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Magazine established in 1997 to publish & promote the very best new Irish and international writing. Stinging Fly Press was launched in 2005. Winter 2024-25 Issue #51 available now https://stingingfly.org/product/winter-2024-25/
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The Stinging Fly @stingingfly.bsky.social · 19d
BIG NEWS 📚🎉

We couldn't be happier to see this year's shortlist for 2025 An Post Irish Book Awards!

Sunday Independent Newcomer of the Year: Every One Still Here by Liadan Ní Chuinn (The Stinging Fly Press)

You can vote now
www.irishbookawards.ie/nominee/ever...
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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/
November 7, 2025 at 5:45 PM
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NEWS: Emma Dabiri joins as our new non-fiction editor.

Emma Dabiri FRSL is an award-winning broadcaster & bestselling author of Don’t Touch My Hair, What White People Can Do Next and Disobedient Bodies.

Emma will be reading for the current open submission round.

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November 5, 2025 at 6:15 PM
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NEW: Valerie Flynn reviews After the Train edited by Evelyn Conlon and Rebecca Pelan and published by
@ucdpress.bsky.social

“[A]n eye-opening and evocative mosaic of first-person reflections on the 1975-1977 feminist collective”

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November 5, 2025 at 10:06 AM
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Great to see two of our titles listed in the '10 of the best Irish short story collections' this week @rte.ie by journalist @laurenmurphyjourno.bsky.social

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1. Kevin Barry - There Are Little Kingdoms (2007) t.co/rzORCbHNAb

6. Colin Barrett - Young Skins (2013) t.co/50JJvsOQZg
October 30, 2025 at 6:15 PM
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One week until Halloween...

Get 50% off The Stinging Fly Magazine - Fear & Fantasy Issue (Winter 2016-17) 🦇

Sale ends November 1st 🏮

Enter code at checkout: Halloween2025 🌙

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October 24, 2025 at 4:05 PM
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NEW: Jade Bailey Brock reviews A Hut at the Edge of the Village

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A newly-reissued anthology of excerpts from the work of Irish writer and philosopher John Moriarty, edited by writer & storyteller Martin Shaw, and published by @lilliputpress.bsky.social in April 2025
October 29, 2025 at 3:33 PM
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Had the nicest day with my @stingingfly.bsky.social writers @irishwriterscentre.bsky.social talking, laughing and furiously critiquing some great short stories. What an amazing bunch of folk.
October 25, 2025 at 5:54 PM
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Liadan Ní Chuinn's Every One Still Here

‘Extraordinary’ Guardian
‘Astonishing’ Sunday Times
‘Phenomenal’ Observer
‘Utterly brilliant’ Daily Mail
‘Deserves to be considered among the best Irish books of the 21st century’ Irish Times
‘Phenomenal' Lucy Caldwell
'A properly exciting writer' Max Porter
stingingfly.bsky.social The Stinging Fly @stingingfly.bsky.social · 19d
BIG NEWS 📚🎉

We couldn't be happier to see this year's shortlist for 2025 An Post Irish Book Awards!

Sunday Independent Newcomer of the Year: Every One Still Here by Liadan Ní Chuinn (The Stinging Fly Press)

You can vote now
www.irishbookawards.ie/nominee/ever...
October 24, 2025 at 9:20 AM
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One week until Halloween...

Get 50% off The Stinging Fly Magazine - Fear & Fantasy Issue (Winter 2016-17) 🦇

Sale ends November 1st 🏮

Enter code at checkout: Halloween2025 🌙

stingingfly.org/product/wint...
October 24, 2025 at 4:05 PM
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BIG NEWS 📚🎉

We couldn't be happier to see this year's shortlist for 2025 An Post Irish Book Awards!

Sunday Independent Newcomer of the Year: Every One Still Here by Liadan Ní Chuinn (The Stinging Fly Press)

You can vote now
www.irishbookawards.ie/nominee/ever...
October 23, 2025 at 11:43 AM
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Was a great evening!
stingingfly.bsky.social The Stinging Fly @stingingfly.bsky.social · 24d
Here are some photos from the lecture by Dublin-based photographer Patrick Fleming.

See more on our Instagram page:

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October 17, 2025 at 5:21 PM
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Sarah Moss is probably the best teacher I have ever had and everybody must read this (and her books)

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Losing the Plot – The Stinging Fly
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October 17, 2025 at 8:09 PM
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Also very grateful to @stingingfly.bsky.social for posting text of the lecture re accessibility
roisinnineachtain.com Róisín Ní Neachtain @roisinnineachtain.com · 24d
Sarah Moss is probably the best teacher I have ever had and everybody must read this (and her books)

stingingfly.org/2025/10/16/l...
Losing the Plot – The Stinging Fly
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October 17, 2025 at 8:10 PM
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“This making of meaning seems to me one of the gifts that writers offer readers. Here is structure, linearity, not necessarily justice and a happy ending but at least a well-crafted tragic ending, offering the consolation of catharsis.”
stingingfly.bsky.social The Stinging Fly @stingingfly.bsky.social · 24d
The text of the 2025 Stinging Fly Annual Lecture is now available to read on our website.

stingingfly.org/2025/10/16/l...

We were delighted to have Sarah Moss deliver the The Stinging Fly 2025 Annual Lecture at Pearse Street Library in Dublin on the 25th of September.
October 21, 2025 at 6:31 PM
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Here are some photos from the lecture by Dublin-based photographer Patrick Fleming.

See more on our Instagram page:

t.co/nkK4QjMICH
October 17, 2025 at 4:10 PM
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The text of the 2025 Stinging Fly Annual Lecture is now available to read on our website.

stingingfly.org/2025/10/16/l...

We were delighted to have Sarah Moss deliver the The Stinging Fly 2025 Annual Lecture at Pearse Street Library in Dublin on the 25th of September.
October 17, 2025 at 3:29 PM
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Please spread the word!
stingingfly.bsky.social The Stinging Fly @stingingfly.bsky.social · Oct 8
Join our meet and greet session on Thursday October 30th to share your experiences as a writer with a disability, as we devise a range of targeted supports for disabled writers.

Please contact Declan Meade by Wednesday October 22nd

We’d love to hear from you.

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October 9, 2025 at 9:38 AM
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Join our meet and greet session on Thursday October 30th to share your experiences as a writer with a disability, as we devise a range of targeted supports for disabled writers.

Please contact Declan Meade by Wednesday October 22nd

We’d love to hear from you.

stingingfly.org/news/a-call-...
October 8, 2025 at 5:07 PM
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Join our meet and greet session on Thursday October 30th to share your experiences as a writer with a disability, as we devise a range of targeted supports for disabled writers.

Please contact Declan Meade by Wednesday October 22nd

We’d love to hear from you.

stingingfly.org/news/a-call-...
October 8, 2025 at 5:07 PM
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We get a lot of questions about commissioning, editing, line-editing etc. If you're able to get to Naas LIbrary & Cultural Centre this Friday 10 OCt, we will be on a panel with @stingingfly.bsky.social 's Lisa McInerney to talk about all this and more!

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Book Tickets – Editors' Panel with Tramp Press and The Stinging Fly – Naas Library & Cultural Centre
Editors' Panel with Tramp Press and The Stinging Fly – Naas Library & Cultural Centre, Fri 10 Oct 2025 - A unique opportunity for Kildare readers and writers alike to gain a greater understanding of ...
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October 8, 2025 at 2:31 PM
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NEW FICTION: On our website, Eamon McGuinness's story ‘Los Sotos’

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“Swallows are everywhere. Golondrinas, I say to myself and remember the day on the balcony when Pilar taught me that word. She used to praise them for eating the mosquitos in summer.”
October 8, 2025 at 12:13 PM
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NEW: Philip Ó Ceallaigh reviews Goat Song, a novel from 1928 by the Russian writer Konstantin Vaginov, published this year in English for the first time by New York Review Books

– translated by Ainsley Morse.

read here: stingingfly.org/review/goat-...
October 1, 2025 at 11:48 AM
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STORY PACK📚Limited time offer ⏰

Order 3 of these 6 great books for 20 euro including postage within Ireland, 30 euro to GB and Europe.

Offer is only available until Monday.

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October 1, 2025 at 11:41 AM
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BIG NEWS: Dublin, Written In Our Hearts
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is now available as an audiobook! You can access the audiobook via
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BorrowBox online library service 🎧

🔗 dublin.borrowbox.com/product/SFA_...
September 26, 2025 at 11:44 AM
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NEW: on this month's episode, host Nicole Flattery is joined by Rosa Mäkelä to read from and discuss her story ‘Breathwork’, published in the Summer 2025 issue of The Stinging Fly Issue 52 Volume Two.

Listen 🔗https://stingingfly.org/podcast/rosa-makela/
September 24, 2025 at 1:53 PM