Cathy Linh Che and Julie Morrissy read for STONECUTTER at the 11th annual Irish Arts Center's PoetryFest

 Acclaimed poets Julie Morrissy (author of Where, the Mile End) and Cathy Linh Che (author of Split) read for Stonecutter's Emerging Voices slot (curated by editor Katie Raissian) at the 11th Annual Irish Arts Center's PoetryFest, curated by Nick Laird. 

 

Stonecutter at the Irish American Historical Society, May 22

Restless Souls: A Conversation with Dan Sheehan on his latest Novel

Tuesday, May 22, 2018
Doors 6.30PM ~ Panel Discussion 7PM

Please join Success in the City, the young professionals group of the AIHS, for a conversation with Dan Sheehan and special guests Belinda McKeon, Katie Raissian and Tracy O'Neill.

Dan Sheehan is an Irish fiction writer, journalist, and editor. His writing has appeared in The Irish Times, GQ, The Los Angeles Review of Books, Guernica, TriQuarterly, Words Without Borders, Electric Literature, and Literary Hub, among others. He lives in New York, where he is the Book Marks editor at Literary Hub and a contributing editor at Guernica Magazine, and was a recipient of the 2016 Center for Fiction Emerging Writers Fellowship. His debut novel, Restless Souls, will be available to purchase on the night.

Belinda McKeon is the acclaimed author of two novels, Solace and Tender. Solace won the Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize and was named the 2011 Irish Book of the Year. She lives in New York and teaches at Rutgers University.

Katie Raissian is a literary fiction and nonfiction editor at Grove Atlantic. She is also editor and publisher of Stonecutter, a print magazine of art and literature which focuses on publishing international writers and artists alongside US-based ones.

Tracy O'Neill is the author of The Hopeful, one of Electric Literature's Best Novels of 2015. The same year, she was named a National Book Foundation 5 Under 35 honoree, long-listed for the Flaherty-Dunnan Prize, and was a Narrative Under 30 finalist.
The panel discussion wiill be followed by a book signing and reception.

AIHS & SITC Members: Free
Non Members: $10 / $15 at the door

Stonecutter in The Irish Times!

We are honored to have been included in this wonderful Irish Times article about Ireland's thriving lit mag scene alongside so many of our favorite journals and publications! Special thanks to Belinda McKeon for the shout out.

11/4, 2PM Stonecutter presents "Emerging Voices, with Sally Wen Mao and Tara Bergin" at the Irish Arts Center

On Saturday, November 4, at 2PM, STONECUTTER returns to the Irish Arts Center's 9th annual PoetryFest to present a reading from award-winning and amazingly talented poets Sally Wen Mao, author of MAD HONEY SYMPOSIUM, and Tara Bergin, author of THIS IS YARROW and THE TRAGIC DEATH OF ELEANOR MARX.

The event will be introduced by our editor Katie Raissian and admission is FREE. Come join us! You can reserve your seats here.

STONECUTTER's Katie Raissian's Best Poetry Collection of 2015 for LITERARY HUB

Lit Hub's Adam Fitzgerald asked our publisher Katie Raissian to select her favorite collection of 2015. She chose LIGHTING THE SHADOW by Rachel Eliza Griffiths:

Lauded by Pulitzer Prize winner Tracy K. Smith as 'rare and revelatory' and by National Book Award winner Terrance Hayes as 'a book of spellbinding radiance,' Lighting the Shadow journeys us across vast landscapes of memory and forgetting, of violent histories and myth, of racist brutalities past and present. Drawing on myriad influences—from Kahlo to Jarrell, Darwish to Rukeyser, Brautigan to Clifton—Griffiths expertly examines American and world history through a dually personal and literary lens, exploring what it means to be woman, body, voice, victim, witness... These are live-wire poems that burn and lament, that speak to history’s numerousness, its silences and its voids, and transform those silences into song.

Read the full article here. 

Issue Four of STONECUTTER in THE REVIEW REVIEW

"Stonecutter reminds us that we don’t have to allocate so much time to reading in order to find something gripping, sumptuous, or idiosyncratic...The unifying theme that I saw recurring through each piece was this sense of stillness, an exploration of defining an introspective silence. And with autumn just around the corner, we need to recognize more periods of silence and how we can fill them....what speaks to me about Stonecutter is its call to redefine silence in our lives. Every piece finds a way to make each quiet moment seem like it’s bursting....With each work finding a new way of reaching a calmness and clarity, Stonecutter achieves a full rating easily."

Thanks to Monique Briones and The Review Review for this incredible and insightful write-up of Issue 4!

Join STONECUTTER at the Irish Arts Center for the 7th Annual PoetryFest!

Saturday, November 7 at 2pm 

Stonecutter presents Emerging Voices 

with readings from 

Lucy Ives, Elaine Feeney, Connie Roberts, & Wendy Xu 

 Irish Arts Center (IAC): 553 West 51 Street, New York, NY 10019

See the full list of events at: http://www.irishartscenter.org/literature/poetryfest_2015.html

STONECUTTER featured in POETS & WRITERS

Thanks to the good folks at Poets & Writers and to Travis Kurowski for including Stonecutter in their Literary MagNet column in the July/August issue of P&W.  A fantastic roundup of some journals with a focus on international work in translation, including Osiris, Literary Review, Two Lines, and Hayden's Ferry Review. Honored to be among them. Read the article here.

Stonecutter on the New York Irish Arts blog

Lucy Healy-Kelly interviewed Stonecutter editor-in-chief Katie Raissian for the New York Irish Arts blog this week. Here's a snippet from the article:

"This week sees the official launch of a new biannual literary journal that nudges its way into the world against this wave of ezines, electronic books and vanity publishing. It is made of good old fashioned paper. Its battery will not run down...A slim volume with offset printing, heavy stock, french flaps and a four colour insert, Issue One of Stonecutter: A Journal of Art & Literature is a pleasingly elegant 106 page journal, whose very existence seems to fly in the face of the dismal downturn of old-fashioned print media."

Read more here

Thanks Lucy!