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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

Really lovely evening at the launch of the 10th issue of @tolkajournal.bsky.social in @molimuseum.bsky.social Super readings from all the writers including @hawhitek.bsky.social & @wednesdayerskin.bsky.social ❤️

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:

Sweating at Heathrow border control because I’ve swallowed 15 copies of uncut Intermezzo

You can listen back to our wonderful Issue Ten contributors, Wendy Erskine and John Patrick McHugh, who were on Arena last night! www.rte.ie/radio/radio1...

On RTÉ Arena tonight, @rickoshea.bsky.social will be talking to Tolka Issue Ten contributors @wednesdayerskin.bsky.social & John Patrick McHugh, celebrating five years of Tolka! Tune in from 7pm, or listen back: www.rte.ie/radio/radio1/

I'm looking forward to speaking to the @tolkajournal.bsky.social editors in @molimuseum.bsky.social on Friday December 5th! I'll be asking them about their experiences of making the first ten issues of one of the best literary journals around. Free booking link below.

🎫 Tickets are live 🎫 We're delighted to be part of the December First Fridays at @molimuseum.bsky.social – talking to @groenbot.bsky.social Groenland about the art of editing, followed by readings from our stellar Issue Ten contributors! moli.ie/events/first...

We’re very excited to be part of the very first Dublin Small Press Fair kicking off this Friday! Find us there as part of Leabharlann Beag — for sale alongside dozens of other brilliant magazines, journals, zines and books from small presses ⭐️ dublinsmallpressfair.com

We’re very excited to be part of the very first Dublin Small Press Fair kicking off this Friday! Find us there as part of Leabharlann Beag — for sale alongside dozens of other brilliant magazines, journals, zines and books from small presses ⭐️ dublinsmallpressfair.com

Godrevy Lighthouse of To the Lighthouse fame (I know Woolf transplanted it to Scotland don’t @ me)

We're launching Issue 10 at @molimuseum.bsky.social First Fridays on the eve of 5 December 🎺 Featuring an editorial conversation, and readings from seven amazing contributors 🔥 Time tbc, and registration will open soon 👀

We're launching Issue 10 at @molimuseum.bsky.social First Fridays on the eve of 5 December 🎺 Featuring an editorial conversation, and readings from seven amazing contributors 🔥 Time tbc, and registration will open soon 👀

Come for Edna O'Brien's hair, stay for Colin Barrett and his KitKat.

In honour of the eighteenth of November, here's my recent @irishtimes.com interview with Solvej Balle about seven books on the subject of being stuck in today's date. www.irishtimes.com/culture/book...

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

Now in stock!

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...