Skein Press

HOWL 26 submissions are now open.

We’re accepting poetry and prose (fiction and nonfiction) in English agus as Gaeilge from February 13th – February 23rd.

We want the raw and the real. If it excites you, send it to us.

Full guidelines + submission details:
🔗 www.howlwriting.ie#submit

📢Join us for the launch of 'Contentious Spaces' by Rosaleen McDonagh with Sinéad Burke on Thursday, March 12th, at 6 PM @hodgesfiggis.bsky.social.

Our friend and first reader, Anne Burke, will chair the event, and Sinéad Burke will join Rosaleen in conversation about her remarkable debut novel!

StAnza 26: Wake Up, Poetry with Charles Lang & Isabelle Baafi 10:00 – 11:00 | Byre: Studio | £20/£15/£10/£5 Begin your day with two poets celebrated for remarkable debuts. Charles Lang and Isabelle Baafi’s first collections announce them as significant new voic...

We'll be heading to @stanzapoetry festival next month, Saturday March 14, with Charles Lang reading alongside Isabelle Baafi, from their acclaimed first #poetry collections!

Tickets available through the StAnza website, and the event will also be streamed online! 🎟
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The Posthumous Book of Shahrazad ‘A remarkable testament to all that is found in translation: a collection of poems, a matrilineage, the Asturian poetic tradition, and a reminder that every storyteller since Shahrazad keeps …

📓Pre-orders now open for our latest #poetry book #ThePosthumousBookofShahrazad! Orders made through our online shop receive a custom design enamel pin featuring the pelican on the cover. Publishing on 21 March, @unesco #WorldPoetryDay, gift-wrapped and posted to you!🦢

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A novel from @paveebeoir.bsky.social (author of the memoir 'Unsettled'), published by @skeinpress.bsky.social next month.

Thanks so much for sharing, Louisa, we hope you enjoy the read! 📘💜

💕 Valentine’s Day #giveaway! 📕

Like and share to enter the draw to win a copy of Contentious Spaces, the brilliant new novel by award-winning writer Rosaleen McDonagh! Signed and dedicated by the author, postmarked to you by February 14th 💕

* Entries will close at 23:59 GMT on Sunday February 8th*

So many amazing people involved in getting this book to this point, cannot wait for it to be out in the world. And my word, that cover...

Thanks so much, Fiachra! 🖤

This Imbolc, we are thrilled to unveil the cover of 'The Posthumous Book of Shahrazad', the award-winning Asturian collection by @raquelmenendez.bsky.social, in an extraordinary translation by @robmunb.bsky.social! Design & illustration by Patrick Fisher at Frontwards Design. Pre-orders now open!

NEW on our website | Ellen Orchard reviews 2025 Irish poetry collections:

🍙Morsels by Susanna Galbraith @machapress.bsky.social
🏝️The Oasis by Charles Lang @skeinpress.bsky.social
🎈After Party by Dean Browne (Picador Poetry)
💧Infinity Pool by Vona Groarke (Gallery Press)

I’m looking forward to reading this!

We are very excited for the publication of 'Contentious Spaces' by Rosaleen McDonagh, coming soon! An incredible story set in a halting site in Dublin exploring the lives of families facing eviction.
Pre-orders include a free tote bag & postcard.
📚https://skeinpress.com/product/contentious-spaces/

This is a really intimate and affecting series of conversations. Important listening, particularly for anyone who thinks that racism in Ireland is a recent development

Preorder now!

'Contentious Spaces' by #RosaleenMcDonagh is a haunting tale of identity, loyalty, and resilience.

'A writer of huge & vivacious talent, and this is a brilliant novel, so vivid and urgent and addictive.’ – #KevinBarry

Free tote and postcard with pre-orders: tinyurl.com/mrxnhkcv

Thanks so much, John for such a heartfelt review and for spreading the word about The Oasis.😍

Here's a link to my review of Charles Lang's excellent debut collection, 'The Oasis': johnfield.org/2025/12/23/l...
@skeinpress.bsky.social
#poetry

'Thus, it is the richness of Persian Culture, the resilience of women and the value of connection in a precarious world that shine. In holding back, Manouchehri has constructed an elegant book in which life abounds.'@irishtimes.com review of 'This is not a cookbook' by Brigid O'Dea.
In bookshops!

Conversations ‘Thinking Aloud, Thinking Together’ is a series of live and recorded conversations amplifying voices that have been silenced in Irish cultural life. It gives space to artists, writers and thinkers …

They each feature in-depth, one-on-one conversations, and are now available to stream via our website, or wherever you get your podcasts:
skeinpress.com/conversations/

'I had no sense of identity growing up...'

The final two episodes in our podcast series detail childhoods spent in Irish institutions, grappling with racism, identity, erasure and upheaval

ICYMI, you can still watch back this powerful panel on class x masculinity in contemporary poetry

Thank you so much for being part of it Matthew!

Pre-order your copy now. This is a stunning book about contemporary Ireland by a writer at the top of her game.

'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...

Contentious Spaces ‘Rosaleen McDonagh is a writer of huge and vivacious talent and this is a brilliant novel, so vivid and urgent and addictive.’ – Kevin Barry

‘Rosaleen McDonagh is a writer of huge and vivacious talent and this is a brilliant novel, so vivid and urgent and addictive.’ – Kevin Barry

Launching in March 2026, you can pre-order now via our website: skeinpress.com/product/cont...

#ContentiousSpaces #NewIrishFiction

Unveiling our first publication of 2026...

'Contentious Spaces' is the debut novel from acclaimed Irish writer, playwright and performer Rosaleen McDonagh

#ContentiousSpaces #NewIrishFiction

A wonderful essay collection. I learned a lot. As it happens I was only talking to my son about it last night.

Screenshot of the headline of an RTÉ Culture article about indie publishing in Ireland and the Dublin Small Press Fair, with central image of a male poet in a garden.

A screenshot of an excerpt of an RTÉ article about indie publishing in Ireland.

A picture of a hand holding a promotional postcard for the Dublin Small Press Fair against an autumnal suburban background.

We were honoured to be mentioned in this fantastic article @rte.ie about the upcoming inaugural Dublin Small Press Fair alongside so many wonderful independent Irish publishers, including @lilliputpress.bsky.social, @skeinpress.bsky.social, @machapress.bsky.social, and so many more.

Unsettled – Audiobook Essays exploring racism, ableism, abuse and resistance as well as the bonds of community, family and friendship. Listen to a sample here.

You can order the audiobook now via our website:
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The audiobook of 'Unsettled', Rosaleen McDonagh's incisive and groundbreaking essay collection, is now available to purchase on our website.

Narrated by Kathleen Murphy, the book explores racism, ableism, abuse, resistance and the bonds of community that tie us together