Julian Day is an emergent poet and writer, currently based in Surrey, in the UK. Julian has been previously published by BlackBough Poetry as their featured poet in the spring 2023 anthology Sound And Vision. He was also a guest reader on season 7 of Eat The Storms podcast, earlier this year.

Twitter https://twitter.com/JulianD86666247

Threads julianday30@threads.net

Joshua Vermillion is a designer, scholar, and maker. As a design technologist Joshua likes to make machines work in service of augmenting creative activities such as design and art-making. As an educator and associate professor in the School of Architecture at UNLV, he has spoken, published, and presented peer-reviewed research worldwide. Joshua’s research, pedagogy and practice interests include: artificial intelligence; computational, parametric and algorithmic design; digital fabrication tools and techniques; and robotics.

https://www.instagram.com/joshuavermillion/

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Jeff Gallagher’s poems feature in Rialto, Acumen, The High Window and The Journal among others. He has had numerous plays published and performed nationwide. He was the winner of the Carr Webber Prize 2021. For many years he taught English and Latin. He also appeared (briefly) in an Oscar-winning movie.
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Sam Szanto lives in Durham. Her collaborative pamphlet, ‘Splashing Pink’ was recently published by Hedgehog Press and is a Poetry Book Society Winter 2023 Pamphlet Choice. She won the 2020 Charroux Poetry Prize and the First Writer International Poetry Prize. In 2023, her poems were placed second in the South Warwickshire Literary Competition and commended in the Chesham Literary Prize. She has been published in international journals including ‘The North’.

Twitter https://twitter.com/sam_szanto
Website https://www.samszanto.com/

A visual artist, actor, photographer, teacher and amateur historian, Brigid Sweeney grew up in Canada but Dublin has been home for more than twenty years. She studied theatre and art history but still is not entirely sure what she wants to do when she grows up .. or if she even wants to grow up. Thank goodness the arts keep us all young.

Instagram https://www.instagram.com/brigsweenart/

Caitríona Lane is a Dublin- born fluent Irish speaker writing in both Irish and English now living in Galway. She holds a post graduate qualification in translation. Her poetry was shortlisted in 2023 for the Eavan Boland Emerging Poet Award. She is an Awardee of Poetry Ireland Introductions/ Céadlínte series 2022. Her poetry and short stories appear in Poetry Ireland Sparks of the Everyday E book, Poetry Ireland Review, HOWL, The Four Faced Liar, Drawn to the Light Press, Galway Review, The Echo and elsewhere. She will read at the 2023 International Cork Short Story Festival. Caitríona is the recipient of a Literature Residency from Ealaín na Gaeltachta.

Instagram https://www.instagram.com/caitrionalane_file/

Clive Donovan is the author of two poetry collections, The Taste of Glass [Cinnamon Press] and Wound Up With Love [Lapwing] and is published in a wide variety of magazines including Acumen, Agenda, Crannog, Popshot, Prole and The Storms. He lives in Totnes, Devon, UK. He is a Pushcart and Forward Prize nominee for 2022’s best individual poems.

Twitter https://twitter.com/CliveDonovan99

Doreen Duffy has an MA in Creative Writing. Pushcart Nominee, widely published including in, Washing Windows Volumes Too & Three, Arlen House, Poetry Ireland Review by Eavan Boland, Flash Fiction (USA), The Irish Times. She won The Jonathan Swift Award and was presented with The Deirdre Purcell Cup at the Maria Edgeworth Literary Festival. Shortlisted in the RTE Francis MacManus Short Story Competition her story ‘Tattoo’ was broadcast on RTE Radio One.

website http://doreenduffy.blogspot.com/

Twitter https://twitter.com/doreen_duffy13

Tonnie Richmond lives in Leeds and has spent many summers as a volunteer archaeologist in Orkney. She has had poems published by Yaffle, Dragon/Yaffle, Dreamcatcher, The High Window, Driech, Leeds Trinity University and others. Her first pamphlet will be published later this year.

Beth Gordon’s poems have been published in Poet Lore, Citron Review, SWWIM, Pithead Chapel, Moist Poetry, Okay Donkey and others. She is the author of several chapbooks including The Water Cycle (2022, Variant Literature). Beth is Managing Editor of Feral: A Journal of Poetry and Art, Assistant Editor of Animal Heart Press, and Grandma of Femme Salve Books.

Twitter https://twitter.com/bethgordonpoet

Instagram https://www.instagram.com/bethgordonpoet/
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Jeroen Mudde is a twenty-six-year-old Dutch national raised in Vienna. Working in the field of Operational Management he finds balance and beauty in his love for photography and illustration. His work mainly focuses on land and cityscapes, in particular enjoying working with high contrast and lighting. His work is featured in The Waxed Lemon and The New Word Order.

Nina Parmenter’s first collection ‘Split, Twist, Apocalypse’ was published by Indigo Dreams in 2022. Her poetry has appeared in journals including Magma, Raceme, Honest Ulsterman, Dust, and Ink Sweat and Tears, and she has been nominated for Forward and Pushcart prizes. She has appeared at the Cheltenham festival and of course on the mighty Eat the Storms podcast.  She lives in Wiltshire with her husband and two boys. 

Twitter https://twitter.com/ninaparmenter

Website https://ninaparmenter.com/

Jules Whiting has a MA in creative writing from Bath Spa University. Short listed for Gloucester Prize 2020, commended in the Poetry Society Members Competition 2020, short listed, Buzzwords 2020, special mention in the Spelt Poetry Competition 2021. Her poems have appeared in Acumen, Orbis, South, Envoi, The Interpreters House, The High Window, Haibun Journal and anthologised widely. A micro pamphlet What colour is my Brain? by Hedgehog Press was published in November 2022, and her debut collection Folding Time in October 2022.

Kris Spencer is a retired Headteacher and a Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society. He was born in a village outside Bolton, and attended the universities of Hull and Cincinnati, and Jesus College, Oxford. For thirty years he has taught Geography and occupied a number of management and leadership roles in schools. Kris has work published in journals in the UK, US, Eire, Europe, Australia, India and SE Asia. His debut collection, Life Drawing, was published in 2022 by Kelsay Books. His second collection, Contact Sheets, is due for publication early 2024. He is the author of seven textbooks and many articles.

Twitter https://twitter.com/KrisSpencerHead

Judith Skillman paints expressionist works in oil on canvas and board. She is interested in feelings engendered by the natural world. Her paintings have been featured on the covers of Thin Air Magazine, Pithead Chapel, and Torrid Literature. Work appears in The Penn Review, Artemis, Raven Chronicles, and other journals. Skillman has studied visual art at McDaniel College, Pratt Fine Arts Center, and Seattle Artist League (SAL). Shows include The Pratt, Galvanize, and SAL.

website https://www.judithskillman.com/

Etsy https://www.etsy.com/shop/JkpaintingsStore

Natalia Pikna is a freelance writer and student of Linguistics and English Literature. With roots in Slovakia, she currently spends most of her time between Belgium and Luxembourg. In her work, she likes to examine what it means to belong. Her creative writing is published or forthcoming in Flare: An Anthology of Chronic Illness, and Young Voices – Short Fiction by Young Writers From Luxembourg. Books and museums are her favourite things to get lost in.

Clara Pasian was born in 2000 and brought up in France. She is a writer, poet and musician. Several of her writings have been featured in magazines such as Pandora’s Box, Flight of the Dragonfly, Dreich Magazine, Pier Review, Quail Bell Journal, Unlikely Stories, and The Storms.

JC Alfier’s most recent book, The Shadow Field, was published by Louisiana Literature Press (2020). Journal credits include The Emerson Review, Faultline, New York Quarterly, Notre Dame Review, Penn Review, Poetry Ireland, and Vassar Review.

Niki Strange is a poet and creative workshop facilitator living in Brighton. She rediscovered poetry during cancer treatment in 2019 and went on to win Arts Council funding for a poetry residency at the Macmillan Horizon Centre, delivering 16 workshops for people affected by cancer. She passionately believes in poetry’s power to support health and wellbeing. Her poems have won prizes in Sussex, Second Light and Hedgehog Poetry Press competitions and have featured in a range of anthologies and journals. Her first pamphlet, ‘Body Talk’, was published by Flight of the Dragonfly Press in 2022.

Twitter https://twitter.com/NikiStrange

Bluesky @nikipoet.bsky.social

S. Preston Duncan is a leathercrafter, BBQist, and death doula in Richmond, Virginia (USA). Author of the short collection, The Sound in This Time of Being (BIGWRK, 2020), his work has been nominated for Best of the Net, translated into Chinese by Poetry Lab Shanghai, and appeared in many fine publications, including; [PANK], Twyckenham Notes, and Image (forthcoming)

Fred Johnston was born in Belfast and educated there and Toronto, Canada. He worked as a journalist and in PR in Dublin and Belfast. In 1972 he received a Hennessy Literary Award for prose. In the mid-Seventies, with Peter Seridan and Neil Jordan, he founded the Irish Writers’ Co-operative. He founded CUIRT in 1986, which grew to become an annual literature festival. His poems in French have been published widely in France. He was a poetry reviewer with The Irish Times, Poetry Ireland Review, Books Ireland. He’s the author of three novels, three short story collections and 8 poetry collections.

Twitter https://twitter.com/kenssington

Alan Murphy is the Lismore based artist and writer-illustrator of four collections of poetry for children and teenagers. He has also contributed photography, visual art and poetry to numerous digital and print outlets and anthologies in Ireland, the UK and the US. His images have graced the covers of Riggwelter Press and Drawn To The Light poetry journal issues.

Twitter https://twitter.com/AllGumsBlazing

Instagram https://www.instagram.com/arty_poet/

Vicky Allen is the author of Broken Things and other Tales (Hedgehog Poetry Press 2020). Vicky’s new micro-pamphlet is also published by Hedgehog Poetry Press. She’s been published in places like Mslexia, Stravaig, Saccharine Poetry, Writers Cafe, as well as anthologies from Proost, Dove Tales, Fevers of the Mind and Black Agnes Press. Her spoken word work Wonderlines was performed at the Edinburgh Book Fringe in 2018 and Fringe at the Yard in 2019. She has twice been a Pushcart Prize nominee. Vicky is currently working on a full collection and practices as an illustrator/artist while working in the charity sector.

Twitter https://twitter.com/bringonthejoy

Instagram https://www.instagram.com/bringonthejoy/

D.C. Nobes is a physicist, a poet, and a photographer who, aside from 2 years on Vancouver Island, spent his first 39 years in or near Toronto, Canada, then 23 years based in Christchurch, New Zealand, 4 years in China, and has retired to Bali. He used to enjoy winter but admits that he doesn’t miss the snow or the cold. He thinks almost all poetry is meant to be read aloud. His poetry and art photographs have been widely published

Twitter https://twitter.com/Sebon521

Instagram https://www.instagram.com/sebon52/

Róisín McIntosh is a short story writer working from the Blackstairs Mountains in Carlow, with some previous works appearing in Splonk and The Sunspot Literary Journal. She has a keen interest in both Irish and American voices, including the highly chatty Irish-American voices who reside with her at home in the form of her three children. Róisín is working on a collection of short stories. She holds a Masters in Anglo Irish Literature and Drama.

Twitter( X) https://twitter.com/RoisinMcIntosh

Anne Tannam has published three poetry collections, the latest ‘Twenty-six Letters of a New Alphabet’ (2021 Salmon Poetry). She is working on her fourth collection with the support of a Literature Bursary from the Arts Council of Ireland and Dublin County Council. Anne is Poetry Ireland’s current Poet in Residence.

Website https://www.annetannampoetry.ie/

Karen Pierce Gonzalez’s art celebrates the beauty of what is possible in the natural world. A 2022 National Arts Program Featured Artist (USA), her work has appeared in several magazines and galleries, including FERAL: A Journal of Poetry and Art, and Nightingale and Sparrow Literary Magazine. Currently creating a 9-piece ‘Bird Nest Psalms’ assemblage series with nest fragments found after recent storms, she is also a published writer/poet.

Twitter https://twitter.com/folkheartpress Instagram https://www.instagram.com/karenpiercegonzalez/

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Lucy Heuschen is a London-born poet living in Germany and founder of The Rainbow Poems project. Poems in (or forthcoming in) IS&T, Reach, One Hand Clapping, The Storms, The High Window, Obsessed with Pipework, Green Ink and more. Anthologies: Black Bough, Yaffle, New Contexts, Dreich, Sídhe Press. Debut pamphlet: We Wear The Crown (Hedgehog Press 2022).

Website https://www.lucyheuschen.co.uk/

Twitter https://twitter.com/PetiteCreature1

Lauren O’Donovan is a writer from Cork. In 2023, she won the Cúirt New Writing Prize in Poetry and was shortlisted for Listowel Writers’ Week Collection Award, Poetry Business Pamphlet Competition, and the Fish Poetry Prize. Lauren is co-founder of Lime Square Poets and HOWL New Irish Writing.

Twitter https://twitter.com/LaurenODonovanW

Christina Hennemann is a poet and prose writer based in Ireland. She’s a recipient of the Irish Arts Council’s Agility Award ’23 and was longlisted in the National Poetry Competition. Her work appears in Skylight 47, The Moth, Poetry Wales, York Literary Review, fifth wheel, Ink Sweat & Tears, Moria, and elsewhere. Website http://www.christinahennemann.com

Twitter https://twitter.com/chr_writer

Charity McArdle studied art in London before moving into teaching, raising a family and eventually life in Scotland. She rediscovered her practice in 2015 with a series of commissioned and personal portraits, including two for the NHS portraits for heroes initiative and the coyly provovative ‘Caledonian Buddha’. In 2018 she focused on seascapes and landscapes and a number of commissions followed which allowed for collaboration and challenge. ‘Trying to capture someone else’s feelings and vision helped me to develop my work’.

Instagram https://www.instagram.com/charitymcardleartist_artist/

Website www.charitymcardlefineart.com

Janette Finlayson, retired from the Financial Industry, now writes short stories and poetry. She’s had two short stories published. One in The Eildon Tree, another in an anthology, produced by poet Nicky Melville and friends. She also writes about nature walks and is working on a longer piece weaving history, family, and personal thoughts. She writes on WordPress, factual and fictional pieces; observations of the real and imagined.

Website https://jimjansjournal.home.blog/

Twitter https://twitter.com/JanetteF1956

Mary E. Ringland is a poet based in County Antrim. She is a regular contributor at spoken word events. Her poems have appeared in Bangor Literary Journal, Live Encounters, Belfast Community Arts Partnership Anthologies, 2022 & 2023, Eat the Storms podcast 2022, and most recently, the Morecambe Poetry Festival Anthology 2023. She is studying for an MA in Creative Writing at the Open University. Her debut poetry pamphlet is due for publication in 2024.

Twitter https://twitter.com/M_Ringland_Poet

Instagram https://www.instagram.com/m.ringland.poet/

Lynn Valentine lives in the Black Isle. Her debut poetry collection, Life’s Stink and Honey, was published by Cinnamon Press in 2022 after winning their literature award. Her Scots language pamphlet, A Glimmer o Stars, was published by Hedgehog Press in 2021 after winning their dialect award. She is widely published with work in Gutter, Under the Radar, New Writing Scotland and elsewhere.She is currently working on her second collection which will be published by Cinnamon Press in 2026

Twitter https://twitter.com/dizzylynn

Website https://lynnvalentine.com/

Susan Richardson is the author of Things My Mother Left Behind (Potter’s Grove Press), and Tiger Lily (JC Studio Press), an Ekphrastic Collaboration with artist Jane Cornwell. Susan also writes the blog, “Stories from the Edge of Blindness”, and hosts the podcast, “A Thousand Shades of Green.” Her poems have appeared in The Storms, Crannog, California Quarterly, Ink Sweat and Tears, and The Opiate Magazine, among others. Originally from Los Angeles, she now lives in Ireland with her husband, 2 pugs and 2 cats

Website https://floweringink.com/

Twitter https://twitter.com/Floweringink

Joseph Fasano is a poet, novelist, songwriter, and teacher. His newest book is The Magic Words, collection of poetry prompts that help people of all ages unlock their creativity. He is the author of two novels—The Swallows of Lunetto and The Dark Heart of Every Wild Thing—and five volumes of poetry, including The Last Song of the World (BOA Editions, 2024). His work has been widely translated and anthologized, most recently in The Forward Book of Poetry (Faber and Faber).
Twitter/X https://twitter.com/Joseph_Fasano_

Instagram https://www.instagram.com/joseph.fasano/

Artisan baker by trade, Alfredo Salvatore Arcilesi has been published in numerous literary journals. Winner of the Scribes Valley Short Story Writing Contest, he was a Pushcart Prize nominee, and twice nominated for Sundress Publications’ Best of the Net. In addition to several short pieces, he is currently working on his debut novel.

Twitter https://twitter.com/libraryscent

Marie Studer lives in Castleconnell, Co. Limerick. She has recently retired after 26 years as an administrator in Older Persons and Palliative Care Services. Her debut collection Real Words (Revival Press) is to be launched in October, 2023. Marie is a past winter of the Trocáire Poetry Ireland Competition, twice a winner in the Bangor Ekphrastic Poetry Challenge and shortlisted in other competitions. She has been widely published in literary journals and anthologies, most recently in The Galway Review, The Ogham Stone, Live Encounters, The Stony Thursday Book

Twitter https://twitter.com/StudiMarie

Real Words available at https://limerickwriterscentre.com/product/real-words-by-marie-studer/

Creana Bosac lives in Leicestershire. She has worked as an Open University Associate Lecturer and now edits and writes creative writing critiques. Having written mainly scientific documents before, she enjoys writing creatively, especially about the natural world and about neurodiversity issues. Her work has appeared in Lucent Dreaming, Briefly Zine and Wildfire Words amongst others, and she has authored a guide to giving and receiving feedback.
Twitter https://twitter.com/CBosac

Byddi Lee is the author of “Rejuvenation,” a speculative fiction trilogy, (first published by Castrum Press 2020) and “March to November” (2014). She co-founded Flash Fiction Armagh and co-wrote the play “IMPACT – Armagh’s Train Disaster” staged by Armagh Theatre Group. Byddi is an Arts Council Northern Ireland supported writer.

Twitter https://twitter.com/Byddi

Instagram https://www.instagram.com/byddilee/

Phil Lynch’s poems have appeared in a range of literary journals and anthologies. His work has been featured in a number of national and local radio arts shows. He is a regular performer at poetry/spoken word events and festivals in Ireland and further afield. His poetry collection In a Changing Light (Salmon Poetry) was published in 2016

Facebook https://www.facebook.com/philip.lynch.39

Instagram https://www.instagram.com/philrlynch1/

Philip Arneill is a Belfast-born writer, photographer and PhD Researcher at Ulster University. Co-creator of the ‘Tokyo Jazz Joints’ audio-visual documentary project, his Tokyo Jazz Joints photobook was published by Kehrer in June 2023. His writing and photographic practice explore the illusory ideas of home and culture by examining insider-outsider dynamics and issues of place and identity. His writing has been published in Ropes, Riffs and other journals. SM handles are all @philiparneill

Twitter https://twitter.com/philiparneill

Nigel Kent is a Pushcart Prize nominated poet and reviewer living in rural Worcestershire. He’s an active member of the Open University Poetry Society. He has been shortlisted for several national competitions and his poetry has appeared in various anthologies and magazines. He is the author of Benchwarmers, Unmuted, Saudade, Psychopathogen and two poetry conversations with Sarah Thomson, (Thinking You Home and A Hostile Environment), all published by Hedgehog Poetry Press. His latest pamphlet, Fall, will be published by Hedgehog Poetry Press in September 2023. He has been shortlisted three times for the Saboteur Award for Reviewer of Literature. Website https://nigelkentpoet.wordpress.com/

Twitter https://twitter.com/kent_nj

June O’Sullivan lives on an island in Co. Kerry, Ireland. She is currently working on a novel and writes flash fiction and short stories. She is a part-time student of the MA in Creative Writing at the University of Limerick.

Twitter https://twitter.com/OSullyj79

Eoin Cahill is based in Cork. A husband and father of two boys, his poems have appeared in Cork Words 3, Poetry in the Park, Dreich Magazine, Drawn to the Light Press, and Black Bough Poetry – Sound and Vision among other places.

Twitter @eoinspoems

Ceridwen Hall is a poet and educator from Ohio. She holds a PhD from the University of Utah and is the author of two chapbooks: Authors such tomotive (Finishing Line Press), fields drawn from subtle arrows (Co-winner of the 2022 Midwest Chapbook Award). Her full-length collection, Acoustic Shadows, is forthcoming from Broadstone Books. Her work has appeared in TriQuarterly, Pembroke Magazine, Tar River Poetry, The Cincinnati Review, Craft, Poet Lore, and other journals.

website https://www.ceridwenhall.com/

M P Pratheesh lives and works in Kerala, India. His poems and object/visual poems/images have been appeared or forthcoming at various places including Portside Review, Modern Poetry in Translation, Oxford Anthology of Poetry, RlC journal, Indianapolis Review, Nationalpoetrymonth.ca(Angelhouse press), Tiny spoon, Door is a jar, Ethelzine & Indian Literature among many others. His recent books are Transfiguring Places,(Paperview books, Portugal) & The Burial(forthcoming from Osmosis press, UK). He is the recipient of Kedarnath Singh Memorial poetry prize,2022.

Twitter https://twitter.com/mppratheeshpoet

Instagram https://www.instagram.com/mppratheeshpoet/

Precious Uwen resides in Calabar, Nigeria. His work has appeared or is forthcoming in numerous places, including Eboquills, Eremite Poetry, Afro Literary Magazine, Kahalari Review, Rough Cut Press, DoteofFlane, WRR, The Madrigal Press, Warning Lines Magazine, Fiction Niche, Okadabooks (an anthology titled Christmas and Candlelight), Aceworld Publishers, Paper Crane Journal, Brittle Paper, and elsewhere

Twitter https://twitter.com/uwenprecioustr

Instagram https://www.instagram.com/_preciousuwen/

Fiona McKay is the author of The Top Road, AdHoc Fiction (2023), and Drawn and Quartered, Alien Buddha Press (2023). SmokeLong Quarterly Emerging Writer Fellow. Writes with Writers’HQ. Words in Bath Flash, Reflex Fiction, Janus Literary, Pithead Chapel, The Forge and others. Arts Council Ireland Agility Award. Lives in Dublin, Ireland.

Twitter https://twitter.com/fionaemckayryan

Bluesky @fionamckay.bsky.social

Tolu Ogunlesi’s fiction and poetry have appeared in Wasafiri, Transition, Sable, Istanbul Literature Review, Magma, Orbis, Eclectica, VLQ, Inkpot, Mississippi Review, Times Arts Review, and many others. He’s the winner of a Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Poetry Prize, a PEN/Studzinski Literary Award, and writing/research fellowships from Nordic Africa Institute (NAI), Sweden; University of Birmingham, England; Rockefeller Foundation and Harvard University. He currently divides his time between Abuja, Nigeria, and Cambridge, MA, USA.

Twitter https://twitter.com/toluogunlesi

Instagram https://www.instagram.com/toluogunlesi/

Nandi Jola is a South African born poet, storyteller and playwright, as well as a Smock Alley Theatre Rachel Baptiste 2022 Programme recipient. She was a creative writing facilitator for Ulster University Books Beyond Boundaries NI in 2021. Her one woman play ‘The Journey’ opened the International Literature Festival Dublin in October, 2020. She represented Northern Ireland at the Transpoesie Poetry Festival in 2021 and is a commissioned poet for Poetry Jukebox, Ambiguities, a James Joyce programme of the Centre Culturel Irlandais and Impermanence Way Archive Project 2022. She is studying for her MA in Poetry at Queen’s University Belfast.

Twitter https://twitter.com/JolaNandi

Chris Cottom lives near Macclesfield, England. His stories appear in Agape Review, Apricot Press, Bournemouth Writing Prize, Cranked Anvil, Ellipsis Zine, Flash 500, FlashFlood, Free Flash Fiction, Hysteria, LoveReading, On The Premises, One Wild Ride, Oxford Flash Fiction, Parracombe Prize, Retreat West, Shooter Flash, Story Nook, Streetcake, The Centifictionist, and others.

Bluesky @chriscottom.bsky.social

Twitter https://twitter.com/chris_cottom1

Doryn Herbst, a former water industry scientist in Wales now living in Germany. Her writing considers the natural world and themes which address social issues. Poetry in: Amsterdam Quarterly, Green Ink Poetry, Ink Sweat & Tears and more, forthcoming in: Osmosis. She is a reviewer at Consilience

Twitter https://twitter.com/DorynHerbst

Catherine Brennan is a self-taught visual artist and emerging poet and photographer from Laois. She has been involved in exhibitions around Ireland and has had 2 solo shows. As someone living with anxiety, her work is visceral. Working through multi media allows this expression to emerge in the moment. 

Twitter @ccbrennanart72

Instagram http://www.instagram.com/aglimpseaday

Helen Anderson writes in a small coastal town in the North East of England. She has an MA in Creative Writing from Teesside University, and her debut poetry pamphlet ‘Sagrada Familia’ was published by Nine Pens Press in 2022. Author of ‘Piece by Piece: Remembering Georgina: A Mother’s Memoir’ (Slipway) and ‘Way Out’ (The Black Light Engine Room Press), she is fascinated by the therapeutic power of words.

Twitter https://twitter.com/HelenVAnderson

Website https://helenvictoriaanderson.co.uk/

Sarah Doyle is the Pre-Raphaelite Society’s Poet-in-Residence and is researching a PhD on meteorological poetry at Birmingham City University. She has been published widely and placed in many competitions. A pamphlet of poems collaged from fragments of Dorothy Wordsworth’s journals – Something so wild and new in this feeling – was published by V. Press in 2021, and her second pamphlet, (m)othersongs, was published by the same press in autumn 2023.
Website https://www.sarahdoyle.co.uk/

Twitter https://twitter.com/PoetSarahDoyle

Cathy Fowley lives between Dublin and Co. Mayo. She holds an MA in Translation Studies and a PhD in Internet Research. Her autoethnographic work, often in poetry form, has been published in academic books and journals, her poetry in Drawn to the Light and Corvid Queen.

Instagram https://www.instagram.com/seldomhowever/

Twitter https://twitter.com/cathyfowley

Dan Berick is a writer based in Cleveland, Ohio USA, whose poetry and fiction explores love and loss and loneliness and their unexamined reflections in the lives of the quiet people around us all. Dan is also a lawyer, a husband, a father, and a graduate of Columbia University and the University of Chicago

Instagram https://www.instagram.com/danberick/

Facebook https://www.facebook.com/dan.berick

As singer/songwriter, poet, and playwright, Rosemary Tumilty encompasses a unique appetite for the arts. She is the recipient of four Arts Council Awards for Literature, and is the beneficiary of two prestigious literary scholarships: the W.B. Yeats International Summer School (2018), and the John Hewitt International Summer School (2019), culminating in the staging of her play set to poetic verse, ‘Hunter’s Moon of Airgialla’ at Killeavy Castle in Nov 2019.

Facebook https://www.facebook.com/rosemary.tumilty

Brett Ashley writes from Ann Arbor, Michigan, US. She’s worked in communications, both online and print, as a writer, editor, and director. She has also taught literature and writing. She has English literature degrees from Northern Michigan University and the University of Michigan.

Sue Finch’s first collection, ‘Magnifying Glass’, was published in 2020. Her work has also appeared in a number of online magazines. She loves the coast, peculiar things and the scent of ice-cream freezers

Twitter https://twitter.com/soopoftheday

Instagram https://www.instagram.com/soopof/

Neo Florence Gilson is a Cork-based a poet, and a storyteller. She is a resident artist at Sample Studios.She completed her Residency with Playitforward fellowships for the year 2022. Her readings were part of the Dublin Literature Festival,Cork International Poetry Festival , the “Migrant Authors in Ireland” show on Traffika Radio Europe, and “Breaking Ground Writers” at the Cuirt Festival of Literature.

Devon Neal (he/him) is a Bardstown, KY resident who received a B.A. in Creative Writing from Eastern Kentucky University and an MBA from The University of the Cumberlands. He currently works as a Human Resources Manager in Louisville, KY. His work has been featured in Moss Puppy Magazine, Dead Peasant, Paddler Press, MIDLVLMAG, and others.
Twitter https://twitter.com/DevMinor

Bluesky @DevMinor

Ann Marie Dunne has just finished a BA in Arts in Humanities as a mature student. She completed a portfolio of poetry for her dissertation. During the summer she is a boat skipper in Kilkenny City on the River Nore. Her poems have been published in Apricot Press, The Honest Ulsterman, Drawn to the Light, The Martello and the XR Creative Hub. She loves books, boats and hiking.

Fixing Up Rooskey was part of a portfolio for her dissertation. The theme was suffering/joy and she wrote poems in pairs, Here’s a link to partner poem Selling Sorrow

2023 Student Literary Awards

Twitter https://twitter.com/AnnMarieDunne

Instagram https://www.instagram.com/dunneannmarie/

Pushcart Prize nominee, Jane Dougherty’s poetry has appeared in publications such as Ogham Stone, Black Bough Poetry, ink sweat and tears, Gleam, Nightingale & Sparrow, Green Ink and The Storms Journal. She has two poetry chapbooks, thicker than water and birds and other feathers.

Twitter https://twitter.com/MJDougherty33
Website https://thefourswans.wordpress.com/

Patrick B. Osada is an editor and also writes reviews of poetry for magazines. He recently retired after ten years on SOUTH Poetry Magazine’s Management Team and as the Magazine’s Reviews Editor. His first collection, Close to the Edge was published in 1996 & won the prestigious ROSEMARY ARTHUR AWARD. He has published seven collections, From The Family Album was launched in October 2020. Patrick’s work has been broadcast on national and local radio and widely published in magazines, anthologies and on the internet.

Website http://www.poetry-patrickosada.co.uk

Dominic J. Sweeney is from Donegal, Ireland. He writes in English and Irish for both adults and children. His poetry has been published by The London Magazine, An Capall Dorcha, Púca, The Dirigible Balloon, appears on poetry podcast “Eat The Storms” and is forthcoming in Spelt Magazine, Eat The Storms and Loft Books. He was recently selected by Poetry As Commemoration and Poetry Ireland to contribute to their Decade of Centenaries project with his poem “Split?”.
Twitter https://twitter.com/chinesenecklace

Instagram https://www.instagram.com/chinesenecklace/

Writing with a social and environmental conscience, Mark Stewart is hoping to redress the balance in favour of Mother Nature. Often found deep in the woods of magical realism, in the company of wolves and other metamorphic creatures, or in the literary edgelands not far from the sea. His literary roots are in the chalky loam of the South Downs, where he is lucky to live close to Nature.

Twitter https://twitter.com/pendragonmist

Karen Mooney’s work has been published in the UK, USA and Ireland and is included in several anthologies. She co-wrote ‘Penned In’ with Gaynor Kane, published by The Hedgehog Poetry Press in 2020, publisher of her debut pamphlet ‘Missing Pieces’ in 2022 and her forthcoming pamphlet ‘Pivot Points & Portals’, co-written with Caroline Johnstone.

Twitter https://twitter.com/1karenmooney

Gaynor Kane lives in Belfast, Northern Ireland, where she is a part-time creative, involved in the local arts scene. She writes poetry and is an amateur artist and photographer. In all her creative activities she is looking to capture moments that might otherwise be missed.

Website gaynorkane.com

Twitter https://twitter.com/gaynorkane

Mo Schoenfeld has work online in Irisi Magazine, The Best Haiku 2021 Anthology, Tiny Wren Lit, Pure Haiku, and Fevers of the Mind. She’s appeared in print in Issue 1 of The Storms, The Best Haiku 2022 Anthology (her 2022 entry won a ‘Judges Special Mention’ prize), in ‘Our Own Coordinates: Poems About Dementia’ (on which she also served as guest co-editor), and ‘Glisk and Glimmer Poems About Light (both by Sídhe Press).

Twitter https://twitter.com/MoSchoenfeld

Bluesky @moschoenfeld.bsky.social

Cumbria born Terri Metcalfe has been published in Abridged, A New Ulster, Green Ink Poetry, Skylight 47, Crowstep Journal and The Poetry Cooperative’s Fearless anthology, was shortlisted for the Open Window mentorship programme and appeared on Eat the Storms podcast. The late Kevin Higgins invited her to read at the 20th anniversary of Over the Edge Galway. Terri spent several decades in recovery from mental and physical illness, which she draws from in her work and hopes to inspire others to use the arts as a tool for positive mental health. She’s working towards a debut collection.
Twitter/X https://twitter.com/terrismetcalfe
Instagram https://www.instagram.com/terri.metcalfe/

Annick Yerem is a German/Scottish poet based in Berlin. She has published a few words in a few places, among them iamb, The Dirigible Balloon, River Mouth Review, Stanza Cannon. Her book, St Eisenberg and the Sunshine Bus, was published in 2022. Annick is EIC of Sídhe Press. She is also a renowned cake spy and loves piglets.
Twitter https://twitter.com/missyerem Bluesky: @missyerem.bsky.social Instagram https://www.instagram.com/missyerem/

David Hanlon is a poet from Cardiff, Wales. He is a Best of the Net nominee. You can find his work online in over 70 magazines, including Rust & Moth, trampset & Barren Magazine. His first chapbook Spectrum of Flight is available for purchase now at Animal Heart Press.

Twitter https://twitter.com/DavidHanlon13

Instagram https://www.instagram.com/welshpoetd/

Rosie Morris began writing creatively in her 50s, finally allowing a lifetime’s longing to breathe. Her work has since been published in anthologies and journals (most recently in HU and forthcoming in Sonder) and placed or listed in many competitions. Rosie’s writing, heavily influenced by her lived experiences, explores fracture and (un)belonging. Her first novel, in the stew-pot for years, is almost finished. Rosie co-edits The Four Faced Liar literary journal.

Twitter https://twitter.com/RosieMor29
Instagram https://www.instagram.com/rosiemor29/

Eabhan Ní Shuileabháin, originally from Ireland, now lives in North Wales, just outside the boundary of Eryri National Park. Her writing is often direct and usually has a strong emotional core. Much of it has a social conscience. She has been published in a range of journals in Ireland, Britain, Australia and the United States.

Instagram https://www.instagram.com/eabhans/

Ellen Harrold is an artist and writer focused on science and nature. A core aspect of her practice is the use of text, drawing, and painting to explore the connection between decay and renewal in the world around us. She has recently published written pieces with Danse Macabre, New Note Poetry, and Die Leere Mitte. She has also recently published her first book ‘Aesthetics and Conventions of Medical Art.’.

Twitter https://ellenharrold.art/

Born and raised in the USA. Residing in Ireland since 1998. The work of PD Lyons has appeared in publications throughout the world.

Instagram https://www.instagram.com/pdlyons/

Website https://pdlyons.wordpress.com/

Nithy Kasa is a Congolese-Irish poet whose work is featured on the Adrian Brinkerhoff Poetry Foundation website, the University of Galway’s archive, the Special Collections of University College Dublin, Poetry Ireand Review and others. She is among the ten poets selected for Poetry as Commemoration for the Decade of Centenaries 2012-2023 programme by UCD supported by the Department of Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media. She received the Poetry Ireland Commission 2020 and was shortlisted for The Eavan Boland Emerging Poet Award 2021. Her debut collection of poetry, Palm Wine Tapper and The Boy at Jericho, Doire Press 2022, was selected by the Art Council of Ireland for the ‘read mór’ for Culture Night Ireland 2022, was listed among the top poetry books of 2022 by the Irish Times, and was shortlisted for the Pigott Poetry Prize 2023. Nithy is also a facilitator registered with the Irish Writers Centre.

Twitter https://twitter.com/nithykasa

Damien B. Donnelly is the host and producer of the poetry podcast Eat the Storms and the editor-in-chief of The Storms, a journal of poetry, prose and visual art. His debut pamphlet, Eat the Storms, published by The Hedgehog Poetry Press, was featured on the Poetry Book Society Winter List 2020/21, followed by a Stickleback micro collection and In the Jitterfritz of Neon, a conversational pamphlet co-written with Eilín de Paor. His first full collection Enough! was published by Hedgehog in August 2022. His poetry and short stories have appeared in numerous journals, both online and in print.

Twitter https://twitter.com/deuxiemepeau