Ceallaigh's Blog
The traditional Scottish Gaelic milling group I sing with, An Cliath Clis, will be recording its second live CD at the annual An Cliath Clis milling frolic in late April. I'll be singing two songs for the CD, Alasdair Mhic Cholla and Coisich a Rùin. The CDs will be $20 each, and they'll be as close as you can get to authentic Gaelic song without passing the cloth yourself.
It also looks like I'll be offering a presentation about the preservation/revival of Gaelic in Nova Scotia at the Celtic Gathering Canada 2011 in Mansfield, Ontario. I delivered two presentations at the first Celtic gathering two years ago; a survey of Celtic languages and a bodhrán workshop.
UPDATE: Pentacle Magazine hasn't updated its web site since Autumn 2010, and its editor hasn't responded to my query about this piece, so I have withdrawn it and submitted elsewhere.
I'm pleased to announce that my article, "Blood Rites: The Case Against Animal Sacrifice" will appear in a forthcoming issue of Pentacle Magazine. The article is a polemic against the practice of food-based, ritual animal slaughter in Paganism.
I am delighted to announce that my poem "A Path Without Bones", which was published in the Spring Equinox 2010 edition of Eternal Haunted Summer, has been nominated for the 2011 Rhysling Award.
This is my first Rhysling Award nomination, and I couldn't possibly be happier about it. My thanks to Rebecca Buchanan, editor of Eternal Haunted Summer, for giving this poem a voice.
Rebecca Buchanan of Eternal Haunted Summer was kind enough to interview me for the Winter Solstice 2010 edition of the journal. That interview is available online now.
This marks the end of my publication year, which was again somewhat sparse, not because I'm not selling anything, but because I'm not writing anything short. The novel is close to completion, however, and my hope is that next year, I'll be able to list that sale at year's end. In the meantime, here's what I published in 2010:
Articles
"The Motif of Sovereignty in Irish Poetry." Aontacht 3.2. September 2010.
As a result of an internal error in moving my e-mail account from one web host to another on November 13th, I temporarily lost the ability to receive mail on the csm (at) csmaccath (dot) com account. If you tried to send e-mail to me on that account between November 13th and November 17th, I did not receive it and ask that you please re-send it. Thank you.
I'll be singing with An Cliath Clis on Thursday, November 25th at Citadel High's 4th Annual Céilidh in Halifax.
I have resigned as poetry editor of Aontacht, effective today. Please direct any poetry submissions for that magazine to aontacht (at) druidicdawn.org.
Aontacht Volume 3 Issue 2 is now available for download at the Aontacht web site.
My poem "Leviathans" is up at Strange Horizons.
I have just learned that the critically-acclaimed speculative fiction magazine Murky Depths has won the 2010 British Fantasy Award for Best Magazine/Periodical. Congratulations to Terry Martin, the whole editorial crew and all the artists and writers who contributed to this success.
Which would include...
Me! My epistolary short story "The Longest Road in the Universe" was published in the magazine last year, so of course I am especially excited to hear about this award (Incidentally, that publication marked the first time my name ever appeared on the cover of anything too, so...like...SHAZAAM!)