The Stinging Fly

L.P. Hartley once said that the past is a foreign country, they do things differently there. For the mostly nameless women in the eight stories which make up Nicole Flattery’s debut, Show Them A Good Time, the present seems like a foreign…

The Lit Review is back, with book festivals in Dublin and Cork, poetry and short story competitions, workshops and more. Competitions & submission calls RTE Radio 1 Short Story Competition The 2018 RTÉ Radio 1 Short Story…

Welcome to this fortnight's Lit Review, packed with competitions and submission calls. Don't forget that the closing date for this year's Listowel Writers' Week competitions is 1st March. Competitions & submission calls The Stinging…

"Kublai Kahn does not necessarily believe everything Marco Polo says when he describes the cities visited on his expeditions..." He'd be better off reading the Lit Review... News Welcome aboard The Irish Writer's Centre Until…

Every word is like an unnecessary stain on silence and nothingness. With that in mind, welcome the newly revivified Lit Review! News Save Heaney Country A Crowdfunder campaign seeks to defend a site featured in several Seamus Heaney…

Time present and time past Are both perhaps present in time future And time future contained in time past. But the Lit Review only comes out on Wednesdays. Events In the New Theatre this week, a new play entitled Inisfallen Fare…

Something wicked this way comes... It's the Lit Review. Events This Friday, Professor Mary MacAleese will launch Poems of Reposession, the first critical anthology of twentieth century poetry in Irish (with English translations.) The…

Five Years have past; five summers, with the length Of five long winters! and again I hear These waters rolling from their mountain-springs With a soft inland murmur. It's really more of a weekly, Lit Review sort of murmur. Events…

With literary festival season kicking off in earnest in March, there's plenty of action on the poetry scene around Ireland this month, so let's get to it - you'd be mad as a March hare to miss out! Ennis Book Club Festival (4-6 March)…

Happy New Year! Bells have been jingled, eggs have been nogged - Christmas is boxed up, back in the attic - and we reluctantly return to the daily grind that is January. But, despite the weather, it isn't all doom and gloom. Poetrybeat…