@wednesdayerskin.bsky.social doesn’t waste words, characters or narrative. Everything in The Benefactors has purpose. I haven’t loved a book so much in a while. You will rage, be resigned, rage some more and know why and how you got there. Go read it!

Wonderful. Thank you!

We don’t just keep saying this because it affects us and we love working in a bookshop, living, breathing, talking, lugging books - www.rte.ie/culture/2025...

I even popped in to @booksupstairs.bsky.social to let them know in person... Congratulations to everyone, I can't wait to see their projects come to fruition 😎 (This needs to be labelled #AD even though there is nothing in my contract that says I have to do this, I'm just chuffed for the shops!)

The @financialtimes.com’s fave audio books and one is The Benefactors. Thanks for this lovely description. Yes, I do the narration and a cast of friends, family and readers do the monologues. Very proud of it.

We love this novel by our West Cork neighbour @cauverymadhavan.bsky.social. Cauvery will be chatting about The Inheritance in #BantryBookshop on Sat 12 July at 11.30am as part of WCLF. #FreeEvent @hoperoadpublish.bsky.social www.rte.ie/culture/2024...

We actively made the choice not to use the other place to get the word out about season 2. So if you do enjoy the pod, please engage with it and share if you can. We really do appreciate it. ❤️

3. The Stories We Tell: Kathryn Scanlan & Wednesday Erskine 🕔Friday 06 June 2025 Join us for an illuminating conversation on how different stories are shaped and formed 🎟️https://belfastbookfestival.com/whats-on/-the-stories-we-tell-kathryn-scanlan-and-wendy-erskine-#ticketsolve-iframe

1. Short Stories From The North: Martin Doyle @martindoyle.bsky.social, Declan Meade & Tara McEvoy 🕔Thursday 05 June 🎟️https://belfastbookfestival.com/whats-on/short-stories-from-the-north-martin-doyle-declan-meade--tara-mcevoy#ticketsolve-iframe

Reminder: we're gonna be panelling it up and giving readings in Listowel this Sunday. Come one, come all.

... few survivors when everything grinds to a halt. Loved it - couldn't recommend it more highly.

I have a high bar for post-apocalyptic fiction, and Gethan Dick's Water in the Desert Fire in the Night is really impressive. A time-fractured story of one woman's survival with a group after "the world" has ended. Very little high stakes drama, more about how you cope with being one of... 🧵

⭐Celebrating #TravellerPride⭐ We're very privileged to work with writers & storytellers from the Traveller community & publish their amazing work. To mark #TravellerPrideWeek2025 we're offering 50% off selected titles by authors from the community. 📚 ow.ly/x6R750VZebX

First up, this beautiful reissue from @tramppress.bsky.social Dorothy Macardle’s _The Uninvited_ (1942). I’ve been meaning to return to this ever since the lovely Tramp sent me a copy. Busy schedules and all. Then @naoisemurphy.bsky.social brilliant chapter in Edinburgh Queer Reading reminded me 👻

Am so happy that this new series starts this weekend. Thanks so much to all the writers who submitted - we were blown away by the quality & precision of the work. The Prompt on @rteradio1.bsky.social Sunday 7.30pm. Info on here on the first ep w/ Mike McCormack: www.rte.ie/culture/2025...

Tenaya’s winning story, ‘Missing the Eclipse’: stingingfly.org/product/summ... Tenaya was announced as the winner of the award at our launch event at @ilfdublin.bsky.social last Saturday. She has a new story ‘Water Lilies’ in the new Summer 2025 issue. stingingfly.org/product/summ...

We are delighted to announce Tenaya Steed as the 2025 winner of The Stinging Fly/FBA Fiction Prize🎉 Since 2022, the €2000 prize, sponsored by Felicity Bryan Associates, is awarded annually to an emerging fiction writer published in The Stinging Fly the previous year. stingingfly.org/news/tenaya-...

Really lovely to see a spread from This Interim Time by @oonaf.bsky.social included in the Irish Times Weekend and a great interview with Dorothy Cross in the Irish Times magazine - it's a Lilliput takeover! 🧡 Feat. Phoebe who really wanted to be involved!

This new post-apocalyptic gem from @tramppress.bsky.social...

Check out this free extract from Water in the Desert, Fire in the Night

www.rte.ie/culture/2025... out now @tramppress.bsky.social

www.rte.ie/culture/2025... out now @tramppress.bsky.social

Gethan Dick reads from her wonderful debut Water In The Desert,Fire In The Night @tramppress.bsky.social on this auspiciously majestic evening in Dublin

Mike McCormack launches Water In The Desert,Fire In The Night by Gethan Dick @tramppress.bsky.social to a rapt and packed audience at Hodges ‘full of a tactile and visceral lyricism’

Lisa Coen and Sarah Davis Goff @tramppress.bsky.social get the evening underway at Hodges Figgis for the launch of Water In The Desert, Fire In The Night by Gethan Dick this evening - and Gethan is also ILF Dublin this Saturday too

Mother Vs Deep Blue - an extract, from To Avenge A Dead Glacier by Shane Tivenan @lilliputpress www.rte.ie/culture/2025...

Great review in The Guardian for Water In The Desert, Fire In The Night @tramppress.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/books/2025/m...

Mother Vs Deep Blue - an extract, from To Avenge A Dead Glacier by Shane Tivenan @lilliputpress www.rte.ie/culture/2025...

New books to read in May: thegloss.ie/10-new-books...

Author Gaelle Belem is on the arts show Arena this Thu 15th May! @rteradio1.bsky.social @bullaunpress.bsky.social

Friends! We are thrilled to launch Gethan Dick's debut novel, Water in the Desert, Fire in the Night, on the 15th of May in Hodges Figgis with special guest speaker Mike McCormack. Everyone is welcome and we'd love to see you! @artscouncilireland.bsky.social

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We will be launching This Interim Time on Tuesday, May 13 at Books Upstairs we will be joined by the wonderful Emilie Pine as our guest speaker - all welcome, so come celebrate this incredible book with us ✨

With just over two weeks until THIS INTERIM TIME by @oonaf.bsky.social is released, we thought we'd give you a peek at what some early readers had to say about it 🧡💛

The launch event for the summer issue @stingingfly.bsky.social is part of the International Literature Festival Dublin on May 17th. Looking forward to it. ilfdublin.com/whats-on/fes...

We are delighted to reveal the cover for This Interim Time by Oona Frawley, a unique and deeply personal collection of essays 🧡 How do we live when our loved ones are dying? How do we make sense of the world in their wake? And how do we balance love in the present with memory of the past?

Keith Ridgway is one of my favourite contemporary writers, so excited to see a new novel, 'Dooneen', is being published 2026/2027 by @fitzcarraldoeds.bsky.social in the UK and @ndbooks.bsky.social in the US.

How I fulfilled the dream of an Old IRA veteran from my home town The story of how the memoirs of Irish revolutionary leader Dan Mulvihill came to be published 50 years on owenoshea.ie/how-i-fulfil...

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This from Liadan Ni Chuinn @stingingfly.bsky.social is indeed absolutely brilliant. So much to think about and with in these stories.

GENTLE REMINDER: The deadline is today at 5pm. Send in your applications for entry-level fiction and creative non-fiction workshops at the 2025 Summer School

Thrilled to be in this summer's edition with an essay on censorship in libraries. I wish my subject matter wasn't quite so relevant #SpéirGhorm

Amazing news! Congratulations to author Gaëlle Belem, translators Karen Fleetwood and Laëtitia Saint-Loubert and publisher @bullaunpress.bsky.social. There's A Monster Behind The Door is this year's winner of the Republic of Consciousness Prize www.theguardian.com/books/2025/a...

Want some Sunday evening reading? Here are some recent great reviews of Every One Still Here by Liadan Ní Chuinn. Thank you to Kevin Power for his review in @irishtimes.com "Here is a writer who knows a great deal more than a debut writer usually does" www.irishtimes.com/culture/book...

I just finished this brilliant new @stingingfly.bsky.social short story collection by Liadan Ni Chuinn - incredibly written and so original and thoughtful about generational memory and trauma, the troubles and what museums can/should display

Writer-in-Residence post for 2025-26: come and work with us! Grateful for reposts 🙏

In the Liberties, a soccer pitch mostly funded by the council is closed to local sports clubs. The pitch on Long’s Place is owned by CBS James’s Street, which has not responded to queries about why, and how that could be changed. dublininquirer.com/2...

Just under 48 hours left to apply for a place in this year's summer school!

Congratulations! Wonderful news

My thanks to the large crowd who attended the launch of my new book, 'One Man's Ireland: Memoirs of Dan Mulvihill, Maverick Republican' on Saturday night. It was a fitting celebration of a remarkable man. Available here from Merrion Press: www.irishacademicpress.ie/product/one-...