Drawn to the Light Press Issue 1

Notes on Contributors Simon Alderwick is a poet from Surrey. His work is featured or forthcoming in Eye Flash, Seiren, Dust, Near Window, Whatever Keeps The Lights On and Riot Act, among others. He is on Twitter @SimonAlderwick.

Kara Lynn Amiot is an emerging writer from Canada, and her poetry was most recently published through Revolt Magazine and the Unpublishable Zine.

Dylan Benjamin is a writer and poet from the North of England whose work has featured in Door Is A Jar Magazine, Misery Tourism, The Showbear Family Circus, Detritus Online and more. He should be preparing his upcoming pamphlet but you can currently find him procrastinating on Twitter @_DylanBenjamin.

Aoife Bradshaw studied English Literature and Film Studies at Trinity College Dublin and holds an MA in Screenwriting for Film and Television. She was awarded the Writers Guild of Ireland Award for Screenwriting in 2018 and has a background in journalism, contributing to Hotpress, Go Rail and Enterprise among other publications.

Clive Collins is the author of two novels, The Foreign Husband (Marion Boyars) and Sachiko’s Wedding (Marion Boyars/Penguin Books). Misunderstandings, a collection of short stories, was joint-winner of the Macmillan Silver PEN Award in 1994. Carried Away and Other Stories is available from Red Bird Chapbooks.

Lorna Collins is a Peer Support Worker with Oxford Health NHS eating disorder service.

She is Patient Representative at the Royal College of Psychiatrists (eating disorders). She leads research in Arts in Health, after her PhD as a scholar at Cambridge University. She writes articles in several newspapers and journals.

Deirdre McKernan Crosby lives in Greystones Co. Wicklow. Her first published poem, Uninvited Guest appeared in the Bray Arts Journal in 2019. Her work is also published in Boyne Berries, The Blue Nib and Pandemic.ie. Deirdre wrote There Will Be Time – Cancer & Covid-19 which will be preserved by the Irish Poetry Reading Archive at UCD Library.

Colin Dardis is a poet, editor and sound artist, based in Belfast, Northern Ireland. His work has been listed in the Seamus Heaney Award for New Writing, Over The Edge New Writer of the Year Award, and the Saboteur Awards, as well as being published widely throughout Ireland, the UK and USA. Previous collections include The Dogs of Humanity (Fly on the Wall Press, 2019), the x of y (Eyewear, 2018), Post-Truth Blues (Locofo Chaps/Moria Books, 2017) and Dōji: A Blunder (Lapwing, 2013).

Annie Deppe is the author of three books of poems, Sitting in the Sky and Wren Cantata from Summer Palace Press, and Night Collage, forthcoming in 2021 from Arlen House. Her work has appeared in Poetry Ireland Review, The Stinging Fly, and The Forward Book of Poetry 2004. She lives in Connemara.

Maurice Devitt is the winner of the Trocaire/Poetry Ireland and Poems for Patience competitions, he has been nominated for Pushcart, Forward and Best of the Net Prizes and been runner-up in the Cuirt New Writing Prize, Interpreter’s House Poetry Competition and 38