Recent news

July 2026: Stinging Fly podcast, discussing ‘Notes on Contributors’, a story published in Issue 54 of The Stinging Fly.

May 2026. Short story: ‘Notes on Contributors’ published in The Stinging Fly. Print only.

May 2026. Short story: ‘Titch’ published on Granta.com

February 2026: Apriti, the Italian-language edition of Open Up, translated by Martina Testa, published by Edizioni Sur

October 2025: launch speech for After Party by Dean Browne

October 2025: ‘Whittling Up’: On writing and editing short stories

September 2025. Short story: ‘Real Love’, published on The Stinging Fly.

June 2025: NEW short story: ‘An Excerpt from The Encyclopaedia of Famous Rats’, published in Banshee. Print only.

June 2025: A group interview in Issue 7 of Holy Show. Print only.

April 2025: Open Up, published in the States by Unnamed Press.

March 2025: ‘all the boys’, republished in Stinging Fly anthology, Dublin, Written In Our Hearts