Sean Carlson
@sean-carlson.bsky.social
work: independent projects
writing: family memoir of migration
upcoming: @bulbculture.bsky.social, @catamaranlit.bsky.social, @independent.ie, @newenglandreview.bsky.social
(Rhode Island / Co. Kerry)
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writing: family memoir of migration
upcoming: @bulbculture.bsky.social, @catamaranlit.bsky.social, @independent.ie, @newenglandreview.bsky.social
(Rhode Island / Co. Kerry)
subscribe? https://seancarlson.substack.com/
Really hoping you'll all read my new essay, "Painting the Last Photograph," coming soon in @newenglandreview.bsky.social.
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December 4, 2025 at 3:12 PM
Really hoping you'll all read my new essay, "Painting the Last Photograph," coming soon in @newenglandreview.bsky.social.
Only in print ($22/issue), a full-year U.S. subscription is *today* "Pay What You Can" ($7, $10, $18, $25, or $38):
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If in Ireland, pick up today's @independent.ie where my poem "Elegant Spring" is this month's New Irish Writing selection! www.independent.ie/entertainmen...
New Irish Writing: Poetry by Seán Carlson
Seán is working on his first book, a family memoir of migration. His writing has appeared in the Boston Globe, the Irish Times, the New York Times, RTÉ Radio 1 and elsewhere. His poem, California Redw...
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November 29, 2025 at 5:45 PM
If in Ireland, pick up today's @independent.ie where my poem "Elegant Spring" is this month's New Irish Writing selection! www.independent.ie/entertainmen...
When I went to a doom show and a physics lecture broke out. My bit on Earth and Stebmo playing Machines with Magnets. (Plus, a new album due out next year.) motifri.com/resonant-osc...
November 25, 2025 at 9:16 PM
When I went to a doom show and a physics lecture broke out. My bit on Earth and Stebmo playing Machines with Magnets. (Plus, a new album due out next year.) motifri.com/resonant-osc...
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The print edition of NER 46.3-4 is on its way to subscribers and part one of our online preview is now live! Featuring 58 authors & translators—half of whom have yet to publish a book—you don't want to miss this double issue.
Experience the online preview & subscribe: nereview.com/issue/vol-46...
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November 17, 2025 at 4:38 PM
The print edition of NER 46.3-4 is on its way to subscribers and part one of our online preview is now live! Featuring 58 authors & translators—half of whom have yet to publish a book—you don't want to miss this double issue.
Experience the online preview & subscribe: nereview.com/issue/vol-46...
Experience the online preview & subscribe: nereview.com/issue/vol-46...
New essay of mine coming soon in this beautiful issue!
Our forthcoming Fall/Winter issue is now at the printer and sits at a whopping 392 pages, half of which is dedicated to emerging writers and translators. Featuring new work by Devon Walker-Figueroa, Bruce Snider, Cianga, & more.
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November 7, 2025 at 8:38 PM
New essay of mine coming soon in this beautiful issue!
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Ahead of International Day to End Impunity for Crimes Against Journalists 2025, CPJ recognizes five emblematic cases to underscore how elusive the path to justice is for journalists, and the tragic impact of their killings. cpj.org/2025/10/we-c...
#EndImpunity #TruthNeverDies
#EndImpunity #TruthNeverDies
October 30, 2025 at 1:04 PM
Ahead of International Day to End Impunity for Crimes Against Journalists 2025, CPJ recognizes five emblematic cases to underscore how elusive the path to justice is for journalists, and the tragic impact of their killings. cpj.org/2025/10/we-c...
#EndImpunity #TruthNeverDies
#EndImpunity #TruthNeverDies
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☀️ We may have taken some time off this summer, but the Split Lip FAM never stops producing work! Check out the Summer/Early Fall Roundup of FAM accomplishments!🍁
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October 17, 2025 at 3:35 PM
☀️ We may have taken some time off this summer, but the Split Lip FAM never stops producing work! Check out the Summer/Early Fall Roundup of FAM accomplishments!🍁
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After years of reading the great literary magazine, Crannóg, I simply could not be more thrilled to have a poem of my own in this gorgeous new issue (No. 63), now available to order (€10 + shipping) through crannogmagazine.com.
September 24, 2025 at 6:00 PM
After years of reading the great literary magazine, Crannóg, I simply could not be more thrilled to have a poem of my own in this gorgeous new issue (No. 63), now available to order (€10 + shipping) through crannogmagazine.com.
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NBCC member Sean Carlson reviewed Oona Frawley's essay collection "This Interim Time" for The Common's monthly "What We're Reading" series:
What We’re Reading: July 2025
SEÁN CARLSON <br> Frawley revisits memory to anchor her love and affection for each of her parents as she knew them. With precision and tenderness, she flits between their real and imagined pasts,…
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July 24, 2025 at 4:05 PM
NBCC member Sean Carlson reviewed Oona Frawley's essay collection "This Interim Time" for The Common's monthly "What We're Reading" series:
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NBCC member Sean Carlson wrote an essay about music, memory, and aging anchored around the late-’70s punk band The Undertones for The Missouri Review: buff.ly/EoJtUrt
July 25, 2025 at 4:03 PM
NBCC member Sean Carlson wrote an essay about music, memory, and aging anchored around the late-’70s punk band The Undertones for The Missouri Review: buff.ly/EoJtUrt
Here comes the summer! My essay, "Teenage Kicks," on music, discovery, and memory, anchored around The Undertones, is out now in the latest Missouri Review!
Opening excerpt here: missourireview.com/article/teen...
Full article in print and via Project MUSE here: muse.jhu.edu/pub/48/artic...
Opening excerpt here: missourireview.com/article/teen...
Full article in print and via Project MUSE here: muse.jhu.edu/pub/48/artic...
July 19, 2025 at 7:58 AM
Here comes the summer! My essay, "Teenage Kicks," on music, discovery, and memory, anchored around The Undertones, is out now in the latest Missouri Review!
Opening excerpt here: missourireview.com/article/teen...
Full article in print and via Project MUSE here: muse.jhu.edu/pub/48/artic...
Opening excerpt here: missourireview.com/article/teen...
Full article in print and via Project MUSE here: muse.jhu.edu/pub/48/artic...
New writing in the Missouri Review, @commonmag.bsky.social, and @rteradio1.bsky.social: An essay on The Undertones, a review of Oona Frawley’s This Interim Time, and a debut short story, "Cricklewood" - my latest newsletter: seancarlson.substack.com/p/new-writin...
New writing in the Missouri Review, the Common, and RTÉ Radio 1
An essay on The Undertones, a review of Oona Frawley’s This Interim Time, and a debut short story, "Cricklewood"
seancarlson.substack.com
July 19, 2025 at 7:35 AM
New writing in the Missouri Review, @commonmag.bsky.social, and @rteradio1.bsky.social: An essay on The Undertones, a review of Oona Frawley’s This Interim Time, and a debut short story, "Cricklewood" - my latest newsletter: seancarlson.substack.com/p/new-writin...
What a treat to read and recommend Oona Frawley's achingly gorgeous new essay collection This Interim Time for @commonmag.bsky.social's "What We're Reading" series: www.thecommononline.org/what-were-re...
What We’re Reading: July 2025
SEÁN CARLSON <br> Frawley revisits memory to anchor her love and affection for each of her parents as she knew them. With precision and tenderness, she flits between their real and imagined pasts, her...
www.thecommononline.org
July 18, 2025 at 12:51 PM
What a treat to read and recommend Oona Frawley's achingly gorgeous new essay collection This Interim Time for @commonmag.bsky.social's "What We're Reading" series: www.thecommononline.org/what-were-re...
I'll share a link once my essay, "Teenage Kicks," is live online, but if you'd appreciate the print edition, you can now order the summer issue of the Missouri Review here! secure.touchnet.net/C20067_ustor...
July 17, 2025 at 8:10 PM
I'll share a link once my essay, "Teenage Kicks," is live online, but if you'd appreciate the print edition, you can now order the summer issue of the Missouri Review here! secure.touchnet.net/C20067_ustor...
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Just caught with this gorgeous ep of The Prompt ‘Shoes’ three wonderful pieces. @seancarlsen.bsky.social @zoecomyns.bsky.social loved Cricklewood Seán, lived there in the early 90s.
Listen to my short story "Cricklewood" now via the RTÉ Player. Honored to be featured alongside such resonant contributions from Sara Keating and Róisín Leggett Bohan. www.rte.ie/radio/radio1...
Shoes
Guest Writer: Belinda McKeon New writing by: Sara Keating, Róisín Leggett Bohan, Seán Carlson
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July 9, 2025 at 2:31 PM
Just caught with this gorgeous ep of The Prompt ‘Shoes’ three wonderful pieces. @seancarlsen.bsky.social @zoecomyns.bsky.social loved Cricklewood Seán, lived there in the early 90s.
Today! Listen in from 7:30-8:00 p.m. on RTÉ Radio 1:
July 6, 2025 at 8:12 AM
Today! Listen in from 7:30-8:00 p.m. on RTÉ Radio 1:
Tomorrow! Tune in to @wearetheprompt.bsky.social on @rteradio1.bsky.social: www.rte.ie/culture/2025...
The Prompt: Trying on 'shoes' with author Belinda McKeon
This week on The Prompt on RTÉ Radio 1, guest writer Belinda McKeon's writing prompt is 'shoes'.
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July 5, 2025 at 3:12 PM
Tomorrow! Tune in to @wearetheprompt.bsky.social on @rteradio1.bsky.social: www.rte.ie/culture/2025...
"And in every case, the answer was not less journalism — but more."
“To journalists in the U.S., I say this: Do not wait for repression to arrive in its most visible form. The playbook has changed,” writes CPJ’s Americas Regional Director José Zamora, for the Center of News, Technology, and Innovation.
Read more:
Read more:
A Letter from Guatemala
My father has spent over 1,050 days arbitrarily detained in Guatemala for his reporting.
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July 3, 2025 at 10:32 AM
"And in every case, the answer was not less journalism — but more."
This week is the week:
My debut work of fiction, a short story titled "Cricklewood," will air on RTÉ Radio 1's @wearetheprompt.bsky.social at 7:30 p.m. this coming Sunday, July 6th.
Hope you can listen in! Or come join us here in Listowel!
My debut work of fiction, a short story titled "Cricklewood," will air on RTÉ Radio 1's @wearetheprompt.bsky.social at 7:30 p.m. this coming Sunday, July 6th.
Hope you can listen in! Or come join us here in Listowel!
June 30, 2025 at 11:20 AM
This week is the week:
My debut work of fiction, a short story titled "Cricklewood," will air on RTÉ Radio 1's @wearetheprompt.bsky.social at 7:30 p.m. this coming Sunday, July 6th.
Hope you can listen in! Or come join us here in Listowel!
My debut work of fiction, a short story titled "Cricklewood," will air on RTÉ Radio 1's @wearetheprompt.bsky.social at 7:30 p.m. this coming Sunday, July 6th.
Hope you can listen in! Or come join us here in Listowel!
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Congrats are in order! Both contributor @sean-carlson.bsky.social and contributor Lauren Hunt received the 2025 St. Botolph Club Foundation Emerging Artist Award for Literature 👏
June 19, 2025 at 3:35 PM
Congrats are in order! Both contributor @sean-carlson.bsky.social and contributor Lauren Hunt received the 2025 St. Botolph Club Foundation Emerging Artist Award for Literature 👏
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NBCC member Sean Carlson received a 2025 St. Botolph Club Foundation Emerging Artist Award for Literature:
Emerging Artist Award – St. Botolph Club Foundation
The Emerging Artist Award
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June 6, 2025 at 5:43 PM
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I'm in awe to be included in this lineup: My first work of fiction, a short story titled "Cricklewood," will air on Irish national radio @rteradio1.bsky.social this summer — on Sunday, July 6th — as part of a new series, @wearetheprompt.bsky.social, presented by @zoecomyns.bsky.social!
May 24, 2025 at 8:15 PM
I'm in awe to be included in this lineup: My first work of fiction, a short story titled "Cricklewood," will air on Irish national radio @rteradio1.bsky.social this summer — on Sunday, July 6th — as part of a new series, @wearetheprompt.bsky.social, presented by @zoecomyns.bsky.social!
Sometimes we could all use a living-room show with a toy dinosaur bubble machine. My little essay / review on Mirah's recent @undertowmusic.bsky.social stop in Providence: motifri.com/the-changing...
The Changing Light of Mirah: Singer-songwriter reinforces hope at a house show in Providence - Motif
Mirah’s second full-length, Advisory Committee (K Records, 2002), came out during the spring of my freshman year at Boston University. While the album’s title perhaps suggested some homage to academia...
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May 14, 2025 at 8:24 PM
Sometimes we could all use a living-room show with a toy dinosaur bubble machine. My little essay / review on Mirah's recent @undertowmusic.bsky.social stop in Providence: motifri.com/the-changing...
Congratulations to @gphibbett.bsky.social on receiving the 2025 John Pollard Foundation International Poetry Prize!
@sean-carlson.bsky.social interviews @erinfornoff.bsky.social and @gphibbett.bsky.social in this interview at a literary fest in County Kerry, Ireland.
Home and/or Home: Seán Carlson Interviews Erin Fornoff and Gustav Parker Hibbett
ERIN FORNOFF<br>You sometimes have to modulate these stories from home. Like, I would be at the pub, talking to Irish people, and mention that my childhood dog got killed by a bear. And it was just…
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May 9, 2025 at 2:36 PM
Congratulations to @gphibbett.bsky.social on receiving the 2025 John Pollard Foundation International Poetry Prize!