Tramp Press

20/11/2025

Your comfort read?
'One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich by Solzhenitsyn. I read it every year, usually in January or February when I’m feeling cold and sorry for myself, and it inspires me to get a f**king grip.'

Sarah talked to the .ie about her life in books, without explaining how she somehow manages to be cool while being a gigantic nerd. ❤️

20/11/2025

This Wednesday 26th of November at Sligo Library, join Maggie Armstrong in conversation with Elske Rahill with music by Claudia Schwab! This promises to be a really great event!

THE WORD is back for November.

Featuring special guest MAGGIE ARMSTRONG, author of ‘Old Romantics’, and work featured in ‘In the Good Seats’, ‘An Alternative Irish Christmas’, the Dublin Review, Stinging Fly, Banshee and more.

In conversation with ELSKE RAHILL

Music with CLAUDIA SCHWAB

Plus, Q&A and OPEN MIC.

Open mic moderated by DEAN MCMORROW

Taking place in SLIGO CENTRAL LIBRARY on WEDNESDAY 26th of NOVEMBER at 6.30pm.

The event is free and unticketed with limited seating. The doors will close at 6:30pm.

The event will also be streamed on Facebook on the night: //www.facebook.com/SligoCountyLibrary/

The Word is a collaborative event between Sligo Central Library and the BA in Writing & Literature course at Sligo ATU.

There is no charge for this event.

[email protected]
Tel: 0719111675

ATU Sligo & ATU St Angelas The Model Sligo Hawk's Well Theatre, Sligo

14/11/2025

An Alternative Irish Christmas is available now! Featuring stories (fiction and non-) by Belinda McKeon, Sophie White, Tim MacGabhann, Roisin Kiberd, Maggie Armstrong, Sue Rainsford, Jessica Traynor, Niall Bourke, Briana Fitzsimons, Soula Emmanuel, Arja Kajermo, Mike McCormack, and Anne Enright.

It's a limited-run hardback and will make for a perfect gift!

Here's a couple of links to buy:

https://www.kennys.ie/shop/new-releases/an-alternative-irish-christmas-an-anthology-ed-lisa-coen-sarah-davis-goff-9781915290182

https://www.dubraybooks.ie/product/an-alternative-irish-christmas-9781915290182

30/10/2025

Tix: www.eventbrite.ie/e/writing-the-body-an-irish-writers-centre-panel-discussion-tickets-1686686447569

Writing the Body with Sophie White: an Irish Writers Centre panel discussion

Book now for a panel discussion at the Irish Writers Centre as part of the Dublin Book Festival 2025 this Nov 8 at 11:30am

This Saturday panel promises to be a fascinating one! Award-winning Tramp Press author of Where I End and Corpsing (and loads more!), Sophie White, will be joined by poet and essayist Gustav Parker, and Sam Furlong whose just-published debut book is Crowd Work, to chat to Molly Twomey, author of the poetry collections, Raised Among Vultures and Chic to the Sad, about the body and how it filters through their words, from how it can break to all it can bear.

23/10/2025

Launch: An Alternative Irish Christmas at Dublin Book Festival
Sunday 9th November, 3.15pm IMMA

🚨 NOTE NEW TIME! We have been moved to a larger venue!

Join us to launch the newest Tramp Press anthology An Alternative Irish Christmas.

When shadows grow longer, when expectation weighs heavy, how do people in Ireland mark Christmas? A woman shops for a very particular Christmas dinner; a man tries to buy a puppy for his daughter; a girl watches as her mother roasts a fowl over an open fire. From old traditions to the creation of new ones, from moments of quiet reflection to chaos, comedy and even horror, this alternative seasonal collection reflects the stunning breadth of experiences an Irish Christmas offers.

Contributors to the anthology are Belinda McKeon, Sophie White, Tim MacGabhann, Roisin Kiberd, Maggie Armstrong, Sue Rainsford, Jessica Traynor, Niall Bourke, Briana Fitzsimons, Soula Emmanuel, Arja Kajermo, Mike McCormack, Anne Enright.

Book your ticket here: https://dublinbookfestival.com/event/book-launch-an-alternative-irish-christmas/

Or buy a copy there:
https://www.kennys.ie/shop/an-alternative-irish-christmas-an-anthology-ed-lisa-coen-sarah-davis-goff-9781915290182

15/10/2025

The Book of the Month is Your Own Dark Shadow by Jack Fennell! Spectre in the window is 👻

10/10/2025

Quick reminder for this evening: Editors' Panel with Tramp Press and The Stinging Fly, Naas Library & Cultural Centre. 7pm!

10/10/2025

Quick reminder for this evening: Editors' Panel with Tramp Press and The Stinging Fly, Naas Library & Cultural Centre, W91 E1RT from 7pm

Editors' Panel with Tramp Press and The Stinging Fly – Naas Library & Cultural Centre, Fri 10 Oct 2025 - A unique opportunity for Kildare readers and writers alike to gain a greater understanding of the roles of editors and publishers. Lisa McInerney, editor of The Stinging Fly, and Tramp Press fo...

08/10/2025

We get a lot of questions about commissioning, editing, line-editing etc. If you're able to get to Naas Library & Cultural Centre this Friday 10 Oct, we will be on a panel with The Stinging Fly's Lisa McInerney to talk about all this and more!

Editors' Panel with Tramp Press and The Stinging Fly – Naas Library & Cultural Centre, Fri 10 Oct 2025 - A unique opportunity for Kildare readers and writers alike to gain a greater understanding of the roles of editors and publishers. Lisa McInerney, editor of The Stinging Fly, and Tramp Press fo...

08/10/2025

One of the most prolific and successful authors of the Victorian era, Charlotte Riddell (1832–1906), is being officially recognised in her hometown of Carrickfergus, with the unveiling of a blue plaque by the Ulster History Circle.

In 2014 we published A Struggle For Fame, the first in our Recovered Voices series, with an introduction by Emma Dale about this great storyteller. The plaque, placed near the site of Riddell’s childhood home, is a long-overdue celebration of the literary reputation of a writer once celebrated for her atmospheric ghost stories and insightful portrayals of Victorian life.

Charlotte Riddell (1832-1906), the youngest daughter of the High Sheriff of Co. Antrim, was one of the most successful novelists of the Victorian period. Riddell’s writing is informed by a loss of comfort and social standing experienced as a young woman upon the death of her father and subsequent move to London, where she struggled to make a living for herself and her ailing mother through her literary talents. At last she found support through a small publisher, and throughout her career, spanning half a century, Riddell produced over fifty works including novels and short stories. Like an Irish Jane Austen, Riddell is master of witty observation.

A Struggle for Fame is a brilliant novel of astute and surprisingly familiar observations, still relevant over a century after it was first published. Gender, class, affluence and ability are all laid bare.

You can read more at these links:
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cjw7g37d57no
https://www.newsletter.co.uk/community/victorian-ghost-story-pioneer-charlotte-riddell-honoured-with-blue-plaque-in-carrickfergus-5337948

And get the book here:
https://tramppress.com/product/a-struggle-for-fame/

06/10/2025

**COVER REVEAL**

We are delighted to share the cover for a very special project we've been working on for Christmas 2025! An Alternative Irish Christmas is an anthology of stories, in traditional, unusual, extract, and essay form by some of our favourite authors.

It's a beautiful hardback, designed by Fiachra McCarthy and will hit the shops after Halloween (we believe in holding that line, we're not animals).

We asked everyone to write something for a collection about Christmas in Ireland in the twenty-first century, an alternative to Dickens or 'The Night Before Christmas', something to read that'll make you nod in recognition, flinch in horror or laugh with guilty pleasure! From weird seasonal work, cosy menus to fraught gatherings, frantic gift buying and unexpected knocks at the door, An Alternative Irish Christmas is a showcase of great writing from: Jessica Traynor, Sophie White, Mike McCormack, Roisin Kiberd, Niall Bourke, Maggie Armstrong, Arja Kajermo, Sue Rainsford, Soula Emmanuel, Briana Fitzsimons, Belinda McKeon, Tim MacGabhann, and Anne Enright.

We'll be launching as part of the Dublin Book Festival at 4pm on Sunday 9 November at IMMA:

https://dublinbookfestival.com/event/book-launch-an-alternative-irish-christmas/

And you can pre-order now: https://www.kennys.ie/shop/an-alternative-irish-christmas-an-anthology-ed-lisa-coen-sarah-davis-goff-9781915290182