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Last performance of the day at Moore Street Market! The Grannies continue their tour for #Bealtaine2023 ... Curated by Dani Gill

Age & Opportunity 🌈
The Arts Council / An Chomhairle Ealaíon
HSE Ireland

Love my Friday post. Thank you Dani Gill

Great event with @AliceEKinsella and Sophie White Linenhall Arts Centre this eve chaired by Una Mannion #milk #motherhood #women #writing #books Picador Books Tramp Press Hachette Ireland

Last night's Arena clip of poems from the new collection. Thanks everyone who listened& sent nice msgs! x Salmon Poetry RTE Arena rte.ie/radio/radio1/c…
#poetry #voice #truth #kindness #lessons

Thank you IMAGE Magazine for this!

Ahead of the publication of her second poetry collection, 'Lessons in Kindness', we caught up with curator, producer, writer, and educator Dani Gill to chat about everything from her literary influences to her own writing process.
Dani Gill
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Lessons in Kindness.

Dani Gill on creating a poetry collection about identity, vulnerability, and human connection. Thanks Sarah Gill IMAGE.ie for this wonderful piece.

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Excellent discussion about climate change 📚 Ennis Book Club Festival | March 7-9 2025 📚 with Eoghan Daltun 🌍 Harrison Gardner Eanna Ní Lamhna & Dr.Olive Heffernan #climate #ClimateCrisis #ClimateAction #Sustainability #planet #agency

One month from today from Salmon Poetry 🙌 #poetry #books #lessons #kindness #writing #booklaunch #galway #ireland

Arts orgs have seen big funding increase since COVID. And there are more bursaries and awards available. But fees and rates remain stubbornly low in the face of inflation.

Funders and employers need to consider prioritising artist pay before further expanding programme sizes.

Writers are not expecting massive fee increases overnight, only an acknowledgement that current fees and rates rarely cover the hours of work involved, and that greater efforts and policy shifts are needed by employers and funders to improve the lot of writers.

Proud to present this Writers Pay document with my colleague Brendan MacEvilly MatchintheDark Thank you to the writers who endorsed and contributed so far 🙏 #writers pay #writers #artists #artistpay #WritingCommunity #fairpay

Delighted the show of After Love returns following a run in Galway International Arts Festival August 2021. Galway tickets now onsale for April 1st at the Blackbox: tht.ie/3940/after-love

Town Hall Theatre Laura Sheeran @GalwayDanceProj #poetry #show #afterlove

Prose publishers have also been generous with info on pay.

Banshee Press
Bullaun Press
Doire Press (info coming soon)
The Lilliput Press
Little Island Books
New Island Books
Skein Press
Tramp Press (info coming soon)

are all committed to pay transparency
matchinthedark.com/saywhatyoupay/

The Dublin Book Festival has just wrapped up after a successful week of sold out events.

DBF is transparent about fees, terms and conditions for writers: dublinbookfestival.com/saywhatyoupay/

As is Ó Bhéal Poetry Festival
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Children's authors and illustrators, check out Children's Books Ireland page:

childrensbooksireland.ie/saywhatyoupay

which includes...

'event guidelines for venues'
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&
'fees and conditions guidelines' for digital events
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Hugely valuable resources!

A really thorough outline of the ways in which Skein Press work hard to pay their writers through a variety of job types and income streams:

skeinpress.com/saywhatyoupay/

Including fees of €250 plus expenses paid to their writers on launch night. This tonight MoLI – Museum of Literature Ireland

Well done to the three key poetry publishers in Ireland who have also shared their fee structures:

Salmon Poetry
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Dedalus Press
dedaluspress.com/saywhatyoupay/

The Gallery Press
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#SayWhatYouPay

Fair play to all the lit and art journals who list their rates of pay for writers ... The Pig's Back Banshee Press Winter Papers CrannogMag Sonder Magazine SEED Journal Holy Show :: print & production co. Channel & The Stinging Fly

See all at: matchinthedark.com/saywhatyoupay/