We lucky folk are hosting the UK launch of the brand new @tolkajournal.bsky.social on November 27th. Readings & discussion from Polly Barton, Ralf Webb, Chloé Duane and Liam Harrison. Step this way for tickets: hdfst.uk/e141326

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Read Palestine Week is coming up on 29 November-December 5. A great way to support Palestinian writers is to read their work. Also, it's good to read it because of its quality. Why not take part and perhaps discover a talented writer you haven't read before.

We had a lot of fun yesterday at the Bath Indie Book Fair! Lovely to see the work of so many innovative and inspiring publishers

"I ignored them for months, but the paranormal investigators insisted on my attention." 'Ghost-bait' by Maija Makela, first published in Issue Nine, is available to read our website 👻 www.tolkajournal.org/read-online/...

🪩Our tenth issue is here 🪩 It is chock full of incredible writing and we can’t wait for you to read it 🩶 Pre-orders will start shipping from Monday and we are launching on Friday 5 December at @molimuseum.bsky.social — more details very soon 🎈 You can pre-order here: www.tolkajournal.org/shop

Wonderful news from our former slug-in-residence Brian! And if you haven't read VERDIGRIS yet, what are you doing – slugs, nazis, the most pyrotechnical translation of vernacular you'll ever read. Run don't walk, etc.

🪩Our tenth issue is here 🪩 It is chock full of incredible writing and we can’t wait for you to read it 🩶 Pre-orders will start shipping from Monday and we are launching on Friday 5 December at @molimuseum.bsky.social — more details very soon 🎈 You can pre-order here: www.tolkajournal.org/shop

Lovely review from @ronanhession.bsky.social of Jon Fosse's latest novel, VAIM, just published by @fitzcarraldoeds.bsky.social.

Such an incredible eve celebrating the launch of This Is Not a Cookbook ❤️ Our hearts and souls are nourished 🍲 This Is Not a Cookbook is still available on our website and in all good bookshops 🎉

Happy birthday Helen Garner. Am reading How to End A Story: Collected Diaries, 1978-1998, which just won the Baillie Gifford Prize, and it’s like a map for writing

ANNOUNCING: ISSUE TEN! FICTION Charlotte Haley Elle Nash Donal McLaughlin Angela Sun Ore Dada @saccharinequeen.bsky.social Sumayya Usmani Katie Huttlestone NONFICTION Giselle Cory Tara McEvoy Miriam Guastalla NS Nuseibeh ART Natasha Russell VISUALS AND DESIGN Esther Clayton

Tomorrow night!

NEWS: Emma Dabiri joins as our new non-fiction editor. Emma Dabiri FRSL is an award-winning broadcaster & bestselling author of Don’t Touch My Hair, What White People Can Do Next and Disobedient Bodies. Emma will be reading for the current open submission round. stingingfly.org/news/announc...

Tomorrow night!

Submissions for Tolka Issue Eleven close at midnight on Thursday 6 November. We publish all kinds of non-fiction – essays, memoir, reportage, autofiction and the things that fall in between. www.tolkajournal.org/submit

'Someone would meet me off the train, and then as it got dark, we’d return to the scene of the haunting.' 'Ghost-bait' by Maija Makela (@maijasofia.bsky.social), first published in Issue Nine, is now available to read on our website: www.tolkajournal.org/read-online/...

TOLKA Journal @tolkajournal.bsky.social (Nonfiction; pays) opened to nonfiction submissions. https://duotrope.com... #amwriting

Submissions for Tolka Issue Eleven close at midnight on Thursday 6 November. We publish all kinds of non-fiction – essays, memoir, reportage, autofiction and the things that fall in between. www.tolkajournal.org/submit

'Someone would meet me off the train, and then as it got dark, we’d return to the scene of the haunting.' 'Ghost-bait' by Maija Makela (@maijasofia.bsky.social), first published in Issue Nine, is now available to read on our website: www.tolkajournal.org/read-online/...

you can now read 'Ghost-bait' online, an essay I wrote about the time I was headhunted by paranormal investigators who wanted me to lure restless spirits to a séance. Originally published in @tolkajournal.bsky.social issue 9. I love that magazine! www.tolkajournal.org/read-online/...

Submissions for Tolka Issue Eleven close in two weeks – at midnight on 6 November.

We're down to the last few copies of Tolka Issue Nine, ft. this memorable extract from the opening of Annie Ernaux's The Possession . . . It also has one of our best ever covers! You can get a copy here: www.tolkajournal.org/shop/p/issue...

Submissions for Tolka Issue Eleven close in two weeks – at midnight on 6 November.

Happy publication day to Jon Fosse and his new novel VAIM! You can find a wonderful discussion about the new novel between Fosse and @ronanhession.bsky.social in Tolka Issue Ten, publishing next month: www.tolkajournal.org/shop/p/issue...

truly an incredible essay, you must read; i laughed aloud many times, and i did not ONCE think with sorrow of the future of humanity harpers.org/archive/2025...

Stack for today's class on literary journals

Some Sunday reading: Ruby Eastwood’s ‘Self-Portrait: After Joe Brainard’. Inspired by Brainard’s I Remember, Ruby sifts through the memories, detritus and dreams that comprise a life. First published in Issue Nine, you can now read Ruby’s piece on our website. www.tolkajournal.org/read-online/...

Delighted to have had the opportunity to interview Nobel Laureate Jon Fosse for the forthcoming issue of the excellent @tolkajournal.bsky.social

🎺Issue 10 Cover Reveal🎺 Our beautiful Issue 10 Cover Art is 'Inappropriate' by photographer Debbie Castro. Cover design by Sarah McCoy. The issue features Wendy Erskine, Jon Fosse, Kim Keum Hee, and many others, and can be pre-ordered here: www.tolkajournal.org/shop/p/issue...

Some Sunday reading: Ruby Eastwood’s ‘Self-Portrait: After Joe Brainard’. Inspired by Brainard’s I Remember, Ruby sifts through the memories, detritus and dreams that comprise a life. First published in Issue Nine, you can now read Ruby’s piece on our website. www.tolkajournal.org/read-online/...

Nice write-up of the Leonard and Hungry Paul TV show which is on iPlayer now-ish (I don't have access to the iPlayer so not sure) and which is on BBC Northern Ireland tonight at 9pm; BBC 2 on Monday. Hope you enjoy it.

Lovely interview with Claire-Louise Bennett by @edelcoffey.bsky.social – touching on exploring the Samuel Beckett archives. You can read Bennett's creative response to Beckett in Tolka Issue Seven. www.tolkajournal.org/shop/p/issue...

Dear editors minorliteratures.com/2025/10/18/d...

Submissions for Tolka Issue Eleven are now open until 6 November. We publish all kinds of non-fiction – essays, memoir, reportage, autofiction and the things that fall in between. Full submission guidelines here www.tolkajournal.org/submit

Submissions for Tolka Issue Eleven are now open until 6 November. We publish all kinds of non-fiction – essays, memoir, reportage, autofiction and the things that fall in between. Full submission guidelines here www.tolkajournal.org/submit

Such a wonderful evening at the prelaunch of 'This is not a cookbook' - author Roxana Manouchehri was in conversation with Razan Ibraheem at @kildarereaders.bsky.social Big thanks to the festival, to @barkerandjones.bsky.social for their support and to Roxy for providing the nibbles 🍴❤️

Irish PEN/PEN na hÉireann Irish PEN/PEN na hÉireann is gravely concerned about the detention of writer Naoise Dolan...The flotilla was illegally intercepted last night and seized by armed Israeli forces in international waters. irishpen.com/2025/10/08/t...

I'll be heading to Belfast for the last of my New Arcana launches, introduced by the wonderful Stephen Sexton, at No Alibis Books, on the 21st October. Free but ticketed- get yours here! noalibis.com/event/poetry...

Draught is now live! www.draughtjournal.com Issue 1.1.1 with contributions by Glenn Adamson, Jen Calleja, Don Mee Choi, Mark Cousins, Daisy Lafarge, Mark Manders, Rosalind Nashashibi, Lisa Robertson, Christina Tudor-Sideri and Francesca Wade

This is very, very good! New Claire-Louise Bennett novel, BIG KISS, BYE-BYE, published by @fitzcarraldoeds.bsky.social later this week. You can also find CLB in Tolka Issues Two and Seven . . .

A reminder you can subscribe to Tolka for €22 a year, and get two issues sent straight to your door 📮 Subscriptions support new writers and keep the show on the road ✨ Free postage in Ireland 🇮🇪 Cheap postage everywhere else 🌎 www.tolkajournal.org/shop/p/tolka...

A reminder you can subscribe to Tolka for €22 a year, and get two issues sent straight to your door 📮 Subscriptions support new writers and keep the show on the road ✨ Free postage in Ireland 🇮🇪 Cheap postage everywhere else 🌎 www.tolkajournal.org/shop/p/tolka...

🔥❤️ Tolka Issue Ten ❤️🔥 We're delighted to unveil the line up for our tenth issue! This issue will publish on 10 November and launch on Friday 5 December. You can pre-order the issue here: www.tolkajournal.org/shop/p/issue...

Banshee Press is open for book submissions from 1-15 October! 📚 Guidelines are at the link below. We look forward to reading your work! bansheepress.org/read/banshee...

an extract from @autreauxp.bsky.social 's L'Époux (The Husband) will appear in Issue 10 of @tolkajournal.bsky.social pre-order a copy here: www.tolkajournal.org/shop/p/issue...

Many thanks to Tolka and Tobias Ryan for the translation of this large excerpt of « L’Epoux » (Gallimard) - « The Husband ».

🔥❤️ Tolka Issue Ten ❤️🔥 We're delighted to unveil the line up for our tenth issue! This issue will publish on 10 November and launch on Friday 5 December. You can pre-order the issue here: www.tolkajournal.org/shop/p/issue...