Shortlisters have the chance to be published in one of our partner journals.
This year, we are working with @minorlits.bsky.social, @gorsejournal.bsky.social, Kill Your Darlings, Helter Skelter, Protoype, @thelondonmagazine.bsky.social & Tenement Press.
desperateliterature.com/prize
23.04.2025 09:03 — 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0
⭐Partner Journal Shoutout⭐
@gorsejournal.bsky.social is a stunning, original Dublin-based journal featuring essay, fiction, poetry & interviews.
gorse has published 2019 & 2022 shortlisters Joshua Riedel & Jona Xhepa @quetzalfiach.bsky.social
2025 Prize info at desperateliterature.com/prize
19.04.2025 18:12 — 👍 2 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
Have emailed you there.
10.04.2025 13:10 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
(Let me email you.)
09.04.2025 13:53 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
As in, congratulations!
09.04.2025 13:52 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Well, there you go.
09.04.2025 06:20 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Now in stock!
01.04.2025 12:18 — 👍 6 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0
Have the chance to be published in one of our partner journals.
This year, we are working with @minorlits.bsky.social, @gorsejournal.bsky.social, @kydmagazine.bsky.social, Helter Skelter, @prototypepubs.bsky.social, @thelondonmagazine.bsky.social & Tenement Press.
desperateliterature.com/prize
03.03.2025 15:33 — 👍 10 🔁 6 💬 2 📌 0
Shortlisters have the chance to be published in one of our partner journals.
This year, we are working with @minorlits.bsky.social, @gorsejournal.bsky.social, Kill Your Darlings, Helter Skelter, Protoype, @thelondonmagazine.bsky.social & Tenement Press.
desperateliterature.com/prize
14.02.2025 10:56 — 👍 3 🔁 2 💬 1 📌 0
#editorial #gorse12
31.01.2025 15:18 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Printed pages with correction marks.
Working on paper, and final proofing Alan Cunningham's New Green Fool. Pre-order details soon.
29.01.2025 14:50 — 👍 5 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
👀New post on David Lynch. Features an article I wrote for @gorsejournal.bsky.social years ago on Inland Empire and a video of one of his shortest, strangest films. Free to read.
open.substack.com/pub/letthede...
17.01.2025 13:38 — 👍 10 🔁 3 💬 1 📌 0
The cover of the first issue of literary journal gorse. A green background, with white, yellow and red typewriter keys in a jumble.
The interior proof pages from gorse number one.
Eleven years ago today, we published gorse no. 1. 🪅
25.01.2025 17:40 — 👍 29 🔁 7 💬 0 📌 0
Loved this. And happy to publish it in our inaugural issue. 📖
13.01.2025 10:00 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Live now!
07.12.2024 14:12 — 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
The 52 books published in the Rebel Inc imprint of
Canongate Books between 1996-2001 in (approx) order they came out.
16.11.2024 18:24 — 👍 54 🔁 11 💬 2 📌 1
A sneak peek at a very special issue of gorse. Coming early next year. #herecomesthesun #gorse14
22.11.2024 13:06 — 👍 19 🔁 5 💬 0 📌 1
Guadalupe. My essay free to read on Substack. Please subscribe and share.
letthedead.substack.com/p/guadalupe
Artwork by @jonathanbrennanart.bsky.social
11.12.2023 19:56 — 👍 3 🔁 4 💬 1 📌 0
'Publishing is the exercise of freedom, cultural expression, and resistance. As publishers we are dedicated to creating spaces for Palestinian voices and those who stand in solidarity against the war machine.' #CeasefireNOW
www.versobooks.com/en-gb/blogs/...
17.11.2023 18:59 — 👍 4 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
2/ We joined a roundtable with Stinging Fly, @tolkajournal.bsky.social, Paper Visual Art, Mirror Lamp Press on journal publishing. Also in the issue: Brian Dillon (gorse 2), Sara Baume (gorse 10) & Adrian Duncan (gorses 3+4). Thanks to guest editor Orit Gat for the invite!
08.11.2023 13:49 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Australian writer of speculative fiction including short stories and novels. Disabled. Loves nature, dogs and chocolate. She/them.
https://harperdentauthor.wixsite.com/harper-dent-author
Glossophoric writer and musician. Snark, snacks, and dogs. Poetry, songwriting, science. Making music as The Indignitaries (theindignataries.bandcamp.com), Wildergoose (wildergoose.bandcamp.com) and The Plural Muses.
Operations manager, @c20society.bsky.social
Editor
Here for theatre, books, art and food
London
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New Irish writing from home and abroad | Subs reopen 2026 | Cork City Arts
Books, talks and good vibes 📖
Every October in County Kildare
#KildareReadersFestival #KRF2025
Home of translation & cultural exchange, book club @hatchards piccadilly, BookBlast Diary reviews, interviews by publishing insider Georgia, Zoe & friends; podcasts; lit executor Estate Lesley Blanch 🔗linktr.ee/bookblast
Instagram @bookblastofficial
Independent publisher of underrepresented voices & stories in Irish literature.
📚 Out now:This Is Not A Cookbook by Roxana Manouchehri
📚 Upcoming:Contentious Spaces by Rosaleen McDonagh
🎤In the Half Light:Voices from Black Ireland curated by Phil Mullen
One of those poets.
Associate editor @rhinopoetry.bsky.social
Views are my own, and maybe a bit like yours.
https://linktr.ee/EOTwrites
Writer, poet, creative thinker & architect for democracy / Sgrìobhadair, bàrd, neach-smaoineachaidh cruthachail agus ailtire airson deamocrasaidh | Aotearoa & Isle of Skye | urbanbadgercollective.com http://andywilliamson.com
Archivist at University of Galway.
Research on Irish theatre, memory, conflict, and digital cultures.
https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-030-74548-6
Writer and reader. Amateur baker of bread.
The Home of Film in Ireland.
A historic 3-screen cinema in the heart of Temple Bar, with Ireland's only 70mm projector 🎞
Visit http://ifi.ie + watch online via http://ifiarchiveplayer.ie and https://www.ifihome.ie
Charity Number: 20021429
Annual short story prize housed at the University of Bristol https://bssp.blogs.bristol.ac.uk
Open for entries until 31 January 2025 with judges Jan Carson, Peace Adzo Medie, and Kate Johnson
A literary magazine and small press.
structomagazine.co.uk
Literature Ireland is the national agency in Ireland for the promotion of Irish literature abroad.
Funded by Culture Ireland & The Arts Council.
https://www.literatureireland.com/
Writing in various capacities, based at Université Paris Cité
www.andrewhodgson.fr
Meezer mom 🐈⬛(siamese cats),PhD student at the U of U, small business owner w/ my kiddo refabulizing furniture with delovely art🎨, democratic socialist, feminist, late bloomer🪷🏳️🌈yacht rock lover⛵️🌊teatime keeper🫖 https://lavienouveaudecor.etsy.com
Writer: Shock Doctrine of the Left (Polity), Cybernetic Organising book soon, wrote Red Enlightment too but don't buy, boycotting publisher's owner re:Palestine https://www.politybooks.com/bookdetail?book_slug=the-shock-doctrine-of-the-left--9781509528547
jmww (https://jmwwblog.wordpress.com/), a weekly journal of writing publishing the best in fiction, poetry, flash, essays, and interviews. Our stories have appeared in Best American Essays, Best Small Fictions, Wigleaf Top 50, BIFFY, and Best of Net.
Associate Professor of English Literature at @micireland.bsky.social
Poems @inkfishmagazine.bsky.social, @the-engine-idling.bsky.social, @hogriverpress.bsky.social @ogre.red, @juniperpoetry.bsky.social, @librelit.bsky.social, and elsewhere.
