My first review. And book of the week!

I reviewed this superb book about memoir for @rte.ie RTÉ Culture this week.

“Both erudite and utterly conversational in tone… @lilydunn.bsky.social argues that memoir writing can function as a form of radical transformation, for reader and writer alike.”

www.rte.ie/culture/2025...

I’ll be in conversation with Ciara O’Connor about her remarkable exhibition, Grief’s Current Shape, at Garter Lane Arts Centre in Waterford on the 9th of October at 11.30am. Join us! Free but link to book: garterlane.ie/events/c-p-d...

And the results for this one will be out in October too ✍🏻

Thank u :)

Delighted to have a short story anonymously on the longlist for the Four Faced Liar Short Story Competition, judged by Roisín O’Donnell. Shortlist and results in October. 🤞(Wondering about the name of this journal? See alt text on the third/logo image.)

I’ll be in conversation with Ciara O’Connor about her remarkable exhibition, Grief’s Current Shape, at Garter Lane Arts Centre in Waterford on the 9th of October at 11.30am. Join us! Free but link to book: garterlane.ie/events/c-p-d...

quote of the week just dropped

“She Died Young affirms the necessity of memoir in Irish life, both as literary form and as social document.” 👏 Brilliant review of Brenda Fricker’s memoir by @sineadoshea.bsky.social in The IrishTimes. (TW: SA, SH) Subscriber only @irishtimes.com: www.irishtimes.com/culture/book...

Journalism used to be the bread on which daily advertising jam was delivered. The Internet broke this old financial model for delivering ads to consumers via traditional media (newspapers, tv, radio) and digital delivery isn’t working as well. Now journalism AND fridges are in trouble. Is my theory.

Culture Night Ireland 2025. I’ll be in Kerry with Dorota Borowa at Grilse Gallery.

This book will now launch on 3rd Oct at Dunamaise Arts Centre 🤍

Journalism used to be the bread on which daily advertising jam was delivered. The Internet broke this old financial model for delivering ads to consumers via traditional media (newspapers, tv, radio) and digital delivery isn’t working as well. Now journalism AND fridges are in trouble. Is my theory.

This should say *were considerably worse. Arg.

Ireland’s Basic Income for the Arts pilot. Case Study: Satu Teppo, Paraic Mc Quaid.

“…participants have invested almost half of the BIA funding back into their practice even though their levels of deprivation where considerably worse than the general population.”
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

This story began life as part of the 24-hour Great Big Giant Short Story Experiment run by @sonyagildea.bsky.social and @stingingfly.bsky.social in 2024 ✍🏻 💻.

Entries were invited for fiction of up to 1888 words, a ref to Mansfield's year of birth. Winners announced 14 Oct, Mansfield's birthday.

Ngā mihi nui Thank you! to the folks at I te Kokoru At the Bay. My short story On the Couch has been shortlisted for the 2025 Katherine Mansfield Sparkling Prose Competition in Aotearoa New Zealand 🤩

atthebay.org/sparkling-pr...

The essay I wrote is now available to read on RTÉ Culture.

“During the rolling pandemic lockdowns of 2020 and 2021, Angie Shanahan and Bridget Flannery, friends since their 1980s Crawford Art College days, began what is best described as an immersive collaboration...”

www.rte.ie/culture/2025...

🎥Episode Two of Dublin, One City, Many Stories is out now! 🎥

This second video in the series Dublin, One City, Many Stories, was produced by the @irishwriterscentre.bsky.social to celebrate 15 years of Dublin as a City of Literature.

youtu.be/3AlCWwM-09s?...

Holy moly!!! Congrats Rónán 🙌

Congrats! Just read it 👏👏

One last-minute space for this - starting next Thursday! ✨

It’s appalling that these companies are not pulling these dangerous products off the market until they can make them safe. It’s appalling that regulators aren’t intervening. It’s appalling that the makers/boosters of genAI products are trying to ensure there can be no regulation.

Wow Jackie!!! Congrats and onwards to whatever is next 💐