The Stinging Fly

27/03/2025

NEW: On this month's episode of the podcast, Nicole Flattery is joined by Paula Dias Garcia and James Young to read from and discuss their stories featured in the latest issue of The Stinging Fly magazine, Issue 51, Volume Two.

Link in bio or find us wherever you listen to podcasts.

19/03/2025

NEW on our website: Niamh Cullen reviews The Future by Naomi Alderman, Creation Lake by Rachel Kushner and Playground by Richard Powers.
Publishers:

"For all that the three novels respond to the present moment, their protagonists can only make sense of the future by reaching back to the past. All three involve some form of retreat from modern civilization, whether imagined in the form of a bunker, an island, the ocean or underground."

13/03/2025

THE 2025 SUMMER SCHOOL IS NOW OPEN.
Deadline for applications is Thursday 3rd April at 5pm (Irish Time)

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 O'Donoghue. Our poetry workshop leader this year is Moya Cannon.

We are hosting two online information sessions on zoom for those interested in applying on Thursday March 20th at 11am.

Read more at the link below
https://stingingfly.org/summer-school/

12/03/2025

The launch of Dublin, Written In Our Hearts marks three significant milestones: the 20th anniversary of the One Dublin One Book initiative, 20 years of The Stinging Fly Press and the 31st book published by The Stinging Fly Press.

It's a new anthology of fiction, poetry, essays and memoir pieces in celebration of the city. A programme of events happening throughout April is available on the One Dublin One Book website.

The anthology was launched by the Lord Mayor of Dublin at City Hall yesterday by Lord Mayor, Emma Blain, with performances by FELISPEAKS, Mike McCormack, Kevin Curran, and Caitríona Lally at the City Hall, and speeches from Mairead Owens, Dublin City Librarian, Anne-Marie Kelly, Director of Dublin UNESCO City of Literature and our publisher Declan Meade.

The anthology features work by Kevin Barry, Estelle Birdy, Niamh Campbell, Kevin Curran, Roddy Doyle, Anne Enright, FELISPEAKS, Sarah Gilmartin, Róisín Kiberd, Caitríona Lally, Deirdre Madden, Belinda McKeon, Paula Meehan, Thomas Morris, Niamh Mulvey, Nuala O’Connor, Sean O’Reilly, Keith Ridgway, Peter Sirr, Stephen James Smith, Rere Ukponu and Karl Whitney.

The book is available to purchase on our website, in bookshops and via and

07/03/2025

NEW ON OUR WEBSITE: A short story, Present Company, by Sean Farrell is available to read now.

"The kids have all copied each other’s answers; it’s a stupid fu***ng game because all they want is to fit in. They’re all desperate not to be special. Apart from the little c**t at the end who likes creativity."

07/03/2025

We are delighted to announce the upcoming publication of Dublin, Written In Our Hearts, a special anthology commissioned by Dublin City Council / Dublin UNESCO City of Literature for the 20th anniversary year of the One Dublin One Book initiative.
Publication Date: 11th March, 2025 

The book is now available for purchase on our website and in shops nationwide.

28/02/2025

NEW PODCAST: On this month’s episode, host is joined by to read from and discuss his story ‘Pit’, published in the Winter 2024-25 issue of The Stinging Fly Issue 51 Volume Two.

Listen to it wherever you get your podcasts.

Link in bio

19/02/2025

NEW on our website: Ian Maleney reviews Season of the Swamp by Yuri Herrera (translated by Lisa Dillman) publisher

'Season of the Swamp wavers between different ideas of itself, at times seeming a loving meditation on the character of a specific place, while at others it becomes a rollicking tale of rebels in exile, men of history in the interregnum before they arise to their destinies.'

14/02/2025

Climate Issue - Invitation to Submit Pitches.

Our Winter 2025-26 issue, which we are due to publish in November, will have a special focus on the climate crisis. We are currently inviting pitches for pieces of creative non-fiction.

We are accepting pitches until March 31st, in advance of the main submissions period in May.
We are keen to read work from writers who we haven’t published before, as well as work from those writers we have been publishing over the years.
More information is available on our website. Link in stories.

13/02/2025

NEW: We are delighted to announce the upcoming publication of Every One Still Here by Liadan Ní Chuinn.
The book will be published on 6th March 2025, and is available for preorder now via our website. Link in stories.

Cover Image: Jacob Hamilton
Cover Design: Catherine Gaffney

29/01/2025

NEW on our website | Lily Ní Dhomhnaill reviews 'Vulgar Errors / Feral Subjects' by Fran Lock, 'The Conversation' by Jo Burns and Emily Cooper, 'STORM DRAIN' by Francis Jones and 'The Electron-Ghost Casino' by Randolg Healy.

"Inspired by all of these words, I suppose I’m taking the ‘joy’ that I looked for in poetry last year to be something like little pockets of lightness or beginning. Not a turning away from the world as we know it (nor, as Rukeyser suggests, from the parts of the worlds we don’t know or understand), but a way to be in it."

18/01/2025

Over the Christmas break, a special programme on David Marcus aired on RTÉ Radio 1, dedicated to the rich legacy of David Marcus is led by Paul Delaney and Deirdre Madden, editors of the 2024 book Editing Ireland and its publisher, Declan Meade.
And Deirdre McArdle reviewed one of our newest titles for Irish Examiner Link to both in our story.

17/01/2025

We are delighted to see great coverage of The Rose Garden across Link in bio to read excellent reviews by Ruby Eastwood & Alannah Hopkin, and to hear Angela Bourke's introduction to The Rose Garden on BBC Sounds.

08/01/2025

Our Online Seminar Series is back this winter. And tickets are about to go on sale. Are you ready? We expect all passes and tickets to sell out quickly.

Season passes, which include tickets for all five seminars in the series, will go on sale tomorrow, Thursday, January 9th at 1pm (Irish time).

Tickets for individual seminars will then be released for sale on Friday, January 10th at 1pm (Irish time).

Run online via Zoom, the seminars look to explore writing craft and practice.

Concession rates are available for both full-season and single-seminar tickets.

08/01/2025

NEW FICTION ON OUR WEBSITE: Palestinian author Yousri Alghoul’s story from our Summer 2024 issue.

Yousri, like the story’s narrator, is living with his family in a refugee camp in Gaza. He’s currently seeking help to get his four children out of the country, away from the war.

Link in bio to the story & fundraiser.

16/12/2024

11/12/2024

Delighted to see some recent press for our new edition of author Maeve Brennan's short story collection, The Rose Garden.

Thanks to for sharing an extract from Angela Bourke's introduction to The Rose Garden, published by The Stinging Fly Press.

& we're grateful to for inviting Angela Bourke to discuss the new collection, The Rose Garden.

Copies of The Rose Garden are available to buy in shops around the country, and via our website.

Links to the article and Arena clip on our stories.

Link to buy copies of The Rose Garden in our bio.