 Tomorrow Tuesday Nov 4, 6:00 pm.
Launch of Freshly Brewed: Twelve Short Plays from Bewley’s Café Theatre The Stinging Fly Press is delighted to announce the publication of Freshly Brewed, an anthology featuring twelve short plays originally produced in the popular lunch-time slot at Bewley’s Café Theatre on Dublin’s Grafton Street over the past ten years. |
 The Winter 2008-09 Issue will be out later this week. Featuring six new short stories and work by some twenty-two poets, the issue can be ordered at all good book shops (quote the issue ISBN 978-1-906539-03-0 and our distributors are Columba Mercier). Buy it online as a single issue or as part of a subscription.
Earlier this year, the two magazines came together to pair six writers and six artists, giving them the brief to fill four magazine pages with whatever they wished, through a collaborative exploration of the possibilities. |
The pairings are:
Caitríona O’Reilly (writer) and Isabel Nolan (artist);
Kevin Barry (writer) and Seán Lynch (artist);
Nuala Ní Chonchúir (writer) and Cora Cummins (artist);
Alan Jude Moore (writer) and Bea McMahon (artist);
Sinéad Morrissey (writer) and Benji de Búrca (artist);
Sean O’Reilly (writer) and Peter Maybury (artist).
Marks will be launched on Wednesday October 15th at Studio 6 of Temple Bar Gallery and Studios, Temple Bar, Dublin 2.
The event runs from 6 to 8 p.m and will feature readings by Kevin Barry, Alan Jude Moore and Nuala Ní Chonchúir, and sound work by Peter Maybury.
Admission is free. All are welcome.
A free copy of Marks is going to all subscribers of either publication and to new subscribers over the next couple of months. A limited number of copies will be available at the launch for €6 each.
This project has been generously supported by The Arts Council/An Chomhairle Ealaíon through a Projects: New Work Award.
Here’s the link to our interview on The Arts Show, RTE Radio One, from last night.
Features editor Declan Meade along with writers Mia Gallagher and Tom Tierney.
for the launch of Let’s Be Alone Together, our new short story anthology.
In Cork:
Wednesday, September 17th at 7p.m. in the Triskel Arts Centre
(opening event of the Frank O’Connor Short Story Festival)
In Dublin:
Tuesday, September 23rd at 6.30p.m. (until late) in Crawdaddy, Harcourt Street, Dublin 2.
In Bangor, County Down:
Saturday, September 27th 2.30p.m. at the Aspects Literary Festival as part of the Publishers Book Fair.
Also, happening in Cork is the world premiere(!) of Kevin Barry’s own adaptation of There Are Little Kingdoms for the stage presented by Meridian Theatre Company.
September 24th to October 4th (previews September 22nd and 23rd) playing at the Granary Theatre, Cork as part of the new Blood + Bandage Festival.
Ticket Prices: €15 & €10 conc. (All Previews €10)
Publication date for our new anthology is September 22nd.
Let’s Be Alone Together
An anthology of new short stories edited by Declan Meade
New stories by:
Ragnar Almqvist, Evelyn Conlon, Danny Denton, Damien Doorley, Michael J. Farrell, Mia Gallagher, D. Gleeson, Rosemary Jenkinson, James Lawless, Colm Liddy, Viv McDade, Emer Martin, Gina Moxley, Helena Nolan, Jim O’Donoghue, Dónal O’Sullivan, Breda Wall Ryan, Ingo Schulze, Tom Tierney and William Wall.
Launch in Cork on opening night of the Frank O’Connor International Short Story Festival - Wednesday, September 17th.
Dublin launch venue and date to be confirmed… watch this space…
There’ll be a reading from the summer issue on Thursday July 24th in the Winding Stair Bookshop, Lower Ormond Quay, Dublin 1 (across from the Hal’penny Bridge).
Grace Wells, the featured poet in the summer issue, will read alongside fiction writers Jennifer Brady and Orlaith O’Sullivan and poets Richard W. Halperin and Paul Perry.
The reading is at 7 p.m — all are welcome!
Poet Sinéad Morrissey will judge this year’s Stinging Fly Prize.
This is the third year of the prize, which goes to a writer yet to publish a book who has published work—poetry or fiction—in the magazine over the course of the year. The prize consists of €1000 and a two-week residency at the Tyrone Guthrie Centre in County Monaghan. The previous recipients are fiction writers Ronan Doyle and Sarah Purcell.
Sinéad Morrissey teaches at the Seamus Heaney Centre for Poetry at Queen’s University, Belfast, and is herself no stranger to prizes, having been the youngest ever winner of the Patrick Kavanagh Award. In 2007 she received a Lannan Literary Fellowship and earlier this year she took first place in the UK’s National Poetry Competition. She has published three collections, the most recent being The State of the Prisons (Carcanet, 2005).
well, the issue is out… weather’s lagging behind a bit.
Two Kevin Barry readings coming up:
July 2 Chapelizod Community Festival
Reading with Nuala Ní Chonchúir
Venue:- Phoenix Park (Park Lane Gate)
Time:- 7 p.m.
Tickets:- €5
July 7 West Cork Literary Festival
Venue:- Bantry Library, Bridge Street
Time:- 1 pm
Free Admission
Oxfambooks Poems for 2009 Competition
Closing Date for entries: Tues July 15th 2008
Where is this year going?
It’s been a busy few months getting through all submissions for the year. We received more than 1,000 poems and around 350 stories so there has been a lot of reading going on. We’re just making final selections at the moment. Submissions closed now until next January.
Next up is our summer issue. That will be out in June. We’re also in process of getting our next short story anthology together. We plan to publish that in September… watch this space.
Who’d've thought it?
Our first issue came out on March 6th 1998, and here we are ten years older and wiser… join us on Friday March 7th from 4pm to 6pm in Dublin’s City Hall for our 10th Birthday Party.
The event is part of the inaugural Dublin Book Festival which runs in City Hall from March 7th to 9th. There is a whole host of other readings, discussions and debates. At 3pm on Sunday March 9th Kevin Barry will read alongside Mike McCormack and Geraldine Mills. Admission to all events is free. CLÉ, the Irish Book Publishers’ Association, who are organising the festival will operate a bookshop throughout the weekend.
