Coming soon…
THE CLIMATE ISSUE 🌊
Our Winter 2025-26 issue is out next week launching on Thursday 27th November in The Digital Depot, Dublin
🎨The Conversation by Limerick-based artist Robert Ryan, selected from the 195th RHA Annual Exhibition / Cover design Eimear Gavin.
More info stingingfly.org/newsletter/
Our Winter 2025-26 issue is out next week launching on Thursday 27th November in The Digital Depot, Dublin
🎨The Conversation by Limerick-based artist Robert Ryan, selected from the 195th RHA Annual Exhibition / Cover design Eimear Gavin.
More info stingingfly.org/newsletter/
November 7, 2025 at 8:04 PM
Coming soon…
Happy to have recently joined the board of Irish PEN and would encourage more writers to become members. Find out more here:
irishpen.com/become-a-mem...
irishpen.com/become-a-mem...
October 29, 2025 at 7:32 PM
Happy to have recently joined the board of Irish PEN and would encourage more writers to become members. Find out more here:
irishpen.com/become-a-mem...
irishpen.com/become-a-mem...
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Join us next Thursday 30 October in @ucc.ie at 6pm to celebrate the launch of Banshee issue 20! Hear readings from our brilliant contributors and raise a glass to ten years of Banshee 📚
bansheepress.org/events/cork-...
bansheepress.org/events/cork-...
Cork launch of Banshee issue 20 — Banshee Press
Celebrate ten years of Banshee at the Cork launch of our speculative fiction-themed 20th issue. Join us at the Staff Common Room in the Quad, UCC , on Thursday 30 October at 6pm to raise a glass ...
bansheepress.org
October 23, 2025 at 11:16 AM
Join us next Thursday 30 October in @ucc.ie at 6pm to celebrate the launch of Banshee issue 20! Hear readings from our brilliant contributors and raise a glass to ten years of Banshee 📚
bansheepress.org/events/cork-...
bansheepress.org/events/cork-...
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Submissions for issue 21 are open until midnight IST on Friday 31 October ✍️
Submissions for issue 21 (spring/summer 2026) are open until 31 October! Submission guidelines are at the link below. We're looking forward to reading your short fiction, poetry, flash & essays! ✨
bansheepress.org/submit
bansheepress.org/submit
Submit — Banshee Press
Banshee Press is open for book submissions from 1-15 October. We are also accepting submissions for issue 21 (spring/summer 2026) until 31 October!
bansheepress.org
October 27, 2025 at 6:25 PM
Submissions for issue 21 are open until midnight IST on Friday 31 October ✍️
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WP 11 is almost ready - come say hello to the new volume @dublinbookfest.bsky.social All welcome, free entry, book tickets here:
dublinbookfestival.com/event/winter...
dublinbookfestival.com/event/winter...
Winter Papers Launch - Dublin Book Festival
Volume 11 of Winter Papers, Ireland’s annual anthology for the arts, is published by Curlew Editions. It offers fiction, non-fiction, photography, visual art, along with craft interviews and in-conver...
dublinbookfestival.com
October 28, 2025 at 11:11 AM
WP 11 is almost ready - come say hello to the new volume @dublinbookfest.bsky.social All welcome, free entry, book tickets here:
dublinbookfestival.com/event/winter...
dublinbookfestival.com/event/winter...
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Well that was great fun! Thank you @hodgesfiggis.bsky.social and @declanmeade.bsky.social and everyone in Dublin who made it such a great evening!
January 23, 2025 at 8:20 PM
Well that was great fun! Thank you @hodgesfiggis.bsky.social and @declanmeade.bsky.social and everyone in Dublin who made it such a great evening!
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Me and Tom from @scratchbooks.bsky.social and @declanmeade.bsky.social will be talking in @hodgesfiggis.bsky.social in Dublin in 24 hours.
Thank you to whomever put my mad book in the middle of the display 😚. Come see us here from 6pm tomorrow (Wednesday 22nd)
Thank you to whomever put my mad book in the middle of the display 😚. Come see us here from 6pm tomorrow (Wednesday 22nd)
January 21, 2025 at 5:18 PM
Me and Tom from @scratchbooks.bsky.social and @declanmeade.bsky.social will be talking in @hodgesfiggis.bsky.social in Dublin in 24 hours.
Thank you to whomever put my mad book in the middle of the display 😚. Come see us here from 6pm tomorrow (Wednesday 22nd)
Thank you to whomever put my mad book in the middle of the display 😚. Come see us here from 6pm tomorrow (Wednesday 22nd)
Interview here towards the end of Sunday’s programme, 1hr 39 mins in, with Angela Bourke - talking to Steven about Maeve Brennan’s life, her work and her legacy.
www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
Sunday with Steven Rainey - What’s Elon Musk’s Endgame?, Video Nasty, Unstoppable, Maeve Brennan & The Rose Garden - BBC Sounds
With Elon Musk’s interest in US and now European politics, what is his endgame?
www.bbc.co.uk
January 15, 2025 at 9:38 PM
Interview here towards the end of Sunday’s programme, 1hr 39 mins in, with Angela Bourke - talking to Steven about Maeve Brennan’s life, her work and her legacy.
www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
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Anyone LGBTQIA+ or a migrant to Ireland, Ennis Book Club Festival has a great new project of free creative writing workshops aimed at certain groups- I'll be facilitating these ones and to book just email info@ennisbookclubfestival.com
January 9, 2025 at 2:47 PM
Anyone LGBTQIA+ or a migrant to Ireland, Ennis Book Club Festival has a great new project of free creative writing workshops aimed at certain groups- I'll be facilitating these ones and to book just email info@ennisbookclubfestival.com
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Over the holidays, you may have missed this special programme celebrating the life and work of David Marcus and the recent publication of Editing Ireland @stingingfly.bsky.social - listen back here
www.rte.ie/radio/radio1...
www.rte.ie/radio/radio1...
Editing Ireland: David Marcus - RTÉ Radio 1
This programme dedicated to the rich legacy of David Marcus is led by Paul Delaney and Deirdre Madden, editors of the 2024 book Editing Ireland and its publisher, Declan Meade.
www.rte.ie
January 13, 2025 at 4:28 PM
Over the holidays, you may have missed this special programme celebrating the life and work of David Marcus and the recent publication of Editing Ireland @stingingfly.bsky.social - listen back here
www.rte.ie/radio/radio1...
www.rte.ie/radio/radio1...
Looking forward to talking to Claire next week.
Scratch Books take over @hodgesfiggis.bsky.social on 22nd January!
Join the brilliant @ccrrll.bsky.social and the immense Declan Meade of @stingingfly.bsky.social in conversation! Tickets free!
Join the brilliant @ccrrll.bsky.social and the immense Declan Meade of @stingingfly.bsky.social in conversation! Tickets free!
January 13, 2025 at 10:42 PM
Looking forward to talking to Claire next week.
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The great Edna O’Brien would’ve been 94 today. In 2015, I chaired an event with her, and hardly had to ask any questions. She spoke - as she wrote - in perfect paragraphs. Erudite, funny, and one of few writers I ever interviewed to get a standing ovation. Listen: m.soundcloud.com/dlr-soundclo...
December 15, 2024 at 10:00 AM
The great Edna O’Brien would’ve been 94 today. In 2015, I chaired an event with her, and hardly had to ask any questions. She spoke - as she wrote - in perfect paragraphs. Erudite, funny, and one of few writers I ever interviewed to get a standing ovation. Listen: m.soundcloud.com/dlr-soundclo...
Anne Haverty left us with plenty to think about and to savour when she delivered the @stingingfly.bsky.social Annual Lecture in October.
Full text here:
stingingfly.org/2024/12/05/w...
Full text here:
stingingfly.org/2024/12/05/w...
December 15, 2024 at 1:50 PM
Anne Haverty left us with plenty to think about and to savour when she delivered the @stingingfly.bsky.social Annual Lecture in October.
Full text here:
stingingfly.org/2024/12/05/w...
Full text here:
stingingfly.org/2024/12/05/w...
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Dozens of tents set up outside Leinster House by asylum seekers who were housed in CityWest during the cold weather but were told no more accommodation would be provided for them.
The men say there were empty beds in CityWest when they were told to leave and have been protesting at the Dáil since
The men say there were empty beds in CityWest when they were told to leave and have been protesting at the Dáil since
December 4, 2024 at 9:09 PM
Dozens of tents set up outside Leinster House by asylum seekers who were housed in CityWest during the cold weather but were told no more accommodation would be provided for them.
The men say there were empty beds in CityWest when they were told to leave and have been protesting at the Dáil since
The men say there were empty beds in CityWest when they were told to leave and have been protesting at the Dáil since
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⏰Submission Deadline Alert⏰
There's one week left to apply to the 2025 poetry workshop.
This brand new workshop will help poets developing a project or manuscript over a four-month period (Jan-May 2025).
Deadline: 5pm Monday 9th December.
More info: stingingfly.org/poetry-works...
There's one week left to apply to the 2025 poetry workshop.
This brand new workshop will help poets developing a project or manuscript over a four-month period (Jan-May 2025).
Deadline: 5pm Monday 9th December.
More info: stingingfly.org/poetry-works...
December 2, 2024 at 3:54 PM
⏰Submission Deadline Alert⏰
There's one week left to apply to the 2025 poetry workshop.
This brand new workshop will help poets developing a project or manuscript over a four-month period (Jan-May 2025).
Deadline: 5pm Monday 9th December.
More info: stingingfly.org/poetry-works...
There's one week left to apply to the 2025 poetry workshop.
This brand new workshop will help poets developing a project or manuscript over a four-month period (Jan-May 2025).
Deadline: 5pm Monday 9th December.
More info: stingingfly.org/poetry-works...
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Three Maeve Brennan reissues in 12 months is a gift…
📗 The Long-Winded Lady, essays (Peninsula Press, foreword by me)
📗 The Rose Garden, short stories (The Stinging Fly, foreword by Angela Bourke, MB’s biographer)
📗 The Visitor, novella, (Peninsula Press, Jan 2025, foreword by Lynne Tillman)
📗 The Long-Winded Lady, essays (Peninsula Press, foreword by me)
📗 The Rose Garden, short stories (The Stinging Fly, foreword by Angela Bourke, MB’s biographer)
📗 The Visitor, novella, (Peninsula Press, Jan 2025, foreword by Lynne Tillman)
November 26, 2024 at 10:32 AM
Three Maeve Brennan reissues in 12 months is a gift…
📗 The Long-Winded Lady, essays (Peninsula Press, foreword by me)
📗 The Rose Garden, short stories (The Stinging Fly, foreword by Angela Bourke, MB’s biographer)
📗 The Visitor, novella, (Peninsula Press, Jan 2025, foreword by Lynne Tillman)
📗 The Long-Winded Lady, essays (Peninsula Press, foreword by me)
📗 The Rose Garden, short stories (The Stinging Fly, foreword by Angela Bourke, MB’s biographer)
📗 The Visitor, novella, (Peninsula Press, Jan 2025, foreword by Lynne Tillman)