Literary magazine established in 1997 to publish & promote the very best new Irish and international writing. Stinging Fly Press was launched in 2005. Summer 2026 Issue #54 available to buy now:
https://stingingfly.org/product/summer-2026/
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There are just five days left to register for the next event in our Second Tuesday Series🦋
The series is intended to offer writers a space to gather, share their experiences, and learn from one another 🌸
Register for free:
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NEW FICTION | 'Nor in Deep' by Dane Holt is now available on our website
‘Once, when Jenny called me from the hospital I stood there listening to the sounds of the A&E department behind her—the different frequencies of beep—and felt the most relaxed I’d ever felt.'
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NEW | Gustav Parker Hibbett reviews Salvage: Readings from the Wreck by Dionne Brand.
"Part of the joy Salvage gives me is in Brand’s centring of the perspective of a ‘reader like [her]’, which returns me to the making of my own reading self."
Read the full review:
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It's the perfect time to start stocking up for your summer reading needs 🌞✨
Use the coupon code on our website:
Summer_Reading_2026
Offer ends on Tuesday 30th June
stingingfly.org/shop/
It's the perfect time to start stocking up for your summer reading needs 🌞✨
Use the coupon code on our website:
Summer_Reading_2026
Offer ends on Tuesday 30th June
stingingfly.org/shop/
This one-off event will feature new writing and improvised music, with writers from The Stinging Fly and Banshee responding to music by multi-instrumentalist and composer Seán Mac Erlaine
Writers: Chetna Maroo, Billy Ramsell, Mary Dunne and Thomas Morris
Sat 20th June, 5pm at UCC Granary Theatre
ONE WEEK TO GO until submissions open for the New Writing Prize⏰
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The Stinging Fly & @bansheepress.bsky.social are going to @corkmidsummer.bsky.social 🎉
Join us for ‘The Music of What Happens’:
a unique call-and-response exploration of the imaginative boundaries between writing and music, and the act of creativity itself
www.corkmidsummer.com/whats-on/the...
Oh and fair play to @stingingfly.bsky.social - I ordered Rituals by Danielle McLaughlin from them and shipping is free on the island of Ireland. Good stuff 👍
Reading Rituals by Danielle McLaughlin on the train into the office on a sunny morning and thoroughly enjoying it. And that cover! @stingingfly.bsky.social
