The Stinging Fly Press
'This book of 12 short plays, first produced at Bewley's Cafe Theatre, could be said to be a celebration of not just one, but two miracles in Dublin cultural life - the always interesting, innovative and well-used small space that is Bewley's Cafe Theatre and the continued strength of Declan Meade's Stinging Fly Press, which adds this impressive volume to a steadily growing list of excellent publications.'
Dermot Bolger
from his review of Freshly Brewed in The Sunday Business Post
The Stinging Fly Press imprint was launched in May 2005 with the publication of our first title, Watermark by Sean O'Reilly. The imprint is dedicated to publishing the very best new Irish literary fiction, and like the magazine, it is particularly interested in promoting the short story.
All our titles 2005 - 2009
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Some reviews of our books
on Watermark (2005) by Sean O'Reilly
People who think poetry or poetically-charged prose should be all positive thoughts will have a rollercoaster ride of it here. But poetry this certainly is, and not despite but because of its earthiness, its earthedness, its refusal to look away. This short, uncomfortable, sometimes brutal, hugely important book is a triumph.on These Are Our Lives (2006)
I'd love to say that the stories in These Are Our Lives are edgy or provocative or somehow cool, but all I see is the passion. The contributors have a roaring want: to write, to tell the truth, to be heard. Read them.On There Are Little Kingdoms (2007) by Kevin Barry
Could easily have been titled "These Are Little Masterpieces" . . . Barry gathers all the bewildered exasperation that Irish playwrights from Tom Murphy to Marina Carr and Enda Walsh have identified, and brings it, most brilliantly, to his dark, blackly hilarious and horrifically realistic narratives.On Let's Be Alone Together (2008)
Picking through a collection of short stories can be a dispiriting exercise, panning pages of earnest grit to find a minuscule nugget worthy of a wordsmith. Happily, Declan Meade's mix of established, emerging and new writers has produced a literary goldrush.