McInerney to take over as editor of Irish literary magazine the Stinging Fly

Women’s Prize-winner Lisa McInerney will take over as the new editor of the Irish literary magazine the Stinging Fly in August. 

McInerney won the 2016 Women’s Prize for Fiction with The Glorious Heresies (John Murray). She has also won the RSL Encore Award and the Premio Edoardo Kihlgren for European literature and will be the magazine’s sixth editor in its 25-year history. 

She has worked as a contributing editor to the Stinging Fly since 2017 and was guest editor of the Galway 2020 edition. 

Declan Meade, founding editor and publisher, said: “Lisa McInerney is a wonderful writer and outstanding editor who keenly shares the Stinging Fly’s vision and values. We look forward to working with Lisa and reading the new writing and new writers that we know she’ll discover, nurture and publish with style.” 

McInerney said: “The Stinging Fly has done so much for me in terms of creative development and inclusion—so much for so many of us. I can think of few honours greater than the opportunity to continue that practice, to foster new writing and writers, and to provide that community that writers like me are so reliant on and grateful for. 

“I’m both humbled and excited to be carrying on the work of the estimable Danny Denton (and Sally Rooney, Thomas Morris, and Declan Meade before him) and I can’t wait to see what’s in store.”