`Watermark' tells the story of Veronica a young woman living on the edge of desire and reason in an unnamed Irish city. As with his three earlier books, Sean O'Reilly proves himself here to be a genuine prose stylist, possessed of a uniquely dark and powerful vision of our contemporary culture. A virtuosic performance combining formal experimentation with brave and beautiful storytelling, `Watermark' seals O'Reilly's reputation as one of Europe's most exciting young writers.

Watermark

Literature & Fiction

Sean O'Reilly

Literary

Stinging Fly

The critically-acclaimed first anthology from the Stinging Fly Press with twenty-two short stories by the best new and up-and-coming Irish writers. First published in 2006, and including stories by Kevin Barry (winner of the Rooney Prize 2007), Claire Keegan, Toby Litt, Martin Malone, Nuala N¡ Chonch£ir and Philip O Ceallaigh (winner of the Rooney Prize 2006), this collection will be sure to surprise and delight.

These Are Our Lives: Stories

Declan Meade

Short Stories & Anthologies

Kevin Barry received widespread critical acclaim and the Rooney prize for Irish Literature following the publication of this first book of stories in 2007. His stories have since appeared in The New Yorker and in the Granta Book of the Irish Short Story. His debut novel, City Of Bohane, was published by Jonathan Cape in April 2011. `Could easily have been titled `These Are Little Masterpieces'. Barry gathers all the bewildered exasperation that Irish playwrights from Tom Murphy to Marina Carr and Enda Walsh have identified, and brings it, most brilliantly, to his dark, blackly hilarious and horrifically realistic narratives.'-Eileen Battersby, The Irish Times

There Are Little Kingdoms

Barry, Kevin

Twenty new short stories by twenty different writers, the second anthology from the Stinging Fly Press-Ireland's most exciting and innovative publisher of quality new literary fiction. This follow up to These Are Our Lives (2006) brings together a completely new line-up of writers from Ireland, the UK and Germany. The anthology features stories from three first-time authors and a wealth of emerging literary talent alongside better-known writers such as Evelyn Conlon, Mia Gallagher, Emer Martin, Ingo Schulze (Germany) and William Wall.

Let's Be Alone Together: An Anthology of New Short Stories

A journalist sees an otherwise average house rise into the air. Two old codgers speculate about a utopian life created by writing that need never be read. An elderly priest and an even more elderly widow scan deep space in search of the meaning that eludes them at home. A woman invites a friend from the distant past to attend her suicide. Written with great compassion and humour, Michael J. Farrell's stories are crammed with life; and they quietly celebrate all the mystery and potential of our frail existence. Just live as long as you can, they urge us, and expect the unexpected. 'This is a great collection. The stories surprise, and are full of surprises. They are funny, provocative, clever, charming, and quite brilliantly written.' -Roddy Doyle

Life in the Universe: Stories

Michael J. Farrell

The six prize-winning stories from the 2009 Davy Byrnes Irish Writing Award as selected by Richard Ford: `Foster ' by Claire Keegan, `Living in Unknown' by Mary Leland, `This Isn't Heaven' by Molly McCloskey, `The Road Wife' by Eoin McNamee, `Storm Glass' by Kathleen Murray, and `The Rescue' by Susan Stairs. The Davy Byrnes Irish Writing Award is sponsored by Davy Byrnes of Dublin. It is Ireland's biggest competition for a single short story and it aims to honor the great tradition of short story writing in Ireland and to encourage and reward excellence among current practitioners of the form. `To my American ear, narrators and characters in these stories seemed to enjoy expressing themselves, seemed to like the feel of words in their virtual mouths, seemed to think that important life was largely lived in language -in what we say to each other, about each other, remember of each other, in how we love, detest, ignore, demean and relish.'-Richard Ford

Davy Byrnes Stories

Richard, Ford

Published by the Stinging Fly Press in association with Fighting Words, the creative writing centre established in 2009 by Roddy Doyle and Sean Love, Fighting Tuesdays celebrates the creative efforts of twenty-four transition year students from a school right in the heart of Dublin city centre. `Twenty-four young writers sat and wrote the stories in this book, and I watched them. Their frowns and dark concentration, their laughter, their yawns and stretches-what is it about teenagers and their ability to stretch to three or four times their normal length? The way they filled the pages so quickly, and the way some of them discovered that they had to get up and go to the toilet every quarter of an hour. They were new to the job but already writers, with minds that told them to sit still and concentrate and bladders that told them to get up and wander. There were twenty-four minds in the room, and the twenty-four bladders. Luckily, the minds won and we have twenty-four great stories.'-Roddy Doyle ""What makes this one worth your time is the remarkable sophistication in evidence in these pages. These stories aren't just powerful; they're a timely portrait of modern Ireland.""-Irish Voice, April 4, 2012

Fighting Tuesdays: Stories by Fourth Year Students from Larkin Community College

Emily Firetog

This third story anthology from the Stinging Fly Press brings together an exciting line-up of new Irish fiction writers, many of whom have already won awards for their short stories, and places their work alongside new stories by more established writers like Kevin Barry, Julian Gough and Christine Dwyer Hickey. The book also features an eclectic line-up of new international writing by authors from Romania, Serbia, Russia, Israel, Malaysia, New Zealand and the US. There are twenty-two new short stories in this volume, edited by award-winning short story writer Phillip O Ceallaigh. ""A discerning new collection of emerging and establihsed Irish voices that at times achieves startling originality and surprise.""-Irish Voice, April 11, 2012

Sharp Sticks, Driven Nails: An Anthology of New Stories

Philip Ó Ceallaigh

In these twelve haunting stories, Mary Costello carefully examines the passions and perils of everyday life and relationships and, with startling insight, casts a light on the darkest corners of the human heart. What emerges is a compassionate exploration of how ordinary men and women endure the trials and complexities of marriage, memory, adultery, death, and the ripples of disquiet that lie just beneath the surface. With a calm intensity and an undertow of sadness, she reveals the secret fears and yearnings of her characters, and those isolated moments when a few words or a small deed can change everything, with stark and sometimes brutal consequences. ""Irish writer Costello shows a mastery of the short-fiction form in her first collection. Her prose is subtle, strong, and lyrical, while her knowledge of human nature yields memorable characters.""-Booklist

The China Factory

Costello, Mary

A reprint of Mary Costello's haunting debut story collection. ""Irish writer Costello shows a mastery of the short-fiction form in her first collection. Her prose is subtle, strong, and lyrical, while her knowledge of human nature yields memorable characters.""--Booklist.

The China Factory: Stories

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