Kate Sheehan-Finn

Away in #Wales for a few days with my other half.

📸 my own: Sunset from our accommodation

#TimeOut

I’m making slow progress, learning as I write. But this is also happening (see photo) and I’m also working on a new historical novel. #AmWriting #HNS2026 #HistoricalFiction

Friday afternoon vibes radiate from our young cat 🐈‍⬛ - Maple’s snooze 💤 time approaches.
#Caturday #Cats #FridayFeeling

Huge congratulations
to Rachel McLaughlin. The UNWP is an excellent program and I can't wait to see where your journey takes you. Congratulations also to the runners up.

I'm writing about the women who wore these Roman shoes now Vindolanda Roman fort’s museum.
Thousands of shoes have been recovered from anoxic damp conditions below later Roman forts. Most date late 1st to early decades of 2nd C AD, with exceptions from later Roman ditches.
#archaeology #amwriting

I liked it when I was there.

On #WorldBookDay pick up a real book from a bookshop.
Then sit down and read for a while.

Allow a storyteller bring you into the world they’ve created.
Meet the people the writer wants you to care about.

And forget your troubles for a while, big and small.

We need stories.

#AmReading #Booksky

A beautiful twisted design, gold bracelet with decorative animal head finials, dates from the late 4th C - early 3rd C BCE, from Taranto, Apulia, and now in Taranto Archaeological Museum.

Love this gorgeous thing.

#Archaeology #Italy
📸 my own

The dying of this glorious Spring day was spectacular.

This is about an hour after sunset. And the pinkish light is cast by dust from the Sahara desert which paints the skies in March.

📸 my own, #Northumberland,
#weather, #writinglife #photography

I’m writing a bunch of scenes set in a Roman amphitheatre this week.

It’s brilliant to be able to draw on my own experiences in Rome last October and use my photos and notes made at the time to recall the special details that bring a scene to life.

#AmWriting #HistFic #BookSky #WritingLife

Spring is in the air,
My new #Mslexia mag is here.

Worst rhyming couplet ever, but I’m greatly cheered to have this to enjoy.

#WritingLife #WriteSky

Thank you so much 😊

Impostor syndrome, self-doubt and the alchemy of belonging – Jericho Writers So… perhaps you are thinking about enrolling on a Jericho Writers course – the Ultimate Novel Writing Programme, for example. You’re considering how the logistics would work, realising you can make it...

jerichowriters.com/impostor-syn...
Maybe you were the bursary winner for this year; maybe you're thinking of applying - still time - and either way, this is for you. More broadly, remember that doubt is a function of your intellect and to doubt is part of creativity. Just don't let it stall youx

I'm writing about the women who wore these Roman shoes now Vindolanda Roman fort’s museum.
Thousands of shoes have been recovered from anoxic damp conditions below later Roman forts. Most date late 1st to early decades of 2nd C AD, with exceptions from later Roman ditches.
#archaeology #amwriting

Beyond The Spectrum Taster Session on 9th March via Zoom - Literature Works A one-off Beyond The Spectrum taster session, delivered in collaboration with Literature Works, offers writers in the south west the chance to experience what it's like to join a BTS writing group. Le...

Next Monday 9th March! Free online creative writing workshop for neurodivergent writers. More info and sign up here: literatureworks.org.uk/beyond-the-s...

Thank you so much 😊

Very excited that my novel is shortlisted in the Adventure Category of The First Chapters Competition organised by @histnovsoc.bsky.social.

Congratulations to all those on the shortlists. And good luck in the next stages.

#hns2026 #histfic #historicalfiction #amwriting

Mosaic of the months depicting March, Coin and sculptures of Mars god of war

Mosaic of the months depicting March, Coin and sculptures of Mars god of war

Mosaic of the months depicting March, Coin and sculptures of Mars god of war

Mosaic of the months depicting March, Coin and sculptures of Mars god of war

Happy #March — or mensis Martius!
The #Kalends of March marked the original #Roman New Year. The sacred fire was renewed 🔥 and the farming, sailing & military seasons began.
Named for #Mars, god of war & legendary father of Romulus & Remus, making him a divine ancestor of the Roman people.

If there’s chaos in the Middle East, and everyone is glued to the unfolding situation, and everyone is talking about it, then what is everybody ignoring?

Happy St. David’s Day to all my Welsh friends.

And Happy Spring to everyone.

#StDavidsDay #1stMarch

Thanks so much to the judges who have selected my novel in progress for the Historical Adventure category in the #HNSFirstChaptersCompetition.

#Manumission is set in the years following the global pandemic that ancient historians call the Antonine pandemic.

#HNS2026 #AmWriting #HistoricalFiction

A little bit about my historical novel in progress, #Manumission.

#HNS2026 #HNSFirstChaptersCompetition #AmWriting #HistoricalFiction.

If the price of oil skyrockets because of chaos in the Middle East who benefits?

Congratulations 🥳

Congratulations 🙌

Thank you 🤩

A little bit about my historical novel in progress, #Manumission.

#HNS2026 #HNSFirstChaptersCompetition #AmWriting #HistoricalFiction.

Thanks so much to the judges who have selected my novel in progress for the Historical Adventure category in the #HNSFirstChaptersCompetition.

#Manumission is set in the years following the global pandemic that ancient historians call the Antonine pandemic.

#HNS2026 #AmWriting #HistoricalFiction

A selection of #Roman ridged glass bowls, all made about 2000 years ago - but still looking fantastic! #AncientBlueSky