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An annual anthology for the arts in Ireland and beyond. www.winterpapers.com Supported by the Arts Council Posts by Olivia.

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Winter Papers @winterpapers.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Last few days to apply for this residency - closing date is 30 Sept
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June Caldwell @junec.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
The BBC National Short Story Award (in sponsorship with the University of Cambridge) 2026 shortlist is: Two Minutes to Midnight by Laura Beatty Little Lands by Lucy Caldwell Burning Bush by Merryn Glover A Second Opinion by Caoilinn Hughes Ditto by Cherise Saywell
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Winter Papers @winterpapers.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
We're really pleased to be sponsoring an artist residency at Drumnadubber Studios in Co Leitrim. It's an admin-light application process - closing date 30 Sept 26, do encourage interested artists to apply. Details on applications here: winterpapers.com/submissions
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Winter Papers Submissions
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dublinbookfest.bsky.social @dublinbookfest.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
We are thrilled to announce the full programme for DBF26, now up on our website to browse and get booking. This one is a special one for us as we celebrate our 20 years, and we can’t wait for you to join us! A huge thanks to all our funders, sponsors, partners, artists and venues ➡️ bit.ly/46ixJu1
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June Caldwell @junec.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
In stunning company here #gorse14
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David Hayden @seventydys.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
A collation of my uncollected short stories. Pub in @grantamag.bsky.social A Public Space, Zoetrope @agnimagazine.bsky.social The Georgia Review @thelondonmagazine.bsky.social @zyzzyvamag.bsky.social @stingingfly.bsky.social @winterpapers.bsky.social @bansheepress.bsky.social @irishtimes.com etc.
Cities, Imperfections, Ordinary Visions
Short Stories
David Hayden
July 2026
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161012 words
English (United Kingdom)
K Focus
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June Caldwell @junec.bsky.social · 13/05/2026
Six weeks to work on your short story, from June 30th to August 25th. Learn from others, learn from yourself. See an idea through to a complete story that manages to surprise. Get published (every time, every course, I see people jump that wall!). An opportunity to focus.
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Winter Papers @winterpapers.bsky.social · 12/05/2026
Interesting summer short story course focusing on imagination and staying offline with Sarah Byrne - details here sarahbyrnewrite.com/must-you-liv...
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Must You Live In The Real World?
Course Director: Sarah Byrne Four Live Sessions (All Sessions Recorded and Stored on Cloud for 3 Months) Every Fortnight on Mondays 7.30pm-9pm on Zoom (Starts June 22nd) Special Pilot Price: €200 €…
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Patrick Freyne @patrickfreyne.bsky.social · 18/04/2026
I wrote about why we should keep reading and writing www.irishtimes.com/life-style/p...
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Patrick Freyne: Here’s why AI is making us dumber and more lonely
Writing forces people to resolve internal contradictions and confront their own bullshit. It’s why it’s hard. It’s why it’s beautiful
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The Stinging Fly @stingingfly.bsky.social · 11/03/2026
Do you have experience in governance, financial management, and operations? We would like to hear from you! We are looking for an experienced and highly organised individual to join our team as General Manager. More info: stingingfly.org/news/general...
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Winter Papers @winterpapers.bsky.social · 04/02/2026
Our submission window for WP 12 opened today - great to see the work coming in. (Window closes midnight 18th Feb) Do encourage interested parties to submit winterpapers.com/submissions
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gorse journal @gorsejournal.bsky.social · 03/02/2026
Taking pre-orders for gorses 12 + 13: gorse.ie/book/no-12/ gorse.ie/book/no-13/ (Double release, like Tom Waits' Alice + Blood Money.)
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David Hayden @seventydys.bsky.social · 08/01/2026
One of the best literary journals anywhere, outside and in, is @winterpapers.bsky.social. Their open submissions period for the 2026 issue is 14-28 February. Everything will be read and replied to early August. The editing is excellent: acute & sympathetic. Have a go! winterpapers.com/submissions
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Winter Papers Submissions
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Anakana Schofield @anakanaschofield.bsky.social · 29/12/2025
PREORDER CANADA ALERT 🚨 Fabulous Cover Alert 🔔 Save a bedraggled writer prompt 🎺 Thank you for sticking with me stamp ❤️ www.penguinrandomhouse.ca/books/555536...
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Library of Brothel by Anakana Schofield | Penguin Random House Canada
The long-anticipated, wildly inventive new novel by the Irish-Canadian writer whose previous work was shortlisted for the Giller Prize, the Ethel Wilson Prize and the Goldsmith’s Prize (UK).
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Skein Press @skeinpress.bsky.social · 09/12/2025
'Contentious Spaces', the debut novel from acclaimed writer Rosaleen McDonagh, is already receiving extraordinary praise Publishing March 2026 🪻All pre-orders come with a complimentary tote bag and postcard 💝 Pre-order now: skeinpress.com/product/cont...
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Winter Papers @winterpapers.bsky.social · 01/12/2025
WP 11 in the Irish Times at the weekend 📚❄️📚 www.irishtimes.com/culture/book...
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Winter Papers & An Alternative Irish Christmas: An exquisite hardy annual and a wonderful gift
Winter Papers 11 is a Christmas annual to stand the test of time, and An Alternative Irish Christmas is great for those jaded by other literary offerings
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Winter Papers @winterpapers.bsky.social · 01/12/2025
WP 11 in the Irish Times at the weekend 📚❄️📚 www.irishtimes.com/culture/book...
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Winter Papers & An Alternative Irish Christmas: An exquisite hardy annual and a wonderful gift
Winter Papers 11 is a Christmas annual to stand the test of time, and An Alternative Irish Christmas is great for those jaded by other literary offerings
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Claire Connolly @claireconnolly.bsky.social · 24/11/2025
‘Tis the season - thanks @winterpapers.bsky.social and @mgtkell.bsky.social #speirgorm
Hardback book. Blue cover showing a cabin lit from within.
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Canongate @canongate.co.uk · 20/11/2025
What if we ride out tonight? What if we ride out and never once look back? Kevin Barry‘s savagely funny, achingly beautiful Western THE HEART IN WINTER has won the Historical Writer's Association Gold Crown Award! Congratulations Kevin! uk.bookshop.org/p/books/the-...
A paperback copy of The Heart in Winter by Kevin Barry, floating against a grey background
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Bob Johnston @bobjohnstonbooks.bsky.social · 15/11/2025
Brilliant afternoon at #TheWriteTime festival #FingalLibraries @fingal.ie in #Swords. Great talks by #JosephOConnor, @wednesdayerskin.bsky.social, #KevinBarry @winterpapers.bsky.social w/ programmer #kevincurran & #OliviaFitzsimons & caught up w/ loads of booky pals. Back tomorrow for more! #Dublin
Photograph of Kevin Curran in conversation with Kevin Barry. They're sat in front of a large fireplace & Kevin C is waving his arm excitedly. Poster for The Write Time festivalPhoto of Wendy Erskine talking with Olivia Fitzsimons listening Line-up for the festival as screenshot from their websites
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Winter Papers @winterpapers.bsky.social · 14/11/2025
Annual endpapers appreciation post. Designed by @johnfoley.bitedesign.com #endpapers
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West Cork Literary Festival @wcorklitfest.bsky.social · 12/11/2025
My annual 'Christmas Present To Myself' has arrived and it's a thing of beauty. Another absolute gem curated by Kevin and Olivia in @winterpapers.bsky.social and designed by @bitedesign.com winterpapers.com
Photo of the eleventh issue of Winter Papers. It is a blue hardback book and it is sitting on a yellow cushion
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Paula Shields @paulashields.bsky.social · 11/11/2025
A poignant honour to host a tribute to Arena’s Seán Rocks last Sun with Kathleen MacMahon, Kevin Barry @winterpapers.bsky.social - Paula Meehan & Colm Mac Con Iomaire. Exquisite words & music - & an audience of friends & family. At Dublin Book Festival. ❤️
Kathleen MacMahon, Kevin Barry, Paula Meehan, Colm Mac Con Iomaire & Paula Shields at the Great Hall, IMMA, Dublin.
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Katie Holten @katieholten.bsky.social · 09/11/2025
Reading in the garden, with some of the books that I scooped up yesterday at Books Upstairs, including @winterpapers.bsky.social, NEW ARCANA by @jesstraynor.bsky.social, An Alternative Irish Christmas, Anja Murray's new book, and a lovely new edition of WORDS ARE MY MATTER by @ursulakleguin.com.
Photo of books stacked on a wooden table in a sunny Irish garden. The books include: Winter Papers edited by Kevin Barry, Ten Thousand Years Deep: The Story of Ireland's Peatlands by Carsten Krieger, For and Against a United Ireland by Fintan O'Toole and Sam McBride, New Arcana by Jessica Traynor, Frog Routes, Polka-Dot Newts and Other Treasures of Irish Nature by Anya Murray, An Alternative Irish Christmas: An Anthology by Tramp Press, and Words are My Matter by Ursula K. Le Guin. The sky above is bright blue and the trees behind are evergreen. The background is blurry, so you can't really see all the seed heads and last of the summer's flowers by a stone wall and terracotta pots. Birds chirping, including robins, tit's, a meadow pipit, golcrest, and a buzzard high above.
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Goldsmiths Prize @goldsmithsprize.bsky.social · 06/11/2025
We are delighted to announce that the winner of the Goldsmiths Prize 2025 is C.D. Rose's We Live Here Now! 🎉🎉 Congratulations Chris! 👏👏
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Raven Books @ravenbooks.bsky.social · 05/11/2025
Get your hygge on
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Patrick Freyne @patrickfreyne.bsky.social · 05/11/2025
This is on tonight - the Dublin Review at 100 - also to be aired on Arena on RTE Radio 1
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gorse journal @gorsejournal.bsky.social · 04/11/2025
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Susanne Stich @lilysimage.bsky.social · 02/11/2025
Over the moon to be part of @winterpapers.bsky.social. It’s a joy to be sharing my essay ‘Mid-Life Music Lessons’ as part of this beauty alongside so many whose work I admire. The launch is @dublinbookfest.bsky.social next Sat, Nov 8. Here’s to music, winter reading & dreaming the future.
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Suzanne Walsh @zanbreathnach.bsky.social · 30/10/2025
Just reposting this link to my essay ‘Birds, Watching’, with one of the accompanying photos, about bird rescue and death, now available online for first time @winterpapers.bsky.social go.bsky.app/redirect?u=h...
A black and white photograph of me in a bathroom with a young seagull on my head
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June Caldwell @junec.bsky.social · 31/10/2025
Every year this gorgeous literary journal releases its line up and everyone goos out loud at the new cover. I think the fact that it's once a year makes it a bit, ye know, designery in its buzz. Fantabulous.
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Winter Papers @winterpapers.bsky.social · 30/10/2025
Winter Papers 11 is here [sound up!]. Design by @johnfoley.bitedesign.com Supported by @artscouncilireland.bsky.social Launching @dublinbookfest.bsky.social Saturday 8th Nov
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Winter Papers @winterpapers.bsky.social · 29/10/2025
Some more pieces now up on our digital archive, including this fine essay from vol 5 by @zanbreathnach.bsky.social winterpapers.com/selected-wor...
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BIRDS, WATCHING · Suzanne Walsh
Winter Papers, volume 5
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The Letters Page @theletterspage.bsky.social · 29/10/2025
The Letters Page is back! The Letters Page is back and better than ever. We have some exciting things for you in the works, so keep an eye out and get ready!
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Winter Papers @winterpapers.bsky.social · 28/10/2025
WP 11 is almost ready - come say hello to the new volume @dublinbookfest.bsky.social All welcome, free entry, book tickets here: dublinbookfestival.com/event/winter...
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Winter Papers Launch - Dublin Book Festival
Volume 11 of Winter Papers, Ireland’s annual anthology for the arts, is published by Curlew Editions. It offers fiction, non-fiction, photography, visual art, along with craft interviews and in-conver...
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dublinbookfest.bsky.social @dublinbookfest.bsky.social · 22/10/2025
✨ 2 weeks to go and we’re excited to be celebrating Ireland’s writers, illustrators and publishers! We can’t wait to welcome audiences back to venues all around Dublin. Have you booked your tickets yet? ✨ bit.ly/46ixJu1
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Winter Papers @winterpapers.bsky.social · 01/10/2025
Come say hello to WP 11 as part of @dublinbookfest.bsky.social Sat Nov 8, all welcome
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Banshee Press @bansheepress.bsky.social · 19/10/2025
Issue 20 (autumn/winter 2025) has gone to print! Our landmark 20th issue, guest edited by acclaimed author @clarakiyoko.bsky.social, has a speculative fiction theme and marks our tenth anniversary in print. The beautiful cover art is by @erinconnally.bsky.social ✨ bansheepress.org/shop/p/issue...
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Issue 20 | Autumn/Winter 2025 — Banshee Press
Guest edited by Clara Kumagai 154 pages ISSN: 2009-857X ISBN: 978-1-917161-18-3 Cover art by Erin Connally
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Winter Papers @winterpapers.bsky.social · 15/10/2025
Winter Papers 11 is nearly here - we'll be unwrapping at the end of the month! 📚💚📚💚
Picture of the anthology Winter Papers number eleven wrapped in brown paper
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dublinbookfest.bsky.social @dublinbookfest.bsky.social · 07/10/2025
Join us at our Festival Hub on Sun 9 Nov as we celebrate the life and legacy of Seán Rocks 🎟️ bit.ly/3IIFSC1
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Susanne Stich @lilysimage.bsky.social · 04/10/2025
So looking forward to this…
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Winter Papers @winterpapers.bsky.social · 01/10/2025
Come say hello to WP 11 as part of @dublinbookfest.bsky.social Sat Nov 8, all welcome
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Jess Traynor @jesstraynor.bsky.social · 01/10/2025
Can't wait for the Dublin launch of New Arcana, happening tomorrow at @gutterbookshop.bsky.social with the wonderful Seán Hewitt. Come join us 🔮✨️ @bloodaxebooks.bsky.social
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Abbey Theatre - The National Theatre of Ireland @abbeytheatre.bsky.social · 26/09/2025
📚🎭 Take home the best of Irish theatre this autumn with Faber Drama's Pop-Up Shop at the Abbey Theatre Read more about this exciting collaboration: www.abbeytheatre.ie/take-home-the-b…
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Caoilinn Hughes @caoilinnhughes.bsky.social · 17/09/2025
Fresh off the BBC Radio 4 airwaves @bbcsounds.bsky.social, here is Ruth Bradley reading an abridged version of my shortlisted story "Two Hands" 🙌🏻 First published in the @parisreview.bsky.social www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
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BBC Radio 4 - BBC National Short Story Award, BBC National Short Story Award 2025, Two Hands by Caoilinn Hughes
Caoilinn Hughes' story is under consideration for the BBC National Short Story Award 2025.
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Poetry Ireland / Éigse Éireann @poetryireland.bsky.social · 12/09/2025
Professor Vona Groarke at an appointment ceremony for her new role as The Ireland Chair of Poetry, which took place in the National Concert Hall yesterday. Vona Groarke will be the 10th Ireland Professor of Poetry, and her tenure will run from until November 2028. @chairofpoetry.bsky.social
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The Lilliput Press @lilliputpress.bsky.social · 29/08/2025
SCRIBENDI by STEVE PYKE 📸 We are delighted to be publishing this landmark book which features over 100 portraits and interviews with Ireland's greatest contemporary writers, captured through the lens of one of the world's most renowned photographers, Steve Pyke ✨️
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Wendy Erskine @wednesdayerskin.bsky.social · 28/08/2025
Happy publication day to @davetynan.bsky.social!!!
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The Stinging Fly @stingingfly.bsky.social · 07/08/2025
Three writers & a visual artist share their experiences on the BIA pilot scheme. Read the full interview stingingfly.org/2025/08/07/b... ”...the Basic Income meant I could choose to have a child without the same financial insecurity and without the fear that I would have to give up creative work“
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