Ready to start making summer writing plans? 🌞 Our 2026 Summer School opens for applications on Monday, 23rd March. More info on our website: 🔗 stingingfly.org/summer-school/
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The Stinging Fly@stingingfly.bsky.social · 9mo agoTHE 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/
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...
Become a Member - Irish PEN/PEN na hÉireann
Membership of Irish PEN/PEN na hÉireann is €40 per year for full members, €30 for associate members and €10 for students & unwaged. The aims of Irish PEN/PEN na hÉireann are to promote friendly co-ope...
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Irish PEN/PEN na hÉireann @irishpen.bsky.social · 2y agoHello! We are Irish PEN/PEN na hÉireann, an all-island body in Ireland. We: promote literature in and about Ireland; defend worldwide the right of writers to responsible freedom of expression as defined in the PEN Charter; foster international understanding through the appreciation of literature.
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-...
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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Submissions for issue 21 are open until midnight IST on Friday 31 October ✍️
Banshee Press@bansheepress.bsky.social · 10mo agoSubmissions 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
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...
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...
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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!
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)
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/...
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?
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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
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...
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.
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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...
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
⏰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...
