The Stinging Fly by Various

The Stinging Fly by VariousFiction Niamh Boyce We Cant Have Artists Losing Their Tempers Stephen Brophy Show Me How to Live (a novel extract) Lauren Collett The Circus Susannah Dickey Diplomats Sam Furlong Saor (a novel extract) Pauls Kazaks The Cathedral Odette Le Bray Talking to Sceptics Alan McMonagle Window to the World Thomas Morris Notes on Contributors Eva Morrissey Really Fucking Good Kyle Mulholland JOI Pid Murphy Quarter End Nicholas Petty Ringing the Bell Lowen

Women and girls who walked up its stone steps were warned never to reveal their true identities and gave birth to babies they would not be allowed to keep

Some poems will be more of a challenge than others

full of love and sacrifice' Jenny Ashcroft

illuminates his other commitments as a writer and antifascist

helps restore humanity to some of the world's most oppressed people' Observer

profoundly moving' Observer

The Wizard of Oz by Frank L

They have retained their freshness and vigour throughout the two and a half millennia of their currency

and how might we recognize it

falling in love over dinner

and which trees makes the best beds

but Pepper