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Magazine for new writers, new writing – first published in March 1998. Now also doing books, workshops, seminars, podcast, etc. Supported by the Arts Council.

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The Stinging Fly
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We’re so very proud to say that Every One Still Here is on the shortlist for the 2025 An Post Irish Book Awards! Sunday Independent Newcomer of the Year: Every One Still Here by Liadan Ní Chuinn 🎉📚 & we're delighted to see Wendy Erskine's debut novel The Benefactors
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NEW FICTION: Miriam Needham's story ‘Sometimes Women Find It Strange’ https://t.co/1Uc51L5fgr “He still looks like a normal human in front of her, albeit with a well-fitted coat, suited to his frame, to his needs. What does he do in summer, she wonders, what does he do in
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The Stinging Fly
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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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Annemarie Ní Churreáin
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🗓️Poets! @stingingfly dates for your diary 🔥 General submissions open until 18 November | Updated Featured Poet eligibility criteria now live | Free Zoom Info Session on 10 Nov | Applications until 2 Dec for 2026 Poetry Workshop (across 4 months). Info➡️ https://t.co/l8zO3SEjfO
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We are delighted to announce @EmmaDabiri as our new non-fiction editor. Emma is taking over the reins from Róisín Kiberd who has worked on our three most recent issues, including the special climate issue which we’ll publish later this month. https://t.co/n16suN2KI6 Emma Dabiri
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Consulate General of Ireland, Mumbai
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We are delighted to invite our friends and followers in #Ahmedabad, Gujarat, to an evening with the writer Cathy Sweeney in the Arthshila Centre, at 6pm tomorrow. Cathy will also have a series of events at the Mumbai Literature Festival, from Friday to Sunday.
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The Stinging Fly
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NEW: Valerie Flynn reviews After the Train edited by Evelyn Conlon and Rebecca Pelan and published by @UCDPress “[A]n eye-opening and evocative mosaic of first-person reflections on the 1975-1977 feminist collective” https://t.co/rT5uq4pnym
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The Stinging Fly
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Great to see two of our titles listed in the '10 of the best Irish short story collections' this week in @rte by journalist and broadcaster @laurenmurphy_ 1. Kevin Barry - There Are Little Kingdoms ( https://t.co/SSvYKjEqUQ) “Barry has published several short story collections,
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The Stinging Fly
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HALLOWEEN SALE | We are offering 50% off The Stinging Fly Fear & Fantasy Issue (Winter 2016-17). Sale ends November 1st. Enter code at checkout: Halloween2025 One week until Halloween... Are you ready to sink into the thrills and terror of the best new writing across fiction,
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The Stinging Fly
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NEW: Jade Bailey Brock reviews ‘A Hut at the Edge of the Village’ https://t.co/ZhaIbBqwWu “Moriarty writes from this edge, in marginal musings and forms. ‘I had to write as I felt, as I thought, and if this is difficult, so be it,’ he once said.” A newly-reissued anthology of
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The Stinging Fly
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HALLOWEEN SALE | We are offering 50% off The Stinging Fly Fear & Fantasy Issue (Winter 2016-17). Sale ends November 1st. Enter code at checkout: Halloween2025 One week until Halloween... Are you ready to sink into the thrills and terror of the best new writing across fiction,
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