Sylvia Leatham

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Award-winning author. Debut spec-fic romcom ‘Chaos Theory’ with Storm Publishing. Rep’ed by Liverpool Lit. Silver at Farnham Lit Audiobook Awards; SL'ed for The Letter Review, Watson Little Indie Novella; LL’ed for Mslexia. https://linktr.ee/SylviaLeatham

Outline of a bird drawn in dust on a window of a construction site.
Movie poster for the film Eddington.
Enormous pale pink balloon sword. Canal in background.
A box with the words “Inflatable dartboard” on it.
Woman (me) in a straw sunhat. Next to a sign that reads Irish Writers Centre.
Box of Skechers shoes advertising “no more bending” and “hands free slip-ins”.
Picture in THE IRISH TIMES of a man leaning against a wall reading a book. Caption reads: Patrick Freyne ear O'Connell Bridge which he references in his new book Experts in a Dying Field. Photograph: Bryan O'Brien/The Irish Times
Instagram post says: PUBLISHING IRELAND THE EDITOR'S NEW TOOLKIT: APPLIED AI FOR PUBLISHING A PRACTICAL INTRODUCTION TO USING AI WITH MARY STUART 23 JUNE 2026 9:30-12:30 ONLINE publishing_ireland Join The Editor's New Toolkit: Applied Al for Publishing, a practical half-day course designed for publishing professionals who want to understand where Al can support the editorial process, from commissioning and development through to proofing and final files. Led by Mary Stuart, an expert in digital transformation and Al-enhanced publishing workflows, this course explores: # What Al is (and isn't) + Ethical, legal and copyright considerations
An abandoned grey jumper hangs on a railing near traffic lights.
Sign on a building reads “Oops! Hostel”.
Movie flyer promoting the original Dune movie.
Metro sign listing stations. One is called Manufacture des Gobelins.
Wrecked-looking pigeon on a windowsill, next to old French fries, one of which is half-blue for some reason.
A woman with an overactive imagination in a straw hat. Digital sign for Dublin Airport in background.
Weather Forecast app showing 32 degrees in Paris next week.
'A FRESH, CLEVER STORY FULL OF SHARP BANTER, QUIRKY MISHAPS, AND JUST THE RIGHT TOUCH OF CHAOS TO KEEP YOU HOOKED.' READER REVIEW of Chaos Theory, NOW ONLY 99p.
Porridge with blueberries that sort of looks like a sad face.
A man pets a sheep (still image from Sheep Detectives movie).
WhatsApp from Griff: "Welcome to the hotel catifornia / such a lovely place / and we also spay"
Woman with glasses in a chair, holding a book called Chaos Theory and a bunch of roses.
Album cover by Flaming Lips, title: Clouds Taste Metallic.
Car dashboard displaying the title of the song being played: You Can Call Me Al by Paul Simon
A stuffed animal, not sure what, clinging to a wooden pole.
A THREE-DAY MASTERCLASS HOW FICTION WORKS with Claire Keegan | Reykjavik DATES 18 - 20 May 2026 HOURS 10am - 4pm daily VENUE Edda Arngrimsgata s 107 Reykjavik Iceland Claire will discuss character, dialogue, point of view, tension, drama, loss, syntax and paragraph structure using the following texts. Novel Novella Short Stories Essay The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald Train Dreams by Denis Johnson Chef's House by Raymond Carver Good Country People by Flannery O'Connor Reunion by John Cheever A Misfortune by Anton Chekhov, translated by Constance Garnett On Writing by Raymond Carver Anyone with an interest in reading. writing, editing or teaching fiction is most welcome to attend. Tuition Non-residential fee: €3,000 To book a place, email Eimear at clairekceganfiction@gmail.com
sylvialeath: "Rapidly shifting definition of authorship" - Christ on a bike! Reply in the form of a fake delivery notification: Christ is picking up your order Latest arrival by 12:15pm Christ is on a bicycle
Picture of the book Fundamentally by Nussaibah Younis.
FARNHAM LITERARY FESTIVAL, FARNHAM AUDIOBOOK COMPETITION. SILVER AWARD. Chaos Theory By Sylvia Leatham Narrated by Shelley Atkinson
Actual potato I had for lunch today. Hideously misshapen. Nightmare fuel.
Headline reads: Meta, YouTube must pay 3m to woman who got hooked on apps as a child. Subhead: Meta emerges as the biggest loser…
Promo poster for DTF St Louis.
BBC NEWS headline: Photographer snaps red kite carrying sausage roll. Accompanied by a picture of exactly this.
'A CHAOTIC, WITTY, AND UTTERLY HEARTWARMING ROM-COM THAT HAD ME LAUGHING ONE MOMENT AND CLUTCHING MY HEART THE NEXT.' READER REVIEW Chaos THEORY by SYLVIA LEATHAM NOW ONLY 99p
Two mothers are hand drawn - the alien from Alien (or maybe it’s just me first thing in the morning!) and Marge Simpson. Card says “Happy Mother’s Day”.
Me holding my book Chaos Theory.
• arstechnica.com — Officials have ordered ICE-monitoring apps to be removed from app stores and even threatened to sanction CNN for simply reporting on the existence of one such app. Officials have also demanded that Meta delete at least one Chicago-based Facebook group with 100,000 members and made multiple unsuccessful attempts to unmask anonymous users behind other Facebook groups. Even encrypted apps like Signal don't feel safe from officials' seeming overreach. FBI Director Kash Patel recently said he has opened an investigation into Signal chats used by Minnesota residents to track ICE activity, NBC News reported. As DHS censorship threats increase, platforms have done little to shield users, advocates say. Not only have they sometimes failed to reject unlawful orders that simply provided a "a bare mention of 'officer safety/doxing'" as justification, but in one case, Google complied with a subpoena that left a critical section blank, the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) reported.
Barb and Star go to Vista del mar, movie poster.
Weird faces drawn onto a stone wall.
A tree on its side, roots exposed.
CLOUD CUCKOO LAND by ANTHONY DOERR
Poster reads: CHAPTERS BOOKSTORE, ROMANTIC NOVELISTS' ASSOCIATION Book Lovers • Between the Covers of Irish Romance Fiction VALENTINES DAY Feb 14th FREE EVENT
A pile of books titled ‘Esther is now following you’.
Dusty Bin, the character from 80s tv game show 321.
John McClane plush toy in a Christmas tree.
The concept of Riverdance is both simple and adroit. A Celtic-looking rock-like setting (actually it seems more Druidically Stonehenge than anything else) with highly colored projections to vary the look, a load of Irish music and a lot of Irish dancing. The huge popular success of the show derives in part from Moya Doherty's canny producing - all pieces are put together with breathtaking theatricality - and John McColgan’s swift, deft staging, which works like a computer but still manages to pervade an unexpected but not unpleasant impression of homespun charm over-riding, or perhaps over-dancing, its awe-inspiring efficiency, and its sweet and sure ability to deliver on every promise, implicit and explicit, suggested by the very idea of an Irish dance spectacular.
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‘Surviving as a writer with Jan Carson.’
FLEISHMAN IS IN TROUBLE by TAFFY BRODESSER-ANNER Thank You, Jeeves by PG WODEHOUSE Contemporary Irish Life & Art Deep Burn by Brendan Mac Evilly Old Romantics By Maggie Armstrong The MARRIAGE VENDETTA By Caroline Madden
Promo poster advertising tv show Patriot. Featuring a sad man in a suit semi-submerged in water.
Poster reads: 8th Eyelands International Book Awards, 20 June -20 October 2025 www.eyelandsawards.com
A white car with a phone on the dashboard showing video content.