Tolka
@tolkajournal.bsky.social
Literary journal of formally promiscuous non-fiction.
Publishing essays, memoir, autofiction and the overflow.
Supported by the Arts Council.
tolkajournal.org
Publishing essays, memoir, autofiction and the overflow.
Supported by the Arts Council.
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Tolka
@tolkajournal.bsky.social
· Oct 2
🔥❤️ 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...
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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Delighted to have my interview with Nobel Laureate Jon Fosse included in this issue, along with many other fine contributors.
We had such a wonderful time celebrating Tolka Issue Ten in London, hosted by Deleted Scenes at Trisha’s Soho 🎷
Photos by Damian Wiecek 📸
If you've not got Tolka Ten yet, you can get one here: www.tolkajournal.org/shop
Photos by Damian Wiecek 📸
If you've not got Tolka Ten yet, you can get one here: www.tolkajournal.org/shop
December 15, 2025 at 12:01 PM
Delighted to have my interview with Nobel Laureate Jon Fosse included in this issue, along with many other fine contributors.
We had such a wonderful time celebrating Tolka Issue Ten in London, hosted by Deleted Scenes at Trisha’s Soho 🎷
Photos by Damian Wiecek 📸
If you've not got Tolka Ten yet, you can get one here: www.tolkajournal.org/shop
Photos by Damian Wiecek 📸
If you've not got Tolka Ten yet, you can get one here: www.tolkajournal.org/shop
December 15, 2025 at 11:54 AM
We had such a wonderful time celebrating Tolka Issue Ten in London, hosted by Deleted Scenes at Trisha’s Soho 🎷
Photos by Damian Wiecek 📸
If you've not got Tolka Ten yet, you can get one here: www.tolkajournal.org/shop
Photos by Damian Wiecek 📸
If you've not got Tolka Ten yet, you can get one here: www.tolkajournal.org/shop
Glad you enjoyed it Tim! We think it's great too!
December 10, 2025 at 3:40 PM
Glad you enjoyed it Tim! We think it's great too!
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Really enjoyed this gentle, illuminating conversation between @ronanhession.bsky.social and Jon Fosse in the new @tolkajournal.bsky.social
December 10, 2025 at 11:20 AM
Really enjoyed this gentle, illuminating conversation between @ronanhession.bsky.social and Jon Fosse in the new @tolkajournal.bsky.social
We go again in London tonight! At Trisha's from 6pm – join us if you can.
December 10, 2025 at 9:57 AM
We go again in London tonight! At Trisha's from 6pm – join us if you can.
Huge thanks to everyone who braved the rain and joined us last Friday in the beautiful surrounds of @molimuseum.bsky.social to launch Tolka Issue Ten 🖤
Lovely photos by Patrick Fleming 📸
Copies of Issue Ten are available via our website and all good bookshops ❤️
www.tolkajournal.org/shop
Lovely photos by Patrick Fleming 📸
Copies of Issue Ten are available via our website and all good bookshops ❤️
www.tolkajournal.org/shop
December 10, 2025 at 9:57 AM
Huge thanks to everyone who braved the rain and joined us last Friday in the beautiful surrounds of @molimuseum.bsky.social to launch Tolka Issue Ten 🖤
Lovely photos by Patrick Fleming 📸
Copies of Issue Ten are available via our website and all good bookshops ❤️
www.tolkajournal.org/shop
Lovely photos by Patrick Fleming 📸
Copies of Issue Ten are available via our website and all good bookshops ❤️
www.tolkajournal.org/shop
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Really lovely evening at the launch of the 10th issue of @tolkajournal.bsky.social in
@molimuseum.bsky.social Super readings from all the writers including @hawhitek.bsky.social & @wednesdayerskin.bsky.social ❤️
@molimuseum.bsky.social Super readings from all the writers including @hawhitek.bsky.social & @wednesdayerskin.bsky.social ❤️
December 5, 2025 at 8:58 PM
Really lovely evening at the launch of the 10th issue of @tolkajournal.bsky.social in
@molimuseum.bsky.social Super readings from all the writers including @hawhitek.bsky.social & @wednesdayerskin.bsky.social ❤️
@molimuseum.bsky.social Super readings from all the writers including @hawhitek.bsky.social & @wednesdayerskin.bsky.social ❤️
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We'll be at @molimuseum.bsky.social this Friday celebrating ten issues of Tolka with these fine writers. Free to attend! moli.ie/events/first...
December 3, 2025 at 3:39 PM
We'll be at @molimuseum.bsky.social this Friday celebrating ten issues of Tolka with these fine writers. Free to attend! moli.ie/events/first...
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The tenants of "The Complex" the brilliant arts space just off Capel St Stop are being evicted in January and the city can't afford to lose yet *another* cultural space.
Please sign & share the petition to save The Complex
Please sign & share the petition to save The Complex
Save The Complex in Dublin
I'm getting behind the The Complex Cultural & Arts space. Stop the eviction! Please sign & share
my.uplift.ie
December 4, 2025 at 11:18 AM
The tenants of "The Complex" the brilliant arts space just off Capel St Stop are being evicted in January and the city can't afford to lose yet *another* cultural space.
Please sign & share the petition to save The Complex
Please sign & share the petition to save The Complex
“We call upon the United Nations and the governments of the world to actively seek the release of Marwan Barghouti from Israeli prison.” www.theguardian.com/world/2025/d...
More than 200 leading cultural figures call for release of jailed Palestinian leader
Group including Margaret Atwood, Ian McKellen and Richard Branson sign open letter to free Marwan Barghouti
www.theguardian.com
December 3, 2025 at 4:01 PM
“We call upon the United Nations and the governments of the world to actively seek the release of Marwan Barghouti from Israeli prison.” www.theguardian.com/world/2025/d...
We'll be at @molimuseum.bsky.social this Friday celebrating ten issues of Tolka with these fine writers. Free to attend! moli.ie/events/first...
December 3, 2025 at 3:39 PM
We'll be at @molimuseum.bsky.social this Friday celebrating ten issues of Tolka with these fine writers. Free to attend! moli.ie/events/first...
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Top 10 alleys in central Birmingham to hide and eat a hotdog you put too many toppings on
December 3, 2025 at 12:03 PM
Top 10 alleys in central Birmingham to hide and eat a hotdog you put too many toppings on
The Tolka Podcast Season Two is up and running, with the wonderful Kimberly Campanello. Kimberly spoke to us about all kinds of form, from bodybuilding to poetry, and read from her essay, 'Tachyphylaxis'.
Spotify: open.spotify.com/episode/0Wig...
Apple Podcasts: podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/t...
Spotify: open.spotify.com/episode/0Wig...
Apple Podcasts: podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/t...
December 3, 2025 at 10:51 AM
The Tolka Podcast Season Two is up and running, with the wonderful Kimberly Campanello. Kimberly spoke to us about all kinds of form, from bodybuilding to poetry, and read from her essay, 'Tachyphylaxis'.
Spotify: open.spotify.com/episode/0Wig...
Apple Podcasts: podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/t...
Spotify: open.spotify.com/episode/0Wig...
Apple Podcasts: podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/t...
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Unveiling our first publication of 2026...
'Contentious Spaces' is the debut novel from acclaimed Irish writer, playwright and performer Rosaleen McDonagh
#ContentiousSpaces #NewIrishFiction
'Contentious Spaces' is the debut novel from acclaimed Irish writer, playwright and performer Rosaleen McDonagh
#ContentiousSpaces #NewIrishFiction
December 3, 2025 at 10:27 AM
Unveiling our first publication of 2026...
'Contentious Spaces' is the debut novel from acclaimed Irish writer, playwright and performer Rosaleen McDonagh
#ContentiousSpaces #NewIrishFiction
'Contentious Spaces' is the debut novel from acclaimed Irish writer, playwright and performer Rosaleen McDonagh
#ContentiousSpaces #NewIrishFiction
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Hurray! A very good post day - latest copies of @stingingfly.bsky.social @tolkajournal.bsky.social and @extrateethmag.bsky.social all arrived today! 📚✒️😍
December 1, 2025 at 1:58 PM
Hurray! A very good post day - latest copies of @stingingfly.bsky.social @tolkajournal.bsky.social and @extrateethmag.bsky.social all arrived today! 📚✒️😍
"Ger smiled because he loved it when I called him a legend. He took a drag on the joint and, with a lungful of smoke, squeaked out, ‘Walt Whitman, bro.’"
‘Here was youth in all its undying glory: rude red health, perverse and powerful, and dumb, so dumb, dumb as shit, really.’
Sean Tanner’s ‘How Soon Unaccountable’ — first published in Issue 7 — is now available to read on our website. www.tolkajournal.org/read-online/...
Sean Tanner’s ‘How Soon Unaccountable’ — first published in Issue 7 — is now available to read on our website. www.tolkajournal.org/read-online/...
How Soon Unaccountable — TOLKA
by Sean Tanner
www.tolkajournal.org
December 1, 2025 at 10:31 AM
"Ger smiled because he loved it when I called him a legend. He took a drag on the joint and, with a lungful of smoke, squeaked out, ‘Walt Whitman, bro.’"
‘Here was youth in all its undying glory: rude red health, perverse and powerful, and dumb, so dumb, dumb as shit, really.’
Sean Tanner’s ‘How Soon Unaccountable’ — first published in Issue 7 — is now available to read on our website. www.tolkajournal.org/read-online/...
Sean Tanner’s ‘How Soon Unaccountable’ — first published in Issue 7 — is now available to read on our website. www.tolkajournal.org/read-online/...
How Soon Unaccountable — TOLKA
by Sean Tanner
www.tolkajournal.org
November 30, 2025 at 6:36 PM
‘Here was youth in all its undying glory: rude red health, perverse and powerful, and dumb, so dumb, dumb as shit, really.’
Sean Tanner’s ‘How Soon Unaccountable’ — first published in Issue 7 — is now available to read on our website. www.tolkajournal.org/read-online/...
Sean Tanner’s ‘How Soon Unaccountable’ — first published in Issue 7 — is now available to read on our website. www.tolkajournal.org/read-online/...
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So pleased @ronanhession.bsky.social has included Lalla Romano's In Farthest Seas in the Irish Times' Books of the Year 2025!
Rónán also reviewed the book in September, calling it "Autofiction at its most elegant" and a "beautiful translation" 🙌
@pushkinpress.com
Rónán also reviewed the book in September, calling it "Autofiction at its most elegant" and a "beautiful translation" 🙌
@pushkinpress.com
November 30, 2025 at 3:03 PM
So pleased @ronanhession.bsky.social has included Lalla Romano's In Farthest Seas in the Irish Times' Books of the Year 2025!
Rónán also reviewed the book in September, calling it "Autofiction at its most elegant" and a "beautiful translation" 🙌
@pushkinpress.com
Rónán also reviewed the book in September, calling it "Autofiction at its most elegant" and a "beautiful translation" 🙌
@pushkinpress.com
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an extract from @autreauxp.bsky.social 's L'Époux in @tolkajournal.bsky.social no. 10
November 29, 2025 at 3:51 PM
an extract from @autreauxp.bsky.social 's L'Époux in @tolkajournal.bsky.social no. 10
We can’t stop, won’t stop launching this issue!
Join us for ‘Deleted Scenes’ - a London celebration of Issue 10, hosted by the brilliant Paul Jonathan.
December 10th
Greek st, Soho
6pm
Join us for ‘Deleted Scenes’ - a London celebration of Issue 10, hosted by the brilliant Paul Jonathan.
December 10th
Greek st, Soho
6pm
November 28, 2025 at 3:42 PM
We can’t stop, won’t stop launching this issue!
Join us for ‘Deleted Scenes’ - a London celebration of Issue 10, hosted by the brilliant Paul Jonathan.
December 10th
Greek st, Soho
6pm
Join us for ‘Deleted Scenes’ - a London celebration of Issue 10, hosted by the brilliant Paul Jonathan.
December 10th
Greek st, Soho
6pm
Some stunning action shots from our Issue Ten event last night at @gloucesterroadbks.bsky.social! Thanks to Joe and Libby for hosting!
November 28, 2025 at 2:32 PM
Some stunning action shots from our Issue Ten event last night at @gloucesterroadbks.bsky.social! Thanks to Joe and Libby for hosting!
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A future Iran where men are subjugated by women; a wartime love story, where "every woman ought to feel proud" if an SS officer gets her pregnant; a dying ferryman with memories of Edward G Robinson; and a submerged Netherlands ("4 life jackets for the price of 3!").
Me on new translated fiction:
Me on new translated fiction:
The best recent translated fiction – review roundup
The Ferryman and His Wife by Frode Grytten; Woman in the Pillory by Brigitte Reimann; Iran+100, edited by various; Sea Now by Eva Meijer
www.theguardian.com
November 28, 2025 at 1:24 PM
A future Iran where men are subjugated by women; a wartime love story, where "every woman ought to feel proud" if an SS officer gets her pregnant; a dying ferryman with memories of Edward G Robinson; and a submerged Netherlands ("4 life jackets for the price of 3!").
Me on new translated fiction:
Me on new translated fiction:
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Sweating at Heathrow border control because I’ve swallowed 15 copies of uncut Intermezzo
Sally Rooney's books may be pulled off UK shelves due to her support for Palestine Action group
The author said it was “unclear” whether any UK company can make payments to her.
www.thejournal.ie
November 28, 2025 at 1:50 PM
Sweating at Heathrow border control because I’ve swallowed 15 copies of uncut Intermezzo
You can listen back to our wonderful Issue Ten contributors, Wendy Erskine and John Patrick McHugh, who were on Arena last night! www.rte.ie/radio/radio1...
Tolka - Issue Ten
Wendy Erskine and John Patrick McHugh discuss the 10th issue of Tolka.
www.rte.ie
November 27, 2025 at 4:01 PM
You can listen back to our wonderful Issue Ten contributors, Wendy Erskine and John Patrick McHugh, who were on Arena last night! www.rte.ie/radio/radio1...