Unveiling our line-up for Tolka Issue Eleven... Publishes in late May. Pre-order now via our SHINY NEW WEBSITE ✨💫 tolkajournal.org

My essay on production and the shambolic games industry is featured in this book which launches in April in Books Upstairs in Dublin! Attendance is free but booking is essential. Launch event here 😄 booksupstairs.ie/all-events/l...

🚨Breaking news 🗞️ We've just launched another incredible batch of courses on our website! Flash fiction, beginner's creative writing in Irish, writing magical realism and more all await at the link 👇 irishwriterscentre.ie/courses/

Would highly recommend reading!

Great new cover of a wonderful book. You can read our interview with Liadan here: www.tolkajournal.org/read-online/...

In case you missed it, our new episode of The Tolka Podcast with John Patrick McHugh is out now. open.spotify.com/show/6HwKfms...

We'll be talking at this, alongside our pals @stingingfly.bsky.social & @howlwriting.bsky.social. There are also authors, publishers, literary agents all speaking to demystify their mysterious processes . . . Grab a ticket here: www.eventbrite.ie/e/irish-writ...

In case you missed it, our new episode of The Tolka Podcast with John Patrick McHugh is out now. open.spotify.com/show/6HwKfms...

Our latest episode of The Tolka Podcast features John Patrick McHugh reading from his piece 'Voice, voice, voice.' We chat about self-confidence, the difference between voice and style, and what your football position says about your literary instincts ⚽️ Listen here open.spotify.com/episode/5ijO...

Our latest episode of The Tolka Podcast features John Patrick McHugh reading from his piece 'Voice, voice, voice.' We chat about self-confidence, the difference between voice and style, and what your football position says about your literary instincts ⚽️ Listen here open.spotify.com/episode/5ijO...

HOWL 26 submissions are now open. We’re accepting poetry and prose (fiction and nonfiction) in English agus as Gaeilge from February 13th – February 23rd. We want the raw and the real. If it excites you, send it to us. Full guidelines + submission details: 🔗 www.howlwriting.ie#submit

📢Join us for the launch of 'Contentious Spaces' by Rosaleen McDonagh with Sinéad Burke on Thursday, March 12th, at 6 PM @hodgesfiggis.bsky.social. Our friend and first reader, Anne Burke, will chair the event, and Sinéad Burke will join Rosaleen in conversation about her remarkable debut novel!

Ban on Palestine Action ruled unlawful. There are few clearer examples of how no one is free until Palestine is free: if unchallenged this ban would have destroyed civil liberties across the board. Solidarity with everyone who risked years of incarceration to fight it

Dublin, we are launched. Huge congrats to Tim MacGabhann on this gorgeous collection & to @booksupstairs.bsky.social for hoating us. Found in a Context of Destruction is available from all good bookshops & from @bansheepress.bsky.social Next stop Belfast - Thurs 19th at No Alibis!

💕 Valentine’s Day #giveaway! 📕 Like and share to enter the draw to win a copy of Contentious Spaces, the brilliant new novel by award-winning writer Rosaleen McDonagh! Signed and dedicated by the author, postmarked to you by February 14th 💕 * Entries will close at 23:59 GMT on Sunday February 8th*

Caelainn Hogan joins us on the latest episode of the Tolka Podcast to read her piece House Share (published in Tolka Issue Nine). We discuss the commodification of housing and Caelainn’s bad history with birds 🦆 Listen wherever you get your podcasts 🔗

Caelainn Hogan joins us on the latest episode of the Tolka Podcast to read her piece House Share (published in Tolka Issue Nine). We discuss the commodification of housing and Caelainn’s bad history with birds 🦆 Listen wherever you get your podcasts 🔗

We are delighted to announce the brilliant Polly Barton as our Translator-in-Residence for 2026 🎊

We are delighted to announce the brilliant Polly Barton as our Translator-in-Residence for 2026 🎊

Great interview 👇

This film based on my story from Dance Move is now BAFTA longlisted. There was such an incredible group of people, all playing their parts, so that this project actually happened. Just brilliant.

Have you ordered a copy of @tobiasvryan.bsky.social's debut novel yet? As the founder of minor lits, F. Sdrigotti, noted: "the quiet horror of existence runs through this unsettling and beautifully restrained novel; Tobias Ryan turns silence into revelation, every omission charged with meaning."

'One of the best things about receiving the Nobel is that I will never receive it again.’ - Jon Fosse, interviewed by Rónán Hession in Tolka Issue Ten. You can order Issue Ten via our website. @ronanhession.bsky.social @fitzcarraldoeds.bsky.social www.tolkajournal.org/shop/p/issue...

@rickoshea.bsky.social and I had a good natter about translated fiction on Arena @rteradio1.bsky.social earlier in the week. You can listen back here if you fancy it. www.rte.ie/radio/radio1...

I loved doing this interview with Jon Fosse. Available in @tolkajournal.bsky.social Issue Ten – out now!

'One of the best things about receiving the Nobel is that I will never receive it again.’ - Jon Fosse, interviewed by Rónán Hession in Tolka Issue Ten. You can order Issue Ten via our website. @ronanhession.bsky.social @fitzcarraldoeds.bsky.social www.tolkajournal.org/shop/p/issue...

"I ignored them for months, but the paranormal investigators insisted on my attention." Ghost Bait - Writer and poet Maija Makela discusses paranormal encounters she recently endured via @tolkajournal.bsky.social www.tolkajournal.org/read-online/...

Looking for a (slightly) last minute Christmas gift? 🎄 Gift a TOLKA subscription and your lucky pal will receive two issues per subscription year, each one brimful of great writing ♥️ www.tolkajournal.org/shop/p/tolka...

Looking for a (slightly) last minute Christmas gift? 🎄 Gift a TOLKA subscription and your lucky pal will receive two issues per subscription year, each one brimful of great writing ♥️ www.tolkajournal.org/shop/p/tolka...

We had such a wonderful time celebrating Tolka Issue Ten in London, hosted by Deleted Scenes at Trisha’s Soho 🎷 Photos by Damian Wiecek 📸 If you've not got Tolka Ten yet, you can get one here: www.tolkajournal.org/shop

Delighted to have my interview with Nobel Laureate Jon Fosse included in this issue, along with many other fine contributors.

We had such a wonderful time celebrating Tolka Issue Ten in London, hosted by Deleted Scenes at Trisha’s Soho 🎷 Photos by Damian Wiecek 📸 If you've not got Tolka Ten yet, you can get one here: www.tolkajournal.org/shop

Really enjoyed this gentle, illuminating conversation between @ronanhession.bsky.social and Jon Fosse in the new @tolkajournal.bsky.social

Huge thanks to everyone who braved the rain and joined us last Friday in the beautiful surrounds of @molimuseum.bsky.social to launch Tolka Issue Ten 🖤 Lovely photos by Patrick Fleming 📸 Copies of Issue Ten are available via our website and all good bookshops ❤️ www.tolkajournal.org/shop

We'll be at @molimuseum.bsky.social this Friday celebrating ten issues of Tolka with these fine writers. Free to attend! moli.ie/events/first...

The tenants of "The Complex" the brilliant arts space just off Capel St Stop are being evicted in January and the city can't afford to lose yet *another* cultural space. Please sign & share the petition to save The Complex

“We call upon the United Nations and the governments of the world to actively seek the release of Marwan Barghouti from Israeli prison.” www.theguardian.com/world/2025/d...

We'll be at @molimuseum.bsky.social this Friday celebrating ten issues of Tolka with these fine writers. Free to attend! moli.ie/events/first...

Top 10 alleys in central Birmingham to hide and eat a hotdog you put too many toppings on

The Tolka Podcast Season Two is up and running, with the wonderful Kimberly Campanello. Kimberly spoke to us about all kinds of form, from bodybuilding to poetry, and read from her essay, 'Tachyphylaxis'. Spotify: open.spotify.com/episode/0Wig... Apple Podcasts: podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/t...

Unveiling our first publication of 2026... 'Contentious Spaces' is the debut novel from acclaimed Irish writer, playwright and performer Rosaleen McDonagh #ContentiousSpaces #NewIrishFiction

Hurray! A very good post day - latest copies of @stingingfly.bsky.social @tolkajournal.bsky.social and @extrateethmag.bsky.social all arrived today! 📚✒️😍

"Ger smiled because he loved it when I called him a legend. He took a drag on the joint and, with a lungful of smoke, squeaked out, ‘Walt Whitman, bro.’"

‘Here was youth in all its undying glory: rude red health, perverse and powerful, and dumb, so dumb, dumb as shit, really.’ Sean Tanner’s ‘How Soon Unaccountable’ — first published in Issue 7 — is now available to read on our website. www.tolkajournal.org/read-online/...

So pleased @ronanhession.bsky.social has included Lalla Romano's In Farthest Seas in the Irish Times' Books of the Year 2025! Rónán also reviewed the book in September, calling it "Autofiction at its most elegant" and a "beautiful translation" 🙌 @pushkinpress.com

an extract from @autreauxp.bsky.social 's L'Époux in @tolkajournal.bsky.social no. 10

We can’t stop, won’t stop launching this issue! Join us for ‘Deleted Scenes’ - a London celebration of Issue 10, hosted by the brilliant Paul Jonathan. December 10th Greek st, Soho 6pm

Some stunning action shots from our Issue Ten event last night at @gloucesterroadbks.bsky.social! Thanks to Joe and Libby for hosting!

A future Iran where men are subjugated by women; a wartime love story, where "every woman ought to feel proud" if an SS officer gets her pregnant; a dying ferryman with memories of Edward G Robinson; and a submerged Netherlands ("4 life jackets for the price of 3!"). Me on new translated fiction: