Literary Twitterati: from immortalisation to freedom of expression

Our weekly round-up of tweets from the book world

As I hack away at my own prose this morning, I think that the three writers I want to and don't resemble are Jean Rhys Amos Oz and WG Sebald

Do you want to be immortalised in fiction?? <a href="http://t.co/ngqoBVKQFz">http://t.co/ngqoBVKQFz</a>

Dinner and Masterclass with Richard Ford added to prizes for Sean Ó Faolain winner. Deadline is Friday. <a href="https://twitter.com/MunLitCentre">@MunLitCentre</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/CorkEveningEcho">@CorkEveningEcho</a>

Photograph: Thinkstock
Photograph: Thinkstock

Come join the Penny Dreadful team this Sunday at 2pm at the Quarter Festival. <a href="https://twitter.com/QuarterCork">@QuarterCork</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/TriskelCork">@TriskelCork</a> <a href="http://t.co/J2btQfxdaF">pic.twitter.com/J2btQfxdaF</a>

Kevin Barry's 2012 <a href="https://twitter.com/NewYorker">@NewYorker</a> story 'Ox Mountain Death Song' <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/shortstorysunday?src=hash">#shortstorysunday</a> <a href="http://t.co/kbZSaAfzv9">http://t.co/kbZSaAfzv9</a>

'To be a writer you need a thick skin.' True. But the bummer is that to write well in the first place you need to be a hypersensitive wreck.

RIP Paddy Finnegan, poet and true <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/Dublin?src=hash">#Dublin</a> character. <a href="http://t.co/xabLv7agul">pic.twitter.com/xabLv7agul</a>

I spill the beans on my 25 year love affair with Sinead O'Connor in today's <a href="https://twitter.com/IrishTimes">@IrishTimes</a>. <a href="http://t.co/vH9IOlHlcW">http://t.co/vH9IOlHlcW</a>

Now's the time to support <a href="https://twitter.com/PENCanada">@PENCanada</a>, faced w. a punishing audit by <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/HarperConservatives?src=hash">#HarperConservatives</a>. Why does freedom of expression threaten them?