Irish Literary Community
I was surprised this didn't already exist so here's my humble offering to Irish writers and lit mags!
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@aislingwalsh.bsky.social
@colmgbrennan.bsky.social
Poet & Writer Poetry Ireland Review • The Waxed Lemon • Sonder • The Cormorant • Profiles • The Ogham Stone • Arts Council Literature Bursary • MA in creative writing from UL colmgbrennan.com
@fionamckay.bsky.social
Writer | THE TOP ROAD (AdHoc Fiction 2023) | DRAWN AND QUARTERED (Alien Buddha Press 2023) | THE LIVES OF THE DEAD (AdHoc Fiction July 2025) | Words in places | Autistic + ADHD Ally to 🏳️🌈 and 🏳️⚧️ Free 🇵🇸 and slava 🇺🇦
@davidgreenwriter.bsky.social
Autistic writer of fantasy! Obsessed with Tolkien, Wheel of Time, maps. BFS secretary. Multi-British Fantasy Award los...ahem, nominee 📖 https://linktr.ee/davidgreenwriter Rep'd by @losbennett.bsky.social He/They
@meabhagscriobh.bsky.social
YA novelist, PhD candidate, reader, múinteoir, greyhound enthusiast. Gaeilge agus fáilte 💛
@carmelmcmahon.bsky.social
Writer. Irish. Free Palestine. In Ordinary Time (Duckworth, 2023) Essays & reviews: The Guardian, The Irish Times, Longreads, Humanities Review etc.
@amandadunne.bsky.social
British Book Awards Individual Bookseller of the Year 2024. PhD researcher at TCD in early adolescent books (young teen). Reader, compulsive book recommender.
@mikemcgb.bsky.social
A scribbling, squabbling, strácáiling eejit, that got blown along the N20 and out to Cork City. Foghlaimeoir, bleeding-heart, AuDHDer. Opinions my own. Check https://www.linktr.ee/mike_mcgb for latest scut-acting.
@bernadetmurphy.bsky.social
Author/essayist “Harley & Me” + others. NYT-bestselling collaborative writer. First/bio mom, advocating for reproductive justice.
@joemarshallauthor.bsky.social
Irish 🇮🇪 Seosamh O'Marascal, from County Laois, immigrant and emigrant, writing Irish fiction about families, social injustice, and rural life. Woodworker by day, writer by night. Unbound Book Festival board member. Featured in Past Ten.
@susancondon.bsky.social
Irish Writer & Poet | Winner of the Jonathan Swift Creative Writing Award | MA Creative Writing from DCU | 2024 Irish Writers Centre National Mentoring Programme Susancondon.Wordpress.com
@jamesgwriter.bsky.social
WRITER. The Wooden Hill (short stories) The Lightning (novel), coming 2026! Work Broadcast BBC Radio 4 Nom 4 x Pushcart Prize S-list Best in Rural Writing L-list Irish SS of the Year Husband. Dad. Tay drinker. N Ireland. https://ko-fi.com/jamesgwriter
@zoemillerauthor.bsky.social
Irish author~suspense~intrigue THE GIRLS' TRIP: https://linktr.ee/girlstripbook THE BIRTHDAY WEEKEND & more... www.zoemillerauthor.com Loves: books •walking •photography •nature •music Pub:Hachette Ireland Rep:Sheila Crowley,Curtis Brown
@lorekeating.bsky.social
Writer of fiction; Feeder of Birds; Bae of Fundy. Nova Scotia 🇨🇦 https://www.lorekeating.com/ Novella AGONY'S LODESTONE https://store.tenebrouspress.com/products/agonys-lodestone-print THE TRUEST SENSE https://a.co/d/9NSWZso She/Her
@naoisedolan.bsky.social
Irish novelist, essayist and critic. Author of EXCITING TIMES (2020) & THE HAPPY COUPLE (2023) / https://linktr.ee/naoisedolan / labhair Gaeilge liom
@arnoldtfanning.bsky.social
Writer, Walker, Photographer, Record Collector. Essays & Stories in The Dublin Review, Banshee, The Stinging Fly, The Lonely Crowd & elsewhere. Author of Mind on Fire (Penguin Ireland, 2018). https://about.me/arnoldthomasfanning
@gagebybell.bsky.social
Poet, writer, editor: books by Doire Press, Alba Publishing, Fine Press Poetry, wildflower poetry press, and The Onslaught Press. Assistant editor of The Haibun Journal. www.clearasabellwritingservices.ie
@jackielynam.bsky.social
Dublin writer and librarian. Traces: Poems and Essays published 2023. Longlisted for Carousel Aware Prize for Indie Authors 2024. Arts Council Agility Award recipient 2024. https://linktr.ee/JackieLynam
@davidbutlerbray.bsky.social
Novelist, poet, short-storyist, playwright, also writes as Dara Kavanagh
@thecaterpillarmag.bsky.social
Annual Caterpillar Poetry Prize and art & lit mag for children (2013-2023), still available online. Younger sibling of @themothmagazine.
@themothmagazine.bsky.social
International art & lit magazine. One of the world's biggest prizes for a poem. Short story, nature writing & art prizes. Also: @thecaterpillarmag
@janeclarke.bsky.social
Poet: 'The River', 'When the Tree Falls', 'A Change in the Air' (Bloodaxe 2015, 2019 & 2023) and ed. 'Windfall: Irish Nature Poems' (Hachette 2023)
@martinadalton.bsky.social
Poet | Poems in Poetry Ireland Review, The Stinging Fly, The Irish Times, Irish Independent, Rattle, Magma. | Irish Book Awards Poem of the Year ‘22
@martinadevlinbooks.bsky.social
Book lover, novelist, reader, newspaper columnist, occasional lecturer in literature, Irish www.martinadevlin.ie
@shaunagilligan.bsky.social
Writer, Educator, Feminist, full of heart, cats, literacy for all. Awards incl Jack Harte Bursary 2025 and 2024 Brigid1500. Latest Pub: Co-editor of anthology of art & writing https://www.kennys.ie/shop/fire-brigid-and-the-sacred-feminine-9781851323289
@elkwrites.bsky.social
Emerging Writer. Recovering Cultural Studies scholar. New here... Words in the Honest Ulsterman, Dark Mountain, and forthcoming The Belfast Review & ... Author of Un/Making Worlds (punctum books, 2023) ellenkirkpatrick.co.uk (& some #photography)
@kevinmacalan.bsky.social
Poet/writer/ditherer. MA in Creative Writing. Living in rural West Waterford. Contributor of stuff to books and mags and the occasional live event. Mentored by the best.
@mollytwomey.bsky.social
Arts Council supported poet. ‘Raised Among Vultures’ published by The Gallery Press. Host of ‘Just to Say’ international poetry event. https://mollytwomey.com/ New book launching in 2025 🚀💫
@poetrybuspress.bsky.social
Tiny but mighty indie press specialising in poetry books and magazines. Hyena! by Fran Lock was shortlisted for the 2023 T.S. Eliot Prize and the PEN Heaney Prize. Grab a copy here https://thepoetrybuspress.onlineweb.shop/
@sidhepress.bsky.social
One-woman press based in Berlin. EIC @missyerem.bsky.social https://sidhe-press.eu Trans rights are human rights. Free Palestine!
@nualaoconnor.bsky.social
Writer. Irish. Autistic. Latest book: Menagerie (poetry). https://nualaoconnor.com/
@mariegethins.bsky.social
Flashy Writer, Workshop Leader, Critiques, Flash Editor Banshee, Co-editor Splonk; Best Microfictions, Best Small Fictions, Hawthornden Fellow
@dylanbrennan.bsky.social
Poet, teacher | Ireland/Mexico | Let the Dead available from Banshee Press.
@booksatonedublin.bsky.social
Books at One is a network of independent, local, not for profit community bookshops throughout Ireland. Our newest shop is at 46-47 Meath Street Dublin.
@irishlitsoc.bsky.social
Established in London in 1892 and meeting since. Founders: Yeats and other leaders of the Literary Revival. Open to all, come along. Tá fáilte roimh chách!
@boycie.bsky.social
Irish Writer. Humourless Hag. Author of Her Kind, The Herbalist & Inside The Wolf
@molimuseum.bsky.social
A museum of literature for the world's greatest storytellers. Plan your visit at moli.ie
@doirepress.bsky.social
Award-winning publisher based in the west of Ireland. Free worldwide shipping on all orders over €60. Supported by the Arts Council of Ireland.
@stancarey.bsky.social
Editor, writer, lapsed biologist in the west of Ireland Copy-editing, writing: https://stancarey.com Language: https://stancarey.wordpress.com Strong language: https://stronglang.wordpress.com 🎞 https://letterboxd.com/stancarey 🦣 @stancarey@mastodon.ie
@claireallan.bsky.social
Writer of thrillers ✍️ Derry Girl ☘️ Izzy’s Human 🐾 aka FREYA KENNEDY, when I'm feeling romantic. 💕 Powered by ADHD, HRT & Maltesers 🤯🥵🍫 Published by @boldwoodbooks.bsky.social New thriller: 📕The Perfect Mother 😱🔪🎈- February '25
@seventydys.bsky.social
the sea is completely written for me https://www.transitbooks.org/books/darker
@theactualemma.bsky.social
Writer. Winner 2019 Benedict Kiely competition | longlisted 2021 Galley Beggars Press | shortlisted 2023 Maírtín Crawford Award | work featured in The Irish Times, The Stinging Fly, and more | Rep'd by Sophie Scard at United Agents: https://t.ly/ef_3A
@aoifeb.bsky.social
Swears, writes, Gaeilge is fáilte. She/í Makes Censored, a podcast about dirty books and films https://shows.acast.com/censored Research interests: sex and death
@niamhmaccabe.bsky.social
Writer, artist, fair to middling spinster. Magpie apologist. Good at everything. Spouting nonsense from my roost in northwestern Ireland. http://niamhmaccabe.com/
@eleanorfitzsimons.bsky.social
Writer/Researcher. KeatsShelley Essay Prize, Rubery Book Award. Author Wilde's Women. Life & Loves of E. Nesbit, Selected Articles from The Woman’s World. Here for books, art, nature, laughter & tranquility.
@deankelly.bsky.social
Irish, creative sort • painter, poet • own notions https://www.deankelly.ie
@littleislandbooks.bsky.social
Independent press publishing the best new Irish writing for young readers. Supported by Arts Council Ireland. Repped in UK by Bounce Sales & Marketing. Books create waves.
@sheelaghnagig.bsky.social
Independent book and wholefoods shop offering the best in fiction for all ages and nonfiction on permaculture, sustainability, activism. Local and organic foods too. Open 6 days 1pm to 6pm. Closed Tuesdays.
@sonyagildea.bsky.social
John McGahern Literature Award | DLR Emerging Writer In Residence 2023-24 | Poetry Ireland Introductions | Cúirt New Writing Fiction Award | Art Council Literature Bursary Award | sonyagildea dot com
@darach.bsky.social
That @theirishfor guy. Author of Motherfoclóir & Craic Baby. He/Him.
@caoilinnhughes.bsky.social
Irish novelist and short story writer. Author of THE WILD LAUGHTER, ORCHID & THE WASP and THE ALTERNATIVES, coming April 2024 with Riverhead and Oneworld.
@aingealaflannery.bsky.social
Writer and broadcaster. Author of 'The Amusements'. Deputy publisher @thedublinreview.bsky.social ❤️ 📚 📻 🎶 🎾 🐕
@wcorklitfest.bsky.social
#Bantry: 11-18 July 2025. Check out our line-up & download brochure. Booking open for all events https://linktr.ee/westcorkliteraryfestival
@susancahill.bsky.social
🌧THE WORLD BETWEEN THE RAIN 🌧 middle-grade children’s fantasy, out now! 🌟Longlisted for Branford Boase Award 2025 🎙️STORYSHAPED: podcast about children’s books that shape us https://linktr.ee/susancahillwrites
@kenmooney.bsky.social
Ireland, gay, knows what it's like to be awake while getting your skull drilled open (thanks brain cancer.) Writer of Godhead, Apocalypse...Whenever, Tackling The Issue et al. Punk shit, tattoos, horror/SF, queer stuff, video games. He/Him.
@hughespeg.bsky.social
Chief Executive at @writerscentre.bsky.social. Feat. books, whimsy, radio, outdoors, running, walking, looking. NIrish via Scotland in Norwich
@liznugent.bsky.social
No relation to Ted. Writer and rewriter. Sister and resister. Scullery maid to the House of Goldblatt. Strange Sally Diamond in all good bookstores now. And even the bad ones. Ha! As if there was such a thing as a bad bookstore. www.liznugent.com
@urchinette.bsky.social
Writes things. My new book, Our Song, is coming in June 2025. First book The Real Rebecca won an Irish Book Award. Latest book The Boldness of Betty, about teen strikers in 1913, was shortlisted in 2020. Co-hosts @svhpodcast She/her
@hcor.bsky.social
QUEEN OF COIN AND WHISPERS and DAUGHTER OF WINTER AND TWILIGHT from The O’Brien Press | Agent: Eric Smith at Neighborhood Literary | 🇮🇪🏳️🌈 she/her helencorcoran.com
@lucycaldwell.bsky.social
Writer of short story collections Multitudes, Intimacies and Openings, and novels inc. These Days. Regular masterclass series at Faber Academy.
@wordsofhelen.bsky.social
Irish writer. Author of The Truth Must Dazzle Gradually and The Lost Letters of William Woolf. Repd. by Peter Straus, RCW (UK) and Kim Witherspoon, Inkwell (USA). www.helencullen.ie
@deanvannguyen.bsky.social
Writer. Irish-Vietnamese. Author of Iron Age: The Art of Ghostface Killah (2019) and Words for My Comrades: A Political History of Tupac Shakur (May 2025). Agent: Chris Clemans at Janklow Nesbit
@mollyh.bsky.social
Writer | The Celestial Realm Writer in Residence University of Galway Banshee nonfiction editor
@roisinlanigan.bsky.social
Author of I WANT TO GO HOME BUT IM ALREADY THERE, March 2025. Contributing Editor at The Fence.
@patrickfreyne.bsky.social
Irish Times writer & author of OK, Let's Do Your Stupid Idea https://easons.com/ok-lets-do-your-stupid-idea-patrick-freyne-9780241992531 & https://uk.bookshop.org/p/books/ok-let-s-do-your-stupid-idea-patrick-freyne/2029113?ean=9780241992531
@martindoyle.bsky.social
Books Editor of The Irish Times; author of Dirty Linen: The Troubles in My Home Place (Merrion Press)
@thereadparts.bsky.social
Irish writer. Author of Exile (a novel) & Writing Resistance (a monograph) Editor @ the Mirror. Agent: Eleanor Birne @ RCW
@thepigsback.bsky.social
The Pig's Back is a literary journal based in Donegal. Edited by Dean Fee + Emily Cooper. Produced by the Regional Cultural Centre, Letterkenny.
@briangdillon.bsky.social
Writer. AFFINITIES, ESSAYISM & SUPPOSE A SENTENCE published by Fitzcarraldo & NYRB. GONE TO EARTH (on Hounds of Love) & AMBIVALENCE (on education) forthcoming.
@eoghansmith.bsky.social
Writer of novels | A MIND OF WINTER | A PROVINCIAL DEATH | THE FAILING HEART | Reviews & essays scattered about. https://www.eoghansmithwriter.com/
@berniemcgill.bsky.social
Writer. Writing Fellow with Royal Literary Fund. Mentor at Irish Writers' Centre. Rep'd by Aitken Alexander. Winner of the 2023 Edge Hill Prize for This Train is For, available at https://www.noalibispress.com/title/this-train-is-for
@writing.ie
Award winning magazine for writers at all levels http://www.writing.ie - based in Ireland but for writers everywhere. Featuring book and writing news, tips, technique, competitions, submission opportunities and much more. We want to help! 📚💙
@moiswriting.bsky.social
Writer living in the West of Ireland. Most recent work in Banshee, Trasna, and on Sunday Miscellany 💚
@brendaromero.bsky.social
Studio Director @ Romero Games. Writer @ The Stinging Fly, TOLKA, The Dublin Review and more. Metalhead. Nerd.
@bibliorefuses.bsky.social
linktr.ee/dr.susan.maxwell Bibliothèque des Refusés is the imprint of independent author & scholar Susan Maxwell. Literary Fiction for adults, Fantasy for younger/universal readership. Non-fiction: academic themes related to archives & fiction. Reviews.
@marcdefaoite.bsky.social
Herbivorous open-water-swimming snowflake bookworm, born 323.05 ppm. Irish in France. Reader/writer/editor/translator. Writing in Honest Ulsterman, Minor Lit, Irish Times, The Cormorant, The Incubator, Eastlit, Jaggery, Mekong Review, Esquire, and more
@terpsichoredubh.bsky.social
Latina at large in Co Wicklow 🇵🇸 Salvadoran-Amer. Irish by Association. Writer. 'There are many things that can only be seen through eyes that have cried.'
@zanbreathnach.bsky.social
Irish artist (performance and audio) and writer, sometimes bird rescuer, said/iad they/them, bi Www.suzannewalsh.ie
@carcionejay.bsky.social
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
@walshiewrites.bsky.social
Reading, writing, rambling & growing things by the sea in Dublin. Half Dub, half Nordie. Getting more pagan in my old age. PR pro. News nerd. LUFC fan for my sins. She/Her.
@jeano.bsky.social
JMOBrien_Dublin in the Bad Place. Reader & writer (Novel Fair 2024). Lover & hater. Day job: digital for non-profits, founder @digitalcharitylab.bsky.social Dublin, Ireland. She/her ☺️
@nessao.bsky.social
I am a poet and novelist from Dublin. I’ve edited anthologies and teach creative writing
@scyflynn.bsky.social
Poet. The Colour of Extinction (@renardpress, October 2024) - Observer Poetry Book of the Month. An Ocean Called Hope (@downingfield, May 2025). https://scflynn.com
@dowdalln.bsky.social
(she/her) | libraries & publishing & open research | Irish women's writing/art/history/culture | dress and clothing in literature | labhair Gaeilge liom! | Views all mine!
@byddi.bsky.social
Irish Writer - 📚 fiction, 🎭 stage and 🎬 screen. Writes about nature, climate, and local history. Sometimes funny - usually unintentionally. Love my cats and my garden. 📖 Read my latest book & more www.ByddiLee.com
@christinebreen.bsky.social
In Kiltumper, we write, we garden, we read, we make art…and we have a #Goldensammy called Finn. #NiallWilliams most recent novel is ‘Time of the Child’ 🍀
@lucyrebeccaholme.bsky.social
Writer | Work in The Stinging Fly, Banshee & more | Shortlisted | Brotherton Prize & Mairtín Crawford Award ‘24 |🥇Cúirt New Writing Award & Southword Editor’s Prize ‘24 | 𝕋𝕖𝕞𝕡𝕠𝕣𝕒𝕣𝕪 𝕊𝕥𝕒𝕤𝕚𝕤 & 𝔹𝕝𝕦𝕖 𝔻𝕚𝕒𝕘𝕠𝕟𝕒𝕝𝕤 | Broken Sleep Books
@janecasey.bsky.social
Author from Ireland. Responsible for the Maeve Kerrigan series and The Killing Kind (now on TV!). Also owner of the world’s least cooperative spaniel.
@booksireland.bsky.social
Established 1976. Reviews, news, features on Irish books and writing, database of all upcoming books each month. Podcast #BurningBooks. Editor Ruth McKee.
@gutterbookshop.bsky.social
Two lovely bookshops in Dublin, Ireland - named after that famous Oscar Wilde quote... Store Manager Marta posts here whenever she gets a moment.
@elainaryan.bsky.social
CEO of Children's Books Ireland. Co-artistic director of Towers and Tales Children's Book Festival. I swear I like things that aren't children's books too...
@amyclarkinwrites.bsky.social
Powered mostly by coffee and vibes. Chronically ill (M.E), bisexual writer. What Walks These Halls and Who Watches This Place are out now with The O’Brien Press, PSI Investigations book 3 coming 2025 👻 🏳️🌈
@chennessybooks.bsky.social
Writer, book critic, creative writing facilitator. Latest book: IN THE MOVIE OF HER LIFE (short stories, Doire Press, 2025). Website: http://www.clairehennessy.com/ Blog: https://clairehennessy.substack.com/ Workshops: https://www.clairehennessy.com/store