Reading in the garden, with some of the books that I scooped up yesterday at Books Upstairs, including @winterpapers.bsky.social, NEW ARCANA by @jesstraynor.bsky.social, An Alternative Irish Christmas, Anja Murray's new book, and a lovely new edition of WORDS ARE MY MATTER by @ursulakleguin.com.

A beautiful tribute to Seán Rocks @dublinbookfest.bsky.social chaired brilliantly by @paulashields.bsky.social with Kathleen MacMahon, Kevin Barry, Paula Meehan and Colm Mac Con Iomaire who finished the event with The Finnish Line which he said was a song of joy for Seán who was full of joy❤️

We are delighted to announce that the winner of the Goldsmiths Prize 2025 is C.D. Rose's We Live Here Now! 🎉🎉 Congratulations Chris! 👏👏

Get your hygge on

This is on tonight - the Dublin Review at 100 - also to be aired on Arena on RTE Radio 1

Over the moon to be part of @winterpapers.bsky.social. It’s a joy to be sharing my essay ‘Mid-Life Music Lessons’ as part of this beauty alongside so many whose work I admire. The launch is @dublinbookfest.bsky.social next Sat, Nov 8. Here’s to music, winter reading & dreaming the future.

Just reposting this link to my essay ‘Birds, Watching’, with one of the accompanying photos, about bird rescue and death, now available online for first time @winterpapers.bsky.social go.bsky.app/redirect?u=h...

Every year this gorgeous literary journal releases its line up and everyone goos out loud at the new cover. I think the fact that it's once a year makes it a bit, ye know, designery in its buzz. Fantabulous.

Winter Papers 11 is here [sound up!]. Design by @johnfoley.bitedesign.com Supported by @artscouncilireland.bsky.social Launching @dublinbookfest.bsky.social Saturday 8th Nov

Some more pieces now up on our digital archive, including this fine essay from vol 5 by @zanbreathnach.bsky.social winterpapers.com/selected-wor...

The Letters Page is back! The Letters Page is back and better than ever. We have some exciting things for you in the works, so keep an eye out and get ready!

WP 11 is almost ready - come say hello to the new volume @dublinbookfest.bsky.social All welcome, free entry, book tickets here: dublinbookfestival.com/event/winter...

✨ 2 weeks to go and we’re excited to be celebrating Ireland’s writers, illustrators and publishers! We can’t wait to welcome audiences back to venues all around Dublin. Have you booked your tickets yet? ✨ bit.ly/46ixJu1

Come say hello to WP 11 as part of @dublinbookfest.bsky.social Sat Nov 8, all welcome

Issue 20 (autumn/winter 2025) has gone to print! Our landmark 20th issue, guest edited by acclaimed author @clarakiyoko.bsky.social, has a speculative fiction theme and marks our tenth anniversary in print. The beautiful cover art is by @erinconnally.bsky.social ✨ bansheepress.org/shop/p/issue...

Winter Papers 11 is nearly here - we'll be unwrapping at the end of the month! 📚💚📚💚

Join us at our Festival Hub on Sun 9 Nov as we celebrate the life and legacy of Seán Rocks 🎟️ bit.ly/3IIFSC1

So looking forward to this…

Come say hello to WP 11 as part of @dublinbookfest.bsky.social Sat Nov 8, all welcome

Can't wait for the Dublin launch of New Arcana, happening tomorrow at @gutterbookshop.bsky.social with the wonderful Seán Hewitt. Come join us 🔮✨️ @bloodaxebooks.bsky.social

📚🎭 Take home the best of Irish theatre this autumn with Faber Drama's Pop-Up Shop at the Abbey Theatre Read more about this exciting collaboration: https://www.abbeytheatre.ie/take-home-the-best-of-irish-theatre-this-autumn-with-faber-drama-pop-up-shop-at-the-abbey-theatre/

Fresh off the BBC Radio 4 airwaves @bbcsounds.bsky.social, here is Ruth Bradley reading an abridged version of my shortlisted story "Two Hands" 🙌🏻 First published in the @parisreview.bsky.social www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

Professor Vona Groarke at an appointment ceremony for her new role as The Ireland Chair of Poetry, which took place in the National Concert Hall yesterday. Vona Groarke will be the 10th Ireland Professor of Poetry, and her tenure will run from until November 2028. @chairofpoetry.bsky.social

SCRIBENDI by STEVE PYKE 📸 We are delighted to be publishing this landmark book which features over 100 portraits and interviews with Ireland's greatest contemporary writers, captured through the lens of one of the world's most renowned photographers, Steve Pyke ✨️

Happy publication day to @davetynan.bsky.social!!!

Three writers & a visual artist share their experiences on the BIA pilot scheme. Read the full interview stingingfly.org/2025/08/07/b... ”...the Basic Income meant I could choose to have a child without the same financial insecurity and without the fear that I would have to give up creative work“

My story ‘From the Mountains’ in @winterpapers.bsky.social archive. winterpapers.com/selected-wor...

We're deeply saddened by the death of Sean Rocks. He was a great friend to WP, and the wider arts community. Our condolences to his family and all in RTE Arena.

Vona Groarke has been welcomed by the Ireland Chair of Poetry Trust as the new Ireland Professor of Poetry, one of the most prestigious positions in poetry. The position will run from September 2025 to November 2028. Full press release here: www.poetryireland.ie/news/vona-gr...

Excited to announce our line-up of brilliant writers leading our three 6-month fiction workshops. Concession rate for writers on low income - also one free place available on each workshop. Applications are open now and will close on July 22 at 5pm. Please share. stingingfly.org/6-month-work...

Come and read & write short stories with me! Booking for my @faberacademy.bsky.social autumn masterclass series will open shortly but you need to be on the waiting list to have a chance of a place, so contact them to register your interest now. Hope to see you there!

Happy birthday William Butler Yeats 🥳 Alongside Lady Gregory, he co-founded the Abbey Theatre in 1904. How fitting that The Cave, set in the same Sligo landscape that inspired him so, opens on the Abbey Stage tonight👏

Launched my book this weekend - you can get it below. An epic (true-ish) story told in poetry about a 99 year old man moving back to the island of his birth and the friendship that sustains him. . salmonpoetry.com/details.php?...

“We’re safe from it all... for a while… when we’re up here” Welcome to The Cave, a world premiere production written by acclaimed writer Kevin Barry and directed by Abbey Theatre Artistic Director, Caitríona McLaughlin.

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

We're delighted to announce a new literary award in collaboration between @irishwriterscentre.bsky.social and The @stingingfly.bsky.social 🎉 The aim of the prize is to discover, promote and encourage the talents of new, undiscovered voices in Irish writing. irishwriterscentre.ie/announcing-t...

✅ First Day Today marked the first day of rehearsals for The Cave. A world premiere production written by acclaimed writer Kevin Barry and directed by Abbey Theatre Artistic Director, Caitríona McLaughlin, The Cave runs on the Abbey Stage from 6 June to 18 July 2025.

Wishing a happy publication day to Kevin Barry! THE HEART IN WINTER, a savagely funny, achingly beautiful outlaw story set in the badlands of Montana is out now in paperback. SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2025 WALTER SCOTT PRIZE 'An absolute belter of a book' ANNE ENRIGHT uk.bookshop.org/p/books/the-...

Fallow: Ian Maleney on migrating his literary journal from web to print. After 10 years in the frictionless space of the browser, it’s honestly kind of fun to be worrying about ink and paper and postage www.irishtimes.com/culture/book...

The launch of Let Me Go Mad in My Own Way @kennysbookshop.bsky.social May 27th at 6pm All welcome! @uniofgalway.bsky.social This is a free but ticketed event 🐎

Announcing the Shortlist for the £25,000 #WalterScottPrize 2025 from Abbotsford, home of great historical fiction. Learn more at loom.ly/zu12Mh0

And one of my photographs from LA, illustrating John Butler’s excellent piece

The good folks at @winterpapers.bsky.social have been putting some of the archive online. There’s work by Claire Kilroy, Doireann Ní Ghríofa, Sara Baume, David Hayden, Jess Traynor, June Caldwell & more. My essay with photos, While She Was Sleeping, is there now too. winterpapers.com/selected-wor...

Just added some more pieces from WP to the digital archive. Work by John Butler, Doireann Ní Ghríofa, @cristinleach.bsky.social Anna Leask and William Wall winterpapers.com/selected-work

Among the pleasures of this story is some gorgeous nature writing - David Hayden in @winterpapers.bsky.social - winterpapers.com/selected-wor...

'From the Mountains', my story from volume 8 of @winterpapers.bsky.social is now available to read online: winterpapers.com/selected-wor...

NOW BOOKING! Come write with me ✍️ More info here: bealtaine.ie/bealtaine-ev...

The first print issue of fallow magazine, based in Ireland and out soon, includes: Helen Charman, Oisín Fagan, Wayne Koestenbaum, Patrick Nathan, Ellen Dillon, Eva Griffin, Chris Beausang, and Greg Gerke, & interviews with Gabriel Josipovici and Pascale Sardin. fallowmedia.com/shop/fallow-01