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Are you working on creative non-fiction that explores the climate crisis? Send us your creative non-fiction pitches for our upcoming Climate Issue. Our Winter 2025-26 issue will have a special focus on the climate crisis. Deadline: March 31st, 2025 stingingfly.org/news/submiss...

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Today is the day! Every One Still Here is now available to purchase in all good bookshops and on our website. stingingfly.org/product/ever...

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This anthology celebrated the first 20 years of short stories published @stingingfly.bsky.social, ed. Sarah Gilmartin & Declan Meade, featuring Claire Keegan, Kevin Barry, Keith Ridgway, Colin Barrett, Wendy Erskine, Claire-Louise Bennett & many more, inc one of mine. stingingfly.org/product/stin...

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On this month’s episode, host Nicole Flattery is joined by Tim MacGabhann to read from and discuss his story ‘Pit’, published in the Winter 2024-25 issue of The Stinging Fly Issue 51 Volume Two. Listen here stingingfly.org/podcast/tim-...

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Our newest title, Every One Still Here by Liadan Ní Chuinn will be published 6th March 2025. Preorder now: stingingfly.org/product/ever... ‘Liadan Ní Chuinn is a phenomenal writer, with such a striking, distinctive style.’ — Danny Denton Cover Image: Jacob Hamilton Cover Design: Catherine Gaffney

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Are you working on creative non-fiction that explores the climate crisis? Send us your creative non-fiction pitches for our upcoming Climate Issue. Our Winter 2025-26 issue will have a special focus on the climate crisis. Deadline: March 31st, 2025 stingingfly.org/news/submiss...

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NEW on our website: Ian Maleney reviews Season of the Swamp by Yuri Herrera (translated by Lisa Dillman) published by @andotherstories.bsky.social "What does it mean to say, at the opening of a novel, that what follows is ‘the true account’?" stingingfly.org/review/seaso...

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Liadan Ní Chuinn’s first collection, ‘Every One Still Here’, is writing of great potency and subtlety, sensitivity and resonance, which carries the burdens of truth as perhaps only fiction can. Published in Ireland March @stingingfly.bsky.social, UK July @grantabooks.bsky.social.

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One Dublin One Book is an anthology this year, from @stingingfly.bsky.social and I have a wee story in it. Whoop! www.thejournal.ie/one-dublin-o...

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For the 20th anniversary of One Dublin One Book, Dublin City Council have announced that a new anthology in celebration of the city will be April's city-wide read. Edited by Declan Meade and published by @stingingfly.bsky.social, it was commissioned by DCC/Dublin UNESCO city of literature.

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Big thanks to Lily Ní Dhomhnaill and our friends at the @stingingfly.bsky.social for this review of THE CONVERSATION by Jo Burns and Emily Cooper stingingfly.org/review/irish...

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I have such a hardworking talented bunch of writers in my @stingingfly.bsky.social workshop. Went into tonight’s session a bit weary after a tough writing day, emerged two hours later excited about words and stories again.

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We're delighted to be collaborating with @irishwriterscentre.bsky.social on the Ten by Ten Workshop. Are you working on a short-story collection or novel? Do you want to deepen your craft amongst like-minded writers? Applications are now open. Find out more here stingingfly.org/the-ten-by-t...

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This was wonderful to read; to publish a book—a brilliant, messy, challenging book—sure maybe it’s not the breakout pop hit, but you hope it will find its readers like this. All 🙏 to @stingingfly.bsky.social & Lily Ní Dhomhnaill

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Due to demand, I’ll be doing another Q&A screening of Blue Road - The Edna O’Brien Story in @lighthousecinema.bsky.social on Saturday at 6pm. Our guest host will be the poet Annemarie Ní Churreáin who is also poetry editor of @stingingfly.bsky.social www.lighthousecinema.ie/film/blue-ro...

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Lovely interview with Colm Tóibín here as his Laureate for Irish Fiction comes to an end - reflecting on the connections between readers and writers, the value of public libraries … and a shout out to @stingingfly.bsky.social for supporting new writing! @declanmeade.bsky.social

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NEW on our website: Lily Ní Dhomhnaill reviews four Irish poetry collections from 2024: 'Vulgar Errors / Feral Subjects' by Fran Lock, 'The Conversation' by Jo Burns & Emily Cooper, 'STORM DRAIN' by Francis Jones, and 'The Electron-Ghost Casino' by Randolph Healy. stingingfly.org/review/irish...

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I wrote this a couple of years ago for @stingingfly.bsky.social about the great solace I found (and continue to find) in Lydia Davis's work. Re-posting here in case anyone else needs some Lydia in their life.

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EXCITING NEWS! We're partnering with @stingingfly.bsky.social on a new in-person, intermediate-level workshop for fiction writers. Writers Cathy Sweeney and Nicole Flattery will lead the workshops from 15 March - 12 April. Full details on our website. irishwriterscentre.ie/opportunitie...

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We're delighted to be collaborating with @irishwriterscentre.bsky.social on the Ten by Ten Workshop. Are you working on a short-story collection or novel? Do you want to deepen your craft amongst like-minded writers? Applications are now open. Find out more here stingingfly.org/the-ten-by-t...

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Tá gliondar an domhain orainn le roinnt gurb í Laoighseach Ní Choistealbha an ‘File faoi Sholas’ nó ‘Featured Poet’ in eagrán geimhridh The Stinging Fly! Is fiú go mór an t-eagrán álainn seo a cheannach agus glórtha nua i saol litríochta na hÉireann a léamh!

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Join us Tomorrow, Wednesday 22nd January, 6pm at Hodges Figgis, Dublin. 📕 Declan Meade will be in conversation with Claire Carroll about her very fine, very powerful short-story collection, The Unreliable Nature Writer – published by @scratchbooks.bsky.social . Admission is free – all welcome!

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Feels like a good time to (re) read Roisin Kiberd's insightful essay 'Bland God: Notes on Mark Zuckerberg' originally published by @stingingfly.bsky.social in 2018 and included in her essay collection 'The Disconnect' (2022). stingingfly.org/2018/06/27/b...

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Did you catch this lovely review of David Marcus: Editing Ireland in @irishexaminer.bsky.social ? It appeared in the hazy days between Christmas and New Years. Buy the book here: stingingfly.org/product/davi... Read the review here: www.irishexaminer.com/lifestyle/ar...

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🍃 Maeve Brennan biographer, Angela Bourke shared her introduction to our new edition of The Rose Garden on @bbcsounds.bsky.social 🌹 ICYMI, Ruby Eastwood's review and long essay appeared in the @irishtimes.com & Alannah Hopkin's review is in @irishexaminer.bsky.social stingingfly.org/product/the-...

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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...

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The three volumes of the short stories and essays of Maeve Brennan at the @newyorker.com is available in these handsome uniform editions from Dublin's @stingingfly.bsky.social , describing perfectly "what it was like to be female, alone and an outsider in mid 20th Century New York"

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Bringing this fantastic news back on the timeline. Massive congratulations to Colin Barrett. We published Barrett's debut 'Young Skins' in 2013, it won the Guardian First Book Award, the Frank O’Connor Short Story Award and Rooney Prize. @martindoyle.bsky.social www.irishtimes.com/culture/book...

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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!

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We expect all passes and tickets for the online seminar series to sell quickly. As such, season passes, which include tickets for all five seminars in the series, go on sale Thurs Jan 9th at 1pm. Tickets for individual seminars will be released for sale on Fri Jan 10th at 1pm.

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Tickets for our Online Seminar Series 2025 go on sale this Thursday 9th January at 1pm. Run online via Zoom, the seminars look to explore writing craft and practice. Full season tickets and single seminars can be booked, with concession rates available for both. stingingfly.org/news/announc...

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These seminars are excellent. Deeply literary, craft-oriented. Highly recommend ⭐️

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We're excited to announce the return of our Online Seminar Series in 2025 with a stellar lineup of writers. Run online via Zoom, the seminars begin on Tuesday January 28th and look to explore writing craft and practice. Tickets on sale from Thursday January 9th 1pm. stingingfly.org/news/announc...

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NEW: Kevin Breathnach reviews 'The Ways of Paradise' by Peter Cornell, translated by Saskia Vogel. 'Every plainly elegant passage here is charged by shadow narratives around the book, its project, its author and its ‘author’.' stingingfly.org/review/the-w...

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Two hours left to get your applications in! Really excited to see the work that comes out of these workshops!!

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NEW: on the latest episode of The Stinging Fly Podcast host Nicole Flattery is joined by writer Oisín Fagan to read and discuss Mariana Enriquez's story, ‘Back When We Talked to the Dead', translated from the Spanish by Megan McDowell. stingingfly.org/podcast/oisi...

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The deadline for applications to the 2025 Poetry Workshop is TODAY at 5pm. This new workshop will help poets working on developing a project or manuscript over a four-month period (Jan-May 2025). stingingfly.org/poetry-works...

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Really excited about the new Stinging Fly poetry workshop — applications close next Monday!

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Thanks to everyone who came out to celebrate the launch of The Stinging Fly Issue 51 Volume Two last week in Hen's Teeth. It was a great night and we were delighted to host readings from some of the brilliant writers featured in the issue — pictures (by @ghollandphoto.bsky.social) in the 🧵 below

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