Below is a list of all the contributors to our 4th issue, to be launched 10 Nov 2024. Contributors appear in the order they feature in the journal. The theme for this issue is Dublin Days, from city to shore and across the sea.
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Darragh Treacy, originally from Avoca, Co. Wicklow, is an award-winning artist and designer. Specialising in oil painting, his work has been featured in numerous group exhibitions across Ireland and the UK, including prestigious events such as the annual Dublin Painting & Sketching Club exhibition, the Royal Society of Marine Artists in London, and the South West Academy of Fine & Applied Arts. He has held solo exhibitions annually at the Wexford Opera Festival since 2011. Darragh works both “en plein air” and in his studio, creating pieces that explore a wide range of subjects, from still life to landscapes and street scenes. In addition to year-round private commissions, his artwork is held in private collections both in Ireland and internationally. Since 2019, Darragh has served as president of the Dublin Painting & Sketching Club, which celebrated its 150th anniversary in 2024.
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Rebecca D’Arcy got her PhD in English from Dublin City University in 2016 and currently works with Fingal Libraries. She has published essays in Postcolonial Text and The Literary London Journal. Her poetry has previously appeared in The Blue Nib and The Storms, and her short stories have been published in Tír na NÓg literary magazine and The Martello. She lives in Rush, Co. Dublin with her husband and two dogs.
Brian Kirk has published two collections with Salmon Poetry, After The Fall (2017) and Hare’s Breath (2023). His chapbook It’s Not Me, It’s You won the Southword Fiction Chapbook Competition, published by Southword Editions in 2019. His novel Riverrun was chosen as a winner of the IWC Novel Fair 2022.
Fodhla Ward paints oil landscapes of familiar & comforting places that feel like visiting an old friend. She grew up in West Donegal enjoying the freedom of the rural wilderness which sparked her fascination with the natural world. She has exhibited in several group exhibitions including Pluid at the Cowshed Farmleigh, Signal Arts Centre Bray, TON gallery and Ardgillan Gallery. She received a Fingal Artists support bursary in 2023. Her work is in the OPW state collection and private collections nationally and in the USA, UK and Australia.
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Finola Cahill is a writer from the west of Ireland. Her poetry has been published in the London Magazine, the Honest Ulsterman, Propel, and others. She won the 2023 Waterford Poetry Prize and the 2024 Single Poem Award at Listowel Writers Week. She is at work on her first collection.
Bernie Crawford’s poetry has been published in Irish and international journals. She received an arts bursary from Galway County Council (2019) and an Agility Award from the Arts Council (2022). Her first collection Living Water was published by Chaffinch Press (2021). She is co-editor of the poetry magazine Skylight 47.
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Teri Donaghy lives in North County Dublin but hails originally from Belfast. Teri has enjoyed creative writing, particularly historical fiction, for many years, attending classes and workshops both in Ireland and the UK. Teri is an Associate member of the Irish Writers Centre and is currently working on her first novel.
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Catrin Mari is a social scientist based in Cardiff. She is a Welsh speaker and has recently started learning Irish. She completed her degree at Queen’s University, Belfast. Whilst in Belfast, she would visit Dublin often. Her poetry deals with themes of historic figures, shifting identities, and sense of place. She has been published widely online and is working on her first collection.
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Catherine Ann Cullen is author of seven books, and a Postdoctoral Fellow with UCD/Poetry Ireland, reclaiming the street poets of Victorian Dublin. She was Poetry Ireland’s inaugural Poet in Residence, for which she won her second B2A Award for Best Use of Creativity in the Community. She is an award-winning children’s writer and songwriter.
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Enda Coyle-Greene’s three collections with the Dedalus Press are: Snow Negatives (2007) winner of the 2006 Patrick Kavanagh Award, Map of the Last (2013) and Indigo, Electric, Baby (2020). The recipient of a Patrick and Katherine Kavanagh Fellowship in 2020, she is co-founder and Artistic Director of Fingal Poetry Festival.
Ruby Murphy is an aspiring writer of some shape or form. She is a student of English and Philosophy currently studying at Trinity College Dublin.
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Nicola McEntee, native of Dundrum, Dublin now lives in Mullingar, Co. Westmeath. Drawing on her life experience as mother, and from her career as a Doula and Antenatal Educator, inspires Nicola to write poetry and short stories on Motherhood. She is a member of Writers Ink writing group, since 2012.
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From India, Sree Sen is currently based in Dublin, Ireland. Her creative works have appeared in Poetry Ireland Review, Stinging Fly, Banshee, Honest Ulsterman and others. She won the Agility Award by Arts Council of Ireland in 2024 and 2021; UCD Maeve Binchy Travel Award 2020; and received Cill Rialaig Residency 2020. Her debut poetry pamphlet Cracked Asphalt was published by Fly On The Wall Press in August, 2022.
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Anne McDonald is an award winning writer and artist who spent much of her working life in Dublin’s inner city, witnessing heartaches and triumphs of people living, dying, rearing families and adapting to a changing urban landscape. Her debut poetry collection “Crow’s Books” was published in 2020.
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Frances Browner, creative writing tutor, Greystones, Co. Wicklow. Poetry collection, Roots & Wings published by Revival Press, 2019, and debut novel, A Bronx Summer, 2023. Short story, Little Palm Trees, highly commended for Costa Book Awards, 2020. Lockdown won 1st prize in Dun Laoghaire Local Voices Haiku competition, 2020.
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Siobhán Flynn is from Dublin. She was selected for the Freedom to Write Project 2024, Poetry Ireland Introductions 2023 and won the Cúirt New Writing Prize for poetry in 2022. Her work has been published in several journals including The Irish Times, Dreich, The Poetry Bus, Skylight 47 and others.
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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.
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Born in 1935 in the Irish Midlands, Séamus ua Trodd has been writing poetry for over forty years. He has been published in the Stinging Fly and at various other outlets. He has given readings in Canada, in the UK, and locally within Ireland.
Sven Kretzschmar hails from Germany. His work has been published internationally, e.g., in Writing Home. The ‘New Irish’ Poets (Dedalus Press, 2019), Hold Open the Door (UCD Press, 2020), Das Gedicht, The Irish Times and more. He was awarded 2nd place at the Francis Ledwidge International Poetry Award 2022.
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Michael C. Roberts (61% Irish according to 23&Me and 100% Irish by family lore) has returned to his avocation of photography after an academic career in clinical psychology. His photographs (both digital and analogue/film images) have appeared in scientific and literary journals. He seeks excellence and accepts being okay.
Award-winning Poet, Janina Aza Karpinska, (M.A. Creative Writing & Personal Development, with Merit, Sussex University), writes in many styles. Her work has appeared in: Three Drops Poetry; Ekphrastic Review; Isacoustic, Willawaw Journal; Poems in the Waiting Room; London Reader; Sein und Werd: Magma, and Raising the Fifth among others.
Clodagh O Connor lives in Dublin, Ireland, and enjoys being immersed in stories. She is working on becoming a writer and currently has a novel and many short stories in progress.
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Amanda Bell is an award-winning writer whose books have been published by Doire Press, Fine Press Poetry, Onslaught Press, Alba Publishing and Wildflower Poetry Press. She is assistant editor of The Haibun Journal, and is currently writing fiction with the support of Literature Bursary from the Arts Council.
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Dr. Alicia Byrne Keane’s writing has appeared in The Stinging Fly (Featured Poet 2021-22), Banshee and The Moth, among other journals. Alicia has received awards from the Irish Arts Council, Fingal County Council and Dublin City Council. Alicia’s debut collection is titled Pretend Cartoon Strength (Broken Sleep Books, December 2023).
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Caitríona Lane is a bilingual poet / writer. She is an award winning Irish language poet whose work was selected by Poetry Ireland for the 2022 Introductions series. In 2023 she was shortlisted for the Eavan Boland Emerging Poet Award. Caitríona has read her work at Cork International Short Story Festival 2023.
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Susan Brannick is a Dublin resident, and burgeoning writer, following a highly enjoyable creative writing class in Crumlin college in 2023. This is her first submission to a collection of writing. Susan’s work references themes of isolation, difference, often through a political lens.
Jay Rafferty is a redhead, an uncle and an eejit. He is a guest lecturer on Irish Literature and a Programme Committee member for The John Hewitt Society. He is also the author of three chapbooks: ‘Holy Things,‘ ‘Strange Magic’ and ‘All That’s Between Us is Time.
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Issue 4 Featured Poet
Featured Poet Ciara Ní É is a bilingual writer, performer, and broadcaster. MC of REIC bilingual spoken word and co-founder of LGBTQ+ arts collective AerachAiteachGaelach. Ciara has performed in New York, Paris, London, Brussels, Sweden, and across Ireland. Artist in Residence with UCD Scoil ICSF 2023, The Dublin Fringe Festival 2022 and DCU 2020. Work published in anthologies Bone and Marrow/Cnámh agus Smior, Queering the Green, Washing Windows Too; journals Aneas, Icarus, and Comhar. Currently in post production for her first short film.
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R.J. Breathnach is an award-winning writer, Wexford-born and Meath-based. His poetry has been published in Drawn to the Light, Dreich Magazine, and The Honest Ulsterman, among others. His debut poetry chapbook, I Grew Tired of Being a Zombie, was published by Alien Buddha Press in 2021.
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Irish born Finn Cassidy grew up in County Monaghan. In 2002, he swapped ‘the rat-race’ of corporate Dublin for ‘a snail’s pace’ in the French-Alps, where he still lives and writes poetry. His poems have featured in a variety of international poetry journals and anthologies (in print, and online).
Ger Duffy lives in Co Waterford. She is the winner of the Desmond O’ Grady International Poetry Competition 2024. Her poems have been published in PNReview (UK), Under the Radar (UK), East of the Storms (UK), Verve Eco Poetry Anthology (UK), Southword, Local Wonders (Dedalus), Poetry Ireland Review, The Ekphrastic Review (US), The Milk House and other outlets. Her pamphlets were Highly Commended in the International Book and Pamphlet Competition and in the Patrick Kavanagh Awards, 2024. She is a Pushcart nominee.
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Tadgh Dolan is a writer originally from Monaghan and based in Dublin City. His short stories have appeared in Ragaire Literary Magazine and New Word Order. He has been shortlisted for the Write By The Sea Writing competition 2024 in the memoir category.
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Elaine Westnott-O’Brien lives in Tramore, Co. Waterford with her wife and two children. She has had work published in The Martello Journal, Ragaire Literary Magazine and The New York Times. She was awarded a poetry mentorship by the Munster Literature Centre, and she is working towards her first collection of poetry.
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Paul Hammond is currently writing a debut novel as part of his PhD at Royal Holloway University in London. His short fiction has appeared in The Manchester Review, Gutter and Litro, among other places. He is from Dublin.
Aneta Stępień is an academic currently teaching at Maynooth University. Before coming to Ireland in 2013, she lived in Scotland and England pursuing her academic career. Her writing revolves around themes of gender and sexuality, migration/ otherness, and language.
Fióna Bolger is a poet, creative facilitator and outreach artist. She loves language, all languages. Her poems hang out online and in a compound of words (Yoda Press, Delhi) and Love in the Original Language (Salmon Poetry, Ennsitymon), many are also to be found in the wild word web!
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Evie McGettigan Murphy is a secondary school student attending an Irish school. Her hobbies include writing, sports, musical theatre, music, and art. She one day would like to be a stage actress and an architect
Catherine Kay’s writing has been performed in the Waterside Theatre, Derry and Words by the Water, Donegal. Her poetry has been long listed for the Cúirt New Writing and Dylan Thomas Day Poetry competitions, as well as being highly commended in the Frances Browne Festival and the Fosseway Poetry Competitions.
Oladejo Abdullah Feranmi, a black poet, won the Deconflating Surveillance with Safety contest and received commendation at the 2024 HART Prize for Human Rights. He was a finalist in the Hayden’s Ferry Review Poetry Prize ’23, with work featured or forthcoming in POETRY, Heavy Feather Review, Strange Horizons and more.
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Sheila Ryder is a Fingal based poet and writer. With her poetry performances, she has been a winner at the Cúirt International festival, an All-Ireland Poetry Slam finalist and is a regular on The Word Stage at Electric Picnic. Her poems have also been published in poetry journals and online magazines. Her belief in sharing our experiences, connecting with others and developing our hearts is what drives her writing and her involvement in creative events. She hosts the Fingal Poetry Festival Slams and the Scéal Sessions Open Mic nights in Balbriggan. She is also a founding member of Rising Tide, a creative events organisation showcasing spoken word poetry for UNESCO Dublin City of Literature.
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Michelle Ivy Alwedo is a Ugandan writer residing in Limerick whose work has been featured in anthologies across Africa, Europe and North America. Her debut anthology Still Blossoming tackles identity, resilience and mental health. She is currently working on her second poetry manuscript of slice-of-life poems.
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Nasouh Hossari is an Irish-based poet and artist. Originally from Syria, Nasouh received his education in Damascus. His poems are in Dubylon anthology, International Language Service. His art exhibitions include ‘Storytelling with Portraits’ and ‘A Second Home’. Nasouh is an active participant and member of both Dubylon and Dubelonging.
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Mai Ishikawa is a Japanese theatre translator/poet based in Dublin. She won the Kyoto Writing Competition Unohana Prize in 2023. Her poems appear in The Stony Thursday Book, Banshee, Ragaire and Channel. She was one of the four poets selected for the Dedalus Press Mentoring Programme 2024.
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Nessa O’Mahony was born in Dublin and lives there. She has published 5 collections of poetry, and has edited numerous anthologies and journal special issues.
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Ola Majekodunmi was born in Lagos, Nigeria and raised in Dublin, Ireland. She is a broadcaster, Gaeilgeoir, writer and producer. She has organised and spoken at literary festivals such as Dublin International Literature Festival, Cúirt International Festival of Literature, and West Cork Literary Festival.
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Jack Kennedy is from Co Kerry and currently works as a biochemist in a Dublin hospital. He is the winner of the Seán Ó Faoláin International Short Story Competition 2024 and is due to be published in Southward in 2025. He writes short fiction and is currently working on a novel.
Diarmuid Woodcock is an emerging, visual artist based in Skerries, North County Dublin. His work reflects his documentation of the world around him and his connection to what he observes. His work is influenced by the idea of the “Flâneur” in a contemporary context and features a lot of suburban houses.
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Karen J McDonnell is published widely at home and abroad; recently in Vital Signs (Poetry Ireland), Romance Options (Dedalus Press). Work was Best of the Net and Pushcart nominated. Her poem Driftwood was shortlisted for Irish Poem of the Year. Poetry collection: This Little World (Doire Press).
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Martina Kearney is from Dublin, her poems have been used as part of Dublin City’s Winter Lights Festival, and published in Richmond Barracks, Dublin anthology of writing, Illuminations. One of her poems was chosen for A little Book of Brigid, a limited handmade Art Book by Blueway Arts studio, funded by Kildare Co. Co. She also featured in the Christmas eat the storms podcast.
Some of Bríd Connolly’s poems were long- or short-listed in Fish, Anthony Cronin, Gregory O’Donoghue Poetry Competitions. She attends the Sunflower Open Mic nights and has been published in Flare: Readings from the Sunflower Sessions. Two of her short stories were short listed in the RTE Short Story Competition.
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Patrick McAvinue is an old codger born in the Liberties a long time ago. He was always interested in writing but never pursued it because he was far too lazy. Now that he is in the latter part of his days, he has decided to go mad and get writing.
Csilla Toldy was born in Budapest. She escaped from socialist Hungary as a teenager in 1981. Her short fiction and poetry appeared in literary magazines and anthologies and in book form in three books of poetry: Red Roots – Orange Sky (2013), The Emigrant Woman’s Tale (2015) and Vertical Montage (2018), as short fiction in Angel Fur and other stories (2019) and as a novel with the title Bed Table Door (2023), the winner of the Desmond Elliot Residency. Csilla creates film poems as a visual artist. Her award-winning work has been screened at international festivals.
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Deirdre Devally holds an MA in Creative Writing from UL. She was shortlisted in Fish Short Story Competition, 2024 and had two poems longlisted. Her work appears in Trumpet 12, The Stony Thursday Book and more. She has received two Arts Council of Ireland Literature Bursaries/Awards and mentorship awards.
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Helena McCanney is an emerging writer from Dublin who wanders in Dublin’s Phoenix Park to escape reality. She has a first-class MA in Creative Writing from Dublin City University and is working on her first Irish arts-funded poetry collection.
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Damien B. Donnelly is the author of 2 pamphlets, a micro-collection & full collection, Enough! published by The Hedgehog Poetry Press. He’s the host & producer of Eat the Storms, poetry podcast & editor-in-chief of The Storms journal. His work appears in various anthologies. His 2nd collection was published with Turas Press.
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Barbara Dunne is a queer writer and visual artist. She is a widowed parent. She lives in Connemara. She has been most recently published in Drawn to the Light Press, New Word Order, Howl: New Irish Writing, orangepeel and the Storms Journal.
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Emma Kavanagh is a born and raised Dubliner; growing up in Churchtown and currently living in Rathfarnham. Her background is in Sociology and Social Research, which she studied in Trinity College, Dublin . Emma leans on this curiosity to understand human behaviour as fuel for her writing. Emma works in research in Dublin City Centre and is mother to two little girls.
Noel King was born and lives in Tralee, Ireland. His poetry collections are Prophesying the Past, (Salmon, 2010), The Stern Wave (Salmon, 2013) Sons (Salmon, 2015) and Alternative Beginnings, Early Poems (Kite Modern Poetry Series, 2022). He has edited more than fifty books of work by others (Doghouse Books, 2003-2013) and was poetry editor of Revival Literary Journal (Limerick Writers’ Centre) in 2012/13. A short story collection, The Key Signature & Other Stories was published by Liberties Press in 2017. His latest collection is Suitable Music for a View (Survision Books, 2024) www.noelking.ie
Jackie Lynam is a writer and librarian. Her work has been published in several anthologies and journals, including Washing Windows: Irish Women Write Poetry, Honest Ulsterman and The Martello Journal. Her chapbook Traces: Poems and Essays was recently longlisted for the 2024 Carousel AWARE Prize.
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Tiziana Soverino is a poet. Her poems have featured in publications such as Landing Places (2010), Boyne Berries (2012), Unapologetic (2022) and Flare (2023). Tiziana is also the author of 9 academic articles, about folk medicine, the festival of Midsummer and the Mélusine legend in Irish tradition.
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Diarmuid Cawley is from Sligo, Ireland. His poems have featured in The Martello, The Belfast Review, Trasna, Smashing Times, Unapologetic Mag, Moonstone Press, Guzzle Magazine, The Honest Ulsterman, Poetry as Commemoration, Channel and Howl. He is working on his first collection.
Doreen Duffy (MACW) Pushcart Nominee, Publications include, Poetry Ireland Review by Eavan Boland, The Storms 1&3, Arlen House/Washing Windows 2&3&4, Flash Fiction/USA, Irish Times. Showcased, iambapoet, Eat the Storms, Awards include, Jonathan Swift, Deirdre Purcell / Maria Edgeworth Literary Festival. Shortlisted Francis MacManus. RTE Radio One broadcast her story, ‘Tattoo,’
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Keith Bird is a self-taught artist from Essex who paints with both oils and acrylics, he covers a diverse range of subject matter often giving his art a quirky, humorous twist. Although Keith has painted and exhibited for many years it was only in 2023 that he became a full time artist.
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Aisling O’Meara has lived in Dublin all her adult life. She studied English at UCD (BA) and Leeds (MA). Aisling loves creative writing, though life has often come in the way. Entering this new phase, she feels that all that ‘life’ is a repository of rich material for inspiration.
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Fiona O’Rourke is a Pushcart Prize nominated author. Since 2012 her short stories, autofiction, and essays have been published in journals and anthologies, broadcast for RTE Radio, and translated. Her debut novel was a joint winner at the Irish Writers Centre Novel Fair 2016. Since earning an MPhil in Creative Writing at Trinity College Dublin, she has facilitated writers in libraries, festivals, and at the Irish Writers Centre. She was the curator and facilitator for NOrthern SOul Roadshow 2022-24, and is the organiser and MC for Open Mic for Gaza.
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Bobbie Sparrow recently published her debut poetry collection The Weight of Blood with Yaffle press. She is a widely published poet with poems in journals and anthologies. Her work has been placed in several well-known competitions. She lives in rural Galway, loves swimming in lakes and believes curiosity keeps her alive.
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Alan Magee’s poems have been published by the Community Arts Partnership NI, Apricot Press, The Galway Review, Quillkeepers Press and Drawn to the Light Press. Alan writes about shared human experiences, nature and mental health, with sensitivity and insight.
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Rachael Tierney lives in Tullyallen, County Louth but was born and bred in a small village beside the sea called Carrigart, Co Donegal. She enjoys writing poetry that stems from her relationships and past experiences and from her everyday life as a mother and teacher. She has had poems previously published in the Cork Literary Review, Southword Journal, Poetry Tree Magazine And Boyne Berries Group.
Gráinne Daly is a writer based in Tallaght. Winner of the UCD Maeve Binchy Award 2019, she was longlisted for the An Post Irish Book Awards Short Story of the Year Award 2021. Her writing has been published in numerous publications. Sport in Irish literature is her key interest.
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Natalie Robinson is a writer of poetry, fiction and creative nonfiction, based in Dublin. Her poetry chapbook, The Snake Eats Itself is due out summer 2024.
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Barry Lennon is a Dublin born writer. His poetry has featured in Ropes Literary Journal and was shortlisted for the Irish Independent’s New Irish Writing. He was selected as one of fourteen international poets for the Seamus Heaney Summer School in Queens University.
Ellen Harrold (She/Her) is an Irish artist and writer as well as editor-in-chief of Metachrosis Literary. She uses drawing, text, and textiles to explore physics and ecology through creative abstraction. She has published poetry in English and Irish in magazines such as Shearsman, Causeway / Cabhsair, and Skylight 47.
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Mary O’Donnell’s work includes poetry, novels, short story collections, and a growing body of personal essays. Recent publications include a limited edition chapbook of poems, ‘Outsiders, Always’, from Southword Editions, and the Brazilian Portuguese translation of selected poems, Onde Estou Os Pássaros. In 2025 her ninth poetry collection Jakkurpa, will appear in the USA by Wake Forest University Press.
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Ceaití Ní Bheildiúin / Cathi Weldon is from Rush, Co. Dublin, and currently living in Kerry. Four volumes of her Irish language poetry have been published, plus a bilingal volume by Dedalus Press with English translations by Paddy Bushe. Her collection Agallamh sa Cheo (Coiscéim) earned hertheMichael Harnett Prize 2021. A version of her Irish poem in STORMS 4 was previously published under another title.
Catherine Cronin is a Kilkenny native currently living in Zurich. She has written plays and theatrical pieces for Irish and Swiss stages. Her poetry has been published in Ireland, Switzerland, the UK and US in print and digital publications, including The Honest Ulsterman, The Ogham Stone, and The Kilkenny Observer.
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Born in Dublin, but now living in Wicklow, Adrienne Pope Fagan is a landscape artist who works in oils and pastels. She has had her work exhibited in various venues, including the Mermaid Arts Centre, the Signal Arts Centre, Ardgillan Gallery and the Boatyard Gallery.
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Eilín de Paor lives in Dublin. Her poems have appeared in The Storms, Iamb, Banshee, Skylight 47, The Waxed Lemon, Belfield Literary Review, Abridged and New Ohio Review, among others. Her collaborative pamphlet, ‘In the Jitterfritz of Neon’, written with Damien B. Donnelly, was published by The Hedgehog Poetry Press.
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Issue 4 Featured Prose Writer
Joanne Hayden’s fiction has appeared in journals including The Dublin Review, Banshee, Ambit, Crannóg and Splonk and has been broadcast on RTÉ radio. Her play, ‘Salvage,’ was shortlisted for the ESB/Fishamble Tiny Plays for a Brighter Future award. In 2023/24 she was Emerging Writer in Residence for Dún Laoghaire-Rathdown.
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Eoin Devereux teaches on the MA in Creative Writing at the University of Limerick, where he leads the module Creative Writers in The Community. His poem ‘The Bullfield’ was published in the Poetry Ireland Anthology Vital Signs, edited by Martin Dyar (2022). ‘Revolutions’ was featured in the Poetry Jukebox as part of the 2023 Centenary of Commemorations project. ‘Pravda’ was published by New Irish Writing in April 2024.
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Donal Greene has had a successful one-man show, ‘All at Sea’. His photographs have appeared in The Stinging Fly, The SHOp, Bare Hands Anthology, Café Review (USA) and Drawn to the Light Press.
S.C. Flynn was born in a small town in Australia of Irish origin and now lives in Dublin. His forthcoming collections are “The Colour of Extinction” (Renard Press, September 2024) and “An Ocean Called Hope” (Downingfield Press, May 2025). His poetry has been published in more than a hundred magazines, including The Storms, in more than ten countries.
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Helen Dempsey from Rush, has won Fingal Libraries’ Poetry Day competition 2018, 2021; and Jonathan Swift Poetry Competition 2023. Her poems have appeared in Live Encounters, A New Ulster and The Ireland Chair of Poetry Commemorative Anthology, Planting a Pear Tree, Revival Press is her debut collection published May, 2024.
Geraldine Walsh is a freelance journalist and author, frequently contributing to leading newspapers. Her debut non-fiction, Unraveling Motherhood, was published in 2023. Geraldine is a facilitator with the Irish Writers Centre, teaching courses on editing and non-fiction writing. Her writing has appeared in Aimsir, Agenda, and Boyne Berries, amongst others.
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Featured Visual Artist Issue 4
Nunce McAuley is a Dublin visual artist and art teacher living and working in Skerries, Co. Dublin. Her studio is located at Ardgillan Castle, Balbriggan, Co. Dublin. She paints mainly in Oil and Watercolour but also produces work in the mediums of Drawing, Printmaking and Textile Art. She is inspired by the ever-changing nature of her surroundings, in particular, seascapes and skyscapes. Living by the sea means that the subject matter is very fluid and this lends itself very well to Oil Painting. She spends a lot of time photographing her surroundings and uses these when working in her studio.
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Maeve McKenna lives in Sligo, Ireland. Her work has appeared in Poetry Ireland Review, Southward, Banshee, Rattle and Mslexia and elswhere. She was a finalist in the Gregory O’Donoghue Poetry Competition 2024. She is the author of two pamphlets, A Dedication to Drowning and Body as a Home for this Darkness.
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Sinéad Griffin has been published in Poetry Ireland Review, The Irish Times, Under The Radar, Hog River Press, The Storms and elsewhere. One of her poems featured in the PAC Poetry Jukebox at IMMA. She was awarded an Agility Award ’23 and is poetry co-editor at The Four Faced Liar.
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Siobhán Mac Mahon is an Irish Poet & Word-Witch, honouring and celebrating the Sacred Feminine and our deep connection to the Earth. She has been creating magic, mayhem and mischief with her words for 30 years. Published in many anthologies, she performs her poetry widely in the UK and Ireland.
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Sarah Hirons was born in Birmingham, England. Forty-two moves and five countries later, she currently lives in the Boyne Valley, Ireland. She is a Reader for Flash Fiction Online, Globe Soup Micro winner, and finalist in the 2024 Fingal Poetry Slam and Spring and Summer Flash Fiction Writing Battles.
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Rodrigo Schönardie is Brazilian and writes in both English and Portuguese. He lives in France with his Irish husband, where he works as a university language teacher. His stories have been published in Brazil, France, the USA and Ireland. He is currently seeking representation for his first novel in English.
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Marie Studer recently published her debut poetry collection, Real Words with Revival Press. She is widely published in journals and anthologies. She is a past winner of the Trócaire/Poetry Ireland competition and The Bangor Ekphrastic Challenge and her poems have been placed in many competitions, most recently, The Denis O’Grady, International Poetry Competition.
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Theresa Donnelly is an Irish/ Canadian poet; born/educated in Dublin. Her work has been published by Beret Days Press- Copperfield Review-Verse Afire-Red Claw Press-Brooklin Town Crier-Surfacing Magazine-UCD Library-The Caterpillar-Tales from the Forest-Dreich-Black Bough-The Storms. She is a founding member of The BPS & a member of TOPS.
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Margaret Royall has 6 books of poetry. She has won or been s-listed in various competitions and widely published. She was recently chosen as an Erbacce Press featured poet. She has 3 books forthcoming in 2024 with Hedgehog Press, Dreich and Impspired.
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Sarah Coffey is a writer living in Dublin. The enchanting ancient tales she learned of while growing up near Tara have given her a lifelong love of story. She recently founded The Muses, a writing studio that aspires to invoke the supernatural in the ordinary. This is the first time she has been published.
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