The Stinging Fly Podcast TSF Podcast: Climate Issue Special
On this month’s episode, host Nicole Flattery is joined by magazine editor Lisa McInerney and former non-fiction editor Róisín Kiberd to discuss putting together the latest issue of The Stinging Fly. Taking the climate emergency as its theme, The Stinging Fly Issue 53 Volume Two presents a variety of responses to the impending climate catastrophe and our responsibility to the current political moment, exploring the ways in which our world is changing and, for better or worse, our role in that change.
Roisin Kiberd has written essays and features for The Dublin Review, Winter Papers, The White Review, The Guardian and Vice, among other places. Her first book, The Disconnect: A Personal Journey Through the Internet, was published by Serpent’s Tail in 2021. She lectures in creative writing at the University of Galway.
Lisa McInerney is a novelist, short story writer, essayist, editor and screenwriter from Galway. She is the author of three novels: The Glorious Heresies , The Blood Miracles and The Rules of Revelation.
Nicole Flattery is a writer and critic. Her story collection 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. The podcast’s theme music is ‘Sale of Lakes’, by Divan. All of the Stinging Fly archive is available to subscribers.