Tramp Press
@tramppress.bsky.social
Independent book publisher. Latest: Water in the Desert, Fire in the Night by Gethan Dick www.tramppress.com Funded by the Arts Council of Ireland. Newsletter eepurl.com/bjjdND
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Sliver Salon is coming to Dingle on the eve of @othervoiceslive.bsky.social
Tickets are free but limited.
Design by Sarah Moloney.
Tickets are free but limited.
Design by Sarah Moloney.
Sliver Salon 004: Memoir Raving with Julie Fogarty and Una Mullally
Sliver Salon: off-the-record author conversations in intimate settings. Julie Fogarty will discus her upcoming memoir, Plan Life Go.
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November 13, 2025 at 10:21 AM
Sliver Salon is coming to Dingle on the eve of @othervoiceslive.bsky.social
Tickets are free but limited.
Design by Sarah Moloney.
Tickets are free but limited.
Design by Sarah Moloney.
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Excited to announce the first book on my press.
Plan Life Go, by Julie Fogarty, Sliver Editions, Spring 2026.
An incredible debut memoir rooted in 1990s Dublin's explosive rave scene and devastating heroin epidemic.
Design by Matt Lambert.
More details here ⬇️
www.sliverpress.com/editions
Plan Life Go, by Julie Fogarty, Sliver Editions, Spring 2026.
An incredible debut memoir rooted in 1990s Dublin's explosive rave scene and devastating heroin epidemic.
Design by Matt Lambert.
More details here ⬇️
www.sliverpress.com/editions
November 13, 2025 at 10:19 AM
Excited to announce the first book on my press.
Plan Life Go, by Julie Fogarty, Sliver Editions, Spring 2026.
An incredible debut memoir rooted in 1990s Dublin's explosive rave scene and devastating heroin epidemic.
Design by Matt Lambert.
More details here ⬇️
www.sliverpress.com/editions
Plan Life Go, by Julie Fogarty, Sliver Editions, Spring 2026.
An incredible debut memoir rooted in 1990s Dublin's explosive rave scene and devastating heroin epidemic.
Design by Matt Lambert.
More details here ⬇️
www.sliverpress.com/editions
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We need your votes!
We are beyond delighted that SOLO by @kennysbookshop.bsky.social bookseller @grainneobrien.bsky.social, is on the shortlist for the @irishbookawards.bsky.social!
Please help this gorgeous book win the prize by voting for SOLO in the YA category: www.irishbookawards.ie/vote/
We are beyond delighted that SOLO by @kennysbookshop.bsky.social bookseller @grainneobrien.bsky.social, is on the shortlist for the @irishbookawards.bsky.social!
Please help this gorgeous book win the prize by voting for SOLO in the YA category: www.irishbookawards.ie/vote/
November 8, 2025 at 12:48 PM
We need your votes!
We are beyond delighted that SOLO by @kennysbookshop.bsky.social bookseller @grainneobrien.bsky.social, is on the shortlist for the @irishbookawards.bsky.social!
Please help this gorgeous book win the prize by voting for SOLO in the YA category: www.irishbookawards.ie/vote/
We are beyond delighted that SOLO by @kennysbookshop.bsky.social bookseller @grainneobrien.bsky.social, is on the shortlist for the @irishbookawards.bsky.social!
Please help this gorgeous book win the prize by voting for SOLO in the YA category: www.irishbookawards.ie/vote/
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And copies available to buy here (delivery within Ireland included) at thebookshop.ie/lisa-coen-ed...
Lisa Coen ( Editor) - An Alternative Irish Christmas - HB - BRAND NEW
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November 4, 2025 at 9:33 AM
And copies available to buy here (delivery within Ireland included) at thebookshop.ie/lisa-coen-ed...
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Just released from @tramppress.bsky.social is An Alternative Irish Christmas - a collection of short stories from some of Ireland's best writers, packaged in a great design by @feekra.bsky.social .
November 4, 2025 at 9:25 AM
Just released from @tramppress.bsky.social is An Alternative Irish Christmas - a collection of short stories from some of Ireland's best writers, packaged in a great design by @feekra.bsky.social .
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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 📚
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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 ...
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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-...
We're having at event at the Dublin Book Festival to launch our new anthology. Tickets sold out quickly, so it's been moved to a larger space in the venue, which means THE TIME HAS CHANGED TO 3:15PM on Sunday 9th. Hope you can join us!
Book here: dublinbookfestival.com/event/book-l...
Book here: dublinbookfestival.com/event/book-l...
October 23, 2025 at 9:49 AM
We're having at event at the Dublin Book Festival to launch our new anthology. Tickets sold out quickly, so it's been moved to a larger space in the venue, which means THE TIME HAS CHANGED TO 3:15PM on Sunday 9th. Hope you can join us!
Book here: dublinbookfestival.com/event/book-l...
Book here: dublinbookfestival.com/event/book-l...
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Popped into @gutterbookshop.bsky.social to drop in garden seeds for a friend & got distracted by the #Samhain #Halloween display... unable to resist I'm delighted to get my hands on #YourOwnDarkShadow @tramppress.bsky.social + #GothicTales by #ArthurConanDoyle .. Let the spookiness begin! #AmReading
October 22, 2025 at 9:44 AM
Popped into @gutterbookshop.bsky.social to drop in garden seeds for a friend & got distracted by the #Samhain #Halloween display... unable to resist I'm delighted to get my hands on #YourOwnDarkShadow @tramppress.bsky.social + #GothicTales by #ArthurConanDoyle .. Let the spookiness begin! #AmReading
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Always a treat to get into @booksupstairs.bsky.social & lovely to sign some copies of New Arcana 🔮✨️
@bloodaxebooks.bsky.social
@bloodaxebooks.bsky.social
October 12, 2025 at 9:13 PM
Always a treat to get into @booksupstairs.bsky.social & lovely to sign some copies of New Arcana 🔮✨️
@bloodaxebooks.bsky.social
@bloodaxebooks.bsky.social
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Submissions for Tolka Issue Eleven are now open until 6 November. We publish all kinds of non-fiction – essays, memoir, reportage, autofiction and the things that fall in between.
Full submission guidelines here www.tolkajournal.org/submit
Full submission guidelines here www.tolkajournal.org/submit
October 16, 2025 at 9:24 AM
Submissions for Tolka Issue Eleven are now open until 6 November. We publish all kinds of non-fiction – essays, memoir, reportage, autofiction and the things that fall in between.
Full submission guidelines here www.tolkajournal.org/submit
Full submission guidelines here www.tolkajournal.org/submit
The toy catalogue for nerds ♥️
We are happy to share our New Writing from Ireland 2025 catalogue, which showcases a selection of the finest Irish writing published each year.
You can read it here: www.literatureireland.com/books/new-wr...
You can read it here: www.literatureireland.com/books/new-wr...
October 16, 2025 at 11:30 AM
The toy catalogue for nerds ♥️
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#SpookySeason reading suggestions from English and Creative staff @kent.ac.uk check them out here: www.instagram.com/p/DPo9iZijCx... @tramppress.bsky.social #DorothyMacardle #TheUnivited
October 11, 2025 at 8:41 AM
#SpookySeason reading suggestions from English and Creative staff @kent.ac.uk check them out here: www.instagram.com/p/DPo9iZijCx... @tramppress.bsky.social #DorothyMacardle #TheUnivited
Quick reminder for this evening: Editors' Panel with Tramp Press and The Stinging Fly, Naas Library & Cultural Centre, W91 E1RT from 7pm
www.tickettailor.com/events/kilda...
www.tickettailor.com/events/kilda...
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 10, 2025 at 1:09 PM
Quick reminder for this evening: Editors' Panel with Tramp Press and The Stinging Fly, Naas Library & Cultural Centre, W91 E1RT from 7pm
www.tickettailor.com/events/kilda...
www.tickettailor.com/events/kilda...
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Five Irish citizens are among those detained by Israel on Gaza-bound flotilla, including writer Naoise Dolan. They were not breaking international law and should be released immediately.
🇵🇸saoirse don Phalaistín
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🇵🇸saoirse don Phalaistín
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Five Irish citizens among those detained by Israel on Gaza-bound flotilla
Author Naoise Dolan and Independent TD Barry Heneghan among those on board boat captured in Mediterranean
www.irishtimes.com
October 8, 2025 at 9:23 PM
Five Irish citizens are among those detained by Israel on Gaza-bound flotilla, including writer Naoise Dolan. They were not breaking international law and should be released immediately.
🇵🇸saoirse don Phalaistín
www.irishtimes.com/world/middle...
🇵🇸saoirse don Phalaistín
www.irishtimes.com/world/middle...
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The reason the Right are so invested in the myth that the arts have no value isn’t because the arts don’t generate wealth (they do); it’s that studying the arts teaches people to imagine better ways of judging the value of an idea than by counting how much money it makes…
October 8, 2025 at 1:41 PM
The reason the Right are so invested in the myth that the arts have no value isn’t because the arts don’t generate wealth (they do); it’s that studying the arts teaches people to imagine better ways of judging the value of an idea than by counting how much money it makes…
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!
www.tickettailor.com/events/kilda...
www.tickettailor.com/events/kilda...
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 ...
www.tickettailor.com
October 8, 2025 at 2:31 PM
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!
www.tickettailor.com/events/kilda...
www.tickettailor.com/events/kilda...
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Two of Riddell's (short) haunted house novels are collected in this edition by The British Library in their long-running Tales of the Weird series:
October 8, 2025 at 1:47 PM
Two of Riddell's (short) haunted house novels are collected in this edition by The British Library in their long-running Tales of the Weird series:
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I feel like this photo of masked, armed men pepper spraying a pastor protecting his community is going to be a defining picture of this moment in America for a long, long time.
October 7, 2025 at 11:29 PM
I feel like this photo of masked, armed men pepper spraying a pastor protecting his community is going to be a defining picture of this moment in America for a long, long time.
We are delighted to see the wonderful Charlotte Riddell recognised with a blue plaque!
You can pick up our edition of A Struggle for Fame here:
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You can pick up our edition of A Struggle for Fame here:
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www.bbc.com/news/article...
Charlotte Riddell: Queen of Ghost Stories honoured with blue plaque in Carrickfergus
Her more than 50 stories explored moral ambiguity and an obsession with the supernatural in the Victorian age.
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October 8, 2025 at 12:28 PM
We are delighted to see the wonderful Charlotte Riddell recognised with a blue plaque!
You can pick up our edition of A Struggle for Fame here:
tramppress.com/product/a-st...
www.bbc.com/news/article...
You can pick up our edition of A Struggle for Fame here:
tramppress.com/product/a-st...
www.bbc.com/news/article...
We are delighted to share the cover for a very special project we've been working on for Christmas 2025! An Alternative Irish Christmas is an anthology of stories, in traditional, unusual, extract, and essay form by some of our favourite authors. 1/🧵
October 7, 2025 at 9:50 AM
We are delighted to share the cover for a very special project we've been working on for Christmas 2025! An Alternative Irish Christmas is an anthology of stories, in traditional, unusual, extract, and essay form by some of our favourite authors. 1/🧵
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Join @tramppress.bsky.social and DBF this November for a festive book launch for their brilliant new anthology of stories capturing the breadth of experiences an Irish Christmas offers 🎟️ bit.ly/3KBuzfx
October 6, 2025 at 11:36 AM
Join @tramppress.bsky.social and DBF this November for a festive book launch for their brilliant new anthology of stories capturing the breadth of experiences an Irish Christmas offers 🎟️ bit.ly/3KBuzfx
Cómhbhrón ó chroí to everyone who loved Manchán Magan on the sad news of his passing. Manchán was so kind, gentle and talented, and had so much to offer. We'll all miss him.
www.irishtimes.com/culture/2025...
www.irishtimes.com/culture/2025...
Manchán Magan: Writer and documentary maker dies aged 55
Author spoke of terminal illness in recent radio interview, saying he did not feel despair
www.irishtimes.com
October 3, 2025 at 9:39 AM
Cómhbhrón ó chroí to everyone who loved Manchán Magan on the sad news of his passing. Manchán was so kind, gentle and talented, and had so much to offer. We'll all miss him.
www.irishtimes.com/culture/2025...
www.irishtimes.com/culture/2025...
Kildare Readers Festival: Editors' Panel
Fri 10 Oct 7pm, Naas Library
Join us at @kildarereadersfestival with the marvellous Lisa McInerney for a chat about the roles of editors and publishers. Book here: www.tickettailor.com/events/kildarereadersfestival/1801790
Fri 10 Oct 7pm, Naas Library
Join us at @kildarereadersfestival with the marvellous Lisa McInerney for a chat about the roles of editors and publishers. Book here: www.tickettailor.com/events/kildarereadersfestival/1801790
October 2, 2025 at 2:33 PM
Kildare Readers Festival: Editors' Panel
Fri 10 Oct 7pm, Naas Library
Join us at @kildarereadersfestival with the marvellous Lisa McInerney for a chat about the roles of editors and publishers. Book here: www.tickettailor.com/events/kildarereadersfestival/1801790
Fri 10 Oct 7pm, Naas Library
Join us at @kildarereadersfestival with the marvellous Lisa McInerney for a chat about the roles of editors and publishers. Book here: www.tickettailor.com/events/kildarereadersfestival/1801790
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Two Bluemoose Books adapted for BBC Drama Series in the last 2 years.
Not bad for an Indy publisher!
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@bbcnewsnight.bsky.social
@thebookerprizes.com
Not bad for an Indy publisher!
@thebookseller.com
@independentpublishersguild.com
@bbcnewsnight.bsky.social
@thebookerprizes.com
September 25, 2025 at 2:34 PM
Two Bluemoose Books adapted for BBC Drama Series in the last 2 years.
Not bad for an Indy publisher!
@thebookseller.com
@independentpublishersguild.com
@bbcnewsnight.bsky.social
@thebookerprizes.com
Not bad for an Indy publisher!
@thebookseller.com
@independentpublishersguild.com
@bbcnewsnight.bsky.social
@thebookerprizes.com
Please read this excellent article about the dramatic rise of costs in publishing by a truly great indie press. When you buy a book, 'you are buying a stake in the survival of our world of letters'.
An article on the pressures on publishing, rising costs, what can be done about it - and how readers can also help.
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(This ran in the Society of Authors quarterly, The Author, earlier this year. They've kindly given me permission to reproduce it on my Substack.)
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(This ran in the Society of Authors quarterly, The Author, earlier this year. They've kindly given me permission to reproduce it on my Substack.)
What does it cost to produce a book?
Why small presses in the UK are struggling - and what can be done about it.
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September 25, 2025 at 3:03 PM
Please read this excellent article about the dramatic rise of costs in publishing by a truly great indie press. When you buy a book, 'you are buying a stake in the survival of our world of letters'.