TOMORROW!!!!
04.03.2026 11:22
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TOMORROW!!!!
Gethan Dick has been named the recipient of this year’s Kate O’Brien Award at the Limerick Literary Festival, for her novel Water in the Desert, Fire in the Night!
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Winner of the Kate O'Brien Award at @limericklitfest.bsky.social , published by @tramppress.bsky.social - Waterin the Desert, Fire in the Night from Gethan Dick - only €10 while stocks last!
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Huge congratulations to debut writer Gethan Dick! If you haven't picked up #WaterInTheDesertFireInTheNight this is your sign – it is *riveting* (and prize-winning!)
I thought it was excellent. Really nailed the horrible atmosphere!
I found the ending too muddy. I did enjoy his catchphrase 'Still alive, ya shit-eaters!' and have been trying to incorporate it into my everyday conversation
What did you make of The Running Man?
Two issues of WAXEN. Each one has a die-cut cardboard cover of one predominant colour, one black and one grey (there are gradients in the grey and there's a subtle sunflower pattern hidden in the black). There's a circle cut out of each cover, revealing part of a more colourful illustration inside.
Bookmail! A print contributor's copy of WAXEN, plus their first issue. I took a video too because on top of everything else, these are just gorgeous objects in themselves.
Kate O’Brien Award shortlist: Gethan Dick reads from her book Water in the Desert Fire in the Night: youtu.be/2zCQv2qHH58?...
The KOB Award 01/03 at 11.15am at the Belltable. Free event, booking required: www.limerickliteraryfestival.com
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Here's wonderful debut author Gethan Dick at Libreria London last night talking all things #WaterInTheDesertFireInTheNight (which has just been shortlisted for the Kate O'Brien Award!)
We’re hiring!
More details about the position here: www.lrb.co.uk/jobs
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 ⚽️
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Every successful invention solves a common problem: washing clothes, illumination, ease of travel.
The problem A I is trying to solve is *us* - WE are the problem to tech oligarchs and corporate elite. It's all for them. They just can't say that part.
They're trying to sell us our own redundancy.
Gethan Dick is shortlisted for the Kate O’Brien Award for her debut novel Water in the Desert, Fire in the Night. It's funny and hopeful, check it out!
Dropped a bottle of Cadet Cola in Lowry's in Cornamona in the 80s and I still feel sick when I think of it exploding all over the floor
Perennial post
it can’t all just be substack, it simply cannot
My short story "The Cold Moon Crown" will be appearing in the Winter edition of WAXEN, which goes on sale February 1.
If you're into Christmas stories involving weird old-money families with skeletons in the closet, I daresay you might enjoy it.
London pals! Join Gethan Dick at Libreria bookshop to discuss her haunting debut (and one of Libreria’s Best Books of 2025) Water in the Desert Fire in the Night: 19 Feb, 6:30pm 65 Hanbury Street. TICKETS HERE: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/stories-af...
Check out 'A 2026 Irish Book Preview' on the Mining the Dalkey Archive podcast! (Some swear words, in case you're listening at work/around your children).
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Great list!
This is fun - some nice recommendations from @chadwpost.bsky.social, and some love for @tramppress.bsky.social
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It appears that this legend owns a little bookstore — and you can order books from him instead of Bezos. Link in next post.
Comics retailing legend Greg Ketter standing up to ICE in Minneapolis. Yes, that's tear gas. He's 70 years old.
This could be about so many things right now
One of the many great things about Water in the Desert, Fire in the Night is how Gethan Dick imagines that in a post-apocalyptic world people will still have a sense of humour. Join us at CHQ at 5.30pm this evening (tues 20th) to hear Gethan read and speak about it!
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Take a break from watching the world ending and come listen to the brilliant Gethan Dick at EPIC! 5:30 this evening epicchq.com/event/eire-t... @tramppress.bsky.social #WITDFITN
Photo by Pierre Lavie. Yes this is me. And I threw my Leica. It landed on the bass plate with hardly a scratch. Another Photographer grabbed it along with my phone and I was able to track him later. I was held face down tear gas deployed right in front of me and pepper sprayed directly into the eye.
One of the very best SF novels I have read since 1963, and as you can imagine, I’ve read MANY.