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...

Popped into @gutterbookshop.bsky.social to drop in garden seeds for a friend & got distracted by the #Samhain #Halloween display... unable to resist I'm delighted to get my hands on #YourOwnDarkShadow @tramppress.bsky.social + #GothicTales by #ArthurConanDoyle .. Let the spookiness begin! #AmReading

Always a treat to get into @booksupstairs.bsky.social & lovely to sign some copies of New Arcana 🔮✨️ @bloodaxebooks.bsky.social

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

The toy catalogue for nerds ♥️

#SpookySeason reading suggestions from English and Creative staff @kent.ac.uk check them out here: www.instagram.com/p/DPo9iZijCx... @tramppress.bsky.social #DorothyMacardle #TheUnivited

Quick reminder for this evening: Editors' Panel with Tramp Press and The Stinging Fly, Naas Library & Cultural Centre, W91 E1RT from 7pm www.tickettailor.com/events/kilda...

Five Irish citizens are among those detained by Israel on Gaza-bound flotilla, including writer Naoise Dolan. They were not breaking international law and should be released immediately. 🇵🇸saoirse don Phalaistín www.irishtimes.com/world/middle...

The reason the Right are so invested in the myth that the arts have no value isn’t because the arts don’t generate wealth (they do); it’s that studying the arts teaches people to imagine better ways of judging the value of an idea than by counting how much money it makes…

We get a lot of questions about commissioning, editing, line-editing etc. If you're able to get to Naas LIbrary & Cultural Centre this Friday 10 OCt, we will be on a panel with @stingingfly.bsky.social 's Lisa McInerney to talk about all this and more! www.tickettailor.com/events/kilda...

Two of Riddell's (short) haunted house novels are collected in this edition by The British Library in their long-running Tales of the Weird series:

I feel like this photo of masked, armed men pepper spraying a pastor protecting his community is going to be a defining picture of this moment in America for a long, long time.

We are delighted to see the wonderful Charlotte Riddell recognised with a blue plaque! You can pick up our edition of A Struggle for Fame here: tramppress.com/product/a-st... www.bbc.com/news/article...

We are delighted to share the cover for a very special project we've been working on for Christmas 2025! An Alternative Irish Christmas is an anthology of stories, in traditional, unusual, extract, and essay form by some of our favourite authors. 1/🧵

Join @tramppress.bsky.social and DBF this November for a festive book launch for their brilliant new anthology of stories capturing the breadth of experiences an Irish Christmas offers 🎟️ bit.ly/3KBuzfx

Cómhbhrón ó chroí to everyone who loved Manchán Magan on the sad news of his passing. Manchán was so kind, gentle and talented, and had so much to offer. We'll all miss him. www.irishtimes.com/culture/2025...

Kildare Readers Festival: Editors' Panel Fri 10 Oct 7pm, Naas Library Join us at @kildarereadersfestival with the marvellous Lisa McInerney for a chat about the roles of editors and publishers. Book here: www.tickettailor.com/events/kildarereadersfestival/1801790

Two Bluemoose Books adapted for BBC Drama Series in the last 2 years. Not bad for an Indy publisher! @thebookseller.com @independentpublishersguild.com @bbcnewsnight.bsky.social @thebookerprizes.com

Please read this excellent article about the dramatic rise of costs in publishing by a truly great indie press. When you buy a book, 'you are buying a stake in the survival of our world of letters'.

This is more like it

Trying so hard not to say 'going forward' I usually go with 'as seo amach', but got dangerously close to a 'henceforth' this morning. If you have a good one in your pocket, help me out.

Emerging Voices: Gethan Dick at the Dublin Book Festival, Thurs 6th November at 6pm Exploring themes from hope and love to resilience and ambition, join us for an evening around four captivating debut novels. Booking essential: dublinbookfestival.com/event/emergi... #DBF25

contributors include: @costelkh.bsky.social @carolineheafey.bsky.social @sistermmm.bsky.social @brianeanna.bsky.social #speirgorm

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

Palestine, 2025. english.palinfo.com/news/2025/04...

Calling all arts managers and producers 📣 Next week, we're hosting a workshop with Safe to Create and Migrant Rights Ireland to help arts orgs support and employ migrant artists 🌎 🗓 Wed 10 Sept | 12:30 – 2:00pm | Online Book here: safetocreate.ie/training/wor...

“At this point it's become impossible for me to maintain a relationship with Reuters given its role in justifying and enabling the systematic assassination of 245 journalists in Gaza. I owe my colleagues in Palestine at least this much, and so much more.” - Valerie Zink

Basic Income for the Arts public consultation There is a Government survey currently open for submissions, available here: ec.europa.eu/eusurvey/run... Please share it with your networks, friends and family to gather as much support for the Basic Income successor scheme as possible!

Good morning and here's a selection of delicious books, inc. short stories published by @tramppress.bsky.social and a classic memoir by @pushkinpress.com. 📚😍 All part of my new online reading group starting 9th Oct! 📖🍷

I’m running a monthly online book group, ‘Reading Like a Writer’ from Thurs 9th Oct. These are the books we’ll be reading and discussing together! Fee: £120, Thursdays 18.30-20.30 on Zoom in Oct, Nov, Dec 2025 and Feb, Mar and Apr 2026. More details on my website: victoriamackenzie.net/teaching/

Our short story prize is open for submissions again! Please share this widely - and please send us your stories: www.galleybeggar.co.uk/prize Closing date 8 November!

There's a REALLY quick and easy survey for the public consultation on the Basic Income for the Arts scheme - it only takes a few seconds, anyone can fill it in, and it could make a huge difference to arts workers in Ireland. Take a few ticks to places a few ticks here: ec.europa.eu/eusurvey/run...

Did a new one

I truly love her writing.

RIP, Maeve Kelly. Orange Horses is one of the strongest story collections I've ever read. stancarey.wordpress.com/2018/05/31/s...

It is with great sadness that we mark the passing of Maeve Kelly, novelist, short fiction writer, poet, activist. She was a writer of profound empathy and fierce insight. Our deepest sympathies to Maeve’s family, friends, and to all who loved her. tramppress.com/maeve-kelly/

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Time to return to this book…

RIP Maeve Kelly, a remarkable woman and a great writer. We were privileged to (re)publish her collection Orange Horses.

Artist and debut novelist Gethan Dick talks literary inspirations, writing process, and how the end of one thing is never the end of everything: www.image.ie/living/page-...

RIP Séan Rocks, a talented broadcaster who was also a really sound man tramppress.com/sean-rocks/