“Cities, like dreams, are made of desires and fears…everything conceals something else.” Italo Calvino
Dave Tynan’s We Used to Dance Here is a portrait of Dublin and Dubliners in flux. His stories explore life on the margins, toxic masculinity and frustrated ambitions. Through dog tracks, pubs and half-finished estates, this collection brings the darker, edgier side to Dublin to life in brilliant, crackling prose.
Stylish, adroit and gritty, Djamel White’s All Them Dogs is an emotionally devastating literary crime novel set in Dublin’s underworld, where violence, poverty, and toxic masculinity form a brutal backdrop to a brilliantly tender love story.
Dave Tynan is the director of numerous award-winning short films and one feature. His stories have been published in the Stinging Fly and Winter Papers. Djamel White holds an MFA from University College Dublin and is the recipient of a Literature Bursary Award and an Agility Award from the Arts Council of Ireland.