Great writers, great writing ✨ Since 2021, we’ve published some of the best emerging and established non-fiction writers at work today 🌊 To support more great writing, you can subscribe to Tolka here: tolkajournal.org/shop/

Our annual Summer Bundle is now on sale ☀️ You can buy Issue Nine (Summer 2025), Issue Ten (Winter 2025) and Issue Eleven (Summer 2026) for just €25 ✨ Featured writers include Annie Ernaux, Wendy Erskine, Jon Fosse, Sara Baume and Gustav Parker Hibbett 🔥 tolkajournal.org/shop/p/summe...

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For Issue Eleven, writer and activist R Alice interviewed renowned scholar Rashid Khalidi about Palestine, settler-colonialism, zionism, and the parallels (and crucial differences) between Irish and Palestinian experiences of imperialism. tolkajournal.org/shop/p/issue...

Issue Eleven London launch! Hosted by Deleted Scenes - join us at Beasy Bar in Soho, 7pm Tuesday 30th June. With readings from: 🎷 Darran Anderson 🎷 Lola Olufemi 🎷 J.S. Loveard 🎷 Georgie Evans Free entry, save the date.

We are launched! Huge thanks to @booksupstairs.bsky.social for having us, and to Aisling Clark for these lovely snaps. Thanks of course to our brilliant contributors for reading so beautifully from their work (and for agreeing to pose for the family photo at the end).

We had such a wonderful launch for Tolka Issue Eleven @booksupstairs.bsky.social last week! Pre-orders/subscriptions are on their way across Ireland, with the rest to follow soon . . . You can grab a copy/subscription here: tolkajournal.org/shop/

We have a new podcast episode out with the fabulous @wednesdayerskin.bsky.social ✨ In this episode, Wendy joins us to talk about her essay, ‘Clobber’, published in Tolka Issue Ten 👚

Submissions are for Tolka Issue Twelve are now open 💥 This submission window will close at midnight on Sunday 31 May. We accept all kinds of non-fiction, including essays, biography, auto-fiction, and more besides... tolkajournal.org/submit-to-to...

Tolka Issue Eleven contains an excerpt from Samar Yazbek’s deeply moving book of testimonies ‘Your Presence is a Danger to Your Life: Voices from Gaza’, translated by Leri Price and forthcoming with @fitzcarraldoeds.bsky.social

We had the loveliest week at Cúirt Festival☀️☀️☀️ Already looking forward to next year 🌊

Unveiling our Issue Eleven Cover: ‘The Long Way’ by artist Jessica Brilli 🌊🚙🌵 Issue Eleven is out in late May, and features new writing by Sara Baume, Liadan Ní Chuinn, Lola Olufemi, and an interview with Rashid Khalidi. You can pre-order a copy here: tolkajournal.org/shop/

We've a new podcast episode on the way, coming very soon . . . You can catch up with our last episode with John Patrick McHugh here: open.spotify.com/episode/5ijO... Or on Apple Podcasts here: podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/t...

Unveiling our line-up for Tolka Issue Eleven... Publishes in late May. Pre-order now via our SHINY NEW WEBSITE ✨💫 tolkajournal.org

Our latest episode of The Tolka Podcast features John Patrick McHugh reading from his piece 'Voice, voice, voice.' We chat about self-confidence, the difference between voice and style, and what your football position says about your literary instincts ⚽️ Listen here open.spotify.com/episode/5ijO...

Not official, but some recommended Irish rates here that could be converted/adjusted bmacevilly.com/match-in-the...

Caelainn Hogan joins us on the latest episode of the Tolka Podcast to read her piece House Share (published in Tolka Issue Nine). We discuss the commodification of housing and Caelainn’s bad history with birds 🦆 Listen wherever you get your podcasts 🔗

We are delighted to announce the brilliant Polly Barton as our Translator-in-Residence for 2026 🎊

'One of the best things about receiving the Nobel is that I will never receive it again.’ - Jon Fosse, interviewed by Rónán Hession in Tolka Issue Ten. You can order Issue Ten via our website. @ronanhession.bsky.social @fitzcarraldoeds.bsky.social www.tolkajournal.org/shop/p/issue...

Looking for a (slightly) last minute Christmas gift? 🎄 Gift a TOLKA subscription and your lucky pal will receive two issues per subscription year, each one brimful of great writing ♥️ www.tolkajournal.org/shop/p/tolka...

We had such a wonderful time celebrating Tolka Issue Ten in London, hosted by Deleted Scenes at Trisha’s Soho 🎷 Photos by Damian Wiecek 📸 If you've not got Tolka Ten yet, you can get one here: www.tolkajournal.org/shop

We go again in London tonight! At Trisha's from 6pm – join us if you can.

Huge thanks to everyone who braved the rain and joined us last Friday in the beautiful surrounds of @molimuseum.bsky.social to launch Tolka Issue Ten 🖤 Lovely photos by Patrick Fleming 📸 Copies of Issue Ten are available via our website and all good bookshops ❤️ www.tolkajournal.org/shop

We'll be at @molimuseum.bsky.social this Friday celebrating ten issues of Tolka with these fine writers. Free to attend! moli.ie/events/first...

The Tolka Podcast Season Two is up and running, with the wonderful Kimberly Campanello. Kimberly spoke to us about all kinds of form, from bodybuilding to poetry, and read from her essay, 'Tachyphylaxis'. Spotify: open.spotify.com/episode/0Wig... Apple Podcasts: podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/t...

We can’t stop, won’t stop launching this issue! Join us for ‘Deleted Scenes’ - a London celebration of Issue 10, hosted by the brilliant Paul Jonathan. December 10th Greek st, Soho 6pm

Some stunning action shots from our Issue Ten event last night at @gloucesterroadbks.bsky.social! Thanks to Joe and Libby for hosting!

We see they will also be discussing 30 years of Toy Story 👀

On RTÉ Arena tonight, @rickoshea.bsky.social will be talking to Tolka Issue Ten contributors @wednesdayerskin.bsky.social & John Patrick McHugh, celebrating five years of Tolka! Tune in from 7pm, or listen back: www.rte.ie/radio/radio1/

We’re very excited to be part of the very first Dublin Small Press Fair kicking off this Friday! Find us there as part of Leabharlann Beag — for sale alongside dozens of other brilliant magazines, journals, zines and books from small presses ⭐️ dublinsmallpressfair.com