London folks, today is the publication day for Ghosts of the British Museum, and we'll be doing a launch at Tenderbooks from 6-8pm. I'll read something from the book around 7pm, please stop by.

🧵I declined the PEN/Ralph Manheim Award for Translation, in solidarity with the 1300+ writers who've decried PEN America silence on the genocidal murder of Palestinians, & with the PEN America United fight to maintain free speech for PEN employees,

'We believe their spirit is still there – it’s attached to those objects & it hasn’t been allowed to move on to the next place. So they’re upset, they’re distressed, & they need to be brought back to Country ... ' Dr Harry Van Issum GU_SocialCultural: sbs.com.au/nitv/article/q…

Seeing as I won't shut up about being from Sligo, this is lovely news!

six months from October 7th and I think about what Gabriel Winant wrote on the 13th

there’s me in the paper talking about how I’m definitely not a British novelist and also other things

theguardian.com/books/2024/apr…

A new story! That I wrote! About cows and caving and the feeling of drowning, upright, facing the stars.

The person next to me on this flight is eating leftover lasagna at 8am

So in love with this cover (and the words inside it!)

Available for pre-order now! 👟🪽
Gustav Parker Hibbett
Banshee Press

✨️Applications for the The Stinging Fly Summer School 2024 In-Person Poetry Workshop closes tomorrow at 5pm!✨️ Poetry Ireland The Arts Council / An Chomhairle Ealaíon Irish Writers Centre Kerry County Arts Limerick : Culture : Arts Mayo Arts Office Donegal Arts Wordsire

As the publishing date for Ghosts of the British Museum nears, it's time to announce that we've got a few launches planned for London in April 🧵

Our editors Dean and Emily spoke to Nicole Flattery for the The Stinging Fly podcast, talking about the short fiction, poetry, essays and how to strike a balance between writing their own work and editing a journal. 🐷 Also worm daddys. 🪱

My book publicity tour starts next week on Tuesday in Ann Arbor. I am looking forward to seeing old and new friends in different zip codes and getting a chance to talk about a project that fundamentally changed my life in a lot of ways. #soldiersandkings Viking Books

most surreal thing that’s ever happened to me

'Destroying Gaza’s heritage has far-reaching social, political, and emotional ramifications. It is a concerted attack on the existence of Palestine and its people' by Morgan Ventura Leathem

'The Israeli destruction of archaeological sites and looting of artefacts in Gaza also raises questions about archaeology’s purported neutrality in our world. The reality is that archaeology can be deeply political.' This is an important new article 👇