Pick of the day
The Doom-Seeing Eyes of McGloin
Posted by sean mcnulty on Fri, 17 Oct 2025
‘I’ve been contacted by a chap named Clifton, an art historian, a bit of a name – have you heard of him?’
‘Yes,’ said Oran. ‘He’s always on the news when they’ve installed a new commode somewhere.’
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Finding Fionnuala
Posted by Turlough on Wed, 15 Oct 2025
Dallying in Donegal and dabbling a bit in Derry. The first of a fair few parts.Read morePoem of the week
mother hill
Posted by JupiterMoon on Sun, 12 Oct 2025
mother hill
your soundless
fathomless age
reigns here
shivering sides
consistently giving
a little away –
a previous road
lost to your flank
having tackled your side
goat-like
sweating and impudent
i stop
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Story and Poem of the Week and Inspiration Point
Posted by onemorething:
Our Story of the Week is Turlough's wonderful Finding Fionnuala. It's a fabulous read. https://www.abctales.com/story/turlough/finding-fionnuala
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Poetry Book Awards Children's Poetry Prize
I am delighted to announce that our very own Catherine Poarch is the winner of the inaugural Children's Poetry Prize from the Poetry Book Awards!
You can read all about it here:
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Our Story and Poem of the Month for September, very kindly chosen by Ewan:
Pick of the Month
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Circulaire by Bex Hainsworth : Review and Link to Buy
I am delighted to announce that Bex Hainsworth (our very own Mistaken Magic)'s Circulaire is out now and available to order from the link below, along with a review by marandina;
Firstly an introduction by Bex herself:
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Want to join ABCTales?
We've had to suspend the automatic joining facility for a while so if you would like to join us please email
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Posting From Your Android Phone - Fixed!
Some of you have been having issues with posting your work using an android phone. Ewan and John our techie have been working really hard to fix this.
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Picks of the Month
Welsh Lessons-1
Posted by Ivan the OK-ish on Mon, 29 Sep 2025
WELSH LESSONS
April 1975, on the waste ground where the old abattoir used to be
“S’mae?”
“Sorry, don’t speak Welsh.”
“Just means ‘How’s things? We all say it here.”
“You Welsh?”
“No. But I’ve lived here almost all my life. I’m Nicholas…Nick, by the way. You’re Janice?”
“Guess everybody in the village knows that. Are we the first in this place?”
“First what?”
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