We are delighted to announce Isla Thomson as the winner of the 2026 Irish Writers Centre New Writing Prize in partnership with The Stinging Fly.
News 1st October 2026
Entitled 'The Writer and Her Double', The Stinging Fly Lecture 2026 will be delivered by Roisin Kiberd.
News 25th September 2026
News 21st August 2026
Five years on since the Taliban’s return to power in Afghanistan, we celebrate the resilience of Afghan women through publishing this letter exchange between Maryam Mahjoba, a young fiction writer living in Kabul, and the Somali British novelist, Nadifa Mohamed, living in London.
Essay 12th August 2026
Short Story Competition: We are currently taking entries for this year’s New Writing Prize. Competition will close at 5pm on June 30th.
News 16th June 2026
Established in 2022, the €2000 prize, sponsored by Felicity Bryan Associates, is awarded annually to an emerging fiction writer published in the magazine during the previous year. Rosa’s winning story ‘Breathwork’ was published in our Summer 2025 issue.
News 20th May 2026
Join us on Tuesday October 13th for an online seminar with Sinéad Morrissey entitled 'Writing from the Inside: On Immediacy of Poetic Address'
News 19th May 2026
We’re inviting visual artists living on the island of Ireland to submit work to be considered for future covers of our magazine.
News 13th April 2026
News 3rd April 2026
‘Non-fiction has the power to change the world and I can't think of a time—in recent memory—when the necessity of doing things differently has felt more immediate.’
News 5th November 2025
We asked three writers and a visual artist to share their experiences of being part of the pilot scheme and tell us what they’d like to see happen next.
Interview 7th August 2025
The winning story ‘Missing the Eclipse’ was published in our Summer 2024 issue.
News 21st May 2025
News 11th February 2025
Lesothan writer awarded €2000 prize for debut short story published in our Summer 2023 issue.
22nd May 2024
News 12th April 2024
News 14th March 2024
JC Niala awarded bursary for her translation of ‘The Mighty Bahari’ from the original Swahili.
News 27th February 2024
News 18th December 2023
A chance to look back on our essay series reflecting on the pains and pleasures of writing and publishing – with a new Afterword by Series Editor, Olivia Fitzsimons.
Essay 13th December 2023
News 15th September 2023
News 7th September 2023
We're inviting artists to submit potential cover art for our magazine.
News 1st July 2023
The Sligo author was awarded the €2000 prize for his “eerie” debut story, ‘The Afterlife’, described by the judges as an “uncanny, expertly controlled, chilling fable”.
News 25th May 2023
We are delighted to introduce two additional online workshops to this year's summer school programme, aimed at people who have only recently started writing fiction. Application deadline: May 3rd, 11:59pm!
News 21st April 2023
We are delighted to announce that The Stinging Fly is partnering with Chinese literary journal, One-way Street, on its exciting New Voice project.
News 25th January 2023
Contributors: Dizz Tate, Olivia Fitzsimons, Danielle McLaughlin, Jill Crawford, Neil Hegarty, Angelique Tran Van Sang, Anna Walsh, Mia Gallagher, Thomas Morris, Kevin Power, Niamh Campbell, Ian Maleney, John Patrick McHugh, Mary Morrissy, Tadhg Hoey, Susannah Dickey, Sean O'Reilly