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Ciarán O’Rourke lives in Leitrim. He has won the Lena Maguire/Cúirt New Irish Writing Award, the Westport Poetry Prize, and the Fish Poetry Prize. His first collection, The Buried Breath, was published by Irish Pages Press in 2018. His second … Continue reading →

Grace O’Reilly writes an array of forms, is a member of several writing groups, and longlisted for ‘The RTE Guide/Penguin Ireland Short Story Competition’, 2012. Grace has been published in some Literary Journals, in several magazines, and featured, along with … Continue reading →

Michael J. Leach (@m_jleach) is an Australian academic and poet. Michael’s poems reside in The Galway Review, Cordite Poetry Review, Meniscus, Rabbit, The Blue Nib, Plumwood Mountain, the Medical Journal of Australia, the Antarctic Poetry Exhibition, and elsewhere. His poetry … Continue reading →

Susan Tepper is a twenty year writer and the author of nine published books of fiction and poetry. Her most recent are CONFESS (poetry from Cervena Barva Press, 2020) and a zany road novel WHAT DRIVES MEN (Wilderness House Press, … Continue reading →

Emma Clohessy being introduced to Creative Writing by UCC, has since published poems in the Holly Bough, anthology ‘Midleton Miscellany’, Poetry Ireland, the Evening Echo other journals and on-line literary press. She lives in East Cork and is a Speech and Drama … Continue reading →

Matt Mooney. Born, a farmers son, in Kilchreest, Co. Galway in 1943. A graduate of UCG and UCC he has been a Vocational Teacher in Listowel where he is proud to be one of its townspeople. His collections of poems … Continue reading →

Dubliner, Mícheál Holmes, married with two adult children, spent thirty-five years as a radio producer and presenter. He was Raidió na Gaeltachta’s Dublin and Dáil correspondent for a period but most of his time was with RTE Radio One where … Continue reading →