Seamus Cogley

Seamus Cogley is a reader and writer who grew up in Wexford town before moving to Dublin. His academic and professional background is in linguistics and technology. When not teaching machines how to understand language, he spends his time writing his first collection of short fiction.

Sue Hann

Sue Hann’s work was long-listed for the Spread the Word Life Writing Prize 2020. She won the Diana Woods Memorial Award in 2020. Her writing has been published in journals such as Popshot Quarterly, Longleaf Review, Multiplicity Magazine, Brevity Blog and Litro Online, as well as various flash fiction anthologies. You can find her on Twitter @SYwrites.

Eóin

Based between the McGillycuddy Reeks and the Sliabh Mish mountain ranges in Kerry, but a native of the Waterford and Kilkenny border, I got my BA in English from WIT. I currently have a lovely job working with adults and children with intellectual disabilities. I am using lockdown as a time to finally focus on my creative side and this is my first piece to be published.

GB Clarkson

GB Clarkson lives and works in the UK Midlands, though her roots are in the West of Ireland. Her first full-length collection, Monica’s Overcoat of Flesh, came out during lockdown in 2020 from Nine Arches Press. She has a chapbook, Crucifox, forthcoming from Verve Poetry Press in May 2021.

Tom Jordan

Tom Jordan is a writer from Dublin. He recently graduated from Trinity College Dublin where he studied English. He is currently working on his “first batch of actually potentially publishable stories,” and looking for a job. You can find him on twitter @hodgesfishes.

Emer Ní Fhoghlú

Emer Ní Fhoghlú is a writer from Waterford. She has worked in film and theatre, and is a contributor to Bad Bride Magazine, Hoax Magazine and EMPWR.ie. She was short-listed by Bray Literary Festival and Sunspot Lit 2020 for her short stories.

Aidan O’Leary

Aidan is a semi-reluctant writer of occasional bits and bobs. He lives in Dublin where he (semi-reluctantly) organises eye-surgeon conferences for a living.

Colleen Kyan

Colleen Kyan Manning is a Japanese/Irish writer who is currently studying Creative Writing with English and German in NUI Galway. As a child in Japan, Colleen would watch Hayao Miyazaki’s films. This short story pays homage to his skilful artwork when producing Studio Ghibli animation. This is Colleen’s first significant publication.

Sadbh Kellett

Sadbh Kellett is an Irish writer whose work has recently been published in anthologies and journals such as Poems from Pandemia, Strange Times, Paper Lanterns, and Boyne Berries. Kellett is also a PhD student working on Gaelic Mythology in Irish and Scottish Writing at the University of St. Andrews in Scotland. When not writing or studying, she loves to go birdwatching and hiking, and can’t wait to travel again.

Kurt Luchs

Kurt Luchs (kurtluchs.com) has poems published or forthcoming in Into the Void, La Piccioletta Barca, and London Grip. He won the 2019 Atlanta Review International Poetry Contest, and has written humor for the New Yorker, the Onion and McSweeney’s Internet Tendency. His books include a humor collection, It’s Funny Until Someone Loses an Eye (Then It’s Really Funny), and a poetry chapbook, One of These Things Is Not Like the Other. His first full-length poetry collection, Falling in the Direction of Up, is forthcoming from Sagging Meniscus Press. He lives in Portage, Michigan, USA.

Mary McGonagle Johnson

Mary McGonagle Johnson lives in Malin  Inishowen,  Co Donegal. She moved back to Donegal a few years  ago, having had spent many years in Manchester where she was a member of the Manchester Irish writers,  which was a very active groupwhere they wrote poetry and short stories. They self published a number of short stories and poems, which she contributed to. She also had some stories published in Ireland’s Own, as well as some women’s magazines.

Simon Howells

Simon Howells was born in Wales in 1971

Astrid Vallet

Astrid Vallet is an English graduate from France, currently pursuing a Master’s degree in Cultural Studies. She’s very eclectic and her crow brain absolutely will pick up any shiny idea, tinker with it, hoard it until she can make something sincere out of it. Her work appears in Honeyguide Literary Magazine and is forthcoming in Crow & Cross Keys; it usually revolves around queer, neurodivergent women like her, and she’s decided that that’s okay. She tweets at @astriddoeswrite.

Stephen Cox

Stephen Cox is from Dublin. He has lived in Spain and Portugal, and is currently based in London. His writing has appeared in The New Statesman, Literary Review, the Dublin Review of Books, and elsewhere.

Karenlee Thompson

Karenlee Thompson is an Australian-born writer of fiction, non-fiction and poetry. She is the author of the bushfire-themed collection of short fictions (Flame Tip) and her work has been published in a variety of magazines and anthologies. She wrote commissioned art pieces for MONA (Museum of Old and New Art) and she has been shortlisted for a number of prizes, including The Scottish Arts Trust, the Hal Porter and the Tasmanian Writers Prize. Karenlee has a degree in Journalism and English Literature and she now travels the world full-time gathering story pebbles.

Caitlin Young

Caitlin Young is an undergraduate student at Queen’s University Belfast. Her work has been published in The Honest Ulsterman and Tir Na Og among others. She is Editor in Chief of student literary magazine ‘The Apiary’.

Aisling Kearney

Aisling Kearney lives, writes, and works in Dublin. Recently completing her B.A. in Bioengineering at Trinity College Dublin, she is now beginning to submit her work. On the last Saturday of April, she will be published in New Irish Writing in the Irish Independent. She is currently working on her first novel. Her Twitter handle is @wittynitwit.

Kik Lodge

Kik Lodge is a British teacher/translator based in Lyon, France, where she lives with her two kids. Her flash has featured in Litro, The Moth, Tiny Molecules, Common Breath, Cabinet of Heed, and Reflex Fiction and she is currently working on a short story collection based on the churchgoers next to her flat.

David Donovan

David Donovan is an Irish playwright currently based in Berlin, his previous works include Monastic at the International Dublin Gay Theatre Festival and Sistemic at Smock Allies Scene and Heard Festival, this is his first short story publication.