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Banshee Press @bansheepress.bsky.social · 1d

Open for three more days! 💫

Banshee Press @bansheepress.bsky.social · 8d

Submissions for issue 21 (spring/summer 2026) are open until 31 October! Submission guidelines are at the link below. We're looking forward to reading your short fiction, poetry, flash & essays! ✨

bansheepress.org/submit

Submit — Banshee Press

Banshee Press is open for book submissions from 1-15 October. We are also accepting submissions for issue 21 (spring/summer 2026) until 31 October!

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Skein Press @skeinpress.bsky.social · 5d

Such a wonderful evening at the prelaunch of 'This is not a cookbook' - author Roxana Manouchehri was in conversation with Razan Ibraheem at @kildarereaders.bsky.social

Big thanks to the festival, to @barkerandjones.bsky.social for their support and to Roxy for providing the nibbles 🍴❤️

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Irish Literary Times @irishlittimes.bsky.social · 5d

Irish PEN/PEN na hÉireann Irish PEN/PEN na hÉireann is gravely concerned about the detention of writer Naoise Dolan...The flotilla was illegally intercepted last night and seized by armed Israeli forces in international waters.
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Thousand Madleens flotilla Statement - Irish PEN/PEN na hÉireann

8 October 2025 Irish PEN/PEN na hÉireann Irish PEN/PEN na hÉireann is gravely concerned about the detention of writer Naoise Dolan, one of several Irish citizens taking part in the Thousand Madleens f...

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Jess Traynor @jesstraynor.bsky.social · 5d

I'll be heading to Belfast for the last of my New Arcana launches, introduced by the wonderful Stephen Sexton, at No Alibis Books, on the 21st October. Free but ticketed- get yours here!

noalibis.com/event/poetry...

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Draught @draughtjournal.bsky.social · 6d

Draught is now live!
www.draughtjournal.com
Issue 1.1.1 with contributions by Glenn Adamson, Jen Calleja, Don Mee Choi, Mark Cousins, Daisy Lafarge, Mark Manders, Rosalind Nashashibi, Lisa Robertson, Christina Tudor-Sideri and Francesca Wade

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Tolka @tolkajournal.bsky.social · 7d

This is very, very good! New Claire-Louise Bennett novel, BIG KISS, BYE-BYE, published by @fitzcarraldoeds.bsky.social later this week.
You can also find CLB in Tolka Issues Two and Seven . . .

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Tolka @tolkajournal.bsky.social · 7d

A reminder you can subscribe to Tolka for €22 a year, and get two issues sent straight to your door 📮
Subscriptions support new writers and keep the show on the road ✨
Free postage in Ireland 🇮🇪
Cheap postage everywhere else 🌎
www.tolkajournal.org/shop/p/tolka...

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Tolka @tolkajournal.bsky.social · 7d

A reminder you can subscribe to Tolka for €22 a year, and get two issues sent straight to your door 📮
Subscriptions support new writers and keep the show on the road ✨
Free postage in Ireland 🇮🇪
Cheap postage everywhere else 🌎
www.tolkajournal.org/shop/p/tolka...

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Tolka @tolkajournal.bsky.social · 12d

🔥❤️ Tolka Issue Ten ❤️🔥
We're delighted to unveil the line up for our tenth issue!
This issue will publish on 10 November and launch on Friday 5 December.
You can pre-order the issue here: www.tolkajournal.org/shop/p/issue...

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Banshee Press @bansheepress.bsky.social · 13d

Banshee Press is open for book submissions from 1-15 October! 📚

Guidelines are at the link below. We look forward to reading your work!

bansheepress.org/read/banshee...

Banshee Press is open for book submissions from 1-15 October — Banshee Press

Banshee Press is open for book-length submissions of fiction, poetry and memoir from 1-15 October 2025 . All submitted manuscripts will be considered for our 2027 and 2028 lists (and perhaps…

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Tobias Ryan @tobiasvryan.bsky.social · 11d

an extract from @autreauxp.bsky.social 's L'Époux (The Husband) will appear in Issue 10 of @tolkajournal.bsky.social

pre-order a copy here:

www.tolkajournal.org/shop/p/issue...

Issue Ten — TOLKA

ISBN: 978-1-7398226-8-2 Issue Ten, publishing in November 2025, is available to pre-order. It includes writing by: John Patrick McHugh Tim MacGabhann Hannah Sargeant Kim Keum Hee translated...

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Patrick Autréaux @autreauxp.bsky.social · 12d

Many thanks to Tolka and Tobias Ryan for the translation of this large excerpt of « L’Epoux » (Gallimard) - « The Husband ».

Tolka @tolkajournal.bsky.social · 12d

🔥❤️ Tolka Issue Ten ❤️🔥
We're delighted to unveil the line up for our tenth issue!
This issue will publish on 10 November and launch on Friday 5 December.
You can pre-order the issue here: www.tolkajournal.org/shop/p/issue...

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Tolka @tolkajournal.bsky.social · 12d

🔥❤️ Tolka Issue Ten ❤️🔥
We're delighted to unveil the line up for our tenth issue!
This issue will publish on 10 November and launch on Friday 5 December.
You can pre-order the issue here: www.tolkajournal.org/shop/p/issue...

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Alina Stefanescu @alinaetc.bsky.social · 14d

Lalla Romano

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I was with Silvia on Corso Nizza, so empty and sun-drenched in those days. She looked at me and said, with an expression of shock and admiration: 'You seem like Tess!'
It was a grave thing to say. We had just read Tess of the d'Urbervilles: what she meant I don't know, but it helped me define my somewhat dreamy state, between blissful and dis-tressed. Almost as though I were truly going to be 'sacrificed', even if 'crowned with flowers'. I had never said it to myself, but I thought, or rather I felt, that getting married was something fatal, abyssal in fact, a kind of death. I intuited a sense of risk, which was exhilarating too, but detached from me, from our story. Almost an investiture: for some unknown end.

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Tolka @tolkajournal.bsky.social · 18d

Nicole Flattery's 'Abortion, a Love Story'!

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Tolka @tolkajournal.bsky.social · 18d

New online! To celebrate the publication of Jessica Traynor's new poetry collection, New Arcana, we've made her essay 'Arcana' free to read on our website! @bloodaxebooks.bsky.social www.tolkajournal.org/read-online/...

Arcana — TOLKA

by Jessica Traynor

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Tolka @tolkajournal.bsky.social · 18d

New online! To celebrate the publication of Jessica Traynor's new poetry collection, New Arcana, we've made her essay 'Arcana' free to read on our website! @bloodaxebooks.bsky.social www.tolkajournal.org/read-online/...

Arcana — TOLKA

by Jessica Traynor

www.tolkajournal.org

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Fitzcarraldo Editions @fitzcarraldoeds.bsky.social · 22d

🔵 ANNIVERSARY SALE 🔵

To celebrate eleven years since we published our first book, we are running a sale on our website until 11.59 p.m. BST on 30 September, with a 40 per cent discount across our website.

Use the code ‘ANNIVERSARY40’ at checkout: fitzcarraldoeditions.com

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Jess Traynor @jesstraynor.bsky.social · 20d

Here's a little taster from New Arcana! Big thanks to @booksireland.bsky.social for featuring a reading of my poem 'and the girl inside me' 🔮✨️

Books Ireland @booksireland.bsky.social · 21d

🌟Jessica Traynor reads from her forthcoming collection New Arcana (Bloodaxe Books) over on Books Ireland today!🌟

booksirelandmagazine.com/jessica-tray...

🔥New Arcana launches 02 October @gutterbookshop.bsky.social 🔥

@bloodaxebooks.bsky.social @poetryireland.bsky.social

Jessica Traynor reads from her new collection, New Arcana - Books Ireland

Jessica Traynor reads from her new collection, New Arcana (Bloodaxe).

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Brian Robert Moore @brianrobmoore.bsky.social · 29d

A beautiful review of Lalla Romano's In Farthest Seas from @ronanhession.bsky.social in today's Irish Times!
"It’s a sign of the quality of the writing[...] that even when reading analytically as a reviewer, I often found myself putting the book down still in a dream of its voice." @pushkinpress.com

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Rónán Hession @ronanhession.bsky.social · 29d

Segue of the year from the Paris Review interviewer(s) of Graham Greene.

Interviewers ask if Greene sees much of other writers. Greene answers that the company of other authors is a form of masturbation. The interviewers then ask about his friendship with Norman Douglas.

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Sinéad Gleeson @sineadgleeson.bsky.social · Sep 13

Ten years ago this week, The Long Gaze Back: An Anthology of Irish Women Writers was published. It took a huge amount of research, but introduced me to many writers, and to the historical omission of Irish women from the literary canon. @newislandbooks.bsky.social
www.newisland.ie/shop/p/the-l...

The Long Gaze Back - An Anthology of Irish Women Writers — New Island Books

Edited by Sinéad Gleeson The Long Gaze Back , edited by Sinéad Gleeson, is an exhilarating anthology of thirty short stories by some of the most gifted women writers this island has ever produced....

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Rónán Hession @ronanhession.bsky.social · Sep 14

My @irishtimes.com fiction in translation column is now online for subscribers.

Fiction from Romania, Italy, Haiti, China and Gaza.

Fiction in translation: Yang Hao an exciting new voice in Chinese – and Irish – literature

www.irishtimes.com/culture/book...

Fiction in translation: Yang Hao an exciting new voice in Chinese – and Irish – literature

In Farthest Seas; Blurred; Cécé; Diablo’s Boys; and Voices of Resistance: Diaries of Genocide reviewed

www.irishtimes.com

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Tolka @tolkajournal.bsky.social · Sep 11

New online! Eimear Arthur’s ‘Gan Comhartha Lena Chomóradh’ is a reflection on collective memory and mourning – spanning Oileán na Marbh, Sutton, Tuam and the West Bank. You can read Eimear's piece here: www.tolkajournal.org/read-online/...

Gan Comhartha Lena Chomóradh — TOLKA

by Eimear Arthur

www.tolkajournal.org

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Tolka @tolkajournal.bsky.social · Sep 11

New online! Eimear Arthur’s ‘Gan Comhartha Lena Chomóradh’ is a reflection on collective memory and mourning – spanning Oileán na Marbh, Sutton, Tuam and the West Bank. You can read Eimear's piece here: www.tolkajournal.org/read-online/...

Gan Comhartha Lena Chomóradh — TOLKA

by Eimear Arthur

www.tolkajournal.org

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