More excitement in my house this weekend: Wait til I tell you has made the Blog Awards Ireland 2013 shortlist!

I’m also delighted that the following writerly friends join me on the shortlist:

• Writing.ie – needs no introduction to anyone interested in writing in Ireland, run by writerly powerhouse Vanessa O’Loughlin
• Women Rule Writer – by prolific Irish writer Nuala ní Chonchúir. Nuala’s is one of the longest-running Irish writer blogs.
• K. S. Moore – by writer K. S. Moore
• A Year of Festivals in Ireland – by the much-travelled Mark Graham
• Rant, with Occasional Music – by writer and musician Derek Flynn

Best of luck to all the other shortlistees for the next stage of the competition: the Finalist List, to be published on September 29th.

Here are the other blogs in the Arts and Culture category. Do check them out and subscribe to any that grab you!

• Westown Life
• We Love Town
• Vintage Irish Book Covers
• Vagabond Language
• Time Travel Ireland
• The Woolly Way of Ireland
• The Thursday Interview
• The Irish Aesthete
• The Brightness Project
• Spooool.ie
• PJLynch Gallery
• No More Workhorse
• Mcs Irish Art
• Literary Flotsam & Jetsam by an Attempted Human
• Lexicolatry
• Epitome Absolute
• Built Dublin
• Beanmimo
• Arts Management
• Mutantspace