Drawn to the Light Press Issue 3

Ann Marie Dunne lives in Co. Kildare. She is currently a (very!) mature student at Carlow College doing a degree in Arts & Humanities. She loves hiking, boating and being in nature. She is unpublished and trying to hone her skills in poetry Kate Ennals is a board member of Irish PEN/PEN na h'Éireann. Her collections include At the Edge (Lapwing), Threads (Lapwing), and Elsewhere (forthcoming from Salmon Poetry).

Attracta Fahy Psychotherapist, MA.Writing NUIG. October winner in Irish Times New Irish Writing 2019, Pushcart, Best of Web nominee, shortlisted for Over The Edge New Writer 2019, Allingham Poetry festival 2019 & 2020. Fly on the Wall Poetry published her debut chapbook collection Dinner in the Fields, in March’20.

Pauline Flynn is a Visual Artist/Poet and has an MA in Creative Writing from University College Dublin, Ireland. She was shortlisted for the Patrick Kavanagh Poetry Award in 2010 and is published in various literary journals including Skylight 47, Boyne Berries, Sixteen Magazine, Irl. Light, a Journal of Photography and Poetry, NY, Orbis 81, and The Blue Nib, UK. S.C. Flynn was born in Australia of Irish origin and now lives in Dublin. His poetry has recently been published in Cyphers and Abridged.

Siobhán Flynn has been placed and shortlisted in a number of poetry competitions including the Hennessy New Irish Writing Award. Her poetry has appeared in anthologies and literary journals, including Visual Verse, The Pickled Body, Amsterdam Quarterly and The Poetry Bus. She is working towards her first collection.

Edel Hanley is currently researching for a PhD in women’s war writing at University College Cork.

She has recently been awarded an Irish Research Council Postgraduate Award for her research in October 2020. Edel regularly hosts poetry and short story writing courses for gifted children alongside the Centre for Talented Youth Ireland (CTYI) and her poetry and fiction have previously been published in Crannog Magazine, #mentalhealthformillennials, New Writer’s Café Magazine, and Quarryman Literary Journal.

Jem Henderson is a nonbinary queer poet living in Leeds, UK. They have an MA in Creative Writing from York St. John University. They have been published in Civic Leicester's Black Lives Matter anthology, Streetcake, Full House and Dreich. They can be found on twitter and instagram @jem_face. They're working on their first collection.

Christina Hession is a native of Dunmore, Co Galway. She has been published in Boyne Berries, Vox Galvia, Bangor Literary Journal, Ropes and The Honest Ulsterman. Christina holds an MA in Creative Writing from UCC. Roisin Horgan lives in West Clare on the Shannon Estuary. She works as a mediator and writes constantly. She is inspired by her surroundings and the manner in which nature can bring emotion to the surface, bringing healing if not closure. She has four children and loves to garden. This is her first publication.

Huw Gwynn-Jones comes from a line of published poets in the Welsh bardic tradition, but until his recent retirement to Orkney, had never penned a line himself. He now writes to find a different way of hearing the world, and has poems accepted by Eunoia Review, Amethyst Review and Dreich Magazine.

Sven Kretzschmar is a prize-winning poet from Germany. His poetry has been published widely in Europe and overseas, among other outlets in Writing Home. The ‘New Irish’ Poets (Dedalus Press, 2019), Hold Open the Door (UCD Press, 2020), Voices 2020 (Cold River Press, 2020) The Irish Times, and Das Gedicht.

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