Nobody Prepares You For The Sheer Horror That Is The Last Month Of Your PhD

Nobody prepares you for the sheer horror that is the last month of your PhD

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3 years ago
The 2022 Discoveries shortlist! - Women's Prize for Fiction
Women's Prize for Fiction
We are delighted to introduce you to the writers on the Discoveries 2022 shortlist. The Discoveries programme, run by the...

So shocked and unbelievably delighted to be shortlisted for the Women's Prize for Fiction's Discoveries 2022 Award!!!


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2 years ago

Achilles

I

To them I am the brute not the lover

The raging king’s hound, his gold spear – death’s kiss

Was this the way, was there no other?

II

History, prayèrs did try to cover –

Those violent delights, and that violent bliss

- To them I am the brute not the lover.

III

Yet, if time would but only uncover

Those extra curves of your smiles that they miss – I miss.

Was this the way – was there no other?

IV

If the Prince of Troy did not hover over

My mind and your ghost – in debt to the Styx –

To them I am the brute not the lover!

V

They forget romeo, the pre-mover;

Was it for this you died, was it for this?

Alas, I am the brute. Not your lover.

Was this the way? Was there no other?

"Achilles" by Sadbh Kellett. First published in The Attic XX, 2017.


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2 years ago
Away with the Fairies: Irish Folklore and Fin-De-Siècle Motherhood in Katharine Tynan’s Ballads and Lyrics (1891) - Irish Women's Writing (1
Irish Women's Writing (1880-1920) Network
Sadbh Kellett, University of St. Andrews  The Irish writer Katharine Tynan was remarkable in her personal and literary embodiment of the ‘Ne

A blogpost I wrote last year on such an underrated Irish writer!


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3 months ago

A very happy publication day to my fellow Disco writer, the wonderful Emma van Straaten! This Immaculate Body is available now in a bookstore near you.


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2 years ago
Morning Coffee 2022
sonderlit.com
The Morning Coffee Writing Competition was created in association with Sonder Magazine in 2020 to fundraise for the Dublin Rape Crisis Centr

I've loved being involved with the Morning Coffee Writing Competition this summer and today is our final day for submissions (we close at midnight Dublin time). If you have a 500-1000 word story up your sleeve or would simply like to donate, you can do so via this link. All proceeds go to the Dublin Rape Crisis Centre and the winner will receive 200€ + publication in the next issue of Sonder Magazine!


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Sadbh Kellett

Irish writer and academic. Sí/í. Literary agent ~ Sabhbh Curran, Curtis Brown Books 

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