Sonya Gildea
John McGahern Literature Award | DLR Emerging Writer In Residence 2024 | Poetry Ireland Introductions | Cúirt New Writing Fiction Award | Art Council Literature Bursary Award |
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- Reposted by Sonya GildeaWe are excited to announce a special Climate Issue – Online Event next Tuesday 10th February 🌊 Our Climate Issue offers variety of responses to the changing climate and our responsibility to the present political moment 🍃 Free event. Registration is required 🔗 us02web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
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- Reposted by Sonya GildeaTaking pre-orders for gorses 12 + 13: gorse.ie/book/no-12/ gorse.ie/book/no-13/ (Double release, like Tom Waits' Alice + Blood Money.)
- Reposted by Sonya Gildea@su-anna.bsky.social's debut MORSELS is available for purchase: Supported by the National Lottery through the Arts Council of Northern Ireland, Arts Council of Ireland, and the Shared Island Civic Society Fund, managed by the DFAT. www.machapress.com/subscription... @abridgedmagazine.bsky.social
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- The new Abridged Elixir Submission Call is now open! See www.abridged.zone/abridged-0-1... for info. Don't be tardy! Submit! #irishpoetrymagazine #abridged
- Reposted by Sonya GildeaNEW on our website | Ellen Orchard reviews 2025 Irish poetry collections: 🍙Morsels by Susanna Galbraith @machapress.bsky.social 🏝️The Oasis by Charles Lang @skeinpress.bsky.social 🎈After Party by Dean Browne (Picador Poetry) 💧Infinity Pool by Vona Groarke (Gallery Press)
- Reposted by Sonya GildeaThis is a cracking read… new novella coming soon from Danielle McLaughlin. Published by @stingingfly.bsky.social
- Reposted by Sonya GildeaExcited to share the 1st episode of my new partnership with @milkweededitions.bsky.social, with the remarkable Sangu Iyer, about her memoir Governing Bodies: A Memoir, A Confluence, A Watershed Audio👂🌱: milkweed.org/between-the-... @literaryanimal.bsky.social @whitingfoundation.bsky.social
- Reposted by Sonya GildeaWe’re delighted to announce that submissions for HOWL 26 will open from February 13 to February 23. We’ll be accepting poetry, fiction, and nonfiction for our next collection of New Irish Writing. More @: www.howlwriting.ie/post/submiss...
- Reposted by Sonya GildeaWe’re delighted to share some very good news: Molly Twomey and Gunnhildur Jónatansdóttir are joining the HOWL 26 team working on English language poetry and fiction. More @ www.howlwriting.ie/post/new-add...
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- Reposted by Sonya GildeaJoin us to celebrate the publication of FOUND IN A CONTEXT OF DESTRUCTION, the debut collection of poetry by Tim MacGabhann! We're launching in @booksupstairs.bsky.social on 12 February and in No Alibis in Belfast on 19 February. All are welcome! bansheepress.org/read/join-us...
- Reposted by Sonya GildeaI have a new story on BBC Radio 4 - Friday 23 Jan - and then on catchup Elevator pitch - a comedy about love, entropy and a ceremonial badger I’d love for you to give it a listen www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
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- Reposted by Sonya GildeaEsker Sessions returns for volume VII with Annemarie Ní Churreáin and Geraldine O’Neill. 🖋 Esker Sessions takes place at Esker Arts on Friday 13th February at 8pm, tickets are €8 and available at eskerarts.ie. See more details on www.poetryireland.ie/whats-on/esk...
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- Reposted by Sonya GildeaHOWL opens for subs for New Irish Writing once every two years, and that window is quickly approaching! From Feb 13th - Feb 23rd you can submit your poetry, fiction, and nonfiction to HOWL 26 at howlwriting.ie We hope we are lucky enough to receive your work!
- Reposted by Sonya GildeaApplications are open for the McCormack Writing Center Summer Workshop (formerly the Tin House Workshop) and I'm so glad to be teaching again this year. Apply here: mccormackwritingcenter.org/oregon-summe...
- Reposted by Sonya GildeaMy third collection, Landscape with Question, will be published in June 2026 with @carcanet.bsky.social. It started out as a biography in verse of Nano Reid, then became something else entirely. 🌔🌊🏙️🌱 www.carcanet.co.uk/978180017561...
- Reposted by Sonya GildeaI'm facilitating an 8 week course on Poetry & Source at the @irishwriterscentre.bsky.social from Feb 4. We'll explore how to find, adapt, integrate & depart from the sources that inspire us. If you think this would be useful to your practice, the link is below. irishwriterscentre.ie/courses/poet...
- Reposted by Sonya GildeaI'm judging the Maria Edgeworth Festival's poetry competition this year 🥳 and I would love to read your work! The deadline is the 27th of February 🌸 mariaedgeworthcenter.com/.../maria-ed...
- Reposted by Sonya GildeaThank you, Lilliput! Awesome to see the Proofs, even more awesome to read blurbs about your own work 🩻🪞
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- Reposted by Sonya GildeaNew to #Bluesky? Here's a starter pack for Literary Journals the Island of Ireland #BookSky go.bsky.app/EdG3Ruvat://did:plc:i4k5jo343mnn5kjf3ooz2rhj/app.bsky.graph.starterpack/3m3mmwpnoyu2i
- Reposted by Sonya GildeaNew to #Bluesky? Here's a starter pack for Bricks & Mortar Bookshops on the Island of Ireland #BookSky go.bsky.app/G4kmxVqat://did:plc:i4k5jo343mnn5kjf3ooz2rhj/app.bsky.graph.starterpack/3m3idm5zj7i2e
- Reposted by Sonya GildeaBack on for the briefest of minutes to share this lovely review of New Arcana from the latest issue of The Alchemy Spoon. ✨️ @bloodaxebooks.bsky.social
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- Drawing the working year to a close. Love and thanks to all who made it possible and to the dearest of writer friends & collaborators. ❤️ Image: 'Woman and Horse', by Felix Thiollier, 1899
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- Join us on Sunday for the launch of STATE, IN RELATION @tbgands.bsky.social Dublin Art Book Fair 2025 #DABF25 with accompanying print installation OMITTED PROVISIONS www.templebargallery.com/whats-on/eve...
- Join us on Sunday for the launch of STATE, IN RELATION @tbgands.bsky.social Dublin Art Book Fair 2025 #DABF25 with accompanying print installation OMITTED PROVISIONS www.templebargallery.com/whats-on/eve...
- Reposted by Sonya Gildea🕰️ With the year coming to an end, we asked a selection of Poetry Review contributors to give us their favourite poetry books and pamphlets of 2025. Next is Chris Arning's pick: High Jump as Icarus Story by Gustav Parker Hibbett (Banshee Press). Thank you, Chris!
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- Reposted by Sonya GildeaSTATE, IN RELATION. My piece - Word Rain - is designed to be read multiple ways. Launching Sunday 14th at TBG+S, and available to buy at Dublin Art Book Fair. 📸: @sonyagildea.bsky.social
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- Reposted by Sonya GildeaBig huge congrats to the brilliant @elainefeeney.bsky.social ❤️👑❤️
- Reposted by Sonya GildeaCome join us this Thursday @booksupstairs.bsky.social to celebrate 20 issues and 10 years of @bansheepress.bsky.social ✨️ There'll be chats, readings and 🍷
- @stingingfly.bsky.social Launch of ISSUE 53 The Climate Issue @ Digital Depot, introduced by Declan Meade & Editor Lisa McInerny, w/readings from @junec.bsky.social, Simon Costello & many others 💫 @eoieoin.bsky.social in the raffle hat w/writers Lianne O'Hara, Ella Gaynor & Kasandra Ferguson✨
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- The Pig's Back Dublin Launch ISSUE # 7 @booksupstairs.bsky.social last night with @thepigsback.bsky.social co-editors Dean Fee & Emily Cooper. Hosted by Louisa of Books Upstairs, With celebratory readings from Issue #7 and # 6💫
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- Reposted by Sonya GildeaWe're launching next Thursday 27th November in the Digital Depot - come one, come all!!
- Reposted by Sonya GildeaI'll be reading at The Stinging Fly launch on Thursday. A character's personal tempest inside literal one or lesbian road trip with supernatural fairies, damaged bogs, an upturned camper van, high jinx, creepy haunting and winks to The Wizard of Oz & an historic storm that battered Ireland in 1839.
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- Reposted by Sonya GildeaWe're launching Issue 10 at @molimuseum.bsky.social First Fridays on the eve of 5 December 🎺 Featuring an editorial conversation, and readings from seven amazing contributors 🔥 Time tbc, and registration will open soon 👀
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- Reposted by Sonya GildeaSave the date! Submissions open for HOWL New Irish Writing 26 in February 2026 🐺 🖤
