Submissions for issue 21 (spring/summer 2026) are now closed! Thanks to all who sent us work. We'll be in touch in the new year 🎃

Starting Tuesday – a fantastic 4-week online course with our flash fiction editor @mariegethins.bsky.social at @irishwriterscentre.bsky.social ✨

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'There is a halo of yellow far off, where green meets the zone of habitation. Boughs and branches move, leaves seethe and shiver. The night has its mouths.'

From issue 18 (autumn/winter 2024) -- fiction by David Hayden 🌔

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FILLY, Rosamund Taylor's beautiful forthcoming novel-in-verse, is now available for pre-order from Waterstones.com at 25% off RRP. This offer is available until midnight on 31 July. Enter the code SUMMER25 at checkout! #WPreorder

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First look: the gorgeous cover of FILLY, Rosamund Taylor's stunning novel-in-verse, coming from Banshee Press in October 2025. Cover photography by Oana Stoian, with design by Jack Smyth ✨

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Harbour Doubts by @bebeashley.bsky.social launches in the Seamus Heaney Centre this evening! We’re excited to celebrate this beautiful book in Belfast; all are welcome to join us from 6pm 🎊

Harbour Doubts is available now in all good bookshops or from our website:
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FIRST LOOK: Harbour Doubts, the prizewinning second collection of poems by Bebe Ashley, out 03/07/25 ✨ @bebeashley.bsky.social

'Sinuous poems full of power' – Rosamund Taylor @rosamundtaylor.bsky.social

Cover by Jack Smyth @jackflag.bsky.social

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We hope you can join us for the launch of Claire-Lise Kieffer's phenomenal debut, TENTERHOOKS, in Charlie Byrne's Bookshop on Friday 21 February. All are welcome 🥳

Happy publication week to TENTERHOOKS, the stunning debut collection of stories by Claire-Lise Kieffer

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