“A Broadsheet of Sligo writing ‘The Cormorant’ takes its name from the seabird associated with carrying messages between worlds and captured in a poem by the late Dermot Healy. They are a familiar sight along the Sligo coastline, standing sentinel, watching and waiting.”

In the summer of 2018, Tread Softly launched a broadsheet of poetry and short prose. Since then, six issues have featured both familiar and unexpected voices from all over the world. Emerging writers were placed beside established, urban next to rural, a story of here beside a story of elsewhere. This democracy and collision gave the broadsheet energy. Submissions flooded in. Now, a selection of this work is collected in a perfect-bound book, its variety of perspectives and ways of telling more than the sum of its parts. #Treadsoftly21

The Cormorant publishes work from both established and emerging writers. Launched during Tread Softly 2018, The Cormorant has now produced four issues, with the fifth due to be published in December 2020. It will have published over 130 writers including Kevin Barry, Wendy Erskine, Bernie McGill, Molly McCloskey, Stephen Sexton, Una Mannion, Louise Kennedy and Eoin McNamee. Each cover features work by Sligo based artists. There are local and international voices and experiences. Some writers are publishing creative work for the first time. It is edited by Una Mannion, Eoin McNamee and Louise Kennedy.