Tramp Press

Cork Midsummer Festival: A Ghost In The Throat - A Live Reading with Doireann Ní Ghríofa
2021-06-27 20:00 - 21:00 (Europe/Dublin) | online
Drawing on the award-winning book A Ghost in the Throat, Doireann Ní Ghríofa presents a live reading with accompanying visuals by filmmaker Tadhg O’Sullivan and a soundscape by composer Linda Buckley. The reading will be broadcast from The Everyman stage.

Bradford Literature Festival: Mona Eltahawy
2021-06-27 09:00 | online
Join writer Mona Eltahawy for an inspiring discussion of her bold and uncompromising feminist manifesto, The Seven Necessary Sins for Women and Girls.
Drawing on the energy behind the #MeToo movement, Eltahawy takes the ‘seven necessary sins’ women and girls are not supposed to commit and transforms them into a call to arms in the fight against the patriarchy.
Incorporating stories from marginalised women around the world, this event invites you to draw on your inner fury and start to dismantle the systems that hold us all back.

Feminist Giant & The Strand Present: A Pride Panel of LGBTQIA authors
2021-06-25 12:00 - 13:00 | online
Join us for a virtual Pride event with authors, Mona Eltahawy, Zaina Arafat, Zeyn Joukhadar, Hasan Namir, and Randa Jarrar.

Join us for a special pride event as Mona Eltahawy (author of The Seven Necessary Sins for Women and Girls ) convenes a panel of LGBTQIA authors from the Middle East, North Africa and of Arab descent to discuss writing between identities. Produced with the Feminist Giant.
In Zaina Arafat’s debut novel, You Exist Too Much a young Palestinian-American woman is caught between, cultural, religious, and sexual identities.
In Zeyn Joukhadar’s magical realist novel, The Thirty Names for Nightthree generations of a Syrian family are linked to a mysterious species of bird.
Hasan Namir’s children’s book The Name I Call Myself follows, Ari a young person who doesn’t like their birth name Edward, as they grow up navigating the ins and outs of gender identity.
Randa Jarrar’s Love is An Ex-Country is a memoir of a cross-country road trip that offers a bold look at domestic violence, single motherhood, and sexuality through the lens of the punished-yet-triumphant body.

Feminist Book Society: WHAT DO WE WANT? with Juno Dawson, Mona Eltahawy and Lisa Taddeo
2021-06-23 19:30 - 20:45 | online
Three powerful women writers Juno Dawson, Mona Eltahawy and Lisa Taddeo will join hosts Eli Dryden and Katy Loftus to explore why female desire is bound up with rage and sexuality; discuss how we can harness it; and to ask: what do we want (and, when do we want it)?
Tickets are free and the Feminist Book Society invites donations to their chosen charities, Women’s Aid + Imkaan.
Find out more and book your ticket here.

Belfast Book Festival: Life, Death & The Body In Ireland with Doireann Ní Ghríofa & Sophie White
2021-06-11 19:00 - 20:30 | online
Belfast Book Festival are delighted to bring together two incredible talents who have recently delivered instant classics.
Both Doireann Ní Ghríofa and Sophie White write about women’s bodies in Ireland with aching honesty, in ways spiritual, laced with history (and humour), and charged by lived experience.
Chaired by Aine Toner, join us for this event with two of Ireland’s most exciting, innovative writers.

Hillsborough Festival: Publishing Panel
2019-04-27 14:30 - 15:30 | Hillsborough Court House, The Square Hillsborough County, Down, BT26 6AG, Ireland
Join Tramp Press, Penguin Ireland and No Alibis Press for a panel on insights into the publishing industry today, from the slush pile to editing – bring your questions!
Find out more and book your ticket here.

Sarah Davis-Goff at Cúirt Festival
2019-04-13 18:00 - 19:00 | Town Hall Theatre, 1 Courthouse Square, Galway, Ireland
When she’s not Tramping away here, Sarah is a critically acclaimed debut novelist and her fantastic feminist zombie novel Last Ones Left Alive is out now. (You can pick up a copy here or in your local bookshop.)
For this year’s Cúirt International Festival, Sarah will be joined by by Sue Rainsford and Aoibheann McCann for a panel called ‘Debut Irish Voices’.

Ian Maleney interviewing Joshua Cohen & Will Eaves
2019-04-13 13:00 - 14:30 | Town Hall Theatre, 1 Courthouse Square, Galway, Ireland
Ian Maleney (author of Minor Monuments) will be chairing a panel discussion at this year’s Cúirt Festival with two internationally acclaimed novelists, Joshua Cohen and Will Eaves.
Check out the Cúirt programme for more on this event and how to book!

Ian Maleney and Emilie Pine at Cúirt Festival
2019-04-12 18:00 - 19:00 | Town Hall Theatre, 1 Courthouse Square, Galway, Ireland
Join Ian Maleney and Emilie Pine with Sinéad Gleeson, for ‘Saying and Essaying’, chaired by Dr Rebecca Barr of NUIG at this year’s Cúirt festival for what promises to be a vibrant discussion about essay writing today.
Book here.

Ian Maleney at the RDS Library Speaker Series
2019-04-09 18:30 - 20:00 | RDS, Merrion Road, Ballsbridge, Ireland
Ian Maleney (author of Minor Monuments) is also RDS writer-in-residence and will be discussing his work and reading for the upcoming Library Speaker Series on Tuesday April 9th at 6:30pm.
The event is free, but online booking is required. Click here.

Emilie Pine at the Franco-Irish Literary Festival
2019-04-06 16:30 - 17:30 | Dublin Castle, Castle Street, Dublin 2, Ireland
Emilie Pine, author of Notes to Self, will be speaking at the 20th Franco-Irish Literary Festival on Saturday 6th of April. This year’s theme is Mná/Femmes, and Emilie’s panel discussion at 4:30pm with be with Sinéad Gleeson on the theme of ‘Heroines in Spite of Themselves’.
The Franco-Irish Literary Festival is the result of the successful collaboration between the Alliance Française, the French Embassy and a Franco-Irish committee composed of significant figures from the worlds of literature, publishing and academics.
This event is free and everyone is welcome.

Ian Maleney at Midlands Books
2019-04-06 16:00 - 17:00 | Midlands Books, HIgh Street, Tullamore, Offaly, Ireland
Join Ian Maleney and Tramp Press at Midlands Books, Tullamore, Co. Offaly on the afternoon of Saturday April 6th for a chat about publishing and writing, followed by a reading from Ian’s critically acclaimed debut Minor Monuments.
This event is free and everyone is welcome.

BOOK LAUNCH: Minor Monuments
2019-04-04 18:00 | Hodges Figgis, 56-58 Dawson St, Dublin, Dublin 2, D2, Ireland
We are delighted to be officially launching the much-anticipated Minor Monuments by Ian Maleney in Hodges Figgis on April 4th at 6pm.
Minor Monuments is Ian’s debut essay collection, and he’s already been published in such illustrious places as Winter Papers and the Dublin Review. You can read more about it/order a copy here and listen to Ian reading it for RTÉ’s Book on One here.
Rockstar novelist Sally Rooney will be our guest speaker on the night (buy her books here or in your local bookshop). We’re really proud of this beautiful collection and hope to see you all in Hodges on Thursday for a glass of wine and the best reading you’ll hear all year.
Everyone is welcome, it’s free in, and there will be wine while it lasts.

Dazzling Debuts! Ian Maleney and Sarah Davis-Goff
2019-03-31 17:00 | dlr Lexicon, Pavilion Theatre, Marine Road, Dun Laoghaire, Ireland
Come see multi-tasking Tramp and debut novelist Sarah Davis-Goff (author of Last Ones Left Alive) and debut Ian Maleney (author of Minor Monuments) at the dlr Lexicon this Sunday for a discussion with fellow debut Anne Griffin. Hosted by Martin Doyle of The Irish Times, the event is at 5pm.

One-to-Ones with Tramp Press
2019-03-31 13:00 - 15:30 | dlr Lexicon, Pavilion Theatre, Marine Road, Dun Laoghaire, Ireland
*** SOLD OUT ***

Sarah Davis-Goff of Tramp Press invites you to chat to her about whatever books-related topic you’d like. Book a 20-minute slot to come and say hi, ask about the sector, how the slush pile works, for advice on submissions – or any other book-related topic you’d like!
The Tramp Press one-to-ones/open office sessions are intended to help demystify the publishing process. We carry them out throughout the year, around Ireland. Keep an eye on the events page for our next session.
Please note this event is booked out.

Emilie Pine at Mountains to Sea
2019-03-31 12:00 - 13:00 | dlr Lexicon, Pavilion Theatre, Marine Road, Dun Laoghaire, Ireland
Join Emilie Pine, author of the bestselling Notes to Self, Brian Dillon and Professor Margaret Kelleher for a discussion on their essay collections and the renewed interest in the form in the wake of the publication of their collections. Essays: Rediscovered will take place at the Mountains to Sea Festival on Sunday 31st March at 12pm. Tickets here.

Jack Fennell at the Sheelagh na Gig Bookshop
2019-03-30 20:00 - 2019-04-01 21:30 | Sheelagh-na-Gig Bookshop, Cloughjordan, Tipperary, Ireland
Join Jack Fennell at the Sheelagh na Gig Bookshop in Cloughjordan, Tipperary, for a discussion on ‘Ficsean Eolaíochta na hÉireann agus Lúcháir is Dúshlán an Aistriúcháin’ (that’s Irish Science Fiction and the joys and challenges of translation).
Jack Fennell is the author of Irish Science Fiction from Liverpool University Press, and he is the editor of A Brilliant Void, our recent smasher from the Recovered Voices series. Jack not only gathered the tall tales for A Brilliant Void, he did some translations from the original Irish too.

Jack Fennell's A Brilliant Void featured at Hodges Figgis!
2018-12-01 17:00 - 18:00 | Hodges Figgis, 56-58 Dawson St, Dublin, Dublin 2, D2, Ireland
Join Jack Fennell, author of Irish Science Fiction and editor of our latest Recovered Voice book A Brilliant Void, at Hodges Figgis where he’ll chat to Dee Sullivan, Ruth Frances Long and Dave Rudden about Irish science fiction, monsters and more!

Jack Fennell is a writer, editor, translator and researcher whose academic publications include pieces on science fiction, utopian and dystopian literature, monsters, Irish literature, and the legal philosophy of comic books. He is the author of Irish Science Fiction (2014), a contributing translator for The Short Fiction of Flann O’Brien (2013), and a former Visiting Fellow at the Moor Institute in NUI Galway. He lives in Limerick.
Deirdre Sullivan is an award-winning writer from Galway. As well as the Primrose Leary trilogy (Prim Improper, Improper Order and Primperfect) she has written three books in the Nightmare Club series, a standalone Novel, Needlework, and a collection of fairy-tale retellings, Tangleweed and Brine. Deirdre also writes short fiction and poetry, which has been published in places like Banshee, The Penny Dreadful, Mslexia, and the Dublin Review. She’s currently developing play called Wake with No Ropes theatre company. When Deirdre is not writing she is a reader and a guinea pig enthusiast. She still likes cake, but she’s been hearing some good things about biscuits recently.
Dave Rudden is a former actor, teacher and time-displaced Viking currently living in Dublin. He’s the author of the award-winning Knights of the Borrowed Dark trilogy, and enjoys cats, adventure and being cruel to fiction children. His latest book is Doctor Who: Twelve Angels Weeping (BBC Books, 2018), which is available now.
Ruth Frances Long writes young adult fantasy such as The Treachery of Beautiful Things (Dial, 2012) and The Dubh Linn trilogy – A Crack in Everything, A Hollow in the Hills and A Darkness at the End (O’Brien Press, 2014-2016). In 2015 she was the winner of The European Science Fiction Society Spirit of Dedication Award For Best Author of Children’s Science Fiction and Fantasy for A Crack in Everything. As Jessica Thorne she writes space opera romance – The Queen’s Wing (Bookouture, November 2019) and its sequel The Stone’s Heart (February 2019). As R. F. Long she writes fantasy & paranormal romance. She lives in Ireland and works in a library of rare, unusual & occasionally crazy books. But they don’t talk to her that often.
This event is free and everyone is welcome.

Jack Fennell and A Brilliant Void at Waterstones Belfast!
2018-11-24 14:00 - 16:00 | waterstones belfast, 44-46 Fountain Street, Belfast, Belfast, BT1 5EE, United Kingdom
Join Jack Fennell, Sarah Maria Griffin, Jo Zebedee and Peadar Ó Guilín at Waterstones Belfast to talk about A Brilliant Void and Irish science fiction more generally.
Dr Jack Fennell is editor (and translator!) for our most recent release, A Brilliant Void, which collects fifteen darkly funny stories to illuminate a side of Irish literary history that is often overlooked.
Sarah Maria Griffin is a Dublin-based writer. Her novel Spare and Found Parts is an evocative and eloquent story about love and loss in a dystopian Dublin; her second novel Other Names For Smoke is to be released next year. She writes about monsters, growing up, and everything those two things have in common.
Jo Zebedee is Belfast based science fiction writer and teacher. Author of several science fiction novels, including the Abendau’s Heir trilogy and Inish Carraig, abut an alien invasion of Belfast. She also teaches speculative writing courses and runs a science fiction writing club. She is also appearing as a representative of Eurocon 2019 which will take place in Belfast.
Peadar Ó Guilín is the Area Head of Irish Language Programming at WorldCon 2019 in Dublin. His fantasy and SF short stories have appeared in numerous venues, including Black Gate magazine and an anthology celebrating the best of the iconic Weird Tales and his alien invasion YA duology The Call and The Invasion were published by David Fickling books.

BOOK LAUNCH A Brilliant Void, edited and introduced by Jack Fennell
2018-11-17 18:30 - 19:30 | The Gutter Bookshop, Cow's Lane, Temple Bar, Dublin 8, Ireland
For all you sci-fi fans!
An astronomer challenges an emperor. A hunter pursues the last dinosaur through a remote rainforest. A young Kerryman emigrates to the Moon to seek his fortune.
We’re so delighted to be presenting our third and final title for 2018, A Brilliant Void: A Selection of Classic Irish Science Fiction.

These fifteen darkly funny stories illuminate a side of Irish literary history that is often overlooked. In the 19th and 20th centuries, the winds of change came rushing in Ireland’s direction. Science and technology would transform everything: life, love, death, crime, war, and even history itself.
Edited and introduced by Jack Fennell, this collection of lesser-known works of classic Irish science fiction includes stories by Frances Power Cobbe, Fitz-James O’Brien, Charlotte McManus and Cathal Ó Sándair.

JACK FENNELL is a writer, editor, translator and researcher whose academic publications include pieces on science fiction, utopian and dystopian literature, monsters, Irish literature, and the legal philosophy of comic books. He is the author of Irish Science Fiction (2014), a contributing translator for The Short Fiction of Flann O’Brien (2013), and a former Visiting Fellow at the Moore Institute in NUI Galway. He lives in Limerick.

The launch will be at 6.30pm – 7.30pm in the Gutter BookShop on Saturday 17 November, as part of the Dublin Book Festival. The event is totally free, and everybody’s welcome.

There will be more Brilliant Void features and events in November and December, check back here and on our social media channels for more information.

Emilie Pine at the Dublin Book Festival
2018-11-17 13:00 - 14:30 | The Smock Alley Theatre, 7 Exchange Street Lower, Temple Bar, Dublin 8, Dublin 8, D08 PX27, Ireland
Emilie Pine will be talking all things Notes to Self at the Dublin Book Festival in November!

The Dublin Book Festival is a real highlight of the literary calendar – check out their programme for more details of exciting upcoming events, and for ticket information.

Emilie will be taking part in a non-fiction panel on Saturday afternoon – we hope to see you there! Apart from the event itself you’ll find us hanging out in the Winter Garden, very likely browsing books provided by the Gutter Bookshop.

Emilie Pine to speak at ISLA – the Irish Spanish Latin American Festival
2018-10-18 06:00 - 07:30 | Instituto Cervantes Dublín, Lincoln House, 6-16 Lincoln Place, Dublin 2, Dublin, D02 VH29, Ireland
Emilie Pine will be speaking at ISLA in October, on the evening of Thursday 18th.

The them for this year’s festival is ‘Love and Live. Love and Laugh’, and Emilie will be taking part in an inaugural roundtable discussion together with Spanish and a Chilean writers. The discussion will be moderated by the Irish Hispanist Bill Richardson.

The event will take place at the Instituto Cervantes in Dublin.

For the full programme, and more details here:

https://dublin.cervantes.es/imagenes/File/cultura/2018-2019/programa_online_v2.0.pdf

There’s also a feature on this great festival here: http://www.totallydublin.ie/event/irish-spanish-latin-american-festival-isla-instituto-cervantes-dublin/

Notes to Self at the Red Line Book Festival
2018-10-12 19:00 - 20:00
Emilie Pine will be featured at the Red Line Book Festival in October!

Emilie joins actor and comedian, our favourite Tara Flynn to discuss her writing.

Check out the link for more details, we hope to see you there!

Mike McCormack at the Iron Mountain Festival
2018-10-06 20:00 - 21:00 | The Dock, Carrick-on-Shannon, St Georges Terrace, Townparks, Carrick-On-Shannon, Leitrim, N41 T2X2, Ireland
Solar Bones author Mike McCormack will be featured at the Iron Mountain Festival in October.

The Iron Mountain Festival says of this year’s exciting programme: ‘Migration, displacement, farming, forestry and the power of language in translation are themes at the heart of this year’s Iron Mountain Literature Festival in Co. Leitrim which features the 2018 Dublin Literary prize winner Mike McCormack, author of Solar Bones, renowned US poet Tess Gallagher, the Irish language publishing sensation Darach Ó Séaghdha, The Cow Book author John Connell, acclaimed New York writer Kathleen Hill and Enniskillen-born actor and novelist Ciarán McMenamin.’

With loads of great writers and exciting events, this festival is not to be missed. Check out their website for more details and ticket information.

Sara Baume to Exhibit at the Morley Gallery
2018-10-06 - 2018-11-03 | Morley Gallery, 61 Westminster Bridge Rd, London, South Bank, London, SE1 7HT, United Kingdom
Devotions, Keepsakes and Talismans

Multi prize-winning author Sara Baume will be showing her visual art work at the renowned Morley Gallery in London from next month, so if you happen to be in the UK do check it out!

‘The three projects – Devotions, Keepsakes, and Talismans – which make up this exhibition are composed of many small, handmade, singular yet similar objects. Each project borrows from the aesthetic principles and symbolism of the souvenir; each arose out of superstition and solicitude.’

This exhibition has been made possible by the support of Culture Ireland as part of the GB18 programme.

Watch out for Sara’s incredible novels Spill Simmer Falter Wither and A Line Made by Walking, both available in the ‘Shop’ section of this site!

There’s more information on the Morley Gallery website listed below, and here:
https://www.cultureireland.ie/gb18/event/devotions-keepsakes-and-talismans

Emilie Pine speaking in Edinburgh
2018-10-05 19:30 - 20:30 | LightHouse BookShop Edinburgh, 43-45 W Nicolson St, Edinburgh, EH8 9DB, EH8 9DB, United Kingdom
LightHouse Book Shop, Edinburgh – Friday October 5th, 7.30pm
Emilie Pine will be speaking at the wonderful LightHouse Book Shop about her best-selling debut essay collection Notes to Self. The LightHouse is Edinburgh’s radical book centre – no better place for Emilie’s ground-breaking work!
The LightHouse BookShop has 15 free places available for this event which will be given out on a first come first served basis. For more information, and for tickets, please check out this link:
http://lighthousebookshop.com/event/notes-to-self-feminist-essays-from-the-next-generation/

Mike McCormack at the Yeats International Summer School
2018-07-19 08:00 - 2018-07-27 17:00
Goldsmiths-award winner Mike McCormack will be reading from his critically acclaimed novel Solar Bones at the 59th Yeats International Summer School in Sligo from 19-27 July 2018.
Check out http://www.yeatssociety.com/ for more

Druid Talk: Alice McDermott in Conversation with Mike McCormack
2018-03-21 19:00 - 21:00 | Mick Lally Theatre, Druid Lane, Galway, Ireland
The fantastic Druid theatre company in Galway will be presenting Alice McDermott in conversation with Tramp Press author Mike McCormack at the Mick Lally Theatre on Wednesday 21st March. These two world-class authors will discuss the writing process and their own work during this unique and intimate event.
The event is free, but booking is essential. Find out more and book here.

An evening with Sara Baume in the Splendor Club, Amsterdam
2018-03-17 18:30 - 20:00 | Splendor Foundation, Nieuwe Uilenburgerstraat, Amsterdam, 116 1011 LX, Netherlands
This March, Tramp Press author Sara Baume will be speaking at the Splendor Club in Amsterdam about her newest novel A Line made by Walking which is published in the Netherlands by Querido.
The event is part of the 2018 St. Patrick’s Irish Festival Amsterdam, an annual Dutch-Irish collaboration celebrating Irish music, arts and culture in Amsterdam. A full programme of events and more information can be found here: www.stpatrickamsterdam.com

Doolin Writers Weekend
2018-02-02 08:00 - 2018-02-04 17:00 | Hotel Doolin, Rivervale, Teergonean, Doolin, Co. Clare, Ireland
Join us for the Doolin Writers’ Weekend in Doolin this 2-4 February 2018.
The Doolin Writers’ Weekend takes place annually in February and is an eclectic mix of workshops, readings, music and food and has something for new and established authors and people who love to read.
Tramp Press will be judging the short fiction and flash fiction competition, and we’ll also set up in a comfortable corner of the hotel to host Open Hours. Open Hours was created to help open doors around the business of books and to break down perceived barriers between writers, readers, and publishers. We invite you to chat to us about whatever book-related topic you’d like.
Come say hi, ask about the sector, how the slush pile works, or show us the projects you’re working on.
Find out more here: https://www.hoteldoolin.ie/doolin-writers-festival.html
