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Applications for our 6-month workshops are open until 5pm Thursday August 1st. Concession rates and one free place will be available on each of the three workshops. Full information on dates, fees and how to apply are available here:

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2 years

NEWS: We are very pleased to welcome Lisa McInerney @LisaTheHeretic as the new editor of The Stinging Fly.

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Some lovely news to share today as @WednesdayErskin is announced winner of the 2020 Butler Literary Award from the Irish American Cultural Institute. Congratulations, Wendy!

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4 years

We've opened our archive with all the great writing we've published in the magazine since 1998. Dig in!

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2 years

We are open for submissions from November 15 to November 30. If you are a new writer and you have questions about how our submission process works, we are hosting a free online information session on Tuesday November 22 at 8pm. Sign up for it here:

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Very grateful to @Max_Uf and @nytimesbooks for this article today – and to everyone who has said nice things. (Also grateful to the gardeners for keeping the place looking so well!)

How a Tiny Literary Magazine Became a Springboard for Great Irish Writing (Published 2023)

The Stinging Fly has helped launch several of Ireland’s most promising writers. How has a publication with 1,000 subscribers carved a niche in the Irish canon?

www.nytimes.com

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3 years

Very proud of Sally Rooney publishing her third novel today. A fantastic achievement that can be overlooked amid the hoopla. Publication day is a significant milestone for any writer so congratulations to everyone who's reaching it today - or who will do so this week/month/year!

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AAANNNNNDDDDDD we are open for submissions until the end of the month… looking for stories, novel extracts, poems, essays.

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9 months

OTD: Maeve Brennan died in a nursing home in New York on November 1st 1993, aged 76. Today we publish her story ‘The Bride’ on our website and we’re happy to announce that we are bringing out a new edition of The Rose Garden next year.

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2 years

Call for submissions for our All New Writers issue.

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5 years

We're moving office after nine years. This picture was taken for an @IrishTimes article in 2013 and somehow or other things have only got messier since then. I'm pretty sure there's a Marie Kondo book in here somewhere…

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OTD: Friday March 6th 1998 we launched the first issue of the Fly in the @IrishWritersCtr . We didn't have an issue number on it. I certainly wasn't thinking that I'd be thinking (or tweeting) about it 25 years later.

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Very happy to announce the wonderful Annemarie Ní Churreáin as our incoming poetry editor. @NiChurr takes over from Cal Doyle in November in time for our next submission round. Massive thanks to @elyodlac for all his great work during the last five years.

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7 years

So we have some good news… more than just excited to welcome the wonderful @sallyrooney on board as our new editor!

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3 years

It's a good day when you get to share a story by @WednesdayErskin - here's ‘Gloria and Max’, the latest story in our online fiction series. And by way of NEWS, Wendy is working on a new collection, which we'll publish early next year. Whoop!

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4 years

We're accepting submissions of poetry through the month of November. And then we're accepting stories from December 14th until January 8th. Work received will be considered for our two 2021 issues.

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Hope this list is useful - some of the great Irish bookshops that have closed their doors but that are still doing brilliant work getting books out to us. RTs can only help… (& feel free to add more booksellers below. I know there are many more.) #COVID19ireland #shoplocal

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2 years

We are open for submissions until midnight November 30th. This is for our Summer 2023 issue and we are looking for short stories, novel extracts, non-fiction and poetry. Submission guidelines and a new Submissions FAQ are available here:

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We're delighted to announce Róisín Kiberd @roisinkiberd as the new non-fiction editor of The Stinging Fly. "It’s an honour to be invited to play a part in this process, and to help bring new and unique creative non-fiction into the world."

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6 years

We'll be 20 next month and we're celebrating this in a number of ways… for now though I just want to tell you that we're accepting submissions through March from previously unpublished writers - stories and poems. Do please help us spread the word. #Fly20

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2 years

Thanks to everyone (all 2858 of you!) who sent us in their work up to last night's submission deadline. We received: 1592 short stories 201 novel extracts 176 non-fiction essays or extracts 766 poetry submissions 123 featured poet submissions. Time for us to get reading.

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We are looking for the next editor of The Stinging Fly. Apply with CV & cover letter by Monday May 30th. Job starts in August 2022, 3-year part-time contract. RTs appreciated. #jobfairy Full information here:

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4 years

Many thanks to all you writers who submitted work to us over the past couple of months. Our fiction submission window closed at midnight last night - 1853 stories received, another record high for us. Fair to say we'll now be busy reading for the next while. On we go...

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5 years

Yay @nicoleflattery - our first ever Irish Book Award. As Nicole rightly pointed out!!!

An Post Irish Book Awards

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The WINNER of the @writing_ie SHORT STORY OF THE YEAR is… #APIBAS #ReadersWanted

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4 years

Our summer issue, folks! It can be pre-ordered now and hopefully we'll get to print and post it out to you next month. In the meantime, we've made a sampler PDF to tide you over. This is going out shortly to all our subscribers and patrons too.

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3 years

COVER REVEAL: Very very happy to report that our winter issue has gone to print. The cover artwork is ‘Mountains Blue’ by Róisín O’Sullivan () & design by @deirdrebreen . More info on what's inside to follow soon!

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We publish a new short story on our website tomorrow & we plan to publish a new story online each month from now on. We get SO many submissions & can only fit tiny % in the mag so we're delighted to open this extra space for new work. ALSO this is a great story by @BelaquaBliss !

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1 year

NEW: ‘You gotta have faith’ | Donal Ryan “The act of sitting, poised, waiting for something to occur, is as necessary a part of the writing process as the typing of words onto a screen. Or so I tell myself.”

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4 years

Very happy to announce the imminent arrival of our Winter 20-21 issue, the Galway 2020 edition, published in association with @galway2020 . Cover art is by Maeve Curtis with design by @caegaffney . Going to subscribers & available from bookshops next week.

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20 years in the making, this one… not that I've known co-editor @sarahgbooks all that long. Stinging Fly Stories – 40 short stories from our first 20 years. Coming out next month… we'll have it up on the website tomorrow #fly20

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2 years

Our All New Writers Issue - in which we welcome 47 wonderful writers we haven't published before! Making its way into shops and out to all our subscribers next week. Order it now.

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3 years

NEWS: Our Summer 2022 issue is one for the poets. Read the call for submissions from poetry editor, Cal Doyle, here:

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3 years

Summer is on its way… we just need to believe in it! This will be out next week. The cover artwork is by Lee Welch.

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2 years

COVER REVEAL: Delighted to share the cover for our upcoming All New Writers issue. Artwork is by @PhilipMossArt | Graphic Design is by @eimeargavin |

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2 years

This is a lovely thing that happened last night. Massive congrats to @WednesdayErskin !

Edge Hill Prize

@EHUShortStory

2 years

And the readers choice goes to…

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We are looking for artwork for the cover of our All New Writers issue, which we'll publish in November. If you are an emerging artist living in Ireland – or you consider Ireland to be your home – we'd love to see your work. Closing Date: August 3rd.

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6 years

OTD twenty years ago we launched our first issue, all 28 pages of it, with 12 poems and 5 short stories. We had the launch in the @IrishWritersCtr - it was a Friday and copies were delivered from the printers late that afternoon. Read the full issue here:

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2 years

On #PoetryDayIRL we are delighted to reveal the cover & contents of our first ever poetry issue, edited by @elyodlac . The beautiful artwork is by @faherty_o , design by the very talented @deirdrebreen . Looking forward to sharing all this great new work with our readers next month!

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4 years

I have a lot to answer for... Putting Kevin Barry on the stage is not the worst of it.

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4 years

If you are thinking of buying a book, please support your local bookseller. If you are not thinking of buying a book, what in the name of all that's holy is wrong with you?

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Summer! We've got to believe in it. It's coming. –Cover artwork: a photograph by Hugh O’Conor –Cover design by Eimear Gavin Join us for the launch on May 18th @ILFDublin

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2 years

Heads-up… heads down… we are open for submissions next month from November 15th to November 30th. We look forward to reading your work!

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3 years

Is all this sport really necessary?

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NEWS: We say so long and a massive thank you to Danny Denton for his stellar work as editor of the magazine this past three years. (Though luckily he's staying on as a contributing editor.)

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Massive congratulations to Cathy Sweeney and @ColinBarrett82 who are both launching debut novels in Dublin this week. ___________ Breakdown by Cathy Sweeney Wednesday Jan 24 | 6pm @BooksUpstairs ____________ Wild Houses by Colin Barrett Thursday Jan 25 | 6pm @Hodges_Figgis

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5 years

This is delightful news! Thanks to the judges and all at @StackMagazines !

Stack Magazines

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The winner of Best Original Fiction is @stingingfly ! #StackAwards2019

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4 years

We hope you can join us for a reading from our summer issue. Happening online on Thursday August 13th at 8pm. More details soon…

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1 year

NEWS: We are delighted to welcome Eoin Rogers on board in the new role of Programme Manager. Previously Publications and Editorial Coordinator with @poetryireland , Eoin is already hard at work planning our summer school in July, this month’s @ILFDublin events and plenty more…

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4 years

We are ready for this! Open for fiction submissions from Monday December 14th until midnight on Friday January 8th.

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1 year

NEW: @JanCarson7280 writes 'On community' ‘I was not an open-minded person when I first began to publish books. Writers befriended and accepted me with all my fundamentalist baggage. They gave me the time and space to change. They did not judge me.’

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3 years

Very happy to welcome @Terribleman as our first ever Translator in Residence - we've had him working away for a while! - also delighted that we have a small bursary available for a new/emerging translator. Applications are now open:

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3 years

Very happy to feature the mighty Alice Maher's work on another of our book covers. And this image, Vox Hybrida 3, is the perfect fit for @WednesdayErskin 's brilliant new collection. Cover design is by @roryjeffers . DANCE MOVE launches next month...

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6 years

TFW you're on a little bit of a high after celebrating 20 years of publishing in Ireland and next day a book on the history of Irish book publishing is launched that apparently contains no mention of The Stinging Fly magazine or press. (Don't go getting ahead of yourself, kid!)

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9 months

Join us as we celebrate the launch of the latest issue of The Stinging Fly on Thursday November 23rd from 8pm in Hen's Teeth, Dublin. We hope to see you there 🎉

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4 years

We're open again for submissions for this issue from tomorrow until Monday March 2nd. The issue will be published in November.

Galway 2020

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4 years

This year, literary journal @stingingfly will create a very special #Galway2020 issue, . Guest editor, Lisa McInerney is a novelist, short story and screenplay writer and one of the most engaging voices in contemporary Irish literature.

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2 years

We are delighted to still be working with (the by no means) @Terribleman . It means we get to do this again: our New Translator's Bursary. This year we’re looking for short stories translated into English from any Asian language. Closing date is November 4.

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4 years

Irish Times editorial today. Great to be mentioned alongside Ciaran Carty and the late David Marcus as a champion of the short story.

The Irish Times view on the Irish short story: voice of a covert people

Niamh Campbell’s success is the latest sign of a golden age for the short form in Ireland

www.irishtimes.com

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8 months

Submissions are now closed. Thanks to everyone who sent us in their work.

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5 years

To mark Danielle McLaughlin's great #shortstoryaward10 win, we've unlocked our archive to share some more of her stories that we've been privileged to publish in the magazine. Here's the first one we had, back in 2012: All About Alice

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3 years

NEWS!

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5 years

Photo from yesterday's summer issue launch @NanoNaglePlace as part of #crosstowndrift @CorkMidsummer - Kevin Barry, @WednesdayErskin & @DanniLmc - all three are on the @ShortStoryAward longlist and I am more than a little chuffed.

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4 years

Alright yes I did just try to pass myself off as Kate O'Brien Award winner @nicoleflattery and @SarahDavisGoff @AnneGriffin_ and the good people of Limerick were having none of it. Delighted for Nicole and proud! The brilliant shortlist also included Lucy Sweeney Byrne.

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3 years

This is almost too much! Thanks to Olivia from @WinterPapers for sending it on.

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3 years

Our winter issue is out now. Many thanks to @os_roisin for the beautiful cover artwork and to @deirdrebreen for the stellar design.

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2 months

Summer 2024… here it is. Very excited to share all this great new writing with you.

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1 year

NEWS: We are looking for someone who will help us to plan and deliver our annual programme of activities. This is a new, full-time position. Applications will close on February 20th. Please apply and/or help to spread the word. More info here:

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1 year

Delighted to announce the imminent arrival of our next book: The Hour After Happy Hour by the wonderfully talented Mary O'Donoghue. We're taking pre-orders now. Dublin launch is on June 29th in the @gutterbookshop , Galway event is July 8th in @ByrnesBooks .

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7 years

It's finally coming... Got our winter issue off to the printers this week. Lots of great new writing, much of it on the theme of #housing and #homelessness . Cover art is by Niamh Flanagan

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4 years

Maybe because we had to delay printing it and there's been such a flurry of activity getting copies out to people, I've not properly taken a moment to say what an absolute BELTER of an issue this is with such a great line-up of writers…👏👏👏editors Danny Denton and Cal Doyle!

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what brilliant news!

The London Magazine

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🎉 Congratulations Nicole Flattery on winning The London Magazine Prize for Debut Fiction 2020 with her short story collection Show Them a Good Time ( @stingingfly / @BloomsburyBooks ). For more information and for the judges comments, visit our website:

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'Don’t discount a half-hour slot. It’s easy to say, oh I might as well read a mag and have a coffee because you can get nothing done in half an hour. Well actually, you can.' @WednesdayErskin on short stories and finding the time to write them.

Walk the Line: Author Wendy Erskine on the literary freedom of short stories and life advice from...

The Belfast-based author and secondary school teacher enrolled in a fiction workshop seven years ago. Two books and countless publications later, she reflects on what she has learned

www.businesspost.ie

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5 years

Here it is… our Summer 2019 issue edited by @denton_danny - chock-full of pure reading pleasure - we expect to have copies back from the printers later this week.

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4 years

By my reckoning, nearly everyone on Twitter has read and loved this book by now. I thoroughly enjoyed it too and it was a great pleasure to talk to @MumblinDeafRo for our latest podcast episode, which we'll share with you tomorrow.

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1 year

We are looking for original artwork to feature on our next couple of covers… Artists, please send us images by Friday August 11th.🙏

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1 year

NEW: Call-out for Cover Art We are inviting visual artists to submit artwork for our next cover(s). Closing date is Friday August 11th. More info here:

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3 years

We are hosting a couple of free information sessions next month for people starting out as writers. We'll have a panel of writers and editors at each event to answer your questions. Please help spread the word! Register here:

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9 months

Our winter issue is on its way! We expect to have copies back from the printers this week and then it will start winging its way to subscribers and into bookshops early next week. Launch event is next week too Thurs Nov 23 8pm in Hen's Teeth. All welcome.

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11 months

Thursday 6pm, our Editor at Large, Thomas Morris, is launching his new book of stories. Come along to @Hodges_Figgis and join the celebrations!

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5 months

NEW: @Emily_S_Cooper on making a go of things as a writer. “As far as I can tell you either get used to it, or you don’t – and it chews you up. I have learned to send out applications and then forget about them… Rejection becomes background noise.”

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2 years

NEW: ‘Notes on resilience’ by @oneflawediris “Just a year earlier, I would not have sent out new words, not submitted to this potential rejection, too shy with my ambition, safer to ignore the opportunity. Limited myself. Now I pick myself up.”

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6 years

Doesn't this look lovely? It's the @DublinBookFest shop @smockalley run by the magnificent @gutterbookshop . Open now until Sunday with loads of great Irish published books including quite a few of our own. Get in!!

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6 years

So this is what our Summer 2018 issue cover will look like… illustrated and designed by Tom Godfrey. Out next week… more info soon.

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4 years

Big thanks to the @IrishWritersCtr for having us back. Last time we were on Parnell Square it was 2010 and we were between offices then too. It's like moving back in with the folks...

Irish Writers Centre

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Welcome to the building @stingingfly ! We're delighted to have you at the IWC for the next wee while 🏠

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Our Summer 2020 issue is at the printers... better late than never. We'll be sending out copies next week so this is a really good time to subscribe.

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7 years

NEW: How To Edit Your Own Lousy Writing - @juliangough has plenty to say about getting beyond the right words down…

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1 year

NEW: Call-out for Cover Art We are inviting visual artists to submit artwork for our next cover(s). Closing date is Friday August 11th. More info here:

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6 years

Please help us share this information about our new anthology Counterparts, which we're publishing to raise funds for @PMVTrust and which is edited by the brilliant @DanniLmc - do also consider buying it/gifting it this Christmas. Thank you.

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NEW: Notes on rejection by Danielle McLaughlin, @crawjill , @nphegarty , @ange_tranvan , @annaw999 and Mia Gallagher, with an introduction by Editor at Large, Thomas Morris.

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4 years

So I'm doing fine without cigarettes, thank you very much. It's been one year today since I smoked my last. Still missing people...

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4 years

Update. I'm not missing cigarettes but I am starting to miss people… ❤️y'all!

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3 years

Poets! We're accepting submissions through this month for our first ever all poetry issue. Submit up to three poems by November 1st. We look forward to reading your work.

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4 years

Very happy to report that we've had to reprint our #Galway2020 edition AND that we'll be sharing some work from the issue on our website next week…

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3 years

We've been busy this past while, getting our house in order. Delighted to be able to share our new strategy document with you today.

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1 year

NEW: ‘The House That Shame Built’, a reflection on the writing life by Sheila Armstrong @Sheela_no_gig ‘Writing is the only time when the papery thinness of my skin feels like an asset; when curiosity climbs over shame to burn like a guiding beacon…’

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“Is it merely a coincidence that crisis conditions in our housing system have emerged during the very same period that private investors have come to own an ever higher proportion of our housing stock? Of course not.” Sally Rooney in today’s @IrishTimes .

Sally Rooney: Renters are being exploited and evictions must be stopped

Opinion: The nice thing about being a landlord in Ireland today, as the late Margaret Thatcher might observe, is that you never seem to run out of other people’s money

www.irishtimes.com

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4 years

Eavan Boland has been and no doubt will continue to be an inspiration to new generations of poets as they find their voices and claim a space for themselves. I emailed her in Jan 2007 asking for a new poem and she got back within a few hours with this one.

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We are very, very happy to be publishing Cathy Sweeney's first book in March… We first published Cathy's work in our Summer 2011 issue. Advance proofs coming soon.

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“Are excessive sex and dead animals what we can now expect from the Irish story?” asks Patricia Craig in this @TheTLS review of Stinging Fly Stories and our most recent issues. Yes, that's it, that's all we're into now.

Impossibly dark roads | TLS

The Irish short story takes a sombre turn

www.the-tls.co.uk

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1 year

It's all going on… Our summer issue has landed. Lots of great new writing in here. Cover art is Pat Curran’s wonderful painting ‘Home’, graphic design by Eimear Gavin. Launch event 8.30pm on Saturday as part of @ILFDublin !

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4 years

We published 5 new short stories on the website during the past week - selected and edited by Lisa McInerney as part of her duties as guest editor of our #Galway2020 edition. In case you missed them here they are again.

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2 years

NEW: We asked a bunch of our editors, writers and collaborators to write about something/one thing that made a significant impact on them during 2022. Happy new year, everyone! We look forward to sharing plenty more great new writing with you in 2023.

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So the #Galway2020 programme got launched this evening and we're very happy to be part of it with a special Galway issue next November #galway2020fly . We're open for submissions from October 1st. Read what guest editor Lisa McInerney is looking for here:

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The Stinging Fly

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5 years

On #InternationalDogDay Emmylou agreed to a bit of promotion for our summer issue... in return for an undisclosed number of treats.

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