On Sunday 7 September, Sunday Miscellany on RTÉ Radio 1 will present a special programme, Writing the Bog: A celebration of the Irish Architecture Foundation and 12th Field’s Bog Bothy project. 

For centuries, Ireland’s bogs and peatlands have been sites of labour, sustenance and extraction, shaping both the land and the people who worked it. This place has left its trace, as we have left our marks, an act of reciprocity. In doing so, our lives and our stories have become bound together in ways both obvious and hidden. This is a call for stories untold of the bog landscape, its once electric earth and its imagined future.

Please send complete scripts of 800 words (+/-10%) to sundaymiscellany@rte.ie with the subject line “On-spec submission: Writing the Bog” by Friday 25 July 2025 if you would like your piece to be considered for this special programme. Please note, this call is for complete, on-spec submissions only; after an initial acknowledgement, you will be contacted again only if you are being invited to proceed to a recording. Please do not send scripts to the IAF.

You can listen back to past programmes and consult the general submission guidelines on the Sunday Miscellany show page, where you can also listen back to Sunday Miscellany’s previous collaboration with the Irish Architecture Foundation.