Tolka
@tolkajournal.bsky.social
Literary journal of formally promiscuous non-fiction. Publishing essays, memoir, autofiction and the overflow. Supported by the Arts Council. tolkajournal.org
Our annual Summer Bundle is now on sale ☀️ You can buy Issue Nine (Summer 2025), Issue Ten (Winter 2025) and Issue Eleven (Summer 2026) for just €25 ✨ Featured writers include Annie Ernaux, Wendy Erskine, Jon Fosse, Sara Baume and Gustav Parker Hibbett 🔥 tolkajournal.org/shop/p/summe...
Great writers, great writing ✨ Since 2021, we’ve published some of the best emerging and established non-fiction writers at work today 🌊 To support more great writing, you can subscribe to Tolka here: tolkajournal.org/shop/
Our annual Summer Bundle is now on sale ☀️ You can buy Issue Nine (Summer 2025), Issue Ten (Winter 2025) and Issue Eleven (Summer 2026) for just €25 ✨ Featured writers include Annie Ernaux, Wendy Erskine, Jon Fosse, Sara Baume and Gustav Parker Hibbett 🔥 tolkajournal.org/shop/p/summe...
🎉We are thrilled that Makenna Goodman’s HELEN OF NOWHERE has been longlisted for the 2026 @thebookerprizes.com 🎉 Read an excerpt from the book here: fitzcarraldoeditions.com/books/helen-...
A wee shout out to my favourite books from the first half of 2026! 📚 #NowISurrender by Álvaro Enrigue + transl. by Natasha Wimmer #Yesteryear by Caro Claire Burke #Land by Maggie O’Farrell A shout out as well to @tolkajournal.bsky.social for their latest issue – stellar stuff!
For Issue Eleven, writer and activist R Alice interviewed renowned scholar Rashid Khalidi about Palestine, settler-colonialism, zionism, and the parallels (and crucial differences) between Irish and Palestinian experiences of imperialism. tolkajournal.org/shop/p/issue...
For Issue Eleven, writer and activist R Alice interviewed renowned scholar Rashid Khalidi about Palestine, settler-colonialism, zionism, and the parallels (and crucial differences) between Irish and Palestinian experiences of imperialism. tolkajournal.org/shop/p/issue...
Issue Eleven London launch! Hosted by Deleted Scenes - join us at Beasy Bar in Soho, 7pm Tuesday 30th June. With readings from: 🎷 Darran Anderson 🎷 Lola Olufemi 🎷 J.S. Loveard 🎷 Georgie Evans Free entry, save the date.
Issue Eleven London launch! Hosted by Deleted Scenes - join us at Beasy Bar in Soho, 7pm Tuesday 30th June. With readings from: 🎷 Darran Anderson 🎷 Lola Olufemi 🎷 J.S. Loveard 🎷 Georgie Evans Free entry, save the date.
We are launched! Huge thanks to @booksupstairs.bsky.social for having us, and to Aisling Clark for these lovely snaps. Thanks of course to our brilliant contributors for reading so beautifully from their work (and for agreeing to pose for the family photo at the end).
Absolutely delighted to have a short essay included in this issue of @tolkajournal.bsky.social alongside so many great essays by writers I love
Tolka@tolkajournal.bsky.social · 2mo agoWe had such a wonderful launch for Tolka Issue Eleven @booksupstairs.bsky.social last week! Pre-orders/subscriptions are on their way across Ireland, with the rest to follow soon . . . You can grab a copy/subscription here: tolkajournal.org/shop/
We had such a wonderful launch for Tolka Issue Eleven @booksupstairs.bsky.social last week! Pre-orders/subscriptions are on their way across Ireland, with the rest to follow soon . . . You can grab a copy/subscription here: tolkajournal.org/shop/
Lots of stolen photos from a lovely evening @booksupstairs.bsky.social launching the new edition of @tolkajournal.bsky.social in which I have a new essay, with a bunch of wonderful folk.
Episode 5 of Books and Their Makers: Tolka @ 10 Catherine and Liam from @tolkajournal.bsky.social spoke to me on the launch of their tenth issue - they talked about how one of the best contemporary lit mags around started, how it developed, and where it might be going: radio.moli.ie/r/tolka-at-ten
Tolka @ 10 | RadioMoLI
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Bloomsbury Books UK@bloomsburybooksuk.bsky.social · 3mo agoWe're thrilled to unveil the cover for The Red Mouth by Sheila Armstrong... From a rising star in literary fiction comes a story of two discoveries made deep in an Irish bogland, threading together four lives across time. The Red Mouth is out on July 2nd.
We have a new podcast episode out with the fabulous @wednesdayerskin.bsky.social ✨ In this episode, Wendy joins us to talk about her essay, ‘Clobber’, published in Tolka Issue Ten 👚
We have a new podcast episode out with the fabulous @wednesdayerskin.bsky.social ✨ In this episode, Wendy joins us to talk about her essay, ‘Clobber’, published in Tolka Issue Ten 👚
#London pals - the wonderful @jancarsonwrites.bsky.social will be at Bard Books in E3 next Thurs (21st May 7pm) talking to the equally wonderful Caoilinn Hughes - do book a seat & go - bookings currently low & they deserve support & you can talk about me. Bx
Meet the Bàrd: author Jan Carson
Best-selling author Jan Carson talks to Caoilinn Hughes about her new book 'Few and Far Between'
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Submissions are for Tolka Issue Twelve are now open 💥 This submission window will close at midnight on Sunday 31 May. We accept all kinds of non-fiction, including essays, biography, auto-fiction, and more besides... tolkajournal.org/submit-to-to...
Submissions are for Tolka Issue Twelve are now open 💥 This submission window will close at midnight on Sunday 31 May. We accept all kinds of non-fiction, including essays, biography, auto-fiction, and more besides... tolkajournal.org/submit-to-to...
