Skein Press
@SkeinPress
Independent publisher of voices and stories not commonly featured in Irish literature. Passionate about storytelling and counter-storytelling in all its forms.
Couldn't make it to one of our launches of The Oasis in March? We've got you covered! Charles will be on tour across Scotland and Ireland in April. Join us in Edinburgh, Glasgow, Galway, Cork or Paisley for festival events, readings, conversations and more —see you there!📙#books
Delighted to celebrate #pridemonth by rounding up some of the best books by #lgbtqplus writers on the indie scene 🙌🌈 indiepressnetwork.com/lgbt-history-m…
Wonderful interview by @oeiny with #SinannFetherston @LifeStyleRTE talking about the meaning and importance of #TravellerPrideWeek. Read more: ow.ly/Cipp50W1vj4. We are offering 50% off selected titles to celebrate this important week, visit: ow.ly/jWPP50W1vj5
We are trying to reach every emerging writer on this island over the age of 18! If you could spread the word - that would be amazing! 😍 🫶 @SkeinPress @bansheelit @BlackstaffNI @BelfastBookFest @belfastreview @TheGalleryPress @fightingwordsni @FightingWordsIE @halfdoorwriters
ONE WEEK LEFT TO APPLY!! 🔥🔥 Applications close next Monday the 2nd of June for Freedom To Write 2025! This is an opportunity not to be missed! Workshops, tours, The John Hewitt International Summer School, and lots more! johnhewittsociety.org/freedom-to-wri… @The_JHS @PENIreland
⭐Celebrating #TravellerPride⭐We're very privileged to work with writers & storytellers frm the Traveller community & publish their amazing work To mark #TravellerPrideWeek2025 we're offering 50% off selected titles by authors frm the community 📚 ow.ly/x6R750VZebX
Some favourites in the window at Dingle Bookshop #TheFairyQueen by Chrissy Donoghue Ward from @SkeinPress and #OpenHeaven by Seán Hewitt
ONE WEEK LEFT TO APPLY!! 🔥🔥 Applications close next Monday the 2nd of June for Freedom To Write 2025! This is an opportunity not to be missed! Workshops, tours, The John Hewitt International Summer School, and lots more! johnhewittsociety.org/freedom-to-wri… @The_JHS @PENIreland
.@RosamundTaylor bang on the money with Charles Lang's wondrous debut The Oasis (@SkeinPress), also with poets from salmon & @EblanaPress in the new @poetryireland Review owt nar
We have an opening for a Communications & Impact Manager! If you have experience in communications, marketing, events, public relations & sales & management in a publishing environment or an arts organisation, this post could be ideal for you! ℹ️: ow.ly/hR4150VTbgz
⭐This Friday join us for Liberation at the Back Lane Parliament @CultureDateD8! A night of storytelling, music & more. Curated by #CaelainnHogan, feat #ChrissyDonaghueWard #TuqaAl-Sarraj #Osaro #AnnemarieniChurreain #DayMagee #JudeHughes & more! 🎟️:ow.ly/Zglv50VNGVE
A packed Town Hall Theatre for the @CuirtFestival Lecture on the Literature of Resilience by Palestinian writer Ahmed Masoud - and the writing about hope and future.
The search is on for the fourth Laureate for Irish Fiction! Meet our brilliant shortlisting panel: Eimear O’Herlihy (@wcorklitfest), Mícheál McCann, Anne-Marie Kelly (@dubcilib), @MartinDoyleIT, and @clinianluain, and chaired by @artscouncil_ie Chair Maura McGrath.
This is so good.
'Death has its privileges. Everything I had written would be seen in the clarifying, generous light of my timely demise. What a gift for marketing.' @OisinFagan on the writing of Eden’s Shore Read more: writing.ie/interviews/ede… @johnmurrays
We’ve an action-packed three days of literary festivities ahead of us at @CuirtFestival! Tickets for all these events available via the links on our website, we hope to see you at some of them, happy reading and happy 40th Cúirt! 📖🤍🧁 #TheOasis #TheFairyQueen #WhalesandWhales
🎉✨ Celebrating 40 Years of @Cuirtfestival, join us this Sunday for what promises to be a captivating event featuring 'Whales and Whales' by #LuisaCastro trans by #KeithPayne with #LornaShaughnessy. 👉: ow.ly/sQWU50VwMa7 📚: Charlie Byrne's Bookshop
If you're at @CuirtFestival this weekend bring the family along to a magical recounting of 'The Fairy Queen' by #ChrissyDonoghueWard illustrated by #MonikaMitkute. 📅Saturday, 12th April, 10am, Nuns Island Theatre. Get your free 🎟️here:ow.ly/KL3e50VwKS1 📚@ByrnesBooks
Heading to Galway this weekend? This Friday join us @Cuirtfestival in association with @PoetryIreland for a unique evening of poetry featuring #CharlesLang reading from 'The Oasis', #MaryOMalley & #ClaudineToutoungi! 🎟️:ow.ly/reff50VwhTr 📚:@ByrnesBooks
Thrilled to announce that Banu Mushtaq’s Heart Lamp, translated from the Kannada language by Deepa Bhasthi, has been shortlisted for the #2025InternationalBooker! In a happy coincidence, today also marks the official publication of Heart Lamp, so doubly cause for celebration!🎉
WILL YOU JOIN US IN THE BIG YELLOW TENT?⛺️ We are delighted to share the cover of The Stinging Fly's Summer 2025 issue. The cover image 'Circus' is by photographer Ronan McCall, and the cover design is by Eimear Gavin. The new issue will be available in May.
🇮🇪 The 21st edition of the Cork @WorldBookFest is here! 🐲With its origins and logo inspired by Sant Jordi, the Catalan day of #BooksandRoses, this festival is one of the world’s leading book fairs. 🔎Don’t miss it!