📚Are you working on your first novel?

Attend the online launch event for #NovelFair , our literary competition for first-time novelists to meet with publishers and agents!

🗓️ Wed 24 April 2024
🎟️Book free ticket: irishwriterscentre.ie/whats-on/novel…
Read thread for more info🧵

This was an excellent course CIEP Official - subsided training is one of many good reasons to join AFEPI Ireland - membership also brings the collegiality so frequently missing for freelancers, and listing on an excellent website. Do check it out.

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Great chat here between Donie and Limerick’s finest, Blindboy Boatclub.

The stage is set. The players in position. Has Kit Marlowe made a deal with the devil?

A stunning debut on queer love, betrayal and survival in the Elizabethan Age from a vital new voice in historical fiction, Hesse Phillips.

tidd.ly/42R3vOw

#Lightborne Hesse Phillips (they/she)

The stage is set. The players in position. Has Kit Marlowe made a deal with the devil?

A stunning debut on queer love, betrayal and survival in the Elizabethan Age from a vital new voice in historical fiction, Hesse Phillips.

tidd.ly/42R3vOw

#Lightborne Hesse Phillips (they/she)

We had a superb day's training yesterday in Dublin in Efficient Editing, given by the brilliant Hester Higton of CIEP Official. There's still so much value in holding in-person events; it adds great energy and flow, and it's an excellent chance to catch up with fellow editors too!

In two week's time! ALL WELCOME to this free event – and we're holding a free raffle of some great Cork-made items as well!

The brilliant Hilary Fannin talking about Children of the Sun an Abbey Theatre Rough Magic co-production that starts previewing tomorrow night. Come see

- Signed and numbered by the author
- Includes a short story by Donal Ryan, not in any other edition
- Exclusive cover
- Limited Edition only available at Kennys Bookshop
- Out in August 2024

You can pre-order yours, here: shorturl.at/mtJR5

Fantastic, panoramic interview with Hilary Fannin Struck by this, in particular:

'She gets annoyed by novels where there’s no mention of money, no mention of how people pay for things. The availability of money affects who gets to tell their stories'

irishtimes.com/culture/stage/…

Such a thrill to get the finished book in hand! And the dog certainly should be chuffed😁. Congratulations Hesse Phillips (they/she), for your monumental achievement. #Lightborne is out on 2 May, can't wait for you all to read it!

The stage is set. The players in position. Has Kit Marlowe made a deal with the devil?

A stunning debut on queer love, betrayal and survival in the Elizabethan Age from a vital new voice in historical fiction, Hesse Phillips.

tidd.ly/42R3vOw

#Lightborne Hesse Phillips (they/she)

🚨Deadline is tomorrow at noon!🚨

We are seeking a writer to join the Irish Writers Centre Board of Directors!

More details here⬇️
irishwriterscentre.ie/we-are-seeking…

Extensive dune erosion on Bettystown Beach following #StormKathleen . Several lifebelts flattened.

Only two spots left for our in-person training day in Dublin on Monday, 15 April at the Gresham Hotel. Hester Higton, CIEP training director, will deliver Efficient Editing. The cost is €250 per person. For more info and to book your place: eventbrite.ie/e/efficient-ed…

I agree! A great book filled with suspense and lovely twists. A must-read this year by Hesse Phillips (they/she)

The stage is set. The players in position. Has Kit Marlowe made a deal with the devil?

A stunning debut on queer love, betrayal and survival in the Elizabethan Age from a vital new voice in historical fiction, Hesse Phillips.

tidd.ly/42R3vOw

#Lightborne Hesse Phillips (they/she)