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New fuck/marry/kill list just dropped

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.

If you missed it, last night's RTÉ Radio 1 Arena featured Maggie Armstrong and Mike McCormack talking about An Alternative Irish Christmas, and you can listen back here! www.rte.ie/radio/radio1... An Alternative Irish Christmas is out now tramppress.com/product/an-a...

Tune in to @rteradio1.bsky.social Arena this evening (Wed 3rd) at 7pm for chats about our new anthology An Alternative Irish Christmas 🎄

Lovely review of my (first ever😱) short story in great company as part of @tramppress.bsky.social beautiful An Alternative Irish Christmas anthology in yesterday's @irishtimes.com Very humbling & gratifying to see these kind words about the work. ✨️

contributor copy!! My chapter on "Dubliners" & @deeshaphilyaw.bsky.social was seeded by @jancarsonwrites.bsky.social review of Philyaw's stories in @irishtimes.com! Congrats, eds. Barry Devine & @ellenscheible.bsky.social

OUR NEXT BOOK with incredibly talented Juliano Zaffino – coming out in April @tramppress.bsky.social Jacket design by @feekra.bsky.social

April 2026: Tramp Press is set to publish Juliano Zaffino’s powerful debut novel The Steps. A portrait of love, loyalty and the narratives we cling to. www.thebookseller.com/rights/tramp... Pre-order links: tramppress.com/product/the-... www.kennys.ie/shop/the-ste...

Join novelist Gethan Dick at EPIC this 20th January for an evening of conversation, creativity, and storytelling as part of the 'Éire to Everywhere: Stories Without Borders series': epicchq.com/event/eire-t...

I love this interview with my colleague and dear pal Sarah Davis-Goff who has read more books than anyone I know. She read 5 novels as I composed this, probably www.independent.ie/entertainmen... @sarahdavisgoff.bsky.social

Contributors to a collection on @tramppress.bsky.social I’m editing w/ Tara Harney-Mahajan discuss Tramp's fiction & Recovered Voices series @ #IrishStudies Seminar CUNY, NYC, Dec 5. Registration / full info: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

Dublin bookshop to host festive late-night shopping event following arson attack | Irish Independent share.google/spCMW7qYvg79...

For our latest publication, An Alternative Irish Christmas, we asked some of our favourite authors to write fitting for Christmas in Ireland in 2025. It's dark, funny, wild, thoughtful, and fun. Limited edition run available now! www.kennys.ie/shop/new-rel...

Sliver Salon is coming to Dingle on the eve of @othervoiceslive.bsky.social Tickets are free but limited. Design by Sarah Moloney.

Excited to announce the first book on my press. Plan Life Go, by Julie Fogarty, Sliver Editions, Spring 2026. An incredible debut memoir rooted in 1990s Dublin's explosive rave scene and devastating heroin epidemic. Design by Matt Lambert. More details here ⬇️ www.sliverpress.com/editions

We need your votes! We are beyond delighted that SOLO by @kennysbookshop.bsky.social bookseller @grainneobrien.bsky.social, is on the shortlist for the @irishbookawards.bsky.social! Please help this gorgeous book win the prize by voting for SOLO in the YA category: www.irishbookawards.ie/vote/

And copies available to buy here (delivery within Ireland included) at thebookshop.ie/lisa-coen-ed...

Just released from @tramppress.bsky.social is An Alternative Irish Christmas - a collection of short stories from some of Ireland's best writers, packaged in a great design by @feekra.bsky.social .

Join us next Thursday 30 October in @ucc.ie at 6pm to celebrate the launch of Banshee issue 20! Hear readings from our brilliant contributors and raise a glass to ten years of Banshee 📚 bansheepress.org/events/cork-...

We're having at event at the Dublin Book Festival to launch our new anthology. Tickets sold out quickly, so it's been moved to a larger space in the venue, which means THE TIME HAS CHANGED TO 3:15PM on Sunday 9th. Hope you can join us! Book here: dublinbookfestival.com/event/book-l...