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Fear & Fantasy issue | Guest Editor: Mia Gallagher

Delivery expected from printers on Tuesday October 25th. Copies will go out to contributors, subscribers and patrons etc this week. The issue will be in bookshops from Tuesday November 1st.

 

New Fiction

Oliver Arnoldi, Katharine

Darragh Cotter, For Silence

Trevor Fevin, Forrester

Ronan Flaherty, Re-Animator Tales

Anne Griffin, The Boy Who Left

Olivia Heal, The Guinea Fowl

James B.L. Hollands, Just What's For You, You'll Get It

Re-fresh

Cathy Sweeney on Samuel Beckett's First Love

 

Interview

Ian Maleney interviews Mike McCormack

 

Featured Poet

Roisin Kelly, Six poems

 

New Poems

Elaine Cosgrove, Filament (an excerpt)

Kevin Graham, Afterthought

Natalie Holborow, Postcard

Tess Jolly, Frog

Clare McCotter, Prayer for a Happy Death

Mary O'Malley, Two poems

Stav Poleg, Cartwheels

 

Comhchealg

 
In the Wake of the Rising

— a special bumper edition —

43 writers respond to the events of 1916, the background and the legacy.

Short Stories | Essays | Memoir | Poems | Drama

Guest editor: Sean O'Reilly

from Sean’s editorial:

Our winter issue is due back from the printers on Tuesday October 27th. 

 

Guest Poetry Editor

Billy Ramsell

 

Re:fresh

Caitlín Nic Íomhair on Mis by Biddy Jenkinson

 

Featured Poet

Elaine Cosgrove

 

Poems & Soutterains

Colleen Abel, 'Colourplates'              

Dylan Brennan, 'the wolf of Osorry'

James Cummins, 'Lisheen'

Ailbhe Darcy, 'Sushi'

Re:fresh

Harry Clifton on Louis MacNeice's 'Autumn Journal'

 

Essays:

Claire-Louise Bennett, Suddenly A Duck

Evelyn Conlon, Those London Visits

Gavin Corbett, Ghastly

Rob Doyle, Six Addresses

Patrick McCabe, Les Papillons De Belsize

Niamh Mulvey, Some notions of home

Tony Murray, From the Heroic to the Elegiac: Portrayals of the Postwar Irish Navvy in London

Edna O’Brien, A Woman in Transit

Essay

Sara Baume, ‘Eat or Be Eaten: An Incomplete Survey of Literary Dogs'

 

New Fiction

Gavin Corbett, 'Do I Dare Disturb The Universe?'

Nicola Daly, 'My Mistress's Sex'

Hope Ewing, 'The Load'

Oisín Fagan, 'Scaffolding'

Nicole Flattery, 'Hump'

Lisa McInerney, The Glorious Heresies—an extract

Aidan O'Donoghue, 'Nocturnes'

Deborah Rose Reeves, 'Enough for Keeping'

 

Fiction in Translation

Essays
 
Kevin Barry, Sligo Occult: On Dermot Healy’s Radical Style
Dave Lordan, Raising the Devil: The unspeakable fictions of Liam O’Flaherty
 
 
New Fiction
 
Claire-Louise Bennett, 'Finishing Touch'          
Oliver Farry, 'Trolleyboy'
Andrew Fox, 'Strong'
Hugh Fulham-McQuillan, 'Notes on Jackson and his dead'                                                                 
Michael Nolan, 'Bottles'

We'll be launching our Summer Issue on Thursday, July 10 at the Irish Writers' Centre in Dublin. Do come by for contributor readings, music, and a glass or two of wine.

Admission is free, and all are welcome. 7pm onwards.

 

New Fiction: Sara Baume, Joseph Gormley, Hugo Kelly, Danielle McLaughlin, Annemarie Neary, Nuala Ní Chonchúir, Sean O’Reilly, Susanne Stich and Cathy Sweeney

Featured Poet: Binh Nguyen