Literary Journal Showcase
We're delighted to be partnering with Dublin Book Festival for our Literary Journal Showcase! This will be a vibrant celebration of Ireland’s literary journals, with readings selected by the editors of Channel, Howl, The Four Faced Liar, Profiles, Sans. PRESS, Sonder, Tolka, and Ragaire . Featuring journals specialised in literary fiction, poetry, speculative fiction, YA, short stories, essays and more, this event will provide a small sample of the rich landscape of contemporary Irish indie publishing, in its broad range and diversity.
Recording coming soon!
Keev Ó Baoill
Más buan mo chuimhne
Keev (Boyle-Darby) Ó Baoill (They/He) is a trans, Irish-gaeilgeoir poet and writer. Their upcoming chapbook the end of the fucking world / shitty airport poems is due to be published with Back Room Poetry. Their work has been published by Ache Magazine, Channel, Gnashing Teeth, Vernacular Journal, Back Room Poetry, Powders Press and now the remote body, among others. You can find them and their work on socials @keevobaoill.
Channel
Channel is a journal of eco-writing born out of the climate crisis, publishing writing in English and Irish that fosters connection between human beings and the other-than-human world. 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.
www.channelmag.org
Insta: @channel_mag
X: @Channel_LitMag
Facebook: @ChannelLiteraryMagazine
Aoife Esmonde
Spike
Aoife Esmonde is a writer from Cork, now living in Dublin, whose work has appeared in The Stinging Fly, Paper Lanterns, and the anthology The Last Five Minutes of a Storm. Aoife has taken part in the Stinging Fly mentorship programme, and is working on a novel.
The Four Faced Liar
The Four Faced Liar is a Cork-inspired and based, Irish-flavoured, internationally-facing journal publishing an eclectic mix of fiction, creative nonfiction, poetry, work in translation and visual art. We have published two issues. Issue 3 is on the way. The four editors - writers ourselves - produce The Four Faced Liar voluntarily. Our three issues (Issue 3 forthcoming) have been produced thanks to the generosity of individual donors and grants from Cork City Council.
Miriam Needham
Poor Creatures
Miriam Needham is a writer based in the north-west of Ireland. Her work has been highly commended as part of the Cúirt New Writing Prize, longlisted for the Edinburgh Short Story Award, and she was a runner-up in the Dingle Lit Short Story Competition. She was recently awarded a place on the Irish Writers Centre National Mentoring Programme, and is delighted to have her first short story published by HOWL New Irish Writing this October.
HOWL New Irish Writing
HOWL New Irish Writing (HOWL) is an annual literary journal dedicated to showcasing emerging and established Irish writers. Co-founded in 2022 by Róisín Leggett Bohan and Lauren O’Donovan, HOWL serves as a dynamic platform for writers in Ireland and for Ireland’s international diaspora. HOWL is dedicated to upholding a holistic duty of care to all submitters, nurturing the link between writer and editor to ultimately showcase unique work that is raw and real.
www.howlwriting.ie
Twitter: @HowlWriting
Facebook: /howlwriting
Shane Murphy
Private Lives
Shane Murphy was born in 1999 in Dublin. His fiction has won the Cuirt New Writing Prize and been published in Banshee and The Pig’s Back. This year he graduated from a Masters in Modern and Contemporary Literary Studies at Trinity College Dublin. He is now writing a work of non-fiction about the origins and impact of Irish missionaries in Africa.
The Pig's Back
The Pig’s Back (named for Donegal’s Muckish mountain and for the phrase ar mhuin na muice, to be in luck) is a literary prose journal that aims to bring the rest of Ireland - and in turn, the world - to the northwest. Founded by the Regional Cultural Centre in Letterkenny, it publishes short fiction and essays.
Philip Arneill
Dog Days
Philip Arneill is a Belfast-born writer and photographer. His Tokyo Jazz Joints photographic monograph was published globally in 2023. His artistic practice explores illusory ideas of home and culture by examining insider-outsider dynamics, place and identity. Philip’s creative writing has been published in Honest Ulsterman, Ropes, Ragaire, From the Well, The Storms and Sonder among others.
Sonder
Sonder Issue IX features short stories, creative nonfiction, and flash fiction by brand new writers. Also includes an original piece by, and an interview with, bestselling author Sophie White. These stories centre around the theme of madness and the idea of sonder – the realisation that passersby have a mind as vivid and complex as your own.
www.sonderlit.com
Instagram: @sonder_lit
Twitter: @MagazineSonder
John Moriarty
The Weedkiller
John Moriarty is a writer of fiction, non-fiction and drama. He holds an MA in Creative Writing from Queen’s University Belfast, and has contributed stories to The Honest Ulsterman, Profiles, Humour Me, The Apiary and BBC Storytellers. His debut collection of stories and essays is (loosely) themed around remembering, and encountering the past in the present day. Originally from Dublin, he has lived in Belfast for fifteen years and counting.
Profiles
Profiles is an annual literary and visual-arts journal published in Dublin. Profiles showcases character-driven writing and portraiture by both emerging and established authors, translators and artists. As we grow, we have been developing the interdisciplinary nature of the journal, featuring work created as part of a joint effort between writers and artists. Each issue is celebrated with a radio special that features original music inspired by our contributors' work.
www.profilesjournal.com
Instagram & Threads: @profilesjournal
Twitter: @profileslit
Naoimh O' Connor
Porcelain Children
Naoimh O'Connor has lived, worked and published between Ireland and Italy for 20 years. Along the way, she completed an MPhil in Creative Writing from Trinity College Dublin and taught Creative Writing to American university study-abroad students in Umbria. She mostly writes short fiction and reads bedtime stories.
Ragaire Literary Magazine
Ragaire is a Galway based literary magazine edited by Cormac Culkeen, Tara O’Malley and Aileen McCarthy publishing fiction, non-fiction and poetry. The title ‘Ragaire’ is an old Irish word to describe someone who enjoys late night wandering. The magazine is a light for those travellers, a place to bring their poems and stories. The first issue was launched in May 2024 and Issue 2 will be launched in November 2024.
www.ragairemagazine.com
Instagram: @ragairemagazine
Twitter: @RagaireMagazine
Niamh Campbell
Birth Story
Niamh Campbell's debut novel This Happy was published in 2020 and her second novel We Were Young was published by Weidenfeld and Nicolson in 2022. In 2020, she won the Sunday Times Audible Short Story Award for her story Love Many, and in 2021 she won the Rooney Prize for Irish Literature. She currently lectures in creative writing at University College Dublin.
Tolka
Tolka is a biannual literary journal of non-fiction: publishing essays, reportage, travel writing, auto-fiction, individual stories and the writing that flows in between. We publish work that is formally promiscuous and which does not always fall into neat categories, encouraging writers to test the creative boundaries of non-fiction.
www.tolkajournal.org
Instagram: @tolkajournal
Twitter: @tolkajournal
Claire Watson
We Came Travelling
Claire Watson is a speculative fiction writer from Cork. They have recently completed their MA in Creative Writing at University College Cork, where they worked as Editor-in-Chief of The University Express. Lover of the queer and the ‘quare’, their writing appears in Transmuted, Fey: A Guide to Fae of the Butch Variety and Sans. PRESS. They are currently working on their first novel.
Sans. PRESS
Sans. PRESS is a Limerick-based indie press, with a love for stories that are fresh & weird! Our focus are short story anthologies, each built around a single theme, with strong influences from speculative fiction and magical realism. Created in 2020 and funded by the Arts Council since 2022, Sans. PRESS has published seven anthologies to date, each stranger than the last.
www.sanspress.com
Instagram: @sans.press
Twitter: @presssans
Oyanne Gahan
Pack Mentality
Oyanne Gahan is a reader and writer from Dublin. She was one of the lucky writers selected for the National Mentoring Programme in 2021, and received an Agility Award from the Arts Council in 2023. She is currently working on a YA novel.
Paper Lanterns
Paper Lanterns is a teen and YA journal, founded in 2020 and published twice a year. Ensuring half the contributors from each issue are aged between 13-18 years, Paper Lanterns is a platform that promotes the voices of young people in Ireland and around the world, as well as new and emerging writers who write for a teen and young adult audience.
www.paperlanternslit.com
Instagram: @paperlanterns_lit
Twitter: @Paper__Lanterns
Facebook: @PaperLanternsLit