The Stinging Fly Issue 48/Volume Two Summer 2023

The Stinging Fly #48

by Lisa McInerney (Editor), Anne Carson (Contributor), Jean-Baptiste Del Amo (Contributor)

Fiction
Anne Carson | ‘Happiness’
Jean-Baptiste Del Amo | ‘Fraco’ (translated by Frank Wynne)
Luca Demetriadi | ‘Flight Attendant’
Arnold Thomas Fanning | The Unredeemed (a novella extract)
Ella Gaynor | ‘Year of the Crab’
Louise Hegarty | ‘If’
Brendan Killeen | ‘The Big Why’
Afric McGlinchey | A Feather Drifting Up (a novel extract)
Peter McNamara | ‘Solo’
Michel Nieva | ‘Do Gauchoids Dream of Electric Rheas?’ (translated by Rahul Bery)
Michael Phoenix | ‘Separation’
Beth Preece | ‘Garden’
Elodie A. Roy | ‘Brussels 2018’
Eimear Ryan | ‘The After Shot’
John Saul | ‘You of all people have gone’
Moso Sematlane | ‘Fern Between Rocks’
Greg Thorpe | ‘Stars’

Featured Poet
Michael Dooley | Six poems

Poetry
Clíodhna Bhreatnach | ‘The assistant’
Simon Costello | Two poems
Derek Coyle | ‘Carlow Poem #147’
Jonathan C. Creasy | ‘Instructions for the repair of ordinary objects’
Michelle Delea| ‘Vermin Scurry Catching-up’
Chiamaka Enyi-Amadi | Two poems
Alina Hanusiak | ‘Znòrt!’
Eva H.D. | ‘Hollyhocks’
Umang Kalra | ‘NEW GRIEF’
John Kinsella | ‘Scales’
Alice Lyons | Two poems
Charlie McIlwain | ‘Hōnen is reciting’
Ray Malone | ‘INTERVAL 186’
Geraldine Mitchell | ‘Out of Nowhere’
Padraig Regan | Two sonnets
Jan Wagner | ‘the mission station’ (translated by David Keplinger)
Ralf Webb | ‘Such a Night’
Grace H. Zhou | Two poems

Essays
Jen Brady | ‘The Boil Knows’
Jessica Traynor | ‘The Curse’
Paul Van Sickle | ‘Playing for Change’

Artwork
Pat Curran

Cover Design
Eimear Gavin

240 pages, Paperback

Published May 1, 2023

About the author

Lisa McInerney’s work has featured in Winter Papers, The Stinging Fly, Granta and BBC Radio 4 and in the anthologies Beyond The Centre, The Long Gaze Back and Town and Country. Her debut novel The Glorious Heresies won the 2016 Baileys Women’s Prize for Fiction and the 2016 Desmond Elliott Prize. Her second novel, The Blood Miracles, is published by John Murray in April 2017.

Reviews

[Ethan Sleeman]

No rating since it’s an anthology literary magazine. Really enjoyed the variety, some formally cool short story stuff especially. Not a huge poetry guy but it’s always good to check in periodically and see if that’s changed. As a bonus, reading this in the airport let me flex on all the people with copies of the New Yorker (to be clear I love the New Yorker)

[Mong Loan · Rating 5 out of 5]

My favourite literary and new writing magazine.
High quality magazine + bought in the best book shop in Galway = 5/5