If you would like pre-order our gorgeous new anthology, the link is here: nationalflashfictionday.co.uk/index.php/book…

🌺🌺🌺It's here! Look at these gorgeous copies of the pink paperback edition of Elsewhere, coming out today via Faber Books

I’m running a Short Story Structure Masterclass on Tuesday 6 August 7-8pm, for free, online! Come join this deep drill into shaping, causality, and inevitable yet surprising endings in the briefest and most beautiful of forms. Book here: eventbrite.com/e/957133220227…

Hi everyone! Three spaces left for my Short Story Day on Saturday Sept 14. Find out what makes short stories SING and stand out to competition judges in this one day intensive creative writing workshop where we’ll be exploring character, voice, structure and form.

TSF founder Declan Meade spoke to the Guardian about the importance of funding to the arts and the brilliant Irish writing community. theguardian.com/books/article/…

Really so honoured to read one of Bobby’s poems tonight Bobby Gant Memorial Device Razur Cuts

Here you go. Thanks to everyone who has helped me along with this. Hoping you like it. Sceptre Books thebookseller.com/rights/sceptre…

Thank you, Linda

NEW: announcing our 2025 Poetry Workshop with Annemarie Ní Churreáin. This new workshop will help poets working on developing a project or manuscript over a four-month period (January to May 2025). Applications are now open and will close at 5pm on Monday 9th December. More information:

Delighted that Young Skins(which is, admittedly, not a novel...but really, wtf is a novel?) is number 5 on Vulture list of the best Irish novels of the last 15 years (my actual novel is not) vulture.com/article/best-b…

honest to god what a book Wendy Erskine is an artist lads, a true artist, and what an absolute privilege it is to read her out with Sceptre Books June ‘25

Today I received a postcard to myself from myself! Thank you to the wonderful Jude Higgins who saved it six months since her fabulous workshop FlashFictionFestival

I need to share some 💛 for Charmaine Wilkerson's new novel (out 28 Jan). Good Dirt is a wonderful patchwork of fragments that reveal an intricate story about a family heirloom and how people rebuild their lives - and seek hope - after tragedy. Absolutely stunning. 🌸🌼🌺

Delighted to see THE BENEFACTORS on the ‘books to look out for in 2025’ lists in Irish Times Culture Guardian Books The Irish Independent and rte.ie today. Grateful. Nice to see my pal @dave_tynan also get a beautiful comment in the Irish Independent here. Sceptre Books

Complete delight to appear anywhere near the books on this list, alongside authors (‘bent by the same wintry fever’ &c) I so admire; many thanks to the judges and readers, and to 4th Estate Books and Lucy Luck for their belief in & efforts behind the collection coming together

NEW: After almost 8 years, we're mixing things up on The Stinging Fly Podcast. Up to now, the series has focused on the wealth of material contained in the magazine’s back catalogue and our guests have been asked to select and read a story or essay from the archive. Starting

Via BBC Sounds, a short story from me featuring words ‘wipe-clean’, ‘fascism’ & ‘inflatable carrots’. Grateful to producer Becky Ripley for the brief & the wizardry, and (I think?) Matt Clacher for putting the idea of soft play x nightmarescape in my head bbc.co.uk/programmes/m00…

Souvankham Thammavongsa joins Deborah Treisman on the Fiction podcast to read and discuss “The Size of Things,” by Samanta Schweblin (translated, from the Spanish, by Megan McDowell), which was published in The New Yorker in 2017. Listen here. nyer.cm/9kybGNt

If you know, you know - this is an exceptional telling of the superpower and reality of the inheritance and the individual and familial suffering . #Neurodivergent I’m glad to have found this. It’s beautifully read too.