Our Summer 2026 issue is now available to order on our website 🌞 We are kicking off the summer in style with the launch of Issue 54 on Saturday night. Join us at our usual spot, the big yellow Synge Tent in Merrion Square Park. Tickets are still available via @ILFDublin website. Thank you to all our contributors for trusting us with their words, and thank you to our brilliant editorial team Lisa McInerney, Annemarie Ní Churreáin (@NiChurr), Emma Dabiri and Ailbhe Ní Ghearbhuigh, for putting together another magnificent magazine issue. All orders will be sent out from May 18th onwards. stingingfly.org/product/summ…

An excellent read for the weekend Dane Holt's new short story 'Nor in Deep': ‘He brings his bottom lip over his top lip and makes it touch his small nose. It makes him look older somehow and like he’s disappointed in me. I remember feeling disappointed in my father when I asked him simple questions and received complicated answers.’ Dane Holt’s writing has appeared in Winter Papers, TLS, Granta, The London Magazine and elsewhere. His debut collection of poems, Father’s Father’s Father, was published in 2025 by Carcanet. He lives in Belfast. Read the full story stingingfly.org/2026/06/04/n…

This week on our website, Gustav Parker Hibbett reviews 'Salvage: Readings from the Wreck' by Canadian poet and novelist, Dionne Brand (@fsgbooks ) “Salvage is no exception. It arrives—meticulously, tenderly, wryly—to address a dishonesty, a bad-faith elision in Euro-America’s relationship to its own literature. This elision, which we inherit, is a kind of shipwreck reproduced at the heart of the English novel: in narrative, in character, in aesthetic, in language.” Read the full review: stingingfly.org/review/salva…

NEW on our website: Gustav Parker Hibbett reviews Salvage: Readings from the Wreck by Dionne Brand (@fsgbooks) "Salvage, an extraordinary ‘autobiography of the autobiography of reading’, has found a form that is not quite literary criticism, not quite autobiography, but that troubles the architecture of both.." Read the full review: stingingfly.org/review/salva…

ONE WEEK TO GO until submissions open for the New Writing Prize⏰ stingingfly.org/news/the-iri…

It's the perfect time to start stocking up for your summer reading needs 🌞✨️ Use the coupon code on our website: Summer_Reading_2026 Offer ends on Tuesday 30th June stingingfly.org/shop/

The Stinging Fly & Banshee Press are going to @CorkMidsummer 🎉 Join us for ‘The Music of What Happens’ on Saturday 20th June, 5pm. Two of Ireland’s leading literary presses in collaboration for a unique call-and-response exploration of the imaginative boundaries between writing and music, and the act of creativity itself. This one-hour, one-off event will feature new writing and improvised music, with writers from The Stinging Fly and Banshee responding to music by multi-instrumentalist and composer Seán Mac Erlaine. Mac Erlaine will then perform improvised musical responses to the writing – an artistic dialogue that thrives in the ether between different creative forms. Artists: Chetna Maroo Billy Ramsell Mary Dunne Thomas Morris Seán Mac Erlaine The event will take place at University College Cork, Granary Theatre. Grab your tickets now corkmidsummer.com/whats-on/t…

There are just five days left to register for the next event in our Second Tuesday Series 🫧 The series is intended to offer writers a space to gather, share their experiences, and learn from one another. stingingfly.org/news/second-… ********* Our Second Tuesday Series will resume in September after a summer break. For more info sign up for our newsletter 🌸

NEW on our website: A short story by Dane Holt, 'Nor in Deep'. "In the morning, still half-asleep, I felt her climb on top of me and guide me inside of her. She braced against my shoulders and began rocking back and forth with her eyes closed and her hair falling down over her face. We fell asleep again for what felt like just a few seconds before Franklin walked into our room as though he were being guided through fog in a dream. He climbed in bed between us and we all three fell asleep." Read the full story stingingfly.org/2026/06/04/n…

Excellent debut. Grab a copy, mine’s long gone after I lent it out several times 🙄 Every One Still Here by Liadan Ní Chuinn has been shortlisted for the Orwell Prize irishtimes.com/culture/books… @stingingfly

📚 This week's #ReadwithAC pick is the latest novel from writer Danielle McLaughlin. 'Rituals' delves into an obsessive mind to explore the power and beauty contained within our daily lives. Published by #ArtsCouncilSupported @stingingfly ➡️ stingingfly.org/product/ritu…

Opening Tuesday June 16th... We're thrilled to announce the second year of our New Writing Prize in association with our friends at the @stingingfly! For all the info you need, check out our site: irishwriterscentre.ie/opport…

Tomorrow is the launch of The Stinging Fly Summer 2026 Issue 🖤 Join us for this exciting celebration of Issue 54, featuring contributor readings, conversation and connection – and a DJ session by Siobhan Kane. Hear from writers Luke Morgan, Eleanor Hooker, Alan McMonagle, Eva Morrissey, Lauren Collett and William Brady, who are featured in the new issue. The evening will also feature the announcement of the winner of this year’s Stinging Fly / @FelicityBryan Fiction Prize. Saturday, 20th May, 8pm in the Synge Tent @ILFDublin Merrion Square Park. Buy your tickets: ilfdublin.com/whats-on/festi… Enjoy these photos from last summer's launch, courtesy of Ger Holland📸

Winter 2026-27 Issue: Five Days Left To Submit ­ We are currently accepting submissions of fiction, creative non-fiction, and poetry for our Winter 2026-27 issue. The deadline to submit work is Wednesday May 20th at 5pm (Irish Time). As part of our current open submissions round, we invite poets writing in the Irish language to submit their work for consideration for the Comhchealg section of the magazine. We are not accepting Featured Poet submissions during this submission window. All work must be submitted via Submittable. The link to submit along with the submissions guidelines are available on our website. stingingfly.org/submissions/

After years of reading The Stinging Fly, I'm very excited to have a novel extract in the latest issue!! @stingingfly