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cost of our all-fiction Summer issue, which will be published in book
form in June 2006, and will feature more than twenty new short
stories.
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May 2006
This month we're flat out getting our summer fiction issue ready to print. The issue will be published in book form, as an anthology of twenty-one new short stories. We'll announce full details of book and launch early next month, but it would be fair and proper to say that we're very happy with the line-up of writers and the quality of the stories. Definitely a book to pack for the holidays!
With our focus firmly on fiction, the poetry submissions have been piling up. We read submissions again in June, so those considering sending us work should time their submissions (poetry and/or fiction) to arrive during that month.
The Stinging Fly is happy to be working again with Oxfambooks on its poetry calendar project. The Poems for 2007 calendar will feature poems by guest poets John F. Deane, Rita Ann Higgins, Nick Laird, Mary O'Donnell, Caitriona O'Reilly and Peter Sirr. The six remaining poems will come from the winners of a national poetry competition. The deadline is June 30th and all proceeds from the competition and calendar go to funding Oxfam Ireland's vital work overseas. Entry forms and rules are on the Oxfam Ireland website.
Issue 3/Volume Two Spring 2006
Online Reviews:: Laura Hird's website and at Gerald England's NHI Review. (Scroll down on this one past review of an earlier issue.)
Another basic source of feedback is of course our sales figures, and these are continuing to grow. Thanks to all who are buying and subscribing.
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Contents
Interview:
Nick Laird
First Passions:
Glenn Patterson
Essay:
Our Anonymous Lady moves to New York
New Fiction:
Colm Liddy, Gillman Noonan, Ross O'Connor, Kusi Okamura and Aiden O'Reilly
New Poems:
Ivy Alvarez, Christine Broe, Michael Curtis, Oliver Dunne, Terry-Jane England, Eamon Grennan, Ron Houchin, Bernie Kenny, Nick Laird, Paula Meehan, Alan Jude Moore, Mary O'Donnell, Billy Ramsell, Mark Roper and Andy Young.
Poems in Translation:
Pura Lopez Colome translated by Lorna Shaughnessy
Reviews:
Fiction: Denis Kehoe reviews The Blind Rider by Juan Goytisolo;
James Lawless reviews The Last European by David Butler
Poetry: Patrick Boyle reviews Vortex by John W. Sexton;
Ailbhe Darcy reviews Remember the Birds by Louise C. Callaghan, Nourishment by Anne Le Marquand Hartigan and Sculpture in Black Ice by Breda Sullivan;
Gwyn Parry reviews Father's Day by Oliver Marshall
Cover Photography: Cian O'Donoghue
Artwork: Christine Broe, Ria Cabral, Joanna Latka and Marta Wakula
The magazine is available at Anthology Books, Books Upstairs, the IFI Bookshop (all Dublin), Charlie Byrne's (Galway), and many an Eason's outlet countrywide.
Subscription Prize - Poetry Now Festival Pass
We've enjoyed a significant increase in sales over the past nine months since the relaunch, and of course we want this to continue. Up until March 10th we're running a subscription and patrons drive, and all new subscribers and patrons between now and then will be entered into a draw for a Festival Pass to the Poetry Now Festival in Dun Laoghaire. Poetry Now runs this year from March 23rd ‚ 26th, and boasts a great line-up of top Irish and international poets such as Vona Groarke, Bill Manhire, Thomas McCarthy, Medbh McGuckian, Nuala NÌ Dhomhnaill, Dennis O'Driscoll, Alice Oswald, Robin Robertson, Jean Valentine and Adam Zagajewski. The Festival Pass allows for admission to all the different readings and events over the long weekend, and has a value of ca. €130. (We have a second Festival Pass to raffle among our current subscribers and patrons.)
Submissions for Fiction Issue
We've begun reading submissions for our summer issue which will be all fiction. We plan to bring out the issue in book form as an anthology of the very best new short stories. Reading will continue all through the month of February, and we hope to make our decisions early in March.
Please do not send us work that is under consideration elsewhere and please do not send us more than two stories.
Poems are not being read at the moment. Any received are being held until June when we'll be reading for the Autumn/Winter issue.
Arts Council Funding
We've received a significant increase in revenue funding from the Arts Council for 2006. Our grant has risen from €7500 last year to €25,000. The increase is very welcome and puts us on much surer footing for the year ahead. Watch this space to see what we do with our new wealth! (Bling Bling!)
Watermark
All copies of the special clothbound edition of Watermark by Sean O'Reilly have now been sold. Copies of the paperback edition are still available in bookshops around the country and directly from here. We hope to be in a position to announce further titles from The Stinging Fly Press in the near future.
January 2006
Happy New Year to you all!
A slightly nervous time of year for us as we await news from our main funding source, the Arts Council, but we have more than enough to keep us busy. We're hard at work on getting Issue Three Volume Two ready for the printers, and hope to get it out by mid-February. Details will follow later.
Also in February, weÌll be reading submissions for the Summer issue. This will be our third all-fiction issue, and we plan to make it a special one. Submissions must reach us before the end of February.
Poetry submissions are not being read again until June. From now on, it's our intention to publish in February, June and October, and to also set those months aside to read submissions for the following issue.
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