Winter Papers Submissions
Our submission window for WP 12 opened today - great to see the work coming in. (Window closes midnight 18th Feb)
Do encourage interested parties to submit
winterpapers.com/submissions
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Taking pre-orders for gorses 12 + 13:
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gorse.ie/book/no-13/
(Double release, like Tom Waits' Alice + Blood Money.)
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Cheers David, thanks for sharing.
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Winter Papers Submissions
One of the best literary journals anywhere, outside and in, is @winterpapers.bsky.social. Their open submissions period for the 2026 issue is 14-28 February. Everything will be read and replied to early August. The editing is excellent: acute & sympathetic. Have a go! winterpapers.com/submissions
08.01.2026 12:17 — 👍 32 🔁 15 💬 2 📌 1
'Contentious Spaces', the debut novel from acclaimed writer Rosaleen McDonagh, is already receiving extraordinary praise
Publishing March 2026 🪻All pre-orders come with a complimentary tote bag and postcard 💝
Pre-order now: skeinpress.com/product/cont...
09.12.2025 10:08 — 👍 9 🔁 4 💬 0 📌 1
Ah, lovely to see, Claire!
24.11.2025 13:33 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Hardback book. Blue cover showing a cabin lit from within.
‘Tis the season - thanks @winterpapers.bsky.social and @mgtkell.bsky.social #speirgorm
24.11.2025 12:44 — 👍 4 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0
A paperback copy of The Heart in Winter by Kevin Barry, floating against a grey background
What if we ride out tonight?
What if we ride out and never once look back?
Kevin Barry‘s savagely funny, achingly beautiful Western THE HEART IN WINTER has won the Historical Writer's Association Gold Crown Award! Congratulations Kevin!
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20.11.2025 10:55 — 👍 9 🔁 3 💬 1 📌 0
Hurrah for booky people! xx
16.11.2025 13:54 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Photograph of Kevin Curran in conversation with Kevin Barry. They're sat in front of a large fireplace & Kevin C is waving his arm excitedly.
Poster for The Write Time festival
Photo of Wendy Erskine talking with Olivia Fitzsimons listening
Line-up for the festival as screenshot from their websites
Brilliant afternoon at #TheWriteTime festival #FingalLibraries @fingal.ie in #Swords. Great talks by #JosephOConnor, @wednesdayerskin.bsky.social, #KevinBarry @winterpapers.bsky.social w/ programmer #kevincurran & #OliviaFitzsimons & caught up w/ loads of booky pals. Back tomorrow for more! #Dublin
15.11.2025 18:10 — 👍 7 🔁 1 💬 2 📌 0
Great to see you Bob!
16.11.2025 09:22 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Annual endpapers appreciation post. Designed by @johnfoley.bitedesign.com #endpapers
14.11.2025 15:27 — 👍 8 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0
Photo of the eleventh issue of Winter Papers. It is a blue hardback book and it is sitting on a yellow cushion
My annual 'Christmas Present To Myself' has arrived and it's a thing of beauty. Another absolute gem curated by Kevin and Olivia in @winterpapers.bsky.social and designed by @bitedesign.com winterpapers.com
12.11.2025 18:49 — 👍 13 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Kathleen MacMahon, Kevin Barry, Paula Meehan, Colm Mac Con Iomaire & Paula Shields at the Great Hall, IMMA, Dublin.
A poignant honour to host a tribute to Arena’s Seán Rocks last Sun with Kathleen MacMahon, Kevin Barry @winterpapers.bsky.social - Paula Meehan & Colm Mac Con Iomaire. Exquisite words & music - & an audience of friends & family. At Dublin Book Festival. ❤️
11.11.2025 11:28 — 👍 16 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0
Reading in the garden, with some of the books that I scooped up yesterday at Books Upstairs, including @winterpapers.bsky.social, NEW ARCANA by @jesstraynor.bsky.social, An Alternative Irish Christmas, Anja Murray's new book, and a lovely new edition of WORDS ARE MY MATTER by @ursulakleguin.com.
09.11.2025 14:32 — 👍 8 🔁 2 💬 1 📌 1
We are delighted to announce that the winner of the Goldsmiths Prize 2025 is C.D. Rose's We Live Here Now! 🎉🎉
Congratulations Chris! 👏👏
06.11.2025 07:56 — 👍 29 🔁 8 💬 0 📌 5
Great to see her in the wild!
05.11.2025 14:32 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Get your hygge on
05.11.2025 14:01 — 👍 18 🔁 4 💬 1 📌 0
This is on tonight - the Dublin Review at 100 - also to be aired on Arena on RTE Radio 1
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04.11.2025 15:22 — 👍 31 🔁 7 💬 5 📌 2
A black and white photograph of me in a bathroom with a young seagull on my head
Just reposting this link to my essay ‘Birds, Watching’, with one of the accompanying photos, about bird rescue and death, now available online for first time @winterpapers.bsky.social go.bsky.app/redirect?u=h...
30.10.2025 15:58 — 👍 11 🔁 5 💬 1 📌 1
Cheers June!
31.10.2025 15:19 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Every year this gorgeous literary journal releases its line up and everyone goos out loud at the new cover. I think the fact that it's once a year makes it a bit, ye know, designery in its buzz. Fantabulous.
31.10.2025 08:59 — 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0
Winter Papers 11 is here [sound up!]. Design by @johnfoley.bitedesign.com Supported by @artscouncilireland.bsky.social Launching @dublinbookfest.bsky.social Saturday 8th Nov
30.10.2025 12:15 — 👍 21 🔁 9 💬 1 📌 2
BIRDS, WATCHING · Suzanne Walsh
Winter Papers, volume 5
Some more pieces now up on our digital archive, including this fine essay from vol 5 by @zanbreathnach.bsky.social
winterpapers.com/selected-wor...
29.10.2025 17:00 — 👍 18 🔁 3 💬 1 📌 2
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