Dave Lordan to guest edit Summer 2012 issue of The Stinging Fly

We are delighted to announce that Dave Lordan has agreed to guest edit our Summer 2012 issue. An award-winning poet, short-story writer and playwright, Dave has been a regular contributor to the magazine over the past few years. We look forward to working with him over the next six months.

Our annual submission period opens on January 1st. All fiction and poetry submissions received up to January 31st will be read and considered by Dave for inclusion in the Summer 2012 issue. Submissions received during and February and March will be considered for the following two issues - October 2012 and February 2013.

Please read our full submission guidelines here. Note that our postal address has changed during the year from Dublin 8 to Dublin 1. We do not accept e-mail submissions.  

In the meantime, read Dave Lordan's Editorial Statement here.

Dave Lordan was born in Derby, England, in 1975, and grew up in Clonakilty in West Cork. In 2004 he was awarded an Arts Council bursary and in 2005 he won the Patrick Kavanagh Award for Poetry. His collections are The Boy in The Ring (Cliffs of Moher, Salmon Poetry, 2007), which won the Strong Award for best first collection by an Irish writer and was shortlisted for the Irish Times poetry prize; and Invitation to a Sacrifice (Salmon Poetry, 2010), described in The Irish Times as 'an act of cultural resistance, as brilliant on the page as it must surely be in performance'. His play, Jo Bangles, was produced by Éigse Riada theatre company in 2010 and Wurm Press will publish his first short story collection, The Underground, in 2012. Dave is an acclaimed live performer and his work is regularly broadcast by RTE Radio 1's arts show, Arena, for whom he also reviews. He is the recipient of the 2011 Ireland Chair of Poetry Bursary.