Ruth McKee
@ruthmckee.bsky.social
Debut novel, Wild Iris (Dedalus) "...filled with luminous detail and a voice that is tender, intimate and pitch perfect."—Catherine Dunne. ruthmckee.org
It was such an honour to be in the Belfast Telegraph talking about Wild Iris—a paper I remember being delivered when I was little. Sometimes people assume it was easy for me to get published—that's not the story at all. Thanks to Áine Toner ❤️ www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/.../a/153146...
Issue 15 of The Lonely Crowd will be published on September 7th. Featuring new work from Vona Groarke, Alison Moore, Jacob Polley, Richard Milward @nualaoconnor.bsky.social @sarahdavywrites.bsky.social @janefraserwriter.bsky.social @ruthmckee.bsky.social @naomikruger.bsky.social & more
The Lonely Crowd / Issue 15 – Online Shop – The Lonely Crowd
Issue 15 will be published on September 7th. UK customers can pre-order now and receive free shipping. A Page of Knots – Vona Groarke / Local Colour – Tim MacGabhann / Three Poems – P. C. Evans / A Qu...
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📕If you're curious about Wild Iris, you can read the first chapter here in New Irish Writing, RTÉ Culture 📕 @rte.ie #newirishwriting www.rte.ie/culture/2026...
New Irish Writing: Wild Iris by Ruth McKee
Set over an Easter weekend, Wild Iris follows Eve as she enters a psychological crisis: will she reconnect with an old lover, or end her life?
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Still not really here—but can't let this one go unmarked. Thanks hugely to Martin Doyle ❤️ www.irishtimes.com/culture/book...
Ruth McKee: ‘Pitching a novel about a suicidal middle-aged woman getting drunk on her birthday wasn’t easy’
The writer discusses her debut novel and what she’d like to do to Irish puppy farms
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I'm not really here anymore, but just to say that Wild Iris (Dedalus) launches at Hodges Figgis, Dublin, on 19 May, everyone is welcome ❤️
I love gables and chimneys...get a good sonder-y vibe off them, the thought of hearths through generations. Throw in a bit of climate melancholy and rain soused stone...
Submissions are now open for 2026 BBC National Short Story Awards with Cambridge University. Deadline Monday 16th March. The BBC National Short Story Award is open to published writers who are British citizens and/or resident in the UK www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/a...
BBC Radio 4 - BBC National Short Story Award - Submissions open for 2026 BBC National Short Story Awards with Cambridge University
Find out how to enter this year's competition.
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It was really nice to see a little flurry of support yesterday, so I'm tentatively dipping toe back in social waters. Bear says hello. Bear was digging in seaweed this morning, which is one of his favourite things to do 🐕
Years back when I was on writing Twitter (bless us, we were so innocent), this news would've been so exciting to share. Now, I'm not sure where everyone has gone, or if I'm going to stick around on here. But I *am* excited to see Wild Iris on this incredible list! www.irishtimes.com/culture/book...
The best fiction of 2026 to look forward to: Books from Louise Kennedy, Donal Ryan, Sebastian Barry and more
A comprehensive round-up of fiction from Irish and international authors due out this year
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Very grateful to Madeleine Keane and The Irish Independent for including Wild Iris in their list of books to look out for in 2026 📕❤️📕 www.independent.ie/entertainmen...
The lovely Brendan Mac Evilly is the latest guest on the Burning Books podcast — tune in, wherever you listen 🔥 @ruthmckee.bsky.social
His Granda Jack would be impressed...Reuben's first crop of tomatoes (grown from a supermarket tomato seed) ❤️
I've never thought of the Golden Fleece as anything more than a passive thing, an object—until I read the story of Theophane, the mother of the golden ram (taken as a young girl by Poseidon, turned into a ewe, then raped by him as a ram) in Natalie Haynes' new book.
Banshee Press will open for book submissions from 1-15 October. More details to follow soon. Ready your manuscripts! 📝 bansheepress.org/read/banshee...
Banshee Press will open for book submissions from 1-15 October — Banshee Press
Banshee Press will be accepting book-length submissions of fiction, poetry and memoir from 1-15 October 2025 . All submitted manuscripts will be considered for our 2027 and 2028 lists (and perhaps…
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Youngest growing tomatoes on his windowsill, channelling his late Granda Jack 🍅
I think the IFI is my favourite place to be these days. This was superb. Late Shift, directed by Petra Biondina Volpe 📽️ www.youtube.com/watch?v=D8xR...
Late Shift | Official Trailer (2025) | In Cinemas 1st August
YouTube video by Vertigo Releasing
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REMINDER for my poetry workshop! Still some places left. One-day poetry workshop with Nuala O’Connor, from 10.30am – 4.30pm on Sat 16th of Aug. Presented by Group8 Cost: €110. Places are limited and booking is essential. To secure a place, please book through the following link: bit.ly/4lcGkX7
This is going to be a fascinating series of videos full of writers talking about writing in Dublin, and Dublin as a character in its own right (full disclosure, I'm involved in one of the later ones!) Made by the @irishwriterscentre.bsky.social and Dublin UNESCO City of Literature.
Dublin, One City, Many Stories, Video One, Joseph O'Connor
YouTube video by Jo Morton
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An excellent fundraiser is being run by CBI pals @rurooie.bsky.social and @sineadohart.bsky.social to raise vital funds for @medicalaidpal.bsky.social Lots of great bookish bits on offer for teachers, aspiring writer and children’s literature enthusiasts alike www.ruthennis.com/irish-kidlit... 🍉
God this is good. Preparing for tomorrow’s podcast with Theo Dorgan 🔥
Truly beautiful book post today. 'This edition of Seamus Heaney’s seminal fourth collection North, reproduced in its elegant first setting and in its original jacket, marks fifty years since first publication in 1975.' This is a special one. Thank you @faberbooks.bsky.social
