For twenty years, The Stinging Fly has been steadfastly promoting emerging writers with its twice yearly stock take on words which flourish.
Issue 36 of Volume 2 is no laggard when it comes to pinpointing talent.
Emer Rogers’ Caught in the Blue Boat snared our attention with its sharply observed sense of millennial ennui “inhaling empty days and full cans”.
Its cover is Here Come The Brittle Men, a fantastic watercolour and ink piece by Stephen Dunne.