Roisin Kiberd
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moar than this // author of The Disconnect, published by @serpentstail, creative writing lecturer @uniofgalway, nonfiction editor at @stingingfly
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Joined October 2010
THE CLIMATE ISSUE 🌊 Our Winter 2025-26 issue with a special focus on the climate crisis is out next week. The new issue will be launching on Thursday 27th November in The Digital Depot, Dublin. The cover image is The Conversation by Limerick-based artist Robert Ryan. The
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I reviewed the new Didion, Notes to John, in @ReviewIndo here
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It seems unlikely that Notes to John, a new and posthumous work by Joan Didion, was originally intended as a ‘book’. Next to her other titles, it lacks the...
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WILL YOU JOIN US IN THE BIG YELLOW TENT?⛺️ We are delighted to share the cover of The Stinging Fly's Summer 2025 issue. The cover image 'Circus' is by photographer Ronan McCall, and the cover design is by Eimear Gavin. The new issue will be available in May.
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Applications for our summer school close this Thursday April 3rd at 5pm — make sure to read the application guidelines and get your application in before the deadline.
The 2025 Summer School is now open for applications. Deadline: Thursday 3rd April at 5pm We’re offering in-person & online options with a line-up of wonderful writers, and we are happy to announce two new workshop leaders for our online fiction workshops, Ross Raisin and Mary
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Applications close on April 3rd 🪰 The Summer School is always a great (and intense!) week of reading, writing and creative thinking in a room full of interesting people.
The 2025 Summer School is open for applications. Deadline: Thursday 3rd April at 5pm We’re offering in-person & online workshops in: - Fiction - Entry-Level Fiction - Creative Non-Fiction - Poetry In-person: Monday 30th June to Friday 4th July Online: Monday 7th July 7th
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Gorgeous New Literary Journal (in print) @Fallow__Media launched April 10th in @BooksUpstairs There's me on the back, and there's an extract from Eden's Shore inside.
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And the first review of my new book, HOW TO THINK ABOUT AI, is out. Thank you to @roisinkiberd for a generous and nuanced summary and analysis in @IrishIndependRX -
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‘The field of AI is littered with nevers,” writes Richard Susskind, in How to Think About AI. “Again and again, commentators and AI specialists have exclud...
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The launch of Dublin, Written In Our Hearts an anthology of 21st century writing on the city and this year's One Dublin One Book, commissioned by @DubCityCouncil and published by @stingingfly marks three significant milestones: - 20th anniversary of the One Dublin One Book
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✨I am the special guest on this Sundays ‘Spinning Away’ on Radio 2 Rte starting in 15 Mins! SAINT LEONARD Recent singles 'Wits End' and 'The Red Book' (in collaboration with Brian Eno) SUNDAY 1pm - 16/2/25 - RTÉ 2XM! https:// https://t.co/90Dox6BkFv
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Sunday’s ‘Spinning Away’ on @rte2xm features an in-depth conversation with Saint Leonard @FirstRunRec re: @brianeno collab ‘The Red Book’ & lots more Plus music from @loumcmaho The Gopniks & @IggyPop SUNDAY 1pm - 16/2/25 - RTÉ 2XM! https://t.co/mI2gPBoL43
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Briefly in front of the mic on this to have a quick chat with Nicole about the new podcast format — more exciting things ahead for 2025!
NEW: After almost 8 years, we're mixing things up on The Stinging Fly Podcast. Up to now, the series has focused on the wealth of material contained in the magazine’s back catalogue and our guests have been asked to select and read a story or essay from the archive. Starting
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I've a review of Bill Gates' (surprisingly good?!) new memoir in @ReviewIndo
independent.ie
There’s something contradictory about the childhood memoir; in order to have lived enough to merit one, the author will usually be far enough away from thi...
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I've a book review, of Conspiracyland: Trolls, True Believers and the New Information War, in @ReviewIndo this week
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“Some of my trolls say they want to kill me,” Marianna Spring tells us on back of her book jacket. It’s a morbid boast, but one that is merited. The journa...
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Really happy to have an essay in the latest @stingingfly featuring the beached Garfield phones from Hell, France. Huge thanks to editors @roisinkiberd and Lisa McInerney 📞
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Tonight! This issue is full of beautiful strange things that will stay with you 🐈⬛️
After a long string of November events, join us for a final hurrah before Christmas🥂 We’ll be celebrating the publication of our Winter 2024-25 issue at 8pm on Thursday November 28th in Hen’s Teeth, Dublin 8. Our readers for the night are @milenaevening (poetry), Brendan
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Shall be part of this event on Wednesday at @DCU, talking campus novels (and nonfiction) with @Louise_Nealon @missflannery and Declan Toohey
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There's a new @holyshow_ie exhibition at @MoLI_Museum and I am so, so happy to be part of it. As writers and as readers, we're truly fortunate to have these beautiful weirdos. 100% worth seeing and worth finding the new issue in @BooksUpstairs.
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We're delighted to share the cover of the forthcoming issue 51 vol 2 of The Stinging Fly, featuring some of the very best new writers and new writing, and beautiful cover artwork by Hazel Coonagh. We'll be celebrating the publication of the issue at 8pm on Thursday November 28th
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*McQueen, rather! If you've not seen it yet, The Outrun is a beautiful, moving film. Blitz too (not out yet), like a dark wartime fairytale. Give her the Oscar already 🪼
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