The Stinging Fly Podcast

On this month’s episode, host Nicole Flattery is joined by Tenaya Steed to read from and discuss his story ‘Water Lilies’, published in the Summer 2025 issue of The Stinging Fly Issue 52 Volume Two. [https://stingingfly.org/product/summer-2025/] Tenaya Steed is a writer and artist. Her stories have been published in The Stinging Fly and won the Michael McLaverty Award and The Stinging Fly/FBA Fiction Prize. She lives and works in Dublin. Nicole Flattery [https://stingingfly.org/?s=nicole+flattery&post_type=any] is a writer and critic. Her story collection Show Them A Good Time [https://stingingfly.org/product/show-them-a-good-time/], was published by The Stinging Fly and Bloomsbury in 2019. Her first novel, Nothing Special, was published by Bloomsbury in 2023. The Stinging Fly Podcast invites writers from the latest issue of The Stinging Fly to read and discuss their work. Previous episodes of the podcast can be found here [https://stingingfly.org/category/podcast/]. The podcast’s theme music is ‘Sale of Lakes’, by Divan [https://soundcloud.com/divan-908877762/02-sale-of-lakes]. All of the Stinging Fly archive [https://stingingfly.org/category/archive/] is available to subscribers. [https://stingingfly.org/subscribe/]

On this month’s episode, host Nicole Flattery is joined by Paula Dias Garcia and James Young to read from and discuss their stories featured in the Winter 2024-25 issue of The Stinging Fly Issue 51 Volume Two. [https://stingingfly.org/product/winter-2024-25/] Paula’s story, ‘The Woods’ can be found on page 193, and James’ story, ‘Long Term Parking’, can be found on page 154. Paula Dias Garcia [https://stingingfly.org/?s=Paula+Dias+Garcia&post_type=any] is a queer writer and designer from Brasília, with an MA in Creative Writing from the University of Limerick. Their works have been published in The Stinging Fly, Analog SF&F, Channel, The Ogham Stone, Silver Apples and Riverbed Review. Currently, they’re the artistic director for Sans. PRESS. James Young [https://stingingfly.org/?s=James+Young] is a writer from Northern Ireland. His short stories have appeared in a wide range of publications and been shortlisted for the Sean O’Faolain, Wasafiri, Fish, and Bath prizes. He is the co-editor of Short Fiction literary journal and runs the Hastings Writers Workshop, a creative writing centre. He is also a translator, and his translation of The Love of Singular Men by the Brazilian author Victor Heringer was a finalist for the 2024 National Book Critics Circle Awards John Leonard Prize and the ALTA First Translation Prize, won the 2024 Jabuti Prize for the best Brazilian novel published abroad, and was runner-up for the Society of Authors/Translators Association First Translation Prize. Nicole Flattery [https://stingingfly.org/?s=nicole+flattery&post_type=any] is a writer and critic. Her story collection Show Them A Good Time [https://stingingfly.org/product/show-them-a-good-time/], was published by The Stinging Fly and Bloomsbury in 2019. Her first novel, Nothing Special, was published by Bloomsbury in 2023. The Stinging Fly Podcast invites writers from the latest issue of The Stinging Fly to read and discuss their work. Previous episodes of the podcast can be found here [https://stingingfly.org/category/podcast/]. The podcast’s theme music is ‘Sale of Lakes’, by Divan [https://soundcloud.com/divan-908877762/02-sale-of-lakes]. All of the Stinging Fly archive [https://stingingfly.org/category/archive/] is available to subscribers. [https://stingingfly.org/subscribe/]

On this month’s episode, host Nicole Flattery is joined by Tim MacGabhann to read from and discuss his story ‘Pit’, published in the Winter 2024-25 issue of The Stinging Fly Issue 51 Volume Two. [https://stingingfly.org/product/winter-2024-25/] Tim MacGabhann [https://stingingfly.org/author/tim-macgabhann/] is the author of the novels Call Him Mine and How to Be Nowhere, the long poem, ‘Rory Gallagher —Live!— at the Hotel’ of the Dead and the memoir The Black Pool. A book of poems and a book of short stories are also forthcoming. Nicole Flattery [https://stingingfly.org/?s=nicole+flattery&post_type=any] is a writer and critic. Her story collection Show Them A Good Time [https://stingingfly.org/product/show-them-a-good-time/], was published by The Stinging Fly and Bloomsbury in 2019. Her first novel, Nothing Special, was published by Bloomsbury in 2023. The Stinging Fly Podcast invites writers from the latest issue of The Stinging Fly to read and discuss their work. Previous episodes of the podcast can be found here [https://stingingfly.org/category/podcast/]. The podcast’s theme music is ‘Sale of Lakes’, by Divan [https://soundcloud.com/divan-908877762/02-sale-of-lakes]. All of the Stinging Fly archive [https://stingingfly.org/category/archive/] is available to subscribers. [https://stingingfly.org/subscribe/]

{Note: It’s almost 8 years since we started our podcast and this is our 55th episode. Up to now, the series has focused on the wealth of material contained in the magazine’s back catalogue and our guests have been asked to select and read a story or essay from the archive. Starting this month, we switch the attention to more recent work with contributors to the current issue being invited to read and discuss their own writing with host Nicole Flattery.} On this month’s episode, host Nicole Flattery is joined by Darragh McCausland and Nicole Morris to read from and discuss their essays featured in the Winter 2024-25 issue of The Stinging Fly Issue 51 Volume Two. [https://stingingfly.org/product/winter-2024-25/] Darragh’s essay, ‘Isometric Games’ can be found on page 166, and Nicole’s essay, ‘How to Get Rid of a Ghost, Part One’, can be found on page 212. Darragh McCausland [https://stingingfly.org/?s=Darragh+McCausland&post_type=any] is a writer from Kells, County Meath based in Dublin. He writes fiction and nonfiction and is widely published in various journals and anthologies. Nicole Morris [https://stingingfly.org/?s=Nicole+Morris] is a poet who writes essays. Her writing has also been featured in Banshee, Blood Orange Review, and elsewhere. She has been supported by Tin House and was shortlisted for the 2024 Disquiet International and Indiana Review nonfiction prizes. Originally from Los Angeles, she lives near the sea in County Mayo. Nicole Flattery [https://stingingfly.org/?s=nicole+flattery&post_type=any] is a writer and critic. Her story collection Show Them A Good Time [https://stingingfly.org/product/show-them-a-good-time/], was published by The Stinging Fly and Bloomsbury in 2019. Her first novel, Nothing Special, was published by Bloomsbury in 2023. The Stinging Fly Podcast invites writers from the latest issue of The Stinging Fly to read and discuss their work. Previous episodes of the podcast can be found here [https://stingingfly.org/category/podcast/]. The podcast’s theme music is ‘Sale of Lakes’, by Divan [https://soundcloud.com/divan-908877762/02-sale-of-lakes]. All of the Stinging Fly archive [https://stingingfly.org/category/archive/] is available to subscribers. [https://stingingfly.org/subscribe/]

On this month’s episode, host Nicole Flattery is joined by writer Oisín Fagan to read and discuss Mariana Enriquez's story, ‘Back When We Talked to the Dead', translated from the Spanish by Megan McDowell, originally published as in The Stinging Fly Issue 35, Volume 2: Winter 2019/20. Oisín Fagan [https://stingingfly.org/author/oisin-fagan/] is the author of Hostages, and Nobber, which was longlisted for the Desmond Elliott Prize, shortlisted for the Bollinger Everyman Woodhouse Prize, and was named a Book of the Year by The Guardian and The Daily Mail. His novel, Eden's Shore, is coming out with John Murray Press in April, 2025. Mariana Enriquez [https://stingingfly.org/author/mariana-enriquez/] is the author of three novels, two collections of short stories and two works of non-fiction in Spanish. Her work has been translated into over twenty languages, and her most recent story collection, Things We Lost in the Fire, was published by Granta Books in 2017. Her stories have also appeared in The New Yorker, Granta, McSweeney's and Asymptote. Megan McDowell [https://stingingfly.org/?s=Megan+McDowell&post_type=any]'s translations include works by Alejandro Zambra, Samantha Schweblin, Lina Meruane, Diego Zuniga, and Alejandro Jodorowsky, and have been featured in The New Yorker, The Paris Review, Tin House, McSweeney's, Granta, and the Atlantic Quarterly, among others. She lives in Santiago, Chile. Nicole Flattery [https://stingingfly.org/?s=nicole+flattery&post_type=any] is a writer and critic. Her story collection Show Them A Good Time [https://stingingfly.org/product/show-them-a-good-time/], was published by The Stinging Fly and Bloomsbury in 2019. Her first novel, Nothing Special, was published by Bloomsbury in 2023. The Stinging Fly Podcast invites writers to choose a story from the Stinging Fly archive to read and discuss. Previous episodes of the podcast can be found here [https://stingingfly.org/category/podcast/]. The podcast’s theme music is ‘Sale of Lakes’, by Divan [https://soundcloud.com/divan-908877762/02-sale-of-lakes]. All of the Stinging Fly archive [https://stingingfly.org/category/archive/] is available to subscribers. [https://stingingfly.org/subscribe/]