Jeg har skrevet et lite essay for @vinduet.bsky.social om hjemmet, via Catriona Shines småskumle roman Habitat. Den handler om en blokk i Oslo som sakte, men sikkert begynner å falle fra hverandre. All den tid vi gjemmer oss i våre hjem, ser vi hverken hverandre eller den forestående kollapsen,
Skriver om hjemmet, hjemmet som ikke viste seg å være hjem kjære hjem
Alf Jørgen Schnell skriver om hjemmet, horror og irsk-norske Catriona Shines «Habitat», en roman om en boligblokk i Oslo hvor det begynner å skje uforklarlige ting. www.vinduet.no/essayistikk/...
Can't wait to read this!
Leone Ross short story judges report
Delighted to see my short story Oboe highly commended in the Bridport Prize. @bridportprize.bsky.social
bridportprize.org.uk/wp-content/u...
A huge thanks to @daithitoms.bsky.social and Shane Tivenan for a great conversation at Prismatic Pages in Oslo last weekend.
Catriona Shine @catrionashine.bsky.social is an Irish-Norwegian writer and architect. Her debut novel, Habitat, published by the Lilliput Press, was a Sunday Times, Irish Times and The Journal Most Anticipated Book of 2024, RTÉ Book of the Week, and was longlisted for the McKitterick Prize. Catriona
Great news!
Calling all European creators, please read and sign this open letter to the European Commission for Tech Sovereignty, Security and Democracy calling for AI regulation, and copyright protection and enforcement.
creators-for-europe-united.eu
#AI #europe #creators #copyright
Thanks to all at Cork World Book Fest!
Greetings!
It has been a wonderful privilege to stay at Hawthornden Castle for a writers’ residency. It’s a beautiful place and I made some great friends. #writing #hawthornden #writingretreat #novel #edinburgh #scotland #castle
I'll have the pleasure of reading and conversing with Christine Dwyer Hickey, Kevin Curran (another Lilliput author) and Mary Morrissy at the opening to Cork World Book Festival this Tuesday 7pm at Cork City Library. Come along if you can!
Free to enter #writing competition as part of annual #literaryfestival in lovely Ponta Lopud near #Dubrobnik #Croatia entry can be short story, poetry, essay. Theme is hotels: 'what do their walls feel+what stories do they long to tell?' Info and t+cs here
What are the good search engines now that Google is broken?
I’ve been using Ecosia for environmental reasons.
Wide horizon and small sailing boat in colours of blue and grey
Making an effort to repost (not just like) all the posts on goodness, kindness, beauty, optimism. Be the change you want to see in the world (or at least on BlueSky) 😊
Read Mary Morrissey’s short essay on her Issue 14 short story, Mature People
thelonelycrowd.org/2025/04/13/a...
⌛Solvej Balle on Time, Wonder, & Writing the Impossible⏳
On this week's podcast Solvej Balle returns to the bookshop she once called home to discuss her monumental "On the Calculation of Volume".
🎧: pod.fo/e/2c6094
@thebookerprizes.bsky.social @faberbooks.bsky.social @ndbooks.bsky.social #BookSky
Congratulations! This sounds wonderful!
There's a lovely review of Habitat by Madeline Beach Carey in World-Architects Magazine today. #Habitat #buildingnovels #architecturebooks #architecture #novel #oslo
www.world-architects.com/en/architect...
Really lovely to have work included here in such brilliant company ✨️
A black-and-white photo of Mick Lally on Inis Meáin with the sea behind him. He's leaning his arm on a large painting of the Sacred Heart which sits on wooden table. There's a red Druid logo in the top left corner. In the bottom right, there's text which reads 'Druid's 50th Anniversary Season'.
Founded in 1975, this year marks Druid's 50th anniversary
We're celebrating with a double bill of Synge’s Riders to the Sea and Shakespeare’s Macbeth in Galway this July, followed by Macbeth in Dublin and Beckett’s Endgame in New York
Come join us in the celebrations 🎉
I've just signed this petition protesting Meta's theft of Irish writing, which they've used to build their AI tool. Will you sign too? my.uplift.ie/petitions/pr...
Irish businesses will struggle to compete with Amazon ie, both online and in the high street.
Shop direct with your Irish retailers, who already exist.
Support local, not the billionaires.
Happy read-a-book-with-a-green-spine day! ☘️
