Niamh Mac Cabe
@niamhmaccabe
Writer, artist, stylite. Fair to middling spinster. Magpie apologist. Good at everything. Northwestern Ireland. Also Instagram, and X.
Aunty Sparrow and Granny Zsa Zsa keeping an eye on Pup's First Day Out
In today's Sunday Independent (Ireland), Sparrow the Golden Retriever makes her case for fame.
Nicole Flattery's 'Nothing Special', published Bloomsbury 2023, + first page of final chapter ♦️
🐦⬛Thank you! to judge Diane Seuss @dseuss.bsky.social, and editors Meg Pokrass @megpokrass.bsky.social & Gary Fincke. Thanks also to Fictive Dream's Laura Black @fictivedream.bsky.social for submitting Peor Es Nada to this great annual contest! Anthology out 7th July ✍️
This week's genius work: "All The Fierce Tethers" by essayist, poet, and artist Lia Purpura, published 2019 by Sarabande Books @sarabandebooks.bsky.social First page of first essay. ⚕️♦️
Got this collection last week from No Alibis Bookstore, Belfast's best bookshop. Am completely bowled over by it (by Pulse, yes, but also by the fabulosity of No Alibis). Last page of first story.
"It's July in April!", she quipped, unable to come up with anything clever enough to adequately capture the greatness of this novel and author.
🤩 I'm honoured to have my short story "Gate" in Coppernickel's latest, Issue No.42 (University of Colorado) 🚪💧 Cover, and last page of story:
Woke up to this wonder in today's The Irish Times. ☘️🪄🏑 @lilliputpress.bsky.social www.irishtimes.com/culture/book...
About to dive into a collection of tales by seer and all-round genius C.D. Rose @cdrose.bsky.social Here's the first page of the last tale. 🏣🏤💎🏭🏫
💫 Still glowing with postprandial bonhomie, I present to you the delightful Loren Ipsum, Andrew Gallix's latest. Publisher: Dodo Ink, 2025 @andrewgallix.bsky.social