✨
northerngravy.com/product/chil...

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Good Night To Read @gntread24.bsky.social · Aug 11

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Fictive Dream @fictivedream.bsky.social · Aug 8

ICYMI today we're delighted to be featuring Peor es Nada by Niamh Mac Cabe @niamhmaccabe.bsky.social #flashfiction #writingcommunity. Please follow the link and enjoy fictivedream.com/2025/08/08/p...

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Caroline Hagood @carolinehagood.bsky.social · Aug 2

Thanks so much to my brilliant editor Annie Berke and @lareviewofbooks.bsky.social! ’m not sure I’ve ever worked harder on an essay.

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Bringing Back New Concepts to This Mad City | Los Angeles Review of Books

Caroline Hagood explores Jason Weiss’s “Other Lives Our Own,” a collection she hears in spectral conversation with the work of Kendrick Lamar and Agnès Varda.

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