Jessica Grene

Thrilled to have my story 'Sort As You Go' featured in this edition of @mslexia.bsky.social

If you’re an author who’s been receiving verbose AI scam emails on a daily basis, and you’re wondering how gullible and ego-driven people think you are, this article helps to explain them. Sadly, they are successful enough to have been built into a big business. www.thedial.world/articles/new...

Mr. El-Sayed do you disavow the wholesale theft of the plums in the ice box?

Just finished GLORIOUS MONSTERS , a novel about Mary Shelley by @martinadevlinbooks.bsky.social I’m in bits. I was enthralled throughout, but I was dreading what I knew was going to happen.

We wanted to assure you that Sally Rooney's books are still available to buy and to order online!

UNINTERESTED ≠ DISINTERESTED They have two separate meanings, and we need both words.

Unsolicited writing advice, no. 8260: Whatever genre you write, read folklore. Folklore exists because at some point, people cared so much about a certain thing that they put it into a story, and passed it down the centuries in order to keep it alive. That deserves attention.

This is written to fly under the radar, from today’s Sunday Independent (Ireland). The press council upheld a complaint about an offensive and transphobic opinion column by Brenda Power. Sindo was required to publish the decision. @mams4transrights.bsky.social @jesalady.bsky.social

Some news: my novel The Mending Room will be published by @saltpublishing on 18 January 2027. Dublin, 1943 – Annie waits for word of her son, lost somewhere in war-torn Burma. A story told in letters, about what endures. Pre-order here: www.saltpublishing.com/products/the...

Lads… #speirgorm

Wexford Pride Creative Writing Competition 2026 Competition deadline: 31st October 2026 Wexford Pride is an entirely volunteer community organisation dedicated to supporting, celebrating and uplifting the LGBTQIA+ community across Co....

‘For the Dead Remember: The Life of M. R. James’ is published today! Seven years in the writing, many more in the planning, and - here it is!

Poetry by @yvonnecullenwrites.bsky.social from issue 19 (spring/summer 2025) ✨️ 'I had as many things to say to you as the chestnut tree has leaves about a heartbreak of Deliveroo cyclists on Parkgate Street at leaf-fall-smell and cherry-red tail-light time.' bansheepress.org/read/i-had-a...

Speaking as someone who’s a bit closer to seeing the direct impacts of the MAGA murder of USAID than some, I just don’t have a ton of patience for people who want to condemn USAID for what it was and who also don’t have opinions or solutions on dealing with the hideous fallout of its destruction.

Honestly @bsky.app can this just permanently be the pinned post on the discover feed? Would solve a lot of problems.

Ok I'm actually fired off and annoyed so there's 100% off my Irish language ebooks on resources using the code "fuck ai". Limited number. Ta. payhip.com/unaminh

They keep taking away the wrong cast members from Home Alone 2.

She was amazing. www.irishtimes.com/culture/book...

dolly parton taught millions of children to read dolly parton raised millions of dollars for cancer research and disaster relief dolly parton stood by the lgbtq community her entire life dolly parton personally helped fund the moderna vaccine if there was a right side of something she was on it

1/2 OPEN CALL: UCD Library seeks photographers and lens-based artists for a commission capturing the National Folklore Collection's move to its new home. Full details at www.ucd.ie/irishfolklor... 📆Info session is on tomorrow, 26 Aug. @visualartistsirl.bsky.social @bealoideasucd.bsky.social

Have you ever written about your writing? There are five opportunities to do so in the next issue of Mslexia. Nonfiction submissions, as well as those for fiction and poetry, are open until 5 October. https://mslexia.co.uk/submit-your-work/

This scene always makes me cry.

Ah, a bit of Googling later, I found the Webform you can use to submit your observations. www.garda.ie/en/about-us/...

Is using them correctly just signalling to professional writers/editors/designers that you know your shit and pay attention to detail? It’s more than that. Typography has a wildly nerdy set of Rules, but it’s also an art. It’s about how things balance and flow. Characters, lines, space…

— Em dash makes a division in a sentence — something like this! It can be used to connect two thoughts or indicate a shift or interruption — a colon, semicolon, or parentheses might also work, but the humble em dash has a subtle difference in its style and flow.

I have two pages on reading the incomparable Shirley Jackson in today’s @irishtimes.com Thanks to Martin Doyle for allowing me to fly the flag for one of my all time favourite writers.

LOOK AT THIS LINE-UP!!! 🌲 Melinda Salisbury 🌿 Deirdre Sullivan ⚔️ Dave Rudden 🔮 Courtney Smyth Melinda joins us to celebrate her new YA folk-horror LOCAL GODS, published by David Fickling Books. Thurs 13 Aug | 6.30pm - THIS GOOD & IT IS FREE! What are you waiting for??

1/ Halfway up the Stairs is delighted to present our Children’s Comic Book Festival, Jumping off the Page, taking place on Oct 2nd & 3rd in The Whale Theatre, Greystones. Full programme & booking details here halfwayupthestairs.ie/2026/05/27/j...

"Anthropic’s commitments under the EU AI Act’s Code of Practice" A reminder that these things are not really that complicated. We are not the serfs of tech billionaires. We can regulate to get the world we want to live in. And it is easier to regulate if you operate at scale, as the EU does.

AI companies buying up old books to scan for LLMs, to dilute the sludge made from the books they’ve already stolen. www.irishtimes.com/world/europe...

So much joy. Leuchtturm has replaced Moleskine in my heart.

Approx. 1,800 words, £250 per piece. Also pitches for 4-part series of 1,000 words apiece in those same categories. Please share with any writers in your life, and email pitches to debbie at mslexia dot co dot uk by Friday 14 August.

We’re inviting feature pitches for the December edition of Mslexia. We publish features in three categories: CRAFT, CAREER and CREATIVITY.

"... a significant increase in vehicle weight & size... a proliferation of large SUVs, often replacing smaller family cars. This development has been a boon for manufacturers, who are able to charge much higher prices for these vehicles, despite similar production costs to smaller cars"

Only a month away from the launch of Dead Teenager Movie now!

💯 agree. I’m not on here to get in fights. Book news and Odyssey memes, thank you.

It's alive... it's alive!

With Europe’s borders back in the headlines, please consider reading ‘My Fourth Time, We Drowned’ if you haven’t already. It’s very important to have a fuller picture before weighing in.

I suggest something similar to those to my students and, like the author, couch it (pun intended) in the same terms. Building up to extended, distraction-free reading the way you might build up a running or other exercise routine. We are getting worse at this, 1/ www.theguardian.com/books/2026/a...

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