The deadline for applications to our Ten by Ten workshop is tomorrow, Tuesday 6th January at 5pm Irish time. Make sure to read the submission guidelines and get your application in before the deadline. @irishwriterscentre.bsky.social stingingfly.org/the-ten-by-t...

ICYMI✨ Only 3 weeks left to apply ✒️ Motivated writers working on a specific fiction project (short-story collection/novel), can apply for a chance to have their work closely read by our workshop leaders & like-minded participants @irishwriterscentre.bsky.social stingingfly.org/the-ten-by-t...

We are delighted to announce the return of The Ten by Ten Workshop An in-person, intermediate-level workshop for fiction writers, presented by @stingingfly.bsky.social & @irishwriterscentre.bsky.social. The workshop will be led by Roisín O'Donnell and Nicole Flattery stingingfly.org/the-ten-by-t...

2026 Ten by Ten Workshop Leaders ✨ Roisín O'Donnell's first novel Nesting won @irishbookawards.bsky.social Novel of the Year 2025 Nicole Flattery was recently appointed as @artscouncilireland.bsky.social 2026 Writer in Residence @uniofgalway.bsky.social Apply here: stingingfly.org/the-ten-by-t...

2026 Ten by Ten Workshop Leaders ✨ Roisín O'Donnell's first novel Nesting won @irishbookawards.bsky.social Novel of the Year 2025 Nicole Flattery was recently appointed as @artscouncilireland.bsky.social 2026 Writer in Residence @uniofgalway.bsky.social Apply here: stingingfly.org/the-ten-by-t...

The Irish Writers Centre and @stingingfly.bsky.social are delighted to announce the return of Ten by Ten: an in-person, intermediate-level workshop for fiction writers, led by Roisín O'Donnell and Nicole Flattery. irishwriterscentre.ie/opportunitie...

Hello #booksky 📚💙 @ccrrll.bsky.social has had a piece of eco-criticism featured in The Climate Issue of @stingingfly.bsky.social! A Thousand, Thousand Slimy Things is about a real-life sea voyage taken by Claire, @gary-grace.bsky.social and her grandpa this summer. Congratulations, Claire!

We are delighted to announce the return of The Ten by Ten Workshop An in-person, intermediate-level workshop for fiction writers, presented by @stingingfly.bsky.social & @irishwriterscentre.bsky.social. The workshop will be led by Roisín O'Donnell and Nicole Flattery stingingfly.org/the-ten-by-t...

Final call for applications - deadline is today at 5pm!

The deadline for applications to our 2026 Poetry Workshop is tomorrow, Tuesday 2nd December at 5pm Irish Time. Be sure to read the submission guidelines and get your application in on time. More info: stingingfly.org/poetry-works...

@stingingfly.bsky.social Launch of ISSUE 53 The Climate Issue @ Digital Depot, introduced by Declan Meade & Editor Lisa McInerny, w/readings from @junec.bsky.social, Simon Costello & many others 💫 @eoieoin.bsky.social in the raffle hat w/writers Lianne O'Hara, Ella Gaynor & Kasandra Ferguson✨

Our 2026 Poetry Workshop runs from January until May and will provided a group of likeminded poets the opportunity to seriously pursue and develop their craft. The deadline for applications is Tuesday 2nd December, 5pm Irish time. Apply here: stingingfly.org/poetry-works...

Applications for the 2026 TSF Poetry Workshop are open and close on Tuesday 2nd December at 5pm Irish time. More information on how to apply here: stingingfly.org/poetry-works...

Applications for the 2026 TSF Poetry Workshop are open and close on Tuesday 2nd December at 5pm Irish time. More information on how to apply here: stingingfly.org/poetry-works...

I'll be reading at The Stinging Fly launch on Thursday. A character's personal tempest inside literal one or lesbian road trip with supernatural fairies, damaged bogs, an upturned camper van, high jinx, creepy haunting and winks to The Wizard of Oz & an historic storm that battered Ireland in 1839.

THE CLIMATE ISSUE 🌊 Our Winter 2025-26 issue is out next week! Join us as we celebrate the launch in The Digital Depot, Dublin 8 next Thursday 27th November from 7pm 🎉 This event is free but space is limited and booking essential - book your ticket here: stingingfly.org/product/wint...

NEW: on the latest episode of The Stinging Fly Podcast host Nicole Flattery is joined by Odrán Waldron to read from and discuss his story ‘Temporary’, published in the Summer 2025 issue of The Stinging Fly. Listen Here: stingingfly.org/podcast/odra...

THE CLIMATE ISSUE 🌊 Our Winter 2025-26 issue is out next week launching on Thursday 27th November in The Digital Depot, Dublin 🎨The Conversation by Limerick-based artist Robert Ryan, selected from the 195th RHA Annual Exhibition / Cover design Eimear Gavin. More info stingingfly.org/newsletter/

We're launching next Thursday 27th November in the Digital Depot - come one, come all!!

NEW: on the latest episode of The Stinging Fly Podcast host Nicole Flattery is joined by Odrán Waldron to read from and discuss his story ‘Temporary’, published in the Summer 2025 issue of The Stinging Fly. Listen Here: stingingfly.org/podcast/odra...

Stoked to have a #ShortStory 🌀Night Of The Big Wind🌀 in #TheClimateIssue of @stingingfly.bsky.social Huge thanks to Editor Lisa McInerney. I'm also super grateful to @artscouncilireland.bsky.social for a 2025 Literature Bursary Award. I'll be reading this story at #DoolinWritersWeekend in January.

NEW FICTION Miriam Needham's story ‘Sometimes Women Find It Strange’ “How can this man be so sure of himself, Róisín thinks, when he is so strange, so different to the people around him? It’s almost offensive, the level of comfort he has with himself.” full story🔗 stingingfly.org/2025/11/12/s...

THE CLIMATE ISSUE 🌊 Our Winter 2025-26 issue is out next week launching on Thursday 27th November in The Digital Depot, Dublin 🎨The Conversation by Limerick-based artist Robert Ryan, selected from the 195th RHA Annual Exhibition / Cover design Eimear Gavin. More info stingingfly.org/newsletter/

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...

NEW: Valerie Flynn reviews After the Train edited by Evelyn Conlon and Rebecca Pelan and published by @ucdpress.bsky.social “[A]n eye-opening and evocative mosaic of first-person reflections on the 1975-1977 feminist collective” stingingfly.org/review/after...

Great to see two of our titles listed in the '10 of the best Irish short story collections' this week @rte.ie by journalist @laurenmurphyjourno.bsky.social t.co/GFEduC6U8r 1. Kevin Barry - There Are Little Kingdoms (2007) t.co/rzORCbHNAb 6. Colin Barrett - Young Skins (2013) t.co/50JJvsOQZg

One week until Halloween... Get 50% off The Stinging Fly Magazine - Fear & Fantasy Issue (Winter 2016-17) 🦇 Sale ends November 1st 🏮 Enter code at checkout: Halloween2025 🌙 stingingfly.org/product/wint...

NEW: Jade Bailey Brock reviews A Hut at the Edge of the Village stingingfly.org/review/a-hut... A newly-reissued anthology of excerpts from the work of Irish writer and philosopher John Moriarty, edited by writer & storyteller Martin Shaw, and published by @lilliputpress.bsky.social in April 2025

Had the nicest day with my @stingingfly.bsky.social writers @irishwriterscentre.bsky.social talking, laughing and furiously critiquing some great short stories. What an amazing bunch of folk.

Liadan Ní Chuinn's Every One Still Here ‘Extraordinary’ Guardian ‘Astonishing’ Sunday Times ‘Phenomenal’ Observer ‘Utterly brilliant’ Daily Mail ‘Deserves to be considered among the best Irish books of the 21st century’ Irish Times ‘Phenomenal' Lucy Caldwell 'A properly exciting writer' Max Porter

One week until Halloween... Get 50% off The Stinging Fly Magazine - Fear & Fantasy Issue (Winter 2016-17) 🦇 Sale ends November 1st 🏮 Enter code at checkout: Halloween2025 🌙 stingingfly.org/product/wint...

BIG NEWS 📚🎉 We couldn't be happier to see this year's shortlist for 2025 An Post Irish Book Awards! Sunday Independent Newcomer of the Year: Every One Still Here by Liadan Ní Chuinn (The Stinging Fly Press) You can vote now www.irishbookawards.ie/nominee/ever...

Was a great evening!

Sarah Moss is probably the best teacher I have ever had and everybody must read this (and her books) stingingfly.org/2025/10/16/l...

Also very grateful to @stingingfly.bsky.social for posting text of the lecture re accessibility

“This making of meaning seems to me one of the gifts that writers offer readers. Here is structure, linearity, not necessarily justice and a happy ending but at least a well-crafted tragic ending, offering the consolation of catharsis.”

Here are some photos from the lecture by Dublin-based photographer Patrick Fleming. See more on our Instagram page: t.co/nkK4QjMICH

The text of the 2025 Stinging Fly Annual Lecture is now available to read on our website. stingingfly.org/2025/10/16/l... We were delighted to have Sarah Moss deliver the The Stinging Fly 2025 Annual Lecture at Pearse Street Library in Dublin on the 25th of September.

Please spread the word!

Join our meet and greet session on Thursday October 30th to share your experiences as a writer with a disability, as we devise a range of targeted supports for disabled writers. Please contact Declan Meade by Wednesday October 22nd We’d love to hear from you. stingingfly.org/news/a-call-...

Join our meet and greet session on Thursday October 30th to share your experiences as a writer with a disability, as we devise a range of targeted supports for disabled writers. Please contact Declan Meade by Wednesday October 22nd We’d love to hear from you. stingingfly.org/news/a-call-...

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...

NEW FICTION: On our website, Eamon McGuinness's story ‘Los Sotos’ stingingfly.org/2025/10/08/l... “Swallows are everywhere. Golondrinas, I say to myself and remember the day on the balcony when Pilar taught me that word. She used to praise them for eating the mosquitos in summer.”

NEW: Philip Ó Ceallaigh reviews Goat Song, a novel from 1928 by the Russian writer Konstantin Vaginov, published this year in English for the first time by New York Review Books – translated by Ainsley Morse. read here: stingingfly.org/review/goat-...

STORY PACK📚Limited time offer ⏰ Order 3 of these 6 great books for 20 euro including postage within Ireland, 30 euro to GB and Europe. Offer is only available until Monday. 🔗 stingingfly.org/product/stor...

BIG NEWS: Dublin, Written In Our Hearts @dublincityoflit.bsky.social is now available as an audiobook! You can access the audiobook via @dublincitylibs.bsky.social BorrowBox online library service 🎧 🔗 dublin.borrowbox.com/product/SFA_...

NEW: on this month's episode, host Nicole Flattery is joined by Rosa Mäkelä to read from and discuss her story ‘Breathwork’, published in the Summer 2025 issue of The Stinging Fly Issue 52 Volume Two. Listen 🔗https://stingingfly.org/podcast/rosa-makela/

A limited number of tickets have been made available for this Thursday's TSF annual lecture. The lecture will be delivered by Sarah Moss and is entitled Losing the Plot: Reading, writing, realism and reality. Tickets are free but booking is essential. t.co/6Ynew0ot35

We are delighted to announce that Ellen Flanagan is the inaugural recipient of the Irish Writers Centre New Writing Prize for ‘A Typical Barbie’, which is her first published piece of fiction. Full announcement: stingingfly.org/news/announc...

We are delighted to announce that Ellen Flanagan is the inaugural recipient of the Irish Writers Centre New Writing Prize for ‘A Typical Barbie’, which is her first published piece of fiction. Full announcement: stingingfly.org/news/announc...