SWERVE 4 Summer 2025
£20
SWERVE is a literary and arts journal that focuses on new and emerging writing and visual art.
From their HQ in Skibbereen, County Cork, Ireland SWERVE provides a dedicated performance space, THE LIT LOUNGE and a pop-up visual arts gallery, SWERVE PROJECT SPACE. SWERVE hosts online readings: THE LIT LOUNGE ONLINE and an online writing group, SWERVE ZOOM WRITERS.
The SWERVE RESIDENCY PROGRAMME invites Irish and international artists and writers to stay in Skibbereen for short residencies throughout the year.
SWERVE supports work from graduate writers and artists by awarding an annual prize of a residency and exhibition for two graduates from Cork MTU Crawford College of Art and a residency prize for a graduate of the University College Cork MA in Creative Writing.
SWERVE is available from the following bookshops: Uillinn: West Cork Arts Centre (Skibbereen) Chapter Bookstore (Dublin), Bantry Bookshop (Bantry), Worm Books (Schull), Vibes and Scribes (Cork City), Charlie Byrne’s Bookshop (Galway City), Afsana Bookshop (Folkestone, UK) and The London Review Bookshop (London, UK).