‘Over Zoom one night, a therapist tucks her dark hair behind her ears and introduces herself as Maeve. They are about the same age, in their late thirties. She doesn’t ask about Orla’s childhood, or root around for scars. She says, Tell me what’s happening.’
Roisín O’Donnell Fiction 17th June 2022
Jacinta Mulders Fiction Issue 45/Volume 2: Winter 2021-22
"When the other kids made fun of him for the holes in his jumper or not knowing who He-Man was, he just looked out the window towards home, the big house up the road and down the lane."
Niamh Mulvey Fiction 11th May 2022
"I couldn’t get out of bed, I couldn’t shower, I couldn’t call my friends. Everyone has had a time like this—when they look in the mirror and, sure enough, an unknown animal stares back."
Nicole Flattery Fiction 7th April 2022
Anam Zafar's translations of Najat Abed Alsamad's work offer shattering insights into everyday experiences of the war in Syria.
Najat Abed Alsamad Fiction 9th March 2022
‘I sit in my van and let it idle for a while, allowing the gentle hum of the engine to settle me. I take several deep breaths in. I don’t know why this has unnerved me so much. It is such a silly meaningless thing.’
Louise Hegarty Fiction 1st February 2022
"His mother had a choice between keeping the monkey or having the baby. She told the story often, in company, with a roll of her eyes and a helpless grin, as if this was the sore spot, the branching crossroads where her life had gone wrong. "
Sheila Armstrong Fiction 4th November 2021
'You talk and talk until you run out of breath and still when you get home there are things you wish you had said. Just once I would like to wake before myself and see what I am with my eyes closed.'
John Christopher Fiction 6th October 2021
‘Your mother’s on the radio,’ she said, ‘being racist.’ This had surprised me; the radio bit. My mother had an aversion to talk radio.
Danielle McLaughlin Fiction 1st September 2021
An archaeology student's chance encounter on a summer dig in Greece brings a private obsession full circle and provokes a reckoning with past occurrences.
Emer O'Hanlon Fiction Issue 44/Volume 2: Summer 2021
In this exquisitely written story of a relationship, two colleagues strike up a workplace rapport that will alter the course of their lives.
Lisa Owens Fiction Issue 44/Volume 2: Summer 2021
"They wore travel outfits, comfy and subtle. Tiny shorts and big hoodies in creamy colours. Shorts said: actual holiday. Hoodies said: chill, not like the other young ones going away, flashing bikinis at baggage claim."
Katie Curran Fiction 12th August 2021
'Sometimes I long for home, but not home as it is now, home back then. Back when it was nice. When the sun was always out, and we could play all day out of doors. Before I had to be a woman.'
Niamh Prior Fiction 7th July 2021
Glen Jeffries Fiction Issue 44/Volume 2: Summer 2021
JL Bogenschneider Fiction Issue 44/Volume 2: Summer 2021
Kangni Alem Fiction Issue 44/Volume 2: Summer 2021
Liadan Ní Chuinn Fiction Issue 44/Volume 2: Summer 2021
Kangni Alem Fiction Issue 44/Volume 2: Summer 2021
Lanre Otaiku Fiction Issue 44/Volume 2: Summer 2021
Rachel Connolly Fiction Issue 44/Volume 2: Summer 2021
Ronan Kelly Fiction Issue 44/Volume 2: Summer 2021
Tom Willis Fiction Issue 44/Volume 2: Summer 2021
A story from Philip Ó Ceallaigh's upcoming collection.
Philip Ó Ceallaigh Fiction 5th May 2021
"She felt both important and embarrassed, now, in the street. The afternoon was ageing amiably. The all-year plastic Santa bracketed to a chimney on Attracta Road was dusty in soft sun."
Niamh Campbell Fiction 7th April 2021
'Gloria! he said, not loud enough. Gloria! he shouted again. It sounded ridiculous, like some kind of dreadful Van Morrison tribute act. Gloria!'
Wendy Erskine Fiction 3rd March 2021
"What do you think of, I said to my husband that evening, when you think of Monica Lewinsky?"
Lucy Caldwell Fiction 3rd February 2021
A troubled investigator exposes deeds too wicked to speak of in Mike McCormack's story for cold nights and guilty consciences.
Mike McCormack Fiction Issue 43, Volume 2: Winter 2020-21
A group of writers from different generations camp out in a Chinese city square, musing on survival in the aftermath of a devastating earthquake.
Michelle Coyne's anaesthetised protagonist falls into dangerous, freeing obsession on an Icelandic holiday.
Michelle Coyne Fiction 4th December 2020
A despairing brother is roused by Mattie Brennan's unforgettable Mannions on a hard-drinking train journey from Galway to Dublin.
Mattie Brennan Fiction 3rd December 2020
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