THE STINGING FLY

Issue 44/Volume 2
Summer 2021
English
240 pages
Softcover, 24 x 16.5 cm
ISBN 978-1-906539-89-4
€6 / €16.95

Fiction

Kangni Alem (translated by Frank Wynne) | Two Stories From West Africa
JL Bogenschneider | ‘The Mountain Lion’
Rachel Connolly | ‘In The End’
Glen Jeffries | ‘The Strange Kid’
Ronan Kelly | ‘Mallards’
Liadan Ní Chuinn | ‘We All Go’
Emer O’Hanlon | ‘Diana in a lonely place’
Lekan Olanrewaju | ‘An Aesthetic Matter’
Lisa Owens | ‘The Youths’
Tom Willis | ‘Hot Dog’

Featured Poet

Padraig Regan

Poetry

Brendan Casey | ‘0’
Alan Cunningham | ‘3 Songs of Separation & Proximity’
Paula Cunningham | ‘On Passing’
Jonathan C. Creasy | ‘A Full Study Of Darkness’
Martina Dalton | ‘Sonogram’
Caitlín Doherty | Three poems
Kit Fan | ‘But Who Has Won?’
Rebecca Ruth Gould | ‘Mystery Letters’
Trevor Joyce | from Conspiracy
John Kelly | Two poems
Victoria Kennefick | ‘My Father’s Wives’
Aodán McCardle | ‘all the small things’
Katelyn O’Neill | Two poems
Jill Osier | ‘Leaving Musée Picasso’
Grace Wilentz | Two poems
Comhchealg
Bríd Ní Mhóráin (translated by Seán Lysaght) | ‘Na Sméara/Berries’

Essays

Maggie Armstrong | ‘Trouble’
Sandra Hoffmann (translated by Katy Derbyshire) | ‘Swimming’
James Hudson | ‘Boys, Crying’
John Patrick McHugh | ‘Name Your Character’
Cathy Sweeney | ‘A Story Of Our Time: Notes on Kafka’s ‘The Judgement’
Four Responses To A Piece Of Music
Hayley Carr
Elaine Cosgrove
Adrian Duncan
Billy Ramsell

Artwork

Lee Welch

Cover Design

Emily Good