Silver Hand Journal Announce First Stone Tablet Edition, To Be Translated Into Babylonian Script

Maynooth University’s Publication and Literary Society announced today that they will be releasing the first stone tablet edition of their student magazine, Silver Hand Journal, in collaboration with Maynooth’s Babylonian community.

The largely online student magazine has released two print anthologies in the past, most recently in February 2026. This new anthology will mark their first foray into English as well as Babylonian cuneiform script, making this the magazine’s first publication in two languages, and inscribed on clay. Editor-in-Chief Finn O’Neill professed that Silver Hand Journal is “delighted to work with the Babylonian community, to elevate their voices.” Included in the anthology are a variety of new contributions from Maynooth’s budding writers from the great city. These range from an overview of the conflict around the Levant and its affects on Maynooth University’s copper supply, winning poetry from the Publication and Literary Society’s “Bronze Bash” poetry contests, a report on the Agricultural Society’s forays into innovative irrigation techniques, and short fiction about that one time Gilgamesh went to the Brady’s pub quiz. O’Neill described this final contribution in particular as “epic.”

Despite the ongoing trade disputes with Egypt, copies of the anthology will be sold in markets across Phoenicia. Belshazar, a spokesperson for the Babylonian community in Maynooth, also entertained the prospect of selling copies in Anatolia. “Their contributions to farming have undoubtedly influenced the development of irrigation like that inscribed about on the tablet” he notes. This raised questions as to whether the tablet will be published on papyrus for more lightweight transport through trade routes, to which Belshazar responded “what’s papyrus?”

Silver Hand Journal eagerly awaits to publish the anthology once two hundred tablets are produced, estimating that this will be achieved by summer, or in one and a half Metonic cycles. Any further updates will be published on their Instagram page, @silverhandjournal, where readers will also find that this is an April Fool’s Joke.