Cristín Leach

A quite old red hardback book standing upright on a wooden trolley, with a potted plant behind it. It's a bit dinked at the top, and stained on the spine. The debased gilt text on the spine reads: Stories from the New Yorker 1950-1960, with the New Yorker logo underneath it, a monocled top-hatted gent. The logo is also on the front cover.

An interesting coincidence. This morning I took down from a shelf a book that's been there for a few years: Stories from the New Yorker 1950-1960. I'd decided to do something I'd intended for a while: read it cover to cover, with perhaps a reading thread to accompany it.

Cork city with the river Lee reflections beautiful under a peachy sunset sky

Film director Régis Wargnier in a jaunty scarf signing a very big Indochine poster surrounded by onlookers close to the cinema screen in the Arc Cinema in Cork City, Ireland

Cork City was beautiful as I was on my way to do the post-screening Q&A with French film director Régis Wargnier after La Réparation at Cork French Film Festival. Someone brought him an (Oscar winning) Indochine movie poster to sign. He had stories to tell and the audience questions were superb. 🎥

I’ve been noticing hands in paintings and sculptures, and how different individuals are connected to each other, and in particular how they support each other - so I’m going to try a thread/ visual essay here as a way to keep track of them…

Art Thoughts: Is Irish visual art still overlooked overseas? Thar lear is a phrase in Irish/as gaeilge that acknowledges in a vague yet specific way the island nature of this place: that anywhere not here is over there, somewhere across the water, past our shor...

I've been thinking again lately about the visibility and invisibility of Irish art and Irish visual artists abroad – that is outside Ireland, or thar lear as the lexicon in my mind prefers to consider it…

First in a new series of occasional Art Thoughts for @rte.ie
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Art Thoughts: Is Irish visual art still overlooked overseas? Thar lear is a phrase in Irish/as gaeilge that acknowledges in a vague yet specific way the island nature of this place: that anywhere not here is over there, somewhere across the water, past our shor...

I've been thinking again lately about the visibility and invisibility of Irish art and Irish visual artists abroad – that is outside Ireland, or thar lear as the lexicon in my mind prefers to consider it…

First in a new series of occasional Art Thoughts for @rte.ie
www.rte.ie/culture/2026...

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We delighted to share the Issue 4 has arrived! Available from our shop
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Only one more week to go! We're very excited for our contributors to present their work at the launch of our competition issue, and we hope you are too. All are welcome to the official launch at Waterstones in Cork City on 17th February at 6:30pm

I loved being a collaborator on this book. Ebook fans, look at this bargain!

And me you!

Launching in February. Can’t wait to see This Time Baby in print.

Collaboration baby!! So excited to see where this brilliant anthology I’m very lucky to be part of is going next 👏👏 Huge congrats to @lindzmcleod.bsky.social and the rest of the collaboration gang. #shortstory #craft #collaborativewriting

I'm on the longlist for the British Science Fiction Association Awards TWICE this year! As editor of craft anthology An Honour and a Privilege from @stanchion.bsky.social, and also for my @apexmag.bsky.social short story, 'One by One'!

This is AWESOME 🥳 please consider voting for me!

This is absolutely incredible! The antho AN HONOUR AND A PRIVILEGE is longlisted for the BSFA awards! What an amazing project, and I'm thrilled to be a part of it.

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I loved being a collaborator on this book. Ebook fans, look at this bargain!

What brilliant news 🤩

An Honour & A Privilege | Stanchion In collaboration with eleven writers, including The Handmaid's Tale screenwriter Lynn Renee Maxcy, Sunday Times bestseller Thomas D. Lee, and Nebula/WFA finalist Eugenia Triantafyllou, award-winning a...

A ray of sunshine amongst all the doom and gloom. @lindzmcleod.bsky.social has informed me that her collaborative masterpiece An Honour & A Privilege has been longlisted for the British Science Fiction awards! A huge achievement for all of the authors involved.

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For anyone interested in short story writing, collaborative short story writing, or collaborative writing - a craft book unlike any other ✅

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We're excited to announce the cover for Issue 4 of The Four Faced Liar, our competition issue, with artwork by the wonderful Jenny Lawlor!

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This author portrait is by the great @conorhorgan.bsky.social 📸

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Cristín Leach's "This Time Baby" was selected by judge Roisín O'Donnell as the Runner Up in the short story category. Read more below about Cristín, and check out @cristinleach on Instagram and @cristinleach.bsky.social for more of her work

For anyone interested in short story writing, collaborative short story writing, or collaborative writing - a craft book unlike any other ✅

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Three Castles Burning: From Ten Till Dusk: 200 Years of the RHA (with Cristín Leach) 2023 marks the 200th anniversary of the Royal Hibernian Academy, an institution which has moved across the Liffey owing to the flames of Easter Week, and which has championed the visual arts through a...

I don’t know if you’ve heard this Niamh, but for insight into how and why I wrote the book the way I did, this is a great episode of Three Castles Burning podcast from the always brilliant @donalfallon.bsky.social Good Chtistmas listening! threecastlesburning.libsyn.com/from-ten-til...

One of my favourite things that happened this year is that my ‘Forest Memories’ from 2021 got a new outing among the trees in Peru 😮 🍃 🔊

I love that this book is still finding readers. It declares its unorthodox, experimental intentions from the start and it’s really not what you think it might be. @rha-arts.bsky.social #FromTenTillDusk

With an introduction by Dr Graham Robert Scott. And I’ve just re-located @jduckwriter.bsky.social and @melisfluous.bsky.social here 👏

Available from publishers @stanchion.bsky.social

#AHAAP @lindzmcleod.bsky.social

11 short stories, PLUS how we did it 👏 @lindzmcleod.bsky.social @sarahillswrites.bsky.social @eapetricone.bsky.social @sagetyrtle.bsky.social @thomasdlee.bsky.social @foxesandroses.bsky.social Jonathan Duckworth @lynnreneemaxcy.bsky.social @pegahouji.bsky.social Melissa Ren @pegasusunder.bsky.social

Book on a bookshelf

Finally read ‘From Ten Till Dusk’ by @cristinleach.bsky.social - a most interesting perspective on Irish art, art writing, & art institutions in Ireland - beautifully designed by Oonagh Young.

Thank you!