The Last Letter: ‘In your memory, I’m still here and things are still okay’
A story by Kay Joyce, age 17, Co Roscommon
By Kay Joyce
Our Deadly Summer by Emer McLysaght & Sarah Breen: Fast-paced millennial mystery
Short story: Gossip, chips and a knife up her sleeve
Poem: ‘The puddle opened up to me, a safe place – my imagination’
Said the Dead by Doireann Ní Ghríofa: Interesting stories from the lunatic asylum
Scéal: An Doras Beag
Three calls, straight to voicemail. I realised I would never see you again
Séamas O’Reilly: ‘As I’ve grown older I’ve realised how formative the Troubles were’
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POETRY
Little Vanities by Sarah Gilmartin: Near-flawless novel on relinquishing our self-delusions
By Edel Coffey
30 years since Nuala O’Faolain’s Are You Somebody? ‘Vibrating with hurt. It leaves a mark’
By Emilie Pine, Doreen Finn, Dermot Bolger, Patrick Freyne, and Rosita Boland
The Help author Kathryn Stockett on being fired by her publisher and feeling like a failure
By Róisín Ingle
CTRL Essays on Video Games: Reflections on dominant imaginative language of 21st century
By Adam Wyeth
Part of the Story by Margaret Busby: a kind of extraordinary autobiography, personal, informed and generous
By Helena Mulkerns
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