Winter Papers

So looking forward to this…

Come say hello to WP 11 as part of @dublinbookfest.bsky.social Sat Nov 8, all welcome

Can't wait for the Dublin launch of New Arcana, happening tomorrow at @gutterbookshop.bsky.social with the wonderful Seán Hewitt. Come join us 🔮✨️

@bloodaxebooks.bsky.social

📚🎭 Take home the best of Irish theatre this autumn with Faber Drama's Pop-Up Shop at the Abbey Theatre

Read more about this exciting collaboration: https://www.abbeytheatre.ie/take-home-the-best-of-irish-theatre-this-autumn-with-faber-drama-pop-up-shop-at-the-abbey-theatre/

BBC Radio 4 - BBC National Short Story Award, BBC National Short Story Award 2025, Two Hands by Caoilinn Hughes Caoilinn Hughes' story is under consideration for the BBC National Short Story Award 2025.

Fresh off the BBC Radio 4 airwaves @bbcsounds.bsky.social, here is Ruth Bradley reading an abridged version of my shortlisted story "Two Hands" 🙌🏻
First published in the @parisreview.bsky.social

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Professor Vona Groarke at an appointment ceremony for her new role as The Ireland Chair of Poetry, which took place in the National Concert Hall yesterday. Vona Groarke will be the 10th Ireland Professor of Poetry, and her tenure will run from until November 2028.

@chairofpoetry.bsky.social

SCRIBENDI by STEVE PYKE 📸

We are delighted to be publishing this landmark book which features over 100 portraits and interviews with Ireland's greatest contemporary writers, captured through the lens of one of the world's most renowned photographers, Steve Pyke ✨️

Happy publication day to @davetynan.bsky.social!!!

Three writers & a visual artist share their experiences on the BIA pilot scheme.

Read the full interview
stingingfly.org/2025/08/07/b...

”...the Basic Income meant I could choose to have a child without the same financial insecurity and without the fear that I would have to give up creative work“

Winter Papers - IRELAND'S ANNUAL ARTS ANTHOLOGY — ARCHIVE 2015 - 2023 SELECTED WORK / VOLUME 8 FROM THE MOUNTAINS David Hayden The countryside was empty now, and for an age past. Theresa and Martin sat at the kitchen table and waited for the oven to warm up, which it never really did. Martin, and then Theresa, thought about going to bed, ate some cheese and crackers, threw away the raw lasagne, and went to bed. There were two kinds of silence, one inside that was a still and boundaried quiet, and another outside that was like the totality of all absences that, when the lights were out, forced its way through the bittood t there that

My story ‘From the Mountains’ in @winterpapers.bsky.social archive. winterpapers.com/selected-wor...

We're deeply saddened by the death of Sean Rocks. He was a great friend to WP, and the wider arts community. Our condolences to his family and all in RTE Arena.

Vona Groarke has been welcomed by the Ireland Chair of Poetry Trust as the new Ireland Professor of Poetry, one of the most prestigious positions in poetry. The position will run from September 2025 to November 2028.

Full press release here: www.poetryireland.ie/news/vona-gr...

cheers, Liz. kb was delighted to read your message!

Excited to announce our line-up of brilliant writers leading our three 6-month fiction workshops. Concession rate for writers on low income - also one free place available on each workshop.
Applications are open now and will close on July 22 at 5pm. Please share.
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Come and read & write short stories with me! Booking for my @faberacademy.bsky.social autumn masterclass series will open shortly but you need to be on the waiting list to have a chance of a place, so contact them to register your interest now. Hope to see you there!

Happy birthday William Butler Yeats 🥳

Alongside Lady Gregory, he co-founded the Abbey Theatre in 1904. How fitting that The Cave, set in the same Sligo landscape that inspired him so, opens on the Abbey Stage tonight👏

Launched my book this weekend - you can get it below. An epic (true-ish) story told in poetry about a 99 year old man moving back to the island of his birth and the friendship that sustains him. . salmonpoetry.com/details.php?...

“We’re safe from it all... for a while… when we’re up here”

Welcome to The Cave, a world premiere production written by acclaimed writer Kevin Barry and directed by Abbey Theatre Artistic Director, Caitríona McLaughlin.

An image of the invitation to the launch of Water in the Desert, Fire in the Night by Gethan Dick, on May 15th at 6pm in Hodges Figgis. The invitation incorporates a photograph by Gethan Dick of spider web on a dark red clay ground.

Friends! We are thrilled to launch Gethan Dick's debut novel, Water in the Desert, Fire in the Night, on the 15th of May in Hodges Figgis with special guest speaker Mike McCormack. Everyone is welcome and we'd love to see you! @artscouncilireland.bsky.social

We're delighted to announce a new literary award in collaboration between @irishwriterscentre.bsky.social and The @stingingfly.bsky.social 🎉

The aim of the prize is to discover, promote and encourage the talents of new, undiscovered voices in Irish writing.

irishwriterscentre.ie/announcing-t...

✅ First Day

Today marked the first day of rehearsals for The Cave. A world premiere production written by acclaimed writer Kevin Barry and directed by Abbey Theatre Artistic Director, Caitríona McLaughlin, The Cave runs on the Abbey Stage from 6 June to 18 July 2025.

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A paperback copy of The Heart in Winter by Kevin Barry floating against a grey background

Wishing a happy publication day to Kevin Barry!

THE HEART IN WINTER, a savagely funny, achingly beautiful outlaw story set in the badlands of Montana is out now in paperback.

SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2025 WALTER SCOTT PRIZE

'An absolute belter of a book' ANNE ENRIGHT

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Fallow: Ian Maleney on migrating his literary journal from web to print After 10 years in the frictionless space of the browser, it’s honestly kind of fun to be worrying about ink and paper and postage

Fallow: Ian Maleney on migrating his literary journal from web to print. After 10 years in the frictionless space of the browser, it’s honestly kind of fun to be worrying about ink and paper and postage

www.irishtimes.com/culture/book...

The launch of Let Me Go Mad in My Own Way @kennysbookshop.bsky.social

May 27th at 6pm

All welcome!

@uniofgalway.bsky.social

This is a free but ticketed event 🐎

Announcing the Shortlist for the £25,000 #WalterScottPrize 2025 from Abbotsford, home of great historical fiction. Learn more at loom.ly/zu12Mh0

And one of my photographs from LA, illustrating John Butler’s excellent piece

A screen grab of the top of the page on the mobile version on the winter papers website with the title of my essay and a grid arrangement of four of my blank and white photographs showing things I saw as I sat with my grandmother as she was dying in a nursing home. Her shoes under the bed and the make of the bed, Royal Masterpeace, on a label on the side of the bed. Fairy lights against the wall. A makeshift Christmas tree made from a branch with baubles and a wall click and mobile upright medical device. A card that says Be Better Soon.

The good folks at @winterpapers.bsky.social have been putting some of the archive online. There’s work by Claire Kilroy, Doireann Ní Ghríofa, Sara Baume, David Hayden, Jess Traynor, June Caldwell & more. My essay with photos, While She Was Sleeping, is there now too. winterpapers.com/selected-wor...

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Winter Papers Selected Work Winter Papers

Just added some more pieces from WP to the digital archive. Work by John Butler, Doireann Ní Ghríofa, @cristinleach.bsky.social Anna Leask and William Wall
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