“Fiction is about everything human and we are made out of dust, and if you scorn getting yourself dusty, then you shouldn’t try to write fiction. It’s not a grand enough job for you.”
Flannery O’Connor
Rooted in memory, place, and music, the essays move between childhood, family, loss, the changing seasons, and growing up in Northern Ireland by Tom Shiels
@itstomshiels.bsky.social
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"I’d like to have money. And I’d like to be a good writer. These two can come together, and I hope they will, but if that’s too adorable, I’d rather have money. I hate almost all rich people, but I think I’d be darling at it."
Dorothy Parker
"I’d like to have money. And I’d like to be a good writer. These two can come together, and I hope they will, but if that’s too adorable, I’d rather have money. I hate almost all rich people, but I think I’d be darling at it."
Dorothy Parker
"Up to a short time ago I’d have said I was a writer who was just born in Ireland. But I know now, the way I write, the way I see things, my interest in story is very much the result of the race I come from."
- Edna O'Brien
(Photo - Cecil Beaton)
"Up to a short time ago I’d have said I was a writer who was just born in Ireland. But I know now, the way I write, the way I see things, my interest in story is very much the result of the race I come from."
- Edna O'Brien
(Photo - Cecil Beaton)
Cillian Murphy on not being cast in The Odyssey: “I have ROMO. Relief of missing out."
We are too:
I’m delighted to be running a writing workshop at the Cairde Arts Festival, Sligo. If you’re interested, or know someone who might be, please pass the word on:
"This immersive creative writing workshop offers an introduction to fiction, poetry and memoir."
www.cairdefestival.com/2026/the-sha...
