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Book Launch: An Alternative Irish Christmas - Dublin Book Festival Celebrate the darker season with Tramp Press! . Join us to launch the new anthology An Alternative Irish Christmas. . When shadows grow longer, when expectation weighs heavy, how do people in Ireland ...

We'll be launching as part of the Dublin Book Festival at 4pm on Sunday 9 November at IMMA:

dublinbookfestival.com/event/book-l...

And you can pre-order now: www.kennys.ie/shop/an-alte...

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An Alternative Irish Christmas is a showcase of great writing from: Jessica Traynor, Sophie White, Mike McCormack, Roisin Kiberd, Niall Bourke, Maggie Armstrong, Arja Kajermo, Sue Rainsford, Soula Emmanuel, Briana Fitzsimons, Belinda McKeon, Tim MacGabhann, and Anne Enright. 4/🧵

We asked everyone to write something for a collection about Christmas in Ireland in the twenty-first century, an alternative to Dickens or 'The Night Before Christmas', something to read that'll make you nod in recognition, flinch in horror or laugh with guilty pleasure! 3/🧵

Book Launch: An Alternative Irish Christmas - Dublin Book Festival Celebrate the darker season with Tramp Press! . Join us to launch the new anthology An Alternative Irish Christmas. . When shadows grow longer, when expectation weighs heavy, how do people in Ireland ...

It's a beautiful hardback, designed by Fiachra McCarthy and will hit the shops after Halloween (we believe in holding that line, we're not animals). Launching at the @dublinbookfest.bsky.social on SUNDAY 9 NOV 4PM

dublinbookfestival.com/event/book-l...

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Cover of An Alternative Irish Christmas: An Anthology. Green background, with the title in gold, there is a gold tree and the star on top is the Tramp Press logo

Contents page of An Alternative Irish Christmas, listing stories by: Jessica Traynor, Sophie White, Mike McCormack, Roisin Kiberd, Niall Bourke, Maggie Armstrong, Arja Kajermo, Sue Rainsford, Soula Emmanuel, Briana Fitzsimons, Belinda McKeon, Tim MacGabhann, and Anne Enright.

We are delighted to share the cover for a very special project we've been working on for Christmas 2025! An Alternative Irish Christmas is an anthology of stories, in traditional, unusual, extract, and essay form by some of our favourite authors. 1/🧵

Join @tramppress.bsky.social and DBF this November for a festive book launch for their brilliant new anthology of stories capturing the breadth of experiences an Irish Christmas offers 🎟️ bit.ly/3KBuzfx

Manchán Magan: Writer and documentary maker dies aged 55 Author spoke of terminal illness in recent radio interview, saying he did not feel despair

Cómhbhrón ó chroí to everyone who loved Manchán Magan on the sad news of his passing. Manchán was so kind, gentle and talented, and had so much to offer. We'll all miss him.

www.irishtimes.com/culture/2025...

Kildare Readers Festival: Editors' Panel
Fri 10 Oct 7pm, Naas Library
Join us at @kildarereadersfestival with the marvellous Lisa McInerney for a chat about the roles of editors and publishers. Book here: www.tickettailor.com/events/kildarereadersfestival/1801790

Visiting libraries is a great idea! Authors get a small fee if their books are checked out, so it's a win-win.

Two Bluemoose Books adapted for BBC Drama Series in the last 2 years.

Not bad for an Indy publisher!

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@bbcnewsnight.bsky.social
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Please read this excellent article about the dramatic rise of costs in publishing by a truly great indie press. When you buy a book, 'you are buying a stake in the survival of our world of letters'.

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Yes it is and you know it

Sounds like I'm scolding. Which tbf i often am

Trying so hard not to say 'going forward' I usually go with 'as seo amach', but got dangerously close to a 'henceforth' this morning. If you have a good one in your pocket, help me out.

Emerging Voices - Dublin Book Festival Exploring themes from hope and love to resilience and ambition, join us for an evening around four captivating debut novels from some of the freshest voices in Irish fiction. Gethan Dick’s Water in th...

Emerging Voices: Gethan Dick at the Dublin Book Festival, Thurs 6th November at 6pm

Exploring themes from hope and love to resilience and ambition, join us for an evening around four captivating debut novels. Booking essential: dublinbookfestival.com/event/emergi... #DBF25

contributors include:
@costelkh.bsky.social
@carolineheafey.bsky.social
@sistermmm.bsky.social
@brianeanna.bsky.social #speirgorm

stack of books related to Tramp Press

Contributors to a collection on @tramppress.bsky.social I’m editing with Tara Harney-Mahajan discuss contemporary Irish fiction & publishing & Tramp's Recovered Voices series @ #IrishStudies Seminar CUNY, Dec 5.
Registration / full info: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

childs shoes, covered in blood.

Palestine, 2025.
english.palinfo.com/news/2025/04...

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Calling all arts managers and producers 📣

Next week, we're hosting a workshop with
Safe to Create and Migrant Rights Ireland
to help arts orgs support and employ migrant artists 🌎

🗓 Wed 10 Sept | 12:30 – 2:00pm | Online

Book here:
safetocreate.ie/training/wor...

“At this point it's become impossible for me to maintain a relationship with Reuters given its role in justifying and enabling the systematic assassination of 245 journalists in Gaza. I owe my colleagues in Palestine at least this much, and so much more.” - Valerie Zink

Basic Income for the Arts public consultation There is a Government survey currently open for submissions, available here: https://ec.europa.eu/eusurvey/runner/2025-public-consultation-BIA Please share it with your networks, friends and family to gather as much support for the Basic Income successor scheme as possible! The public consultation will close on Friday, 5th of September 2025.

Basic Income for the Arts public consultation

There is a Government survey currently open for submissions, available here:

ec.europa.eu/eusurvey/run...

Please share it with your networks, friends and family to gather as much support for the Basic Income successor scheme as possible!

Good morning and here's a selection of delicious books, inc. short stories published by @tramppress.bsky.social and a classic memoir by @pushkinpress.com. 📚😍 All part of my new online reading group starting 9th Oct! 📖🍷