Latest: @Salmonpoetry (poetry, à la belle étoile – the odyssey of Jeanne Baré, 2025). Arts Council funded. Mentor@MunLitCentre. africmcglinchey.com
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24 Sep 2025
I have escaped to bluesky on the same handle 🦋 bye x
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Afric McGlinchey retweeted
14 Jul 2025
We are delighted to announce the awardees of the 2025 Annaghmakerrig Residencies! 🎉
The five writers selected are:
▪️ Emily Cooper
▪️ Emer Lyons
▪️ Rosa Mäkelä
▪️ Afric McGlinchey @itosha
▪️ Nuala O’Connor @NualaNiC
irishwriterscentre.ie/opport…
ALT Image description: A blue and yellow promotional graphic featuring the headshots of five writers - Emily Cooper, Emer Lyons, Rosa Mäkelä, Afric McGlinchey and Nuala O’Connor. Image text: Annaghmakerrig Residencies 2025 Awardees
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2 Jul 2025
Ahead of my reading at De Barra's in Clonakilty on Wednesday 9th July at 8.30pm, Moze Jacobs interviewed me about my new collection. Would appreciate any listens, and also shares. And it would be lovely to see you on the 9th, if you're around! Free event.
youtube.com/watch?v=4WZg43kV…
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Afric McGlinchey retweeted
16 Jun 2025
'Jeanne’s experiences helped me reflect on my own sense of doubleness: between rootedness and restlessness, between belonging and feeling an outsider.'
Afric McGlinchey on the process of writing À la belle étoile: the odyssey of Jeanne Baré.
writing.ie/interviews/odysse…
@itosha
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3 May 2025
Ditto Ruth, and wish I could be there!
2 May 2025
Looking forward to seeing this mighty anthology launch tomorrow at @Strokestownpoem. Delighted to have a poem in the mix. Huge thanks due to @ArlenHouse and @NualaNiC.
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Afric McGlinchey retweeted
27 Apr 2025
2025 Festival Workshop Submission Deadline extended.Please send two poems – 40 lines or less – to sipfestivaldirector@gmail.com by Wednesday, 30th April to reserve your place. More info. strokestownpoetryfest.ie @poetryireland @IrishWritersCtr @RoscommonPeople @roscommoncoco
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28 Apr 2025
Congrats Seán. Looking forward to reading Open, Heaven.
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28 Apr 2025
Thanks to William Wall, for including a poem of mine on Italian radio.
26 Apr 2025
Diario d'Irlanda — Sabato #26aprile, alle 14, su
@radiondadurto:
🗒 Attualità da Nord e Sud.
Intervista al regista @alessandroneg11, da Derry.
Una poesia di Afric McGlinchey, @itosha, letta dall'autrice e commentata da William Wall.
📻 Su FM e sul web lapolvere.radiondadurto.org
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17 Apr 2025
Publication day for my new collection, À la belle étoile –the odyssey of Jeanne Baré! More details, and a few poems, here: salmonpoetry.com/details.php…
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12 Feb 2025
This debut collection of short stories by Maggie Armstrong (published by Tramp,s o you can expect good things) is, as the reviewer puts it, 'dark snark'. If you want to learn how to write about your shadow side, here's a master class. thefallenlibrarian.wordpress…
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23 Jan 2025
Looking forward to being part of this lovely festival.
22 Jan 2025
It's wonderful to see this literary festival back again with such a great line-up. Always brilliant yet intimate. #Limerick #literaryfestival
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21 Jan 2025
'Fiction is the art form of human yearning.' Robert Olen Butler
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Afric McGlinchey retweeted
25 Oct 2024
It was my recent privilege to be in discussion with one of our greatest writers and consciences, @fotoole, at the Hannah Arendt Center's conference. This is extraordinary. youtube.com/watch?v=tP0JbEe4…
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Afric McGlinchey retweeted
17 Dec 2024
With xmas in mind, here are some books I've recently (re-read), some for private pleasure, some because of teaching etc. I'm never not reading Pnin.
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Afric McGlinchey retweeted
18 Dec 2024
Southword opens for poetry and fiction submissions on the 1st of January 2024!
More details so you can prepare can be found at munsterlit.ie
#southword #submissions #poetryandfictionwriting
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13 Dec 2024
Tonight, Friday 13th December, in Kinsale! We'd love to see you there.
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Afric McGlinchey retweeted
26 Nov 2024
All of us at the Munster Literature were saddened at the news of the passing of the poet Judith Mok.
Our thoughts are with her husband Michael O’Loughlin and daughter Saar.
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Afric McGlinchey retweeted
23 Nov 2024
❛There should be a privacy and a measure of mystique to the work. Because it’s a special activity, poetry. There are things we don’t understand, philosophical things. I think of poetry as connecting with those things. Ideally. Maybe.
Irish poet Derek Mahon, born #OTD in 1941.
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