HOWL New Irish Writing 26 launches on Tuesday, October 6th, 6:30 pm at the wonderful Waterstones, Cork. We'd love if you could be with us to help celebrate this beautiful book being released into the wild.

A true joy to hear readings from HOWL 26 at Cork City Library this afternoon. John Armstrong, Edelle Dwyer, Amanda Hill, and Johnny Roche had the audience suspended somewhere between a laugh and a tear for the full hour. Huge thanks to @MunLitCentre

We’re thrilled to be presenting 4 HOWL contributors at the Cork International Short Story Festival tomorrow at 2:30pm at Cork City Library. This event is completely free. We’d love to see you there, and at the many wonderful events afterwards!

Thank you to everyone who made the launch of HOWL 26 so special. We are so lucky to part of the Irish writing community and so glad Waterstones was willing to host the evening again. It was such a joy to meet so many of this year’s contributors and hear powerful readings.

Hope you can join us today for the launch of HOWL New Irish Writing 26, 6:30pm at Waterstones Cork! @WaterstonesCrk

Six more sleeps until the HOWL 26 launch! We'd love to see you there 🐺 Tuesday, 6th October, 6:30pm at @WaterstonesCrk

📣 CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS Ireland Chair of Poetry Pamphlet Series 2027 Submission deadline: Thursday 29 October at 2 pm. Guidelines and application details will be available from 17 September via Submittable. (poetryireland.submittable.co…) ✨

HOWL is made possible by page by page by each individual contributor, and thanks to every single person who submits. We are very grateful 🐺  Come and meet some of our pack at the launch of HOWL New Irish Writing 26 on October 6th, Tuesday @ 6:30pm at Waterstone's Cork

HOWL is beyond honoured to be invited to present a fiction showcase at the Cork International Short Story Festival 2026. Friday, October 16th, from 2:30pm at Cork City Library. Four incredible writers featured in HOWL 26 will read stories in a celebration of all things fiction.

HOWL 26 Cover Reveal 🖼 ✨ HOWL 26 launches in Waterstones, Cork on Tuesday, October 6th at 6:30pm. We'd love to see you there 🖤 Huge thanks to Michael Bohan for his tireless work making HOWL books as wild and beautiful on the outside as they are on the inside 🙏

A true joy to celebrate journals @IrishWritersCtr yesterday! Reading for HOWL, Dara Higgins had a packed room howling and in stitches with his story The Void published in HOWL 23. Dara has a new story, The Blower, coming in HOWL 26 launching this October!

Thank you to everyone who submitted to HOWL 26. Everyone should have heard from us by now. If you haven’t, please email [email protected] 🖤 🐺

Thank you to everyone who submitted and to all who helped to share the call 🙏 We had a wonderful response from the community and we are very grateful 🖤

Submissions close today 🖤 🐺 howlwriting.ie