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The Pig's Back

@thepigsback.bsky.social

The Pig's Back is a literary journal based in Donegal. Edited by Dean Fee + Emily Cooper. Produced by the Regional Cultural Centre, Letterkenny.

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Leila Essa@leilaessai.bsky.social · 12mo ago

Ordered @dan-sinnamon.bsky.social and @johannawinant.bsky.social’s freshly published Close Reading for the 21st Century to our library and pre-ordered next issue of @thepigsback.bsky.social (with an essay by Sophie Corser!!) - great day for anticipatory reading joy www.thepigsback.ie/shop/p/issue...

Issue Seven — The Pig's Back

Featuring writing from Sophie Corser, Wendy Erskine, Rosa Mäkelä, Dara McWade, Laura Morris, Nicole Morris and Odrán Waldron.

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The Pig's Back@thepigsback.bsky.social · last yr.

🐷 End of Summer Sale 🐷 For the next week we have up to 30% off select back issues on our website. There are literally only 1 or 2 of some of these left. So if you’re short one to fill the set (so far), get yourself over to our website before they sell out for good.

The Pig's Back@thepigsback.bsky.social · last yr.

"I was seventeen years old, pale as pasta water and about to carry out what would become the most elaborate sting operation ever seen in the history of Xtra-Vision video rental, main street, Tipperary Town, Ireland." — Dove Sta Memoria: My Brain on Video Games, Paul Whyte

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The Pig's Back@thepigsback.bsky.social · last yr.

"Peter had told me they couldn’t get you off the mountain—something about money, and you being too heavy. I didn’t get it. I remembered how he used to pick you up like you were a sack of potatoes." — Snow White, Kathy Stevens

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The Pig's Back@thepigsback.bsky.social · last yr.

Our editor Emily is running an 8-week non-fiction editing course with the Irish Writer's Centre. "Each week we will workshop the participants’ work-in-progress with a focus on peer feedback, editing and structure, with the aim of building self-editing skills."

Irish Writers Centre@irishwriterscentre.bsky.social · last yr.

🔹 UPCOMING COURSES 🔹 Self-Editing Non-Fiction with Emily Cooper Aimed at writers with a body of non-fiction (small or large) that they are hoping to polish for publication. 🕣 6.30pm-8.30pm 📅 9 July 2025 (8 sessions) 💻 Online irishwriterscentre.ie/courses/self...

The Pig's Back@thepigsback.bsky.social · last yr.

"The woman at reception smiles like nothing bad has ever happened to her. She leads us around the retreat centre with such pride that you would think she built it with her bare hands." — Saturn Return, Kerry Mahony

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The Pig's Back@thepigsback.bsky.social · last yr.

"Though Martin often watches home improvement shows and Netflix documentaries about bludgeoned women in bed on his laptop, he doesn’t believe there is any place for a television in an adult’s apartment." — 'I could not have written this without you' by Sam Furlong.

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The Pig's Back@thepigsback.bsky.social · last yr.

'My father had said a lot of quotable things over his lifetime: 𝑓𝑜𝑟𝑒𝑤𝑎𝑟𝑛𝑒𝑑 𝑖𝑠 𝑓𝑜𝑟𝑒𝑎𝑟𝑚𝑒𝑑, or 𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑟𝑒 𝑎𝑟𝑒 𝑛𝑜 𝑝𝑜𝑐𝑘𝑒𝑡𝑠 𝑖𝑛 𝑎 𝑠ℎ𝑟𝑜𝑢𝑑. “None of these are head stone appropriate,” I said to him.' — from Land Eats You by Laura Fitzgerald

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The Pig's Back@thepigsback.bsky.social · last yr.

"He thought Susan was a good girl, but foolish and in need of protection. He remembered her appearance on the day he arrested her: sweating, pale and aching in the septic ward of the Sparkhill Women’s Hospital." — 'I am not going to punish you', Máiréad Enright.

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The Pig's Back@thepigsback.bsky.social · last yr.

"He thought Susan was a good girl, but foolish and in need of protection. He remembered her appearance on the day he arrested her: sweating, pale and aching in the septic ward of the Sparkhill Women’s Hospital." — 'I am not going to punish you', Máiréad Enright.

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The Pig's Back@thepigsback.bsky.social · last yr.

🐷SUBMISSIONS NOW OPEN🐷 Send us your best essays and short fiction. Window closes at the end of the month and once again, please read the guidelines. thepigsback.ie/submit

Submit — The Pig's Back

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The Pig's Back@thepigsback.bsky.social · 2y ago

🐷SUBMISSIONS 🐷 The submission window for our next issue will open between the 15th and the 30th April. We're looking for your best essays and short fiction. Please read the guidelines before submitting. thepigsback.ie/submit

The Pig's Back@thepigsback.bsky.social · last yr.

"I know that it's safer for children to walk to and from school in daylight; that there might be tear gas and harassment, but there are also witnesses. In the dark, it is more difficult to see, the soldiers and settlers are less watched and children can go missing."

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Máiréad Enright@maireadenright.bsky.social · 2y ago

I was lucky enough to participate in this last year, and would recommend it to anyone. (One of the pieces I workshopped is coming out in the new @thepigsback.bsky.social, and the open supportive atmosphere Arnold created helped give me the confidence to submit it. So now.).

Arnold Thomas Fanning@arnoldtfanning.bsky.social · 2y ago

Next Thursday, 03 April, 5pm, is the deadline to apply for places in the Summer School from @stingingfly.bsky.social . I'll be running the ONLINE Creative Non-Fiction Workshop. Hope you can join me!

Poster for info on Stinging Fly Summer School.
The Pig's Back@thepigsback.bsky.social · 2y ago

🐷 Issue Six 🐷 is back from the printers and will be dropping in through letterboxes and into the best bookshops in the next few days. Featuring new work from Emily Iseult Duggan, Máiréad Enright, Laura Fitzgerald, Sam Furlong, Kerry Mahony, Kathy Stevens and Paul Whyte.

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