We’re an ambitious journal, excited to continue to publish compelling prose and poetry from Ireland and around the world.

The Wild Umbrella is incredibly thankful for all the donations we’ve received from people all over the world thus far. In 2024, we were able to raise €1,610 of our original €1,000 goal, which all went towards paying our contributors, distributing our Anthology, and the upkeep of our website. 

Now, we are asking for your help again.

This year, unfortunately, we were unsuccessful in obtaining a grant from the Irish government that would have allowed us to continue to keep our submissions free while also paying our very deserving contributors. It’s very important to us that we are able to do this, so we are asking our growing community to consider a donation of any amount to The Wild Umbrella . Similar to 2024, a donation of €30 or more will include a copy of this year’s Anthology when it becomes available.

A reminder about who we are:

• Our mission:
  The Wild Umbrella originated in Dublin, in the house where Oscar Wilde was born. Our team met as postgraduate creative writing classmates mastering our respective crafts; since then, we have been united in the goal of discovering, promoting, and publishing the best and most interesting works of poetry, fiction, and non-fiction we can find in Ireland and beyond. It's free to submit to us, and we also pay our contributors. Your donation will help us continue to do both of these things.

• What we’ve been up to in 2025:

At the beginning of this year, we published and sold a physical version of our 2024 Anthology, which was a collection of our staff’s favorite pieces from the previous year. Along with fiction, non-fiction, and poetry, we also included interviews with some of our contributing writers, as well as gorgeous illustrations. 

We published work from loads of talented writers and poets, promoting them both on our website and Instagram. We conducted interviews and created recordings of our contributors reading their pieces in an effort to truly celebrate the work they’ve shared with us.  

Our community has grown to over 1,000 followers on social media, with more joining us every week. As we move into the fall, our staff is working on revamping our website during our shift to a new host platform. We are also hard at work designing the 2025 Anthology, as well as choosing pieces to nominate for Best of the Net.