Notes on Contributors

Notes on Contributors

Georgie Bailey is a working-class Poet and Playwright from Bordon, Hampshire. He is a recent graduate of Bristol Old Vic Theatre School’s Dramatic Writing MA, and mentors new writers through creative writing projects. Georgie has had several poems and short stories published in anthologies and magazines such as Horizon Magazine and The Unexpected Spring.

Faye Boland was highly commended for the Desmond O' Grady Prize 2019 and shortlisted in 2013 for the Poetry on the Lake XIII International Poetry Competition. She won the Robert Leslie Boland Prize 2018 and the Hanna Greally Award 2017. Her first poetry collection Peripheral was published in September 2018.

Róisín Bugler has had work published in Boyne Berries, Ropes, The Poetry Bus, Sonder Magazine and Quarryman. She coordinates ‘A Flow of Words’ literary show International on Scariff Bay Community Radio. She was the winner of Strokestown Percy French prize for Witty Verse and runner up in the Padraig Colum Gathering competition both, 2019.

Patrick Chapman’s most recent poetry collection is Open Season on the Moon (Salmon Poetry, 2019). His non-fiction book, David Cronenberg (Sonicbond Publishing) is due in 2021. He co-founded and edits The Pickled Body.

Susan Connolly has published three poetry collections. Bridge of the Ford (Shearsman, 2016), a tribute to her hometown of Drogheda (droichead átha / bridge of the ford), is a collection of thirty-three visual poems. Her poems were published recently in Otoliths https://the-otolith.blogspot.com/2020/10/susan-connolly.html and in Experiment-O 13 (AngelHousePress, 2020) http://experiment-o.com/.

Linda M. Crate's works have been published in numerous magazines and anthologies. She is the author of seven poetry chapbooks, the latest of which is: the samurai (Yellow Arrow Publishing, October 2020). She has also authored two micro-collections, and three full length poetry collections.

Michael Cullen is a young poet living in North Dublin, currently teaching and acting while awaiting the commencement of a Master’s degree. He has a Bachelor of Arts degree from Trinity College, having studied history. Michael has previously been published on Pendemic and is releasing more works throughout the year so keep a keen eye peeled for new material. twitter @mikeycD9.

Anne Daly is an Irish writer who lives in Bettystown, Co. Meath. She is the short fiction editor of Crossways magazine. Her short fiction and poems have appeared in a number of online and print journals.

Dolores De Bie lives in rural Sligo, Ireland. She is passionate about capturing natures invisibility to the naked eye through the lens of a camera. Dolores posts actively on Instagram. Her photos can be found @doldebie

Patrick Deeley is from Loughrea. His collections with Dedalus Press include Decoding Samara, The Bones of Creation, Groundswell: New and Selected Poems, and The End of the

World. He is the recipient of many awards for his writing, most recently the 2019 Lawrence O’Shaughnessy Award.

RC deWinter’s poetry is anthologized, notably in New York City Haiku (NY Times/2017), Coffin Bell Two (Coffin Bell/2020) in print: 2River, Adelaide, Event, Genre Urban Arts, Meat for Tea: The Valley Review, The Minnesota Review, Night Picnic Journal, Prairie Schooner, Southword, among many others and appears in numerous online publications.

Anamaria Julia Dragomir came from Romania to find a home away from home here in Ireland. She has studied Philology, Literature and Philosophy. She started to write verse in a moment of overwhelming sensitivity and is hoping to touch the borders of literature.

Billy Fenton writes poetry and short stories. His work has been published in the Irish Times, Poetry Ireland Review, Crannóg, Honest Ulsterman, Galway Review and others. He was shortlisted for a Hennessy Award in 2018, and was chosen as a mentee for the Words Ireland National Mentoring Programme in 2019.

Ella Sadie Guthrie is a journalist, poet and screenwriter. Alongside fellow poet Ruth Boon, she co-founded WRIOT, a poetry collective for womxn and non-binary poets that facilitates workshops and events, but mostly she spends her time walking along Brighton seafront and writing about the ocean.

Jeremy Haworth is a Dublin-born poet. He won the Cuirt New Writing Prize 2019 and is working towards the publication of his first collection of poetry. A market gardener by day, he lives in rural Co. Laois with his wife and two young children.

Nicola Heaney is a Northern Irish poet based in the South West of England and has had work published in The North, Poetry Birmingham, Honest Ulsterman and Crannóg amongst others and was shortlisted for the Bridport Prize in 2019 and 2020. She has just had a book of fairytales and legends for children co-authored with her father published by O Brien Press.

Sacha Hutchinson is living in Galway, Ireland. She recently started writing poetry, attends a weekly poetry class and has read at the Over The Edge open reading. Her poetry appeared in Ropes 2018 and in the 2018 spring edition of Skylight 47 and the 2019 autumn edition of The Curlew. She was shortlisted for Poetry for Patients 2018 and 2019. She was longlisted for Over the Edge New Writer of the Year 2018 and shortlisted in 2019. She received a Bachelor of Arts in art and design in 2010. She has an interest in exploring the environmental message through illustration, paint and poetry. Sometimes her drawing will be combined with the written word.

Camillus John was bored and braised in Dublin. He has had work published in The Stinging Fly, RTÉ Ten, The Lonely Crowd and other such organs. He would also like to mention that Pats won the FAI cup in 2014 after 62 miserable years of not winning it.

Rhea Johnson is a young poet from Mumbai, India. Her poems are inspired by the quotidian and fleeting rite of life. She is a student of Poetry at the California Institute of Arts. Janina Aza Karpinska won 1st prize in The Cannon's Mouth Poetry Competition shortly after achieving an M.A. in Creative Writing & Personal Development, with Merit, at Sussex

University. Her work has appeared in many publications. She makes writing a daily practice, and reading poetry, a regular treat.

John D. Kelly lives in Co. Fermanagh. He won the Listowel. Poetry Collection Award, 2020 and Desmond O’Grady International Poetry Competition, 2020. His manuscript was highly commended in the Patrick Kavanagh Poetry Award 2016. His first collection − The Loss Of Yellowhammers was published by Summer Palace Press in 2020.

Taidgh Lynch is a poet from Co. Kerry who lives in Saskatoon, Canada with his partner and their new baby. His poetry has appeared in Prairie Fire, FreeFall, ROPES, The Poetry Bus, Boyne Berries, and elsewhere. His poetry chapbook, First Lift Here, was published with Jack Pine Press, September 2019.

DS Maolalai has been nominated eight times for Best of the Net and five times for the Pushcart Prize. His poetry has been released in two collections, Love is Breaking Plates in the Garden (Encircle Press, 2016) and Sad Havoc Among the Birds (Turas Press, 2019)

Aine MacAodha published three volumes of poetry. Where the Three rivers Meet and Musćilt were recently published by Argotist online. Her poems have been translated into several languages. Her latest collection Landscape of Self was published by Lapwing Press, Belfast. Recently she was invited by the Irish embassy in Warsaw to use her poem ‘Distractions’ as part of their yearly festival. "wiersze w mieście" - Poems in the City. https://ainemacaodha.wixsite.com/ainemacaodha/links-to-my-poetry-and-photography

Ted McCarthy is a poet and translator living in Clones, Ireland. His work has appeared in magazines in Ireland, the UK, Germany, the USA, Canada and Australia. He has had two collections published, November Wedding, and Beverly Downs. His work can be found on www.tedmccarthyspoetry.weebly.com

Paul McDonald taught at the University of Wolverhampton for twenty-five years, where he ran the Creative Writing Programme. He took early retirement in 2019 to write full time. He is the author of twenty books, which cover fiction, poetry, and scholarship.

Maeve McKenna lives in Sligo, Ireland. Her writing has been placed in several international poetry competitions and published widely in print and online. Maeve is working towards her first collection of poetry.

K. S. Moore’s poetry has recently appeared in The Stony Thursday book, New Welsh Review and Skylight 47. She placed 3rd in the Waterford Poetry Prize and has been shortlisted for Ink, Sweat and Tears 'Pick of the 'Month'. Samples of poetry and other thoughts can be found at ksmoore.com.

Roisin Ní Neachtain is an emerging Irish-Scottish poet and artist currently based in County Kildare, Ireland. Her artwork features in international private collections and she is currently working on her first collection of poetry.

Mary O’Brien from Co. Wexford, Ireland, writes in both English and Irish. She has been a recipient of grants and bursaries from the Arts Department of Wexford Co. Council and has published six poetry collections. (maryobrienpoetry.com). She was the winner of Duais

Fhoras na Gaeilge 2017 at Listowel Writers’ Week and has been a reader for Duais de hÍde at Strokestown Poetry Festival in 2019 and 2020. Her recent collection, Ré na nÚll, was published by Coiscéim, Dublin, in 2019.

Stephanie Powell is a poet based in London. She grew up in Melbourne, Australia. Her poems have been published previously in literary journals, anthologies and online.

Ceri Savage is a Brit-born writer with an BA in English Literature from the University of Exeter. She has been published in The FU Review as well as in the short story collection A Flash of Silver-Green: Stories of The Nature of Cities. She is the founder of Savage Edits, an editing business for indie authors.

K.T. Slattery was born in Memphis and now lives in Ireland. Her writing has been published in Ropes Literary Journal, Nightingale and Sparrow, The Blue Nib, Impspired, The Wellington Street Review, Analogies and Allegories, and Streetcake. Most recently she received a special mention in the 2020 Desmond O’Grady Poetry Competition.

Ana Spehar is from Croatia, living in Cork for last 4 years. Her work was published in A New Ulster, Boyne Berries, Solstice Sounds, Good Day News, and poetry anthologies A Journey Called Home and Cork Words. Her poetry is themed around love, and her love of Ireland, her endless inspirations. https://www.instagram.com/love_poetry_by_ana_spehar/

Marie Studer was a winner in the Trocáire Poetry Ireland Competition 2020, Holding it Together Apart 2020, Bangor Literary Halloween Ekphrastic Challenge 2019 and shortlisted in the North West Words Poetry Competition 2020. Her work has appeared in The Stony Thursday Book, The Waxed Lemon, local anthologies and online.

Anthony Wade, Irish, an England-trained lawyer, lives now by the sea in East Cork, Ireland, an active Midleton Writers’ Group member with work featured or forthcoming in Ariel Chart, Boyne Berries, Causeway, Dreich, Lakeview Literary Journal, Scrittura, Setu Bilingual, Strands Lit Sphere and Tiny Seed. See Twitter at @anthonywadepoet.

Mark Ward is the author of the chapbooks, Circumference (Finishing Line Press, 2018) and Carcass (Seven Kitchens Press, 2020) and a full-length collection, Nightlight (Salmon Poetry, 2022). He was Highly Commended in the 2019 Patrick Kavanagh Poetry Award and in 2020 he was shortlisted for the Cúirt New Writing Prize and selected for Poetry Ireland’s Introductions series. He has read his poetry on RTÉ Radio 1, Lyric FM and the Words Lightly Spoken podcast. He is the founding editor of Impossible Archetype, an international journal of LGBTQ+ poetry, now in its fourth year.

Glen Wilson is a poet from Portadown. He won the Seamus Heaney Award for New Writing in 2017, the Jonathan Swift Creative Writing Award in 2018 and The Trim Poetry competition in 2019. His poetry collection An Experience on the Tongue is out now with Doire Press.

Lynne Wycherley is a nature-loving poet living on a coastal farm in Devon. Her Listening to Light, New & Selected Poems was published in 2014; her new collection Brooksong & Shadows is due in early summer from Shoestring Press.

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