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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 I’m all for Alt text

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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 ♥️ ♥️

toddler, Rowan, in a white laundry basket. The child is smiling and looking at the camera. He’s wearing a dark blue top with pink graphics. He’s wearing grey and pink trousers and no shoes or socks on his feet. His head is on some blankets and there’s an orange and yellow car next to him. He would have been blowing raspberries

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Taidgh Lynch @taidgh.bsky.social · 1d

A writing grant opportunity for select European countries! Apply if you qualify. Deadline fast approaching 🌈

Europeana @europeana.bsky.social · 1d

There's still time to apply for our 2025 editorial grants programme! It's dedicated to stories from seven specific European countries - Bulgaria, Croatia, Cyprus, Denmark, Estonia, Luxembourg & Malta. Apply by 17 October! #Funding #DigitalStorytelling bit.ly/3Vv0Pmw

Apply for a 2025 Europeana Editorial Grant | Europeana PRO

In 2025, our editorial grants programme is dedicated to stories from seven specific European countries. Read on to find out more and learn how to apply.

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Taidgh Lynch @taidgh.bsky.social · 1d

More writing opportunities for October!

European Writers Salon @saloneurope.bsky.social · 2d

38 calls for themed submissions and competitions this October

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» 38 Themed Submission Calls and Contests for October 2025

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Taidgh Lynch @taidgh.bsky.social · 1d

Check out The Trick to Time

Taidgh Lynch @taidgh.bsky.social · 4d

Do devour all KitDeWaal’s writing. Well worth it

Taidgh Lynch @taidgh.bsky.social · 4d

Get subbing! Check out the mighty list for calls from the fab @angelatcarrpoetry.bsky.social 🤩

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!
www.thisiswordbox.com/wordbox-blog...

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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Taidgh Lynch @taidgh.bsky.social · 5d

Another opportunity! This time in Winnipeg. Check it out

Prairie Fire Magazine @prairiefiremag.bsky.social · 12d

Writers ages 16-19, learn how to take your writing up a notch! We're hosting a workshop on October 18th and we would love for you to come!

Details: www.prairiefire.ca/w...

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Una Mullally @unamullally.bsky.social · 6d

Ireland has lost a mountain of libraries with the passing of Manchán Magan. A brilliant, gentle, inspiring treasure of a spirit.

As a friend said last night, “He described the Irish language as potent and infinite, but that was him too.”

Seol go réidh, mo chara.

Manchán Magan: writer and documentary maker dies aged 55

Author spoke of terminal illness in recent radio interview, saying he did not feel despair

www.irishtimes.com

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Taidgh Lynch @taidgh.bsky.social · 5d

An opportunity. If you qualify—apply! 📖

Poetry Ireland / Éigse Éireann @poetryireland.bsky.social · 5d

Join us as our new Poet in Residence 2025-2027 🖌

We are looking for our third Poet in Residence at Poetry Ireland as we move back home to No. 11 Parnell Square.

For more details on the role and how to apply visit tinyurl.com/3uasse6c

Supported by @brinkerhoffpoetry.bsky.social

Taidgh Lynch @taidgh.bsky.social · 7d

I’ve got a reading! Delighted to be included in such a fab line up. If you’re in the neighbourhood please join us for Poetry and a Pint 9 October 7:30-9pm (SK time)

Poetry and a Pint in big text. Below photos of all the readers in circular headshots. The line up is: Saskatchewan’s Poet Laureate, Peace Akintade, Danielle Richardson, Louise Halfe, Taidgh Lynch & Erica V. Lee.

Presented by The Saskatchewan Writers’ Guild and Willow Country Restaurant & Lounge. 9 October Thursday 7:30-9pm 2025

Food and drinks are available for purchase.
This event is free and open to the public (please note there is limited seating; first-come, first-served).

Taidgh Lynch @taidgh.bsky.social · 9d

And if you get accepted you get to work closely with the Grain editor to get your writing all set for publication

Taidgh Lynch @taidgh.bsky.social · 9d

Also Grain magazine is a Saskatchewan pub that offers editorial feedback on local rejected work. I’m the poetry editor so even if your work doesn’t get accepted I give a few edit suggestions if you’re based in Saskatchewan. It sucks to be rejected but at least you get a few free thoughts from us

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Taidgh Lynch @taidgh.bsky.social · 9d

Join or start up a writers’ group. That’s one way to get feedback and editorial support. Another idea would be if you have more then a few members I think you can get funding from SWG for your group and then you could hire in a writer to give a craft talk

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Taidgh Lynch @taidgh.bsky.social · 15d

They certainly need all the luck they can get!! So far all the good wishes have worked wonders 🌈

Taidgh Lynch @taidgh.bsky.social · 16d

Always a treat to get your books in the post! Not long after getting my copy of The Water That May Come ♥️ 🌊

Taidgh Lynch @taidgh.bsky.social · Aug 30

Submit fab work to a fab journal now!

Abridged @abridgedmagazine.bsky.social · Aug 29

Submit now!

Abridged @abridgedmagazine.bsky.social · Aug 25

The Never A Rose Submission Call is now open! This issue is for Irish poets and poets based on the island of Ireland plus Irish/International visual artists. See www.abridged.zone/abridged-0-1... for info!

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Taidgh Lynch @taidgh.bsky.social · Aug 30

Another fabulous read from fly on the wall press. Kept my interest and not a slow burn at all 🔥

Book titled ‘Witchborne” by Rachel Grosvenor. The book cover image has lots of wild flowers that are pink and red. On the left a potion bottle and hay bales in the right. The book is on the rusty grate that’s connected to an outdoor fire pit

Taidgh Lynch @taidgh.bsky.social · Aug 29

Who else indeed! 💃 A Guardian article no less on the fab CMAT 💚

CMAT: Euro-Country review – deeply relatable, gloriously catchy Celtic pop from a true one-off

Who else could combine soul, yodelling, Jamie Oliver and Calpol into such charming songs about the messy modern psyche? Only Europe’s best new breakout star

www.theguardian.com

Taidgh Lynch @taidgh.bsky.social · Aug 22

A reminder that your voice is unique from the fab Kathy Hepinstall Parks. R.I.P.

amy brown @amybrown.xyz · Aug 22

this iconic advertising copywriter named Kathy Hepinstall Parks died over the weekend and I wanted to share something from her website I thought Bluesky would like

Why should I write better when a machine can do it for me?
Because actually no one can do it for you, because your voice is unique among all the people on earth. Siri never petted a horse's neck. Alexa has never been ghosted by the captain of the football team. But you have lived, your heart is beating, you have suffered, and you have something important to say. It's a human's job, to use words, and whatever job you give to a machine, that part of your brain goes dark. Maybe it's worth it when it comes to remembering phone numbers and directions, but when that part of your brain that uses words goes dark, that's a vast area that's very close to your soul. Don't let some internet platform convince you that what you have to say and create isn't worthwhile. Words are the echo of your soul. Honing that echo matters.

Taidgh Lynch @taidgh.bsky.social · Aug 8

We need to know what he’s been up to!! Any chance of a Mr Tayto + Sméagol mash up in that 3D printer of yours. Go on, get on yer horse!

Taidgh Lynch @taidgh.bsky.social · Aug 6

A submission call will be around our way shortly! A fab publication! Keep an eye out

Abridged @abridgedmagazine.bsky.social · Aug 6

There's a new Abridged Submission Call on its way. More News Soon. @poetryireland.bsky.social @artscouncilireland.bsky.social

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Taidgh Lynch @taidgh.bsky.social · Aug 4

An opportunity! Read the sub guidelines and submit no later than 12 October 2025.

Isabelle Kenyon @isabellekenyon.bsky.social · Jul 25

"Woman, Mapped will explore the journey of becoming a woman: the joys, the pain, and the defining moments that shape. We are seeking work that speaks honestly to what it means to live as a woman — politically, bodily, emotionally — and to be seen on our own terms"

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Submissions for poetry anthology 'Woman, Mapped'

A Rebecca Swift Foundation Anthology, edited by Jennifer Wong and published by Fly on the Wall Press!

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Taidgh Lynch @taidgh.bsky.social · Aug 3

A lovely Sunday read! I’d love a peach

Orion Magazine @orionmagazine.bsky.social · Jul 22

Sometimes a peach is just a peach. But sometimes, writes Alice Wong ( @sfdirewolf.bsky.social ), it's a portal. On succulence, community, and sweetness of all kinds.

In Praise of Peaches

Sometimes a peach is just a peach. But sometimes it's a portal.

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Taidgh Lynch @taidgh.bsky.social · Aug 1

Don’t tell me that’s going in the printer! It’ll be all sorts of violations 🌋

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Jacqueline Doyle @jacqdoyle.bsky.social · Jul 26

“Doyle said, ‘It was a challenge…to write about the silenced, the hidden, the lost, and bring them alive on the page…’" Read more on my project in this article on THE LAB: EXPERIMENTS IN WRITING ACROSS GENRE, which includes my flash “The Lunatics’ Ball” and my craft essay on hybrid writing.

Lit Hub @literaryhub.bsky.social · Jul 25

“When an obsession comes that wants words to be art, you choose (or invent) whatever container will best display it.” Matthew Clark Davison and Alice LaPlante on the power of hybrid writing.

On Hybrid Writing: Finding the Right Container for the Story You Need to Tell

This is part five of a five-part series on the craft of writing by Matthew Clark Davison and Alice LaPlante. Some writers realize their projects with the use of a single genre’s craft (its strategi…

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The Aftershock Review (Max Wallis) @maxwallis.bsky.social · Jul 27

www.theguardian.com/books/2025/j... ‘How can I find meaning from the ruins of my life?’: the little magazine with a life-changing impact | Poetry | The Guardian

‘How can I find meaning from the ruins of my life?’: the little magazine with a life-changing impact

After struggles with mental health and addiction, Max Wallis launched a poetry magazine – and it has transformed his life

www.theguardian.com

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