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🔥❤️ Tolka Issue Ten ❤️🔥
We're delighted to unveil the line up for our tenth issue!
This issue will publish on 10 November and launch on Friday 5 December.
You can pre-order the issue here: www.tolkajournal.org/shop/p/issue...

Banshee Press is open for book submissions from 1-15 October — Banshee Press Banshee Press is open for book-length submissions of fiction, poetry and memoir from 1-15 October 2025 . All submitted manuscripts will be considered for our 2027 and 2028 lists (and perhaps…

Banshee Press is open for book submissions from 1-15 October! 📚

Guidelines are at the link below. We look forward to reading your work!

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Issue Ten — TOLKA ISBN: 978-1-7398226-8-2 Issue Ten, publishing in November 2025, is available to pre-order. It includes writing by: John Patrick McHugh Tim MacGabhann Hannah Sargeant Kim Keum Hee translated...

an extract from @autreauxp.bsky.social 's L'Époux (The Husband) will appear in Issue 10 of @tolkajournal.bsky.social

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Many thanks to Tolka and Tobias Ryan for the translation of this large excerpt of « L’Epoux » (Gallimard) - « The Husband ».

🔥❤️ Tolka Issue Ten ❤️🔥
We're delighted to unveil the line up for our tenth issue!
This issue will publish on 10 November and launch on Friday 5 December.
You can pre-order the issue here: www.tolkajournal.org/shop/p/issue...

25 I was with Silvia on Corso Nizza, so empty and sun-drenched in those days. She looked at me and said, with an expression of shock and admiration: 'You seem like Tess!' It was a grave thing to say. We had just read Tess of the d'Urbervilles: what she meant I don't know, but it helped me define my somewhat dreamy state, between blissful and dis-tressed. Almost as though I were truly going to be 'sacrificed', even if 'crowned with flowers'. I had never said it to myself, but I thought, or rather I felt, that getting married was something fatal, abyssal in fact, a kind of death. I intuited a sense of risk, which was exhilarating too, but detached from me, from our story. Almost an investiture: for some unknown end.

Lalla Romano

Nicole Flattery's 'Abortion, a Love Story'!

Arcana — TOLKA by Jessica Traynor

New online! To celebrate the publication of Jessica Traynor's new poetry collection, New Arcana, we've made her essay 'Arcana' free to read on our website! @bloodaxebooks.bsky.social www.tolkajournal.org/read-online/...

Arcana — TOLKA by Jessica Traynor

New online! To celebrate the publication of Jessica Traynor's new poetry collection, New Arcana, we've made her essay 'Arcana' free to read on our website! @bloodaxebooks.bsky.social www.tolkajournal.org/read-online/...

🔵 ANNIVERSARY SALE 🔵

To celebrate eleven years since we published our first book, we are running a sale on our website until 11.59 p.m. BST on 30 September, with a 40 per cent discount across our website.

Use the code ‘ANNIVERSARY40’ at checkout: fitzcarraldoeditions.com

Here's a little taster from New Arcana! Big thanks to @booksireland.bsky.social for featuring a reading of my poem 'and the girl inside me' 🔮✨️

A beautiful review of Lalla Romano's In Farthest Seas from @ronanhession.bsky.social in today's Irish Times!
"It’s a sign of the quality of the writing[...] that even when reading analytically as a reviewer, I often found myself putting the book down still in a dream of its voice." @pushkinpress.com

Interviewers ask if Greene sees much of other writers. Greene answers that the company of other authors is a form of masturbation. The interviewers then ask about his friendship with Norman Douglas.

Segue of the year from the Paris Review interviewer(s) of Graham Greene.

The Long Gaze Back - An Anthology of Irish Women Writers — New Island Books Edited by Sinéad Gleeson The Long Gaze Back , edited by Sinéad Gleeson, is an exhilarating anthology of thirty short stories by some of the most gifted women writers this island has ever produced....

Ten years ago this week, The Long Gaze Back: An Anthology of Irish Women Writers was published. ​It took a huge amount of research, but introduced me to many writers, and to the historical omission of Irish women from the literary canon. @newislandbooks.bsky.social
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Fiction in translation: Yang Hao an exciting new voice in Chinese – and Irish – literature In Farthest Seas; Blurred; Cécé; Diablo’s Boys; and Voices of Resistance: Diaries of Genocide reviewed

My @irishtimes.com fiction in translation column is now online for subscribers.

Fiction from Romania, Italy, Haiti, China and Gaza.

Fiction in translation: Yang Hao an exciting new voice in Chinese – and Irish – literature

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Gan Comhartha Lena Chomóradh — TOLKA by Eimear Arthur

New online! Eimear Arthur’s ‘Gan Comhartha Lena Chomóradh’ is a reflection on collective memory and mourning – spanning Oileán na Marbh, Sutton, Tuam and the West Bank. You can read Eimear's piece here: www.tolkajournal.org/read-online/...

Gan Comhartha Lena Chomóradh — TOLKA by Eimear Arthur

New online! Eimear Arthur’s ‘Gan Comhartha Lena Chomóradh’ is a reflection on collective memory and mourning – spanning Oileán na Marbh, Sutton, Tuam and the West Bank. You can read Eimear's piece here: www.tolkajournal.org/read-online/...

Sally Rooney: I support Palestine Action. If this makes me a ‘supporter of terror’ under UK law, so be it I would happily publish this statement in a UK newspaper – but that would now be illegal

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Summer sale! Three issues of Tolka: €25. Featuring new writing from Niamh Campbell, Declan Toohey, Kevin Breathnach and many others. www.tolkajournal.org/shop

Summer sale! Three issues of Tolka: €25. Featuring new writing from Niamh Campbell, Declan Toohey, Kevin Breathnach and many others. www.tolkajournal.org/shop

Our summer sale is on until 25 August, or until stocks last. You can read non-fiction from Noreen Masud, Claire-Louise Bennett, Megan Nolan, Annie Ernaux and many others. Three issues for €25, or our latest issue for €10. www.tolkajournal.org/shop

Our summer sale is on until 25 August, or until stocks last. You can read non-fiction from Noreen Masud, Claire-Louise Bennett, Megan Nolan, Annie Ernaux and many others. Three issues for €25, or our latest issue for €10. www.tolkajournal.org/shop

Writing Experimental Memoir (online)

Tues 18 Nov,
Tues 25 Nov,
Tues 2 Dec 2025 6.30-8.30 PM (UK) via Zoom

In this three week online course we will discuss and explore a range of approaches and practical tasks. There will also be some reading before the sessions and a reading list at the end.

If you're looking for some Sunday reading . . .

An Interview with Liadan Ní Chuinn — TOLKA by Catherine Hearn

“What has happened in the past is still playing out now.”

New online — Tolka editor Catherine Hearn spoke to Liadan Ní Chuinn about their debut short story collection Every One Still Here, published by @grantabooks.bsky.social and @stingingfly.bsky.social. www.tolkajournal.org/read-online/...

An Interview with Liadan Ní Chuinn — TOLKA by Catherine Hearn

“What has happened in the past is still playing out now.”

New online — Tolka editor Catherine Hearn spoke to Liadan Ní Chuinn about their debut short story collection Every One Still Here, published by @grantabooks.bsky.social and @stingingfly.bsky.social. www.tolkajournal.org/read-online/...

Thanks Keith - glad you enjoyed it!