13th December 2018
Embarrassment, unease, discomfort – these are the building blocks of a new language; the first steps on a path beyond the consoling myths of the everyday.
31st July 2018
Reflecting on the creation of her first collection of short stories, Mia Gallagher elucidates the perpetual lesson of writing: that it’s always easy, and always hard.
24th October 2017
Learn to read your work with the eyes of a stranger and you will pass through the Valley of Failure towards the Mountain of Success.
The Stinging FlyBlog Post Interview
30th May 2017
Alan McMonagle, Billy O'Callaghan and Ethel Rohan have all published their first novels this year. Here they discuss the challenges of moving from the short story to the longer form.
14th June 2016
How do you overcome the travails of translating the Mayo dialect into German?
10th November 2015
Tracking ghostly presences through the libraries of Bucharest.