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L'Esprit Literary Review @lespritlit.bsky.social · 24d

The 2026 Leopold Bloom Prize for Innovative Narration is open!  We’re looking for short fiction exhibiting exceptional ingenuity and vision in narration. All entries receive a digital copy of Issue Seven and are considered for publication!  lespritliteraryreview.org/2026-leopold... 
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2026 Leopold Bloom Prize for Innovative Narration

L’Esprit Literary Review Judged by Michael Nath I like fiction that banquets the reader. Too much fiction now follows a strict diet. Michael Nath Original portrait of Leopold Bloom drawn by I…

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L'Esprit Literary Review @lespritlit.bsky.social · Jul 5

#callforsubmissions: L'Esprit seeks stories, essays, translation, reviews.

Consciousness-forward, language-driven, risk-adept. Send us writing beyond convention.

G’Lines + open calls: lespritliteraryreview.org/submission-g...

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L’Esprit Literary Review publishes work written in the fearless, risk-adept, and revolutionary spirit of High Modernism. We accept short fiction, creative non-fiction, novel extracts, literar…

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Colm O'Shea @colmoshea.bsky.social · Jun 16

Happy Bloomsday, among other things, for all who observe, and a chance to share this.....https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kbF5hDU_F-U

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Adam Sharp @adamcsharp.bsky.social · Jun 15

In honour of Joy Division's iconic album Unknown Pleasures being released on this day in 1979, I'm again sharing one of my favourite ever video clips (Peanuts vs Joy Division dance party)...

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June Caldwell @junec.bsky.social · May 25

What an incredible talk by Eimear McBride. She's always so wonderfully relevant, extraordinary, and thought-provoking! Plus, I bumped into @colmoshea.bsky.social, who is a smiley mofo despite his pull on dark fiction.

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L'Esprit Literary Review @lespritlit.bsky.social · May 22

Colm’s story “Hiraeth” was the Second Place Winner in our 2025 Leopold Bloom Prize for Innovative Narration, and next up in our Issue Six release!

Check it out below!

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Colm O'Shea @colmoshea.bsky.social · May 19

My short story 'Hiraeth', runner up in the 2025 Leopold Bloom Prize for Innovative Narration, organised by @lespritlit.bsky.social is now available to read here... lespritliteraryreview.org/2025/04/27/h...

Hiraeth

My eyes are closed. I am in my body. My eyes open. It is morning. Early. I am awake. I know where I am, when I am. I am in the cottage in the Welsh countryside. I am in bed. I am facing the wall, l…

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Colm O'Shea @colmoshea.bsky.social · May 19

My short story 'Hiraeth', runner up in the 2025 Leopold Bloom Prize for Innovative Narration, organised by @lespritlit.bsky.social is now available to read here... lespritliteraryreview.org/2025/04/27/h...

Hiraeth

My eyes are closed. I am in my body. My eyes open. It is morning. Early. I am awake. I know where I am, when I am. I am in the cottage in the Welsh countryside. I am in bed. I am facing the wall, l…

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Susan Tomaselli 🍉 🏳️‍🌈 @stomaselli.bsky.social · May 16

A note to say I've joined @irishwriterscentre.bsky.social panel for one-to-one mentoring in fiction, creative non-fiction and essays. More details, including how to engage me, on the IWC website.

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Colm O'Shea @colmoshea.bsky.social · Apr 30

Right, Beckettians, who wants to buy the original Cooldrinagh (the childhood home of Beckett's mother)....
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Former Kildare hotel offers scope for redevelopment at €1.75m

Cooldrinagh House, famously known as the childhood home of Samuel Beckett’s mother, comes for sale

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minor literature[s] @minorliteratures.bsky.social · Mar 31

Monthly Dispatch #22 — ft. Jenkin Benson, Tim MacGabhann, @indigojackal.bsky.social Connor May, @ericracher.bsky.social @colmoshea.bsky.social Veronika Reichl (tr. Francesca Hyatt), Adam McPhee, Quyên Nguyễn-Hoàng & more ... — now live

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Monthly Dispatch #22 — March 2025

A letter from the editor[s]

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minor literature[s] @minorliteratures.bsky.social · Mar 9

ICYMI — last week @ minor lits ...

— meditations on memory from @colmoshea.bsky.social

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— @chalicotherex.bsky.social on Munir Hachemi's LIVING THINGS

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— fiction from Tim MacGabhann

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Greatly Failed — Tim MacGabhann

A Calendar Sun low in southwest sinking as I turn head sinking teeth into another crabapple: pale yellow crabapple, pale yellow air, pale yellow in bottles of instant clarity after crabapples let f…

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Colm O'Shea @colmoshea.bsky.social · Mar 4

An extract from my book [Untitled]: A Meditation, has gone live on @minorliteratures.bsky.social ...

minor literature[s] @minorliteratures.bsky.social · Mar 4

"Exactly two months ago today. Neither of us know what was going to happen, what was happening. It must have been happening by then ..."

[Untitled]: A Meditation — @colmoshea.bsky.social

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[Untitled]: A Meditation — Colm O’Shea

“Nothing distinguishes memories from ordinary moments. Only later do they become memorable by the scars they leave.” ‘La Jetée’ (1962) Constraints: I knew someone. I told her once she was my…

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Joseph Schreiber @roughghosts.bsky.social · Mar 4

We kiss.

I can’t remember what we talk about. If I could I would remember and record and repeat what we talk about, but I can’t.

It was only two months ago. Two months ago tonight.

An extract from [Untitled] — a memoir by @colmoshea.bsky.social

minor literature[s] @minorliteratures.bsky.social · Mar 4

[Untitled]: A Meditation — Colm O’Shea (@colmoshea.bsky.social)

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[Untitled]: A Meditation — Colm O’Shea

“Nothing distinguishes memories from ordinary moments. Only later do they become memorable by the scars they leave.” ‘La Jetée’ (1962) Constraints: I knew someone. I told her once she was my…

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Colm O'Shea @colmoshea.bsky.social · Jan 30

Taken in my home town, though the part I grew up in was "slightly" less posh, ahem........

Mick Muldoon @mickmuldoon.bsky.social · Jan 30

Marianne Faithfull, Desmond Guinness & Mick Jagger, Leixlip Castle, 1968.

RIP Marianne.

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Bertrom. @bertrom.bsky.social · Dec 19

Agnès Varda visits Dephine Seyrig and Alain Resnais, behind the scenes of Last Year at Marienbad, 1961.

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Colm O'Shea @colmoshea.bsky.social · Dec 17

Thanks Clare

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James Plunkett @jamestplunkett.bsky.social · Dec 12

I checked and I think you’re onto something…

A chart tracking the health of global democracy by the Economist Intelligence Unit. A label has been added at 2016 marked ‘David Bowie dies’. After this the health of democracy falls sharply.

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June Caldwell @junec.bsky.social · Dec 8

A thread about @colmoshea.bsky.social's new book *[Untitled], a meditation* - a compulsive read, an emotional bomb refusing to go off, an uncomfortable lens-look at an affair that's unbearably sad, ending abruptly, with little agency or power, a woman who's a muse, turned into obsession. It's also a

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Colm O'Shea @colmoshea.bsky.social · Dec 8

Thank you June, I'm utterly Astonished at your incredibly kind words, you're too, too kind

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Colm O'Shea @colmoshea.bsky.social · Nov 22

[Untitled]: A Meditation, my debut work of experimental nonfiction, is available from LJMcD Communications
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Colm O'Shea @colmoshea.bsky.social · Nov 21

Yesterday, the @stingingfly.bsky.social podcast discussed my short story 'Feeling Gravity's Pull'....

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Mary O’Donoghue Reads Colm O’Shea – The Stinging Fly

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June Caldwell @junec.bsky.social · Nov 18

This is a startlingly sad and gorgeous book.

Colm O'Shea @colmoshea.bsky.social · Nov 7

My debut book, [Untitled]: A Meditation,
a work of experimental nonfiction, has been published by LJMcD Communications, and is available here:
lachlanjmcdougall.wordpress.com/books-and-sh...

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Colm O'Shea @colmoshea.bsky.social · Nov 7

My debut book, [Untitled]: A Meditation,
a work of experimental nonfiction, has been published by LJMcD Communications, and is available here:
lachlanjmcdougall.wordpress.com/books-and-sh...

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Colm O'Shea @colmoshea.bsky.social · Sep 15

The first review of a piece of my work up here...

Split Lip Magazine @splitlipthemag.bsky.social · Sep 15

Our SEPTEMBER ISSUE is here🍂 We have life on the moon, a jail library, Bumble & more! https://buff.ly/47r6Plw
WORDS: Pegah Ouji, Caitlin Karasik, Kasey Butcher Santana, Max Pasakorn
ART: Moshtaba
PLUS: Hallel Yadin reviews May Jeong & @sean-carlson.bsky.social reviews @colmoshea.bsky.social

Saturated, inky colors and rich, textural line work fill a portrait of two people in bed. One person is sound asleep. The other gazes at the viewer with one eye. On the wall above them is a framed art piece depicting another face with closed eyes.

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Colm O'Shea @colmoshea.bsky.social · Apr 19

Stumbled across this, Anthony Cronin's documentary on Patrick Kavanagh, Flann O'Brien, Brendan Behan, and 'Literary Dublin'...

The Literary Renaissance in Dublin youtu.be/ms9qeXB2_to?...

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