Nice to see #gorse13 (taboo) in the window of #Chapters bookstore!

Pre-order now for delivery on or before 30 April 2026! The Steps by Juliano Zaffino 'A tantalising study of sibling dynamics, the complicated repercussions of childhood, and the salvation of art' – Sara Baume Tramppress.com/product/the-steps/

Ever since I read Doireann Ní Ghríofa's A GHOST IN THE THROAT, I've wanted to see it onscreen and it would be SUCH a good vehicle for Buckley. I don't know if Eibhlín Dubh Ní Chonaill is critical to Irish history, but I think she's critical to Irish poetry!

The replies to this are pure gold

Gethan Dick won the 2026 Kate O'Brien award for her funny, wild optimistic novel about a group of people on a post-apocalyptic road-trip. www.irishtimes.com/culture/book...

I was really honoured to be asked to contribute an introduction to this excellent collection of essays! It was an eye-opening opportunity to consider how much has changed since we started Tramp Press in 2014.

TOMORROW!!!!

Gethan Dick has been named the recipient of this year’s Kate O’Brien Award at the Limerick Literary Festival, for her novel Water in the Desert, Fire in the Night! tramppress.com/gethan-dick-...

Winner of the Kate O'Brien Award at @limericklitfest.bsky.social , published by @tramppress.bsky.social - Waterin the Desert, Fire in the Night from Gethan Dick - only €10 while stocks last! thebookshop.ie/gethan-dick-...

Huge congratulations to debut writer Gethan Dick! If you haven't picked up #WaterInTheDesertFireInTheNight this is your sign – it is *riveting* (and prize-winning!)

Bookmail! A print contributor's copy of WAXEN, plus their first issue. I took a video too because on top of everything else, these are just gorgeous objects in themselves.

Kate O’Brien Award shortlist: Gethan Dick reads from her book Water in the Desert Fire in the Night: youtu.be/2zCQv2qHH58?... The KOB Award 01/03 at 11.15am at the Belltable. Free event, booking required: www.limerickliteraryfestival.com @tramppress.bsky.social

Here's wonderful debut author Gethan Dick at Libreria London last night talking all things #WaterInTheDesertFireInTheNight (which has just been shortlisted for the Kate O'Brien Award!)

We’re hiring! More details about the position here: www.lrb.co.uk/jobs

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...

Every successful invention solves a common problem: washing clothes, illumination, ease of travel. The problem A I is trying to solve is *us* - WE are the problem to tech oligarchs and corporate elite. It's all for them. They just can't say that part. They're trying to sell us our own redundancy.

Gethan Dick is shortlisted for the Kate O’Brien Award for her debut novel Water in the Desert, Fire in the Night. It's funny and hopeful, check it out!

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it can’t all just be substack, it simply cannot

My short story "The Cold Moon Crown" will be appearing in the Winter edition of WAXEN, which goes on sale February 1. If you're into Christmas stories involving weird old-money families with skeletons in the closet, I daresay you might enjoy it.

London pals! Join Gethan Dick at Libreria bookshop to discuss her haunting debut (and one of Libreria’s Best Books of 2025) Water in the Desert Fire in the Night: 19 Feb, 6:30pm 65 Hanbury Street. TICKETS HERE: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/stories-af...

Check out 'A 2026 Irish Book Preview' on the Mining the Dalkey Archive podcast! (Some swear words, in case you're listening at work/around your children). dalkeyarchive.substack.com/p/a-2026-iri...

This is fun - some nice recommendations from @chadwpost.bsky.social, and some love for @tramppress.bsky.social podcasts.apple.com/sk/podcast/a...

It appears that this legend owns a little bookstore — and you can order books from him instead of Bezos. Link in next post.

Comics retailing legend Greg Ketter standing up to ICE in Minneapolis. Yes, that's tear gas. He's 70 years old.

This could be about so many things right now

One of the many great things about Water in the Desert, Fire in the Night is how Gethan Dick imagines that in a post-apocalyptic world people will still have a sense of humour. Join us at CHQ at 5.30pm this evening (tues 20th) to hear Gethan read and speak about it! epicchq.com?post_type=ev...

Take a break from watching the world ending and come listen to the brilliant Gethan Dick at EPIC! 5:30 this evening epicchq.com/event/eire-t... @tramppress.bsky.social #WITDFITN

Photo by Pierre Lavie. Yes this is me. And I threw my Leica. It landed on the bass plate with hardly a scratch. Another Photographer grabbed it along with my phone and I was able to track him later. I was held face down tear gas deployed right in front of me and pepper sprayed directly into the eye.

One of the very best SF novels I have read since 1963, and as you can imagine, I’ve read MANY.

This book is utterly amazing, and genuinely original.

'The Book That Changed My Mind': our dear arachnophobe Jack Fennell @jfennellauthor.bsky.social, author of A Brilliant Void, It Rose Up, and Your Own Dark Shadow, on Children of Time by Children of Time by Adrian Tchaikovsky globalcomment.com/the-book-tha...

We are thrilled to reveal that Water in the Desert, Fire in the Night by Gethan Dick has been shortlisted for the 2026 Kate O’Brien Award! The shortlisted writers will be talking about their books at the Festival on Sunday 1st March at 11:15am in the Belltable, Limerick. We hope to see you there!

On screen-time-menace grifters.

This link works for me. www.rte.ie/radio/radio1/

Tramp Press author Maggie Armstrong is on RTE Radio 1 now talking about The Gadfly with David McCullagh, tune in here: www.rte.ie/radio/watch-...

Mike McCormack has a short story where Ireland and Norway are at war and a character remarks that "the mere idea that Ireland and Norway could be at war would have been ridiculous a few years ago" and I think about that all the time.

This is a fabulous and really enjoyable series so far, I highly recommend listening. Some incredible women whose stories and legacies haven't been acknowledged or remembered in Ireland as they should.

And please also, AGAIN, never forget that they are inherently unethical to use because no one gave permission for their research or writing to be used in it. It is all stolen, and if you're using the plagiarism machine, please keep that in mind.

Remember how I said I have it written into my foreign-language contracts that my work has to be translated by an actual human? This shit is why. Those book translations are gonna suck. They'll save money putting out books that are going to be painful to read. That's not a great long-term strategy.

Forthcoming in 2026!

Our webshop is closed for the holidays now, as anything we try to post will end up in the sorting office in Athlone til January, but you can always order an ebook to read straight away!

My grateful thanks to Emily at Brandhive for a surprise copy of The Steps by Juliano Zaffinocoming from @tramppress.bsky.social April 2026 tramppress.com/product/the-...

Read an extract from An Alternative Irish Christmas here! www.image.ie/living/read-...

Maggie Armstrong and @mikemccormack.bsky.social read from their stories in the new @tramppress.bsky.social Christmas anthology, we had Paul Muldoon on his favourite poetry of the year, Joseph O'Connor on Irish literary Rome, @thebookerprizes.com winner David Szalay on 'Flesh' and tons more...

If we can only have art from people who "aren't in it for the money" that means we can only have art from privileged middle-class dilettantes. Making art being a viable career is responsible for nearly all worthwhile art, and if it's not a viable career any more we will get drastically less of it.