UK Launch Tolka Issue 12

Gloucester Road Books presents the launch of the latest issue of the acclaimed literary journal, Tolka.

Some of the most interesting and illuminating writing is published by literary journals, none more so than by Dublin-based, Tolka, a wonderful publication Gloucester Road Books have been supporting since opening.

To mark the release of Tolka’s 12th issue, Gloucester Road Books are hosting an evening of readings and discussion from contributors, award-winning author, Marianne Brooker; acclaimed Irish playwright and screenwriter, Eva O'Connor, and the celebrated poet and author, Ralf Webb. Tolka editor, Liam Harrison, will be chairing the event. Copies of the new volume will be on sale along with previous issues.

This is a great opportunity to welcome the latest in the series of a groundbreaking and visionary publication, and to hear from some superb writers.
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Marianne Brooker is the author of Intervals, which won the Fitzcarraldo Editions Essay Prize and the Bread and Roses Prize. Her work has been published in The Observer, LitHub, Vittles, ArtReview and Parapraxis. She’s currently working on a book about friendship, madness and the welfare state.

Eva O’Connor is an award-winning writer and performer from Ogonnelloe, Co. Clare who makes work for stage, screen and radio and runs Sunday’s Child theatre company with collaborator Hilldegard Ryan. Her plays include MUSTARD, Overshadowed, Chicken (co-written with Hildgegard Ryan), The Kerryman and For Dolores.

Ralf Webb is the author of poetry collections Highway Cottage and Rotten Days in Late Summer, as well as the nonfiction book Strange Relations, which was shortlisted for the Sunday Times Young Writer of the Year Award. His poems, essays, and fiction have appeared widely. His debut novel, Two Lovers, is out in 2027.

Liam Harrison is a founding editor of the literary journal Tolka and a senior lecturer in creative writing at the University of the West of England.

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About Tolka

Tolka is a biannual literary journal of non-fiction: publishing essays, reportage, travel writing, auto-fiction, individual stories and the writing that flows in between. Tolka publishes work that is formally promiscuous and which does not always fall into neat categories. Tolka encourage writers to test the creative boundaries of non-fiction.

Tolka have published some of the most innovative contemporary Irish writers, such as Eimear McBride, Brian Dillon, Roisin Kiberd, Niamh Campbell, Nidhi Zak/Aria Eipe, and strongly promote new writers and new writing, and publish writers from around the globe.