Launch

New Island Books invites you to celebrate the official launch of Sunday Miscellany – A Selection, 2018–2023, a brand-new selection of recently broadcast essays, poems and stories first heard on the legendary RTÉ Radio 1 weekend programme.   There is a wait list for this event – please register on eventbrite.

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Join us to celebrate the publication of In the Foul Rag-and-Bone Shop (Scotus Press) by writer and playwright Jack Harte. When an eccentric and reclusive Dublin artist’s paintings go missing, a crisis is set in motion and he has to engage with the world. Across the ocean in New York lives an equally eccentric and […]

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Join us to celebrate the launch of the 9th volume of Winter Papers, edited by Kevin Barry and Olivia Smith. Winter Papers is an annual anthology for the arts in Ireland and beyond and features fiction, non-fiction, poetry, photography, visual art, along with artist-in-conversation pieces. Co-editor Kevin Barry will be in conversation with a number […]

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HOWL New Irish Writing is an annual print publication that showcases the creative wail in Irish writing from Ireland and around the world. HOWL celebrates the complexity of Irish identity and the beauty of its writing, featuring spectacular work in both English and Irish. Join us for a warm-hearted evening of readings and performances of […]

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Join us to celebrate the publication of Reading Rites: Books, writing and other things that matter (Blackstaff Press) by Evelyn Conlon, one of Ireland’s finest and most compelling writers. For over five decades, Evelyn has revelled in the secret joy of writing and in the power of a well-crafted story, and this memoir recounts with […]

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Join Sonder as they launch Issue VIII: Belonging. The night will host readings from contributors and some craic agus ceol. The issue boasts short stories, creative nonfiction, and flash fiction by brand new writers, all centring around the theme of belonging and the idea of sonder—the realisation that passersby have a mind as vivid and […]

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Channel is a literary journal born out of the climate crisis, publishing writing in English and Irish that fosters connection between people and planet. It aims to create space for the emergence of new narratives surrounding nature in the public consciousness, building a community of writers, artists and readers grounded in shared ecological concern. Find […]

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