Ragaire open for contributions
Hello everyone! We are open for submissions for Issue 3 of Ragaire Literary Magazine until 3rd Feb 2025 (or until we exceed our submissions limit.) Our guidelines are on our website www.ragmag.ie
Please send us your best poetry, short stories, non-fiction and cover art. We can't wait to read your brilliant work, we want to make this issue of Ragaire the best one yet.
We would also like to thank Tara O’Malley for her outstanding work and support in the creation of issues 1 and 2 of Ragaire and to extend a warm welcome to Lucy Bleeker who is joining our editorial team.
Thanks all for braving the weather and coming to the launch of Ragaire Literary Magazine Issue 2. And to @mia.v.poetry for launching the issue and the wonderful contributors for their readings. It was an amazing night!
The second issue of Ragaire Literary Magazine, founded by Galway natives Cormac Culkeen), Tara O’Malley and Aileen McCarthy, will be launched in The PorterShed, Market Street, Galway City, on Friday 22nd November at 6.30pm.
There will be a selection of readings at the event from contributors to the second issue.
The issue will be launched by celebrated poet Mia Vance. Mia is a brilliant performance poet whose work has garnered great acclaim. She is an active member of the spoken word and poetry open mic community in Galway and was a featured reader at the 2024 Cúirt International Festival of Literature New Writing Showcase. Her work has won the Oregon Poetry Association Poetry Prize, the Kidd Creative Writing Prize for Poetry, and she is a featured poet as part of the Poetry Ireland Introduction Series 2024.
The cover photograph for Issue 2 of Ragaire has been generously supplied by Dr. Chaosheng Zhang. The image of the northern lights over Pine Island reflects the hopes and aspirations of the editors. Ragaire is an old Irish word for a person who enjoys late-night wandering and exploring. It embodies the magazine’s ethos to break the mould in the field of Irish literary publications, or to stretch it into intriguing new shapes. Ragaire likes to find the quiet moments, the stories untold, the things seen in a glimpse.
Ragaire Literary Magazine Launch Event Issue 1
See highlights of our amazing launch event for Ragaire Literary Magazine Issue 1 in the PorterShed in Galway earlier this summer. Thanks to Gréasán Na Meán Skillnet and GK Media for the wonderful video.
We are open for submissions of poetry, fiction and non-fiction for Issue 2 until 31 July 2024. Find all the details and buy your copy at www.ragmag.ie
Kathryn Petruccelli reads her poem Tongues, published in Ragaire Literary Magazine Issue 1. We are accepting submissions for Issue 2 until 31 July 2024.
Issue 2 here we come!!!
We are open for submissions of poetry, short stories and creative non-fiction. Find the guidelines at www.ragmag.ie.
To see what we like to publish, please purchase a copy of our wonderful Issue 1 on our website or in many independent bookshops.
Charlie Byrne's Bookshop Winding Stair Bookshop Bell Book & Candle
Ragaire Literary Magazine is open for submissions until Jan 15th, 2024.