Literary Twitterati

Our weekly round-up of recent literary happenings on Twitter

Which was the first Shakespeare play performed at the Abbey Theatre? <a href="https://twitter.com/search?q=%23Abbey110&amp;src=hash">#Abbey110</a> <a href="http://t.co/hNqXGDSgP6">http://t.co/hNqXGDSgP6</a>

Faulks, Fielding, Kureishi, Niven, J O'Connor, St Aubyn on Bollinger Everyman <a href="https://twitter.com/search?q=%23Wodehouse&amp;src=hash">#Wodehouse</a> Prize shortlist <a href="http://t.co/gkJZWBhBrD">http://t.co/gkJZWBhBrD</a>

On this day, 1940, John Steinbeck wins the the Pulitzer Prize for "The Grapes of Wrath" <a href="http://t.co/Ow4AF4aDAd">http://t.co/Ow4AF4aDAd</a> <a href="http://t.co/MKOojNiZHG">pic.twitter.com/MKOojNiZHG</a>

Photograph: Thinkstock
Photograph: Thinkstock

In case you missed it previously here is news of our Shortlists for Literary Competitions 2014 Announced <a href="http://t.co/Ah7FLzGhrg">http://t.co/Ah7FLzGhrg</a>. <a href="https://twitter.com/search?q=%23LWW2014&amp;src=hash">#LWW2014</a>

I wrote this piece about Joyce's Dubliners, and the city of Dublin a century after its publication. <a href="http://t.co/IeERHh1zoE">http://t.co/IeERHh1zoE</a>

Sunday morning, the novel is hungover and wants to be left alone in the dark for a while. But still not dead.

For anyone who's ever finished a creative project only to be asked: 'what are you doing next?' <a href="http://t.co/Q1rHNQtZJN">http://t.co/Q1rHNQtZJN</a>

I shoved an old woman down the steps and battled my way forward. Then realised this wasn't a Ryanair flight <a href="https://twitter.com/search?q=%23ApologiesAllRound&amp;src=hash">#ApologiesAllRound</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/search?q=%23SorryMissus&amp;src=hash">#SorryMissus</a>

If the alcoholic disobedient unfaithful detectives are always the ones to solve the crimes, why don't they just recruit in pubs? <a href="https://twitter.com/search?q=%23tvlife&amp;src=hash">#tvlife</a>