The hour has come at last, we are ready to announce the winning novella. Before we do so, we would like to thank our judges Sara Baume, Paul McVeigh and Colin Barrett. It was a difficult decision choosing between our 5 excellent shortlistees but in the end it was a unanimous choice. The winner...
Read more →After months of carefully reading submissions, we are delighted to announce the shortlist for the inaugural Penny Dreadful Novella Prize. Kerrie O’ Brien - Kind of Like Soft Creatures Fin Keegan - The Third Life Jasper Douglas Pyne - The Straightforward Complexities of the Past Tom Sigafoos - Pool of Darkness Oisin O’Neill Fagan...
Read more →Nice to see you again, our old fiends. Well, our guest judge Elizabeth Reapy read through all your entries to the Penny Dreadful One Line Horror Competition and thankfully before beginning what is sure to be an extended stay in our personal Victorian asylum due to protracted bouts of terror, she had selected a winner...
Read more →Traditionally the bell rings 12 times at midnight, but one night every year in the corners of our humble office, it rings 13. This demarks the annual emergence from the bowels of our collective id of The Penny Dreadful One Line Horror Competition. For those not yet initiated with its terrible, terrible mind tendrils...
Read more →We are delighted to reveal the cover for our second Poetry publication Strange Country By Kimberly Campanello, a collection based on the theme of Sheela na gigs. The Launch Dates are as follows. Do come. 29th October at 20:00, GULPD cafe @ Triskel Arts Centre in Triskel Arts Centre, 14A Tobin Street, Cork City 30th October at...
Read more →Huh? What? The Penny Dreadful Magazine and Gorse have teamed up for one hell of a mid-summer event in Cork featuring readings from the past contributors of both journals? May God have mercy on us all! Planning on finally having that long overdue vacation? Getting married? Attending a mechanical opera? Not on July 3rd you’re not, you’re coming...
Read more →We are delighted to announce our second Poetry publication Strange Country By Kimberly Campanello. Kimberly Campanello was born in Elkhart, Indiana, and is a dual American and Irish citizen based in Dublin and London. Kimberly’s poems have appeared in publications in the USA, Canada, the UK and Ireland, including 3:AM Magazine, Abridged, The Cream...
Read more →Friends, Readers, Countrymen, lend us your ears! Come join us for the triumphant launches of Issue 5 of the Penny Dreadful Magazine. Issue 5 features the work of, among others, John Boyne, Jessica Traynor, Nuala Ní Chonchúir, Victoria Kennefick and many more. We will be hosting a series of launches around Ireland: 9th of...
Read more →Does anyone remember from childhood a story called The Fir Tree by Hans Christian Anderson? Basically there’s a little fir who lives in the woods and longs to be a Christmas tree when he grows up. He’s heard from the sparrows that the greatest honour for a tree is to be…ornamented with the most...
Read more →Excerpt from the private papers of an unknown Penny Dreadful editor - October 2014 With a creak of the door, the messenger limped in. “This comes straight from the judge.” I knew this was coming, though I had dreamed otherwise. With a nearby knife, I opened the envelope. Trembling fingers pulled out the yellowish...
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