Cristín Leach
@cristinleach.bsky.social
Irish Writer. Art Critic. Author, art/divorce memoir Negative Space; RHA From Ten Till Dusk. Fiction, non-fiction, journalism: RTÉ Culture, Irish Arts Review, Winter Papers. Hybrid texts, collaborations. 20yrs ✍🏻 Sunday Times. https://linktr.ee/cristinleach
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Help 🙏 I’m moving into Ch2 of my PhD by PP, which focuses on the shift in practice embodied by my memoir Negative Space. If you know of any academic writing which references my work, I’d be very grateful to be pointed in its direction. @lilydunn.bsky.social @minxmarple.bsky.social please share? #phd
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Excellent, honest thread on the reality of being a writer today.
I'm not the only author I know who has a huge surfeit of ideas for books that we would love to write and send out into the world if only we had the time to write them.
November 27, 2025 at 7:31 AM
Excellent, honest thread on the reality of being a writer today.
A snippet of my Forest Memories, “I am walking on moss…” here at the start.
I've had some great contributions from Perú and think it's all going to sound so good together. One of the things I especially love is the pieces interacting with each other, as here with @cristinleach.bsky.social and unidentified others from 2021 (there are too many for me to remember at random)
November 26, 2025 at 12:43 PM
A snippet of my Forest Memories, “I am walking on moss…” here at the start.
If you are in Trujillo, Peru, please go and listen! 🔊 How wonderful to hear my voice with others among the leaves 6,000 miles from home 💚
I went to the Jardín Botánico in Trujillo yesterday to choose the trees and test the volume and range etc using audio from 2021 contributors. The Peruvian iteration of 'if trees were lone women what would they sound like' is happening this Sunday as part of the Munanqui Festival de Mujeres Artistas
November 26, 2025 at 12:41 PM
If you are in Trujillo, Peru, please go and listen! 🔊 How wonderful to hear my voice with others among the leaves 6,000 miles from home 💚
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I've had some great contributions from Perú and think it's all going to sound so good together. One of the things I especially love is the pieces interacting with each other, as here with @cristinleach.bsky.social and unidentified others from 2021 (there are too many for me to remember at random)
November 26, 2025 at 12:33 PM
I've had some great contributions from Perú and think it's all going to sound so good together. One of the things I especially love is the pieces interacting with each other, as here with @cristinleach.bsky.social and unidentified others from 2021 (there are too many for me to remember at random)
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I got to be part of this incredible, truly magical project and am thrilled to see it grow. Here's more info
sanctuarylab.org/artists-2021...
sanctuarylab.org/artists-2021...
November 24, 2025 at 12:26 AM
I got to be part of this incredible, truly magical project and am thrilled to see it grow. Here's more info
sanctuarylab.org/artists-2021...
sanctuarylab.org/artists-2021...
Agreed! Me too 🤍
How magical to be a voice in a far away forest on the day ghosts walk the earth…
Clare’s project is very dear to me and I am honored to be a part of it.
Clare’s project is very dear to me and I am honored to be a part of it.
On 30th November audio of 141 women (inclusive) first heard in 2021 in Galloway Forest, Scotland will play in the Jardín Botánico, Trujillo, Perú, building dialogue and community beyond borders and language with new audio from those living in Perú as part of the Munanqui Festival de Mujeres Artistas
November 26, 2025 at 9:43 AM
Agreed! Me too 🤍
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You'll read marvelous stories, then conversations between @lindzmcleod.bsky.social & her co-authors discussing how they collaborated to create something from whole cloth. There's never been a craft writing book like this!
STILL ON PRE-ORDER SALE!
NOW SHIPPING!
www.stanchionzine.com/product-page...
STILL ON PRE-ORDER SALE!
NOW SHIPPING!
www.stanchionzine.com/product-page...
November 25, 2025 at 3:13 PM
You'll read marvelous stories, then conversations between @lindzmcleod.bsky.social & her co-authors discussing how they collaborated to create something from whole cloth. There's never been a craft writing book like this!
STILL ON PRE-ORDER SALE!
NOW SHIPPING!
www.stanchionzine.com/product-page...
STILL ON PRE-ORDER SALE!
NOW SHIPPING!
www.stanchionzine.com/product-page...
Help 🙏 I’m moving into Ch2 of my PhD by PP, which focuses on the shift in practice embodied by my memoir Negative Space. If you know of any academic writing which references my work, I’d be very grateful to be pointed in its direction. @lilydunn.bsky.social @minxmarple.bsky.social please share? #phd
November 25, 2025 at 3:47 PM
Help 🙏 I’m moving into Ch2 of my PhD by PP, which focuses on the shift in practice embodied by my memoir Negative Space. If you know of any academic writing which references my work, I’d be very grateful to be pointed in its direction. @lilydunn.bsky.social @minxmarple.bsky.social please share? #phd
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Eeee! I'm in this #Writing craft book along with AMAZING authors like The Handmaid's Tale screenwriter Lynn Renee Maxcy, Sunday Times bestseller Thomas D. Lee, and Nebula/WFA finalist Eugenia Triantafyllou, order here!
An Honour & A Privilege arrives from the printer today! So I'll start shipping domestic pre-orders and Book Club copies tomorrow morning, ahead of next Tuesday's pub date. Get your order in now to save $2 and get a free bookmark!
www.stanchionzine.com/product-page...
@lindzmcleod.bsky.social
www.stanchionzine.com/product-page...
@lindzmcleod.bsky.social
November 24, 2025 at 9:42 PM
Eeee! I'm in this #Writing craft book along with AMAZING authors like The Handmaid's Tale screenwriter Lynn Renee Maxcy, Sunday Times bestseller Thomas D. Lee, and Nebula/WFA finalist Eugenia Triantafyllou, order here!
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If you're a writer, I'd go so far as to say it's essential reading to develop your craft, to dig deep into your characters and their emotions (as well as your own), and to go eyeball-close with your line edits!
“I would have KILLED for a book like this at university!” Lynn Renee Maxcy
Order now from @stanchion.bsky.social
www.stanchionzine.com/product-page...
Order now from @stanchion.bsky.social
www.stanchionzine.com/product-page...
November 21, 2025 at 12:42 PM
If you're a writer, I'd go so far as to say it's essential reading to develop your craft, to dig deep into your characters and their emotions (as well as your own), and to go eyeball-close with your line edits!
One of the best collaboration projects I’ve been involved in is now a BRILLIANT BOOK. For anyone interested in the craft of #writing, what we learn from #collaboration, or who just wants to read some damn good #shortstories! I’m 1 of 11 writers. Order now for 🎄 www.stanchionzine.com/product-page...
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...
www.stanchionzine.com
November 21, 2025 at 7:27 AM
One of the best collaboration projects I’ve been involved in is now a BRILLIANT BOOK. For anyone interested in the craft of #writing, what we learn from #collaboration, or who just wants to read some damn good #shortstories! I’m 1 of 11 writers. Order now for 🎄 www.stanchionzine.com/product-page...
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This is out on 2 December. Pre-orders are open now @stanchion.bsky.social
Day Two of dropping the first line of a story featured in An Honour and a Privilege, my collaborative anthology coming in December:
"An old lover once told me it was better to squeeze the toothpaste directly into my mouth. "
From 'A Hunter's Blind (2025)', this story follows an elderly & blind
"An old lover once told me it was better to squeeze the toothpaste directly into my mouth. "
From 'A Hunter's Blind (2025)', this story follows an elderly & blind
November 16, 2025 at 1:30 PM
This is out on 2 December. Pre-orders are open now @stanchion.bsky.social
This is out on 2 December. Pre-orders are open now @stanchion.bsky.social
Day Two of dropping the first line of a story featured in An Honour and a Privilege, my collaborative anthology coming in December:
"An old lover once told me it was better to squeeze the toothpaste directly into my mouth. "
From 'A Hunter's Blind (2025)', this story follows an elderly & blind
"An old lover once told me it was better to squeeze the toothpaste directly into my mouth. "
From 'A Hunter's Blind (2025)', this story follows an elderly & blind
November 16, 2025 at 1:30 PM
This is out on 2 December. Pre-orders are open now @stanchion.bsky.social
Online now with all the winning stories here: atthebay.org/sparkling-pr...
November 16, 2025 at 1:25 PM
Online now with all the winning stories here: atthebay.org/sparkling-pr...
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🙋♀️ I’m one of the eleven other (fantastic! talented! good-looking!) writers
😆😄
pre-orders open now 👏 @lindzmcleod.bsky.social
😆😄
pre-orders open now 👏 @lindzmcleod.bsky.social
I spent over a year of my life writing this collaborative craft book with eleven other (fantastic! talented! good-looking!) writers.
"Sometimes a story emerges fully formed in your mind, and sometimes it’s an onion, requiring several ‘peels’ to get to the real, eye-watering heart of the matter."
"Sometimes a story emerges fully formed in your mind, and sometimes it’s an onion, requiring several ‘peels’ to get to the real, eye-watering heart of the matter."
November 6, 2025 at 1:45 AM
🙋♀️ I’m one of the eleven other (fantastic! talented! good-looking!) writers
😆😄
pre-orders open now 👏 @lindzmcleod.bsky.social
😆😄
pre-orders open now 👏 @lindzmcleod.bsky.social
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With a little twist! Each of the eleven stories were collaboratively written by myself and one other writer, and then we wrote a non-fiction accompany piece to explain how/why we used the techniques we did, and how many drafts we did, and what worked (and what got cut, and why)
November 5, 2025 at 11:08 PM
With a little twist! Each of the eleven stories were collaboratively written by myself and one other writer, and then we wrote a non-fiction accompany piece to explain how/why we used the techniques we did, and how many drafts we did, and what worked (and what got cut, and why)
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Also, the pre-order is on sale atm! Get it while it's hot!
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...
www.stanchionzine.com
November 5, 2025 at 9:13 PM
Also, the pre-order is on sale atm! Get it while it's hot!
🙋♀️ I’m one of the eleven other (fantastic! talented! good-looking!) writers
😆😄
pre-orders open now 👏 @lindzmcleod.bsky.social
😆😄
pre-orders open now 👏 @lindzmcleod.bsky.social
I spent over a year of my life writing this collaborative craft book with eleven other (fantastic! talented! good-looking!) writers.
"Sometimes a story emerges fully formed in your mind, and sometimes it’s an onion, requiring several ‘peels’ to get to the real, eye-watering heart of the matter."
"Sometimes a story emerges fully formed in your mind, and sometimes it’s an onion, requiring several ‘peels’ to get to the real, eye-watering heart of the matter."
November 6, 2025 at 1:45 AM
🙋♀️ I’m one of the eleven other (fantastic! talented! good-looking!) writers
😆😄
pre-orders open now 👏 @lindzmcleod.bsky.social
😆😄
pre-orders open now 👏 @lindzmcleod.bsky.social
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This was a really wonderful installation to be part of in 2021. There’s a Perú update coming. If you contributed to 'if trees were lone women what would they sound like' in its Scottish iteration & haven’t seen an email from Clare, check your spam or get in touch if she’s accidentally missed you. 🔊
A picture of me alone in the dark at night crossing the Rio Seco (dry river) where I currently live in Perú. If you contributed to my 2021 sound installation for Sanctuary Lab in Galloway Forest then please check your email/spam. I would appreciate you sharing this post in case I've missed people.
October 29, 2025 at 10:48 AM
This was a really wonderful installation to be part of in 2021. There’s a Perú update coming. If you contributed to 'if trees were lone women what would they sound like' in its Scottish iteration & haven’t seen an email from Clare, check your spam or get in touch if she’s accidentally missed you. 🔊
This was a really wonderful installation to be part of in 2021. There’s a Perú update coming. If you contributed to 'if trees were lone women what would they sound like' in its Scottish iteration & haven’t seen an email from Clare, check your spam or get in touch if she’s accidentally missed you. 🔊
A picture of me alone in the dark at night crossing the Rio Seco (dry river) where I currently live in Perú. If you contributed to my 2021 sound installation for Sanctuary Lab in Galloway Forest then please check your email/spam. I would appreciate you sharing this post in case I've missed people.
October 29, 2025 at 10:48 AM
This was a really wonderful installation to be part of in 2021. There’s a Perú update coming. If you contributed to 'if trees were lone women what would they sound like' in its Scottish iteration & haven’t seen an email from Clare, check your spam or get in touch if she’s accidentally missed you. 🔊
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A picture of me alone in the dark at night crossing the Rio Seco (dry river) where I currently live in Perú. If you contributed to my 2021 sound installation for Sanctuary Lab in Galloway Forest then please check your email/spam. I would appreciate you sharing this post in case I've missed people.
October 28, 2025 at 7:54 PM
A picture of me alone in the dark at night crossing the Rio Seco (dry river) where I currently live in Perú. If you contributed to my 2021 sound installation for Sanctuary Lab in Galloway Forest then please check your email/spam. I would appreciate you sharing this post in case I've missed people.
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Candy-pink brushstrokes, in Piles of French Novels, Van Gogh, 1887
October 24, 2025 at 7:04 AM
Candy-pink brushstrokes, in Piles of French Novels, Van Gogh, 1887
Thanks so much to competition judge & brilliant Irish author Roisín O’Donnell (read her debut novel Nesting if you have not yet), for these gorgeous words about my short story, This Time Baby. Very proud of this one. Can’t wait to see it in print in @the4facedliar.bsky.social soon. Congrats to all🥈💚
October 20, 2025 at 3:57 PM
Thanks so much to competition judge & brilliant Irish author Roisín O’Donnell (read her debut novel Nesting if you have not yet), for these gorgeous words about my short story, This Time Baby. Very proud of this one. Can’t wait to see it in print in @the4facedliar.bsky.social soon. Congrats to all🥈💚
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Seeing as it's #IrishBookWeek, I've put together a Starter Pack of bricks 'n' mortar bookshops. Terrified I've forgotten someone obvious so please let me know of additions
go.bsky.app/G4kmxVq
go.bsky.app/G4kmxVq
October 18, 2025 at 5:50 PM
Seeing as it's #IrishBookWeek, I've put together a Starter Pack of bricks 'n' mortar bookshops. Terrified I've forgotten someone obvious so please let me know of additions
go.bsky.app/G4kmxVq
go.bsky.app/G4kmxVq
Bring back arranging the internet alphabetically so Art comes first. 1994 was the year I got an email address and had only one person to email. Used to sit on the floor of the lab in UCC queuing while reading a book until a computer was available. Had command instructions handwritten in a notebook.
With so much cruft on the Internet these days, wouldn't it be nice to get a little guidance?
October 19, 2025 at 10:33 PM
Bring back arranging the internet alphabetically so Art comes first. 1994 was the year I got an email address and had only one person to email. Used to sit on the floor of the lab in UCC queuing while reading a book until a computer was available. Had command instructions handwritten in a notebook.