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NANO Fiction (print ISSN 1935-844X; digital ISSN 2160-939X) is non-profit literary journal that publishes flash fiction—a form of short story also known as micro fiction, micro narrative, micro-story, microrrelatos, postcard fiction, the short short, the short short story, kürzestgeschichten, and sudden fiction—of 300 words or fewer. Featuring twenty to thirty authors in each issue, NANO Fiction has roots that draw from Aesop’s Fables and Zen Koans. Notable practitioners of this prose form include Lydia Davis, Franz Kafka, Italo Calvino, Ignacio Martínez de Pisón, Naguib Mahfouz, and Linor Goralik, among others. This issue features works by: Miah Arnold, Kevin Brown, Sabra Embury, Katherine M. Guttman, Ian Grody, Austin Havican, Christopher Higgs, Donora Hillard, J.R. Hundemer, Bill Hutchison, Jamie Iredell, Michael, Jauchen, Joshua Jennings, Paul Kavanagh, Prathna Lor, Sean Lovelace, Josh Maday, Dustin Martins, Yousi Mazpule, Amanda McQuade, Lisa Di Nanno, Sarah Pacha, Sam Pink, Joseph Riippi, Megan Roth, C. Harris Stevens, Ross Tierney, and Steven Wolfe.

A political thriller, with black comedy undertones, telling of the fortunes and misfortunes of Charlie Kavanagh, a television director who is sent on a lucrative assignment to direct a television documentary in Israel. Ultimately, he finds himself caught up in a murderous political game.

Bardlore / This is Bardcore' accompanies Irish artist Sean Lynch's 2019 video, shot in Southampton and nearby Stonehenge featuring actors Gina Moxley and Timmy Creed. Time travel and spirit possession drive a surreal narrative where a bard from seventeenth century Ireland ends up encountering the empty car park of an out-of-business Toys R Us, IBIS hotels and the heritage industry surrounding the Neolithic landscape. Caught between a desire to fit into the constraints of the contemporary world and the seemingly liberal possibilities of a more poetic, distant life of the past, Lynch's central characters grapple with the construction of public space and the role of history in the everyday.00Twenty-nine images from Lynch's video are accompanied by an essay by Booker Prize 2019 nominee Kevin Barry, digressing from an overview of bardic culture of Ireland to consider Hollywood screenwriters, Mexican drug lords, and the strange rituals used in the making of verse itself.00Exhibition: John Hansard Gallery, Southampton, UK (20.07.-28.09.2019) / Kevin Kavanagh Gallery, Dublin, Ireland (08.01.-01.02.2020).

A tragic fire at the Stardust nightclub on Valentine's Day, 1981 in a working-class suburb of Dublin caused the deaths of 48 young people, with an average age of just 19 years. After years of families and survivors fighting to find out what really happened, new inquests held in 2024 finally revealed the full story. In 1981, the Stardust nightclub in Dublin was a beacon for the city's nightlife - until it became a nightmare. On that fateful Valentine's Day the dance floor became a scene of horror, as flames engulfed the venue, claiming the lives of 48 young people and leaving the survivors scarred forever. In this gripping account the harrowing true story is revealed, citing new evidence brought forward during recent inquests in the relentless pursuit of justice. Through the eyes of the survivors, the families and investigators, compiled with meticulous research and compassionate portrayals of their voices, this poignant book honours the memories of those who were lost, while shedding light on the tragedy that still shocks the nation to this day.

Seán O'Connor was born in Francis Street, in the Liberties of Dublin, a neighbourhood famous over the centuries for the sturdy independence of its people. Now, in this evocative and affectionate book, he recollects the unique and colourful district of his childhood: the neighbours who lived there, their traditions, talk and lore, the music and poetry of the laneways and markets. Remembrances of the 1940s classroom, of bird-watching in Phoenix Park, of roaming towards adolescence in the streets of his ancestors are mingled with tales of ancient ghosts and the coming of change to the Liberties. O'Connor, father of the novelist Joseph, tells his story with honesty, warmth and style, and the often wry wit of his home-place. This tenderly written testament of one Liberties boy builds into a vivid and heart-warming picture of his own extended family as part of a proud community and its all-but-vanished way of life.