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Magazine established in 1997 to publish & promote the very best new Irish and international writing. Stinging Fly Press was launched in 2005. Winter 2024-25 Issue #51 available now https://stingingfly.org/product/winter-2024-25/
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The team @stingingfly.bsky.social are looking for an experienced and highly organised individual to be their General Manager. This is a new hybrid and part-time role (28 hours per week). Deadline 31 March
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As an editor and mentor, Thomas has worked on stories and books by authors including Nicole Flattery, Rebecca Ivory, Michael Magee, Liadan Ní Chuinn, and Chetna Maroo.
He worked as an editor at The Stinging Fly for over a decade.
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Mentoring Panel – Online Event, March 10th, 7pm 💡
Ahead of the next event in our Tuesday Nights Live! series - Meet the Panelists! 🌱
Thomas Morris is the author of two books of stories: We Don’t Know What We’re Doing (2015) and Open Up (2023), both published by Faber & Faber.
She is an experienced teacher of poetry and currently mentors on the National Mentoring programme and for Carlow Pittsburgh University’s MFA Program, USA. She is a member of Aosdána.
Book your free ticket below. All are welcome.
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ONE WEEK TO GO
Mentoring Panel – Online Event, March 10th, 7pm
Ahead of the next event in our Tuesday Nights Live! series - Meet the Panelists! 🌱💡
Enda Wyley is a Dublin poet and has published seven collections of poetry, most recently Sudden Light, Dedalus Press, October 2025.
‘Pleading The Belly‘ by John O'Donnell is available to read now:
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“As I raised myself on my elbows, she lowered her head over me, just beneath my belly button. One hand stroked my skin, while her other hand held the receptacle below.“
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Strong recommend. A fantastic book.
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Recently Every One Still Here was shortlisted for The Sunday Times Charlotte Aitken Young Writer of the Year Award, the most influential prize for young writers in the UK and Ireland.
The winner will be announced on Tuesday 24th March 2026.
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We are delighted to announce the new paperback edition of Every One Still Here by Liadan Ní Chuinn
The new edition marks 1 year since the original edition of the book.
Order here🔗
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Cover artwork: Stephanie Deady, 'EMOTIONAL CALCULUS 7' Cover design: Eimear Gavin
NEW TSF Podcast: Climate Issue Special
Our host Nicole Flattery is joined by magazine editor Lisa McInerney and former non-fiction editor Róisín Kiberd to discuss putting together Winter 2025-26 Issue 53 - The Climate Issue.
Listen here: stingingfly.org/podcast/clim...
Wondering what we're up to this Spring? 🌼
Here are some key dates to add to your calendar 🗓️
More details on the applications for our Summer School & submissions window for our magazine cover artwork will be shared via newsletter 🎨
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Enda Wyley, Thomas Morris, and Elaine Garvey will join our publisher Declan Meade to discuss their experiences of mentoring. They will offer insights into how mentorship works and the ways in which it can contribute to a writer's development.
Tuesday 10th March 7-8.15pm (Irish Time) via Zoom.
We are delighted to announce the next event in our Tuesday Nights Live! series.
Mentoring Panel – Online Event 🟥
Free event. Registration is required via 🔗 us02web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
This free event will feature contributors to the issue, Claire Carroll, Saoirse Exton and Ariel Saramandi, reading and discussing their work with our editor Lisa McInerney and publisher Declan Meade.
Read the writers bios below.
Final call for our Climate Issue – Online Event, tonight at 7pm-8pm (Irish Time).
Have you registered for the event yet?
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It will be an opportunity for us all to reflect on some of the work in the issue.
Join us for what will be a brilliant conversation.
“She had a longing for a Dublin taxi driver who would have half his life story told before the first set of lights. As the cab trudged forward she checked her cell for new messages but there was nothing.”
- Sarah Gilmartin, ‘Living in America’
(@sarahgilmartin.bsky.social)
NEW on our website | A short story by @sarahgilmartin.bsky.social is available to read now:
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Three contributors to the issue, Claire Carroll, Saoirse Exton and Ariel Saramandi, will join editor Lisa McInerney and publisher Declan Meade to read and discuss their work.
Tuesday 10th February 7-8pm (Irish Time) via Zoom.
All are welcome, we would love to see you there.
We are excited to announce a special Climate Issue – Online Event next Tuesday 10th February 🌊
Our Climate Issue offers variety of responses to the changing climate and our responsibility to the present political moment 🍃
Free event. Registration is required 🔗 us02web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
This is a cracking read… new novella coming soon from Danielle McLaughlin. Published by @stingingfly.bsky.social
A thoughtful and generous review from @stingingfly.bsky.social about Susanna Galbraith's debut morsels as well as a few lines of praise to Sam Furlong's debut Crowd Work. Thank you so much to reviewer Ellen Orchard!
Read it here: stingingfly.org/review/irish...
“If this global moment is marked by ‘prevailing untruth’ and widespread dissemination of lies, all four of these collections show an acute awareness of the poet’s duty to exactitude of language: the importance of trying to say exactly what it is that you mean.”
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NEW on our website | Ellen Orchard reviews 2025 Irish poetry collections:
🍙Morsels by Susanna Galbraith @machapress.bsky.social
🏝️The Oasis by Charles Lang @skeinpress.bsky.social
🎈After Party by Dean Browne (Picador Poetry)
💧Infinity Pool by Vona Groarke (Gallery Press)
Deadline approaching!
The applications window for the Ten by Ten Workshop from us & @stingingfly.bsky.social, led by Nicole Flattery & Roisín O'Donnell, closes today at 5pm.
Check the link below for all the information you need, and to apply before the deadline!
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The deadline for our Ten by Ten Workshop, run in partnership with @irishwriterscentre.bsky.social, is today at 5pm!!
The deadline for applications to our Ten by Ten workshop is tomorrow, Tuesday 6th January at 5pm Irish time.
Make sure to read the submission guidelines and get your application in before the deadline. @irishwriterscentre.bsky.social
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