Contributors

Doireann Ní Ghríofá, Adrian Duncan, Cathy Sweeney, Micheal Magee, Wendy Erskine, David Hayden, Kevin Breathnach, Kathryn Scanlan, Rebecca Ivory, Oisín Fagan, Tim MacGabhann, John Christopher, Suzanne Walsh, Christodoulos Makris, Kimberly Campanello, Jona Xhepa, Jack Lawton, Colm O’Shea, Charles Lang, Anne Hayden, Anna Walsh, McGibbon-O’Lynn, Orla McGinnity, Tom Roseingrave, Rebecca O’Dwyer.

Team

Ian Maleney – Founding Editor

Ian Maleney is a writer, editor, and documentary producer from County Offaly. His first book, a collection of essays entitled Minor Monuments, was published in 2019 by Tramp Press. It was shortlisted for an Irish Book Award, the Michel Deon Prize, and the Butler Literary Award. His writing has been published in The Guardian, Esquire, and the New Statesman, and he has been commissioned by the National Gallery of Ireland, the Museum of Literature Ireland, and VISUAL Carlow.

A recipient of the Arts Council's Next Generation Bursary Award in 2019, he is the UCC Writer-In-Residence for 2024. He has produced numerous successful podcasts, including The Stinging Fly Podcast, The Stand With Eamon Dunphy, and The Witness: In His Own Words, which won 'Podcast of the Year' at the Irish Podcast Awards and was chosen as one of the top podcasts of 2021 by Apple Podcasts and The Guardian.

Maija Sofia Mäkelä – Assistant Editor

Maija Sofia Mäkelä is an artist and writer from rural Galway, Ireland. She has released two albums: Bath Time (2020, nominated for the Choice Music Prize) and True Love (2023). Her poetry has been published in The Stinging Fly and Banshee, and she was editor of Garden: On Diasporic Wilderness, a collection of stories and perspectives from artists and writers based in Ireland who have experienced migration through their lives, families and ancient ancestry, published by Bloomers in 2022. She is a graduate of Trinity College Dublin and a recipient of the Arts Council of Ireland’s Next Generation Award (2020) as well as bursary awards from Dublin City Arts office (2021) and the Arts Council (2022).

She has been commissioned to write new music by National Concert Hall, Sirius Arts Centre, Dublin Digital Radio, Solas Nua and Cork Midsummer Festival. Her work has been arranged and performed by the RTE Concert Orchestra, and she has performed several times on national television and radio.

Nidhi Zak/Aria Eipe – Poetry Editor

Nidhi Zak/Aria Eipe is a poet, pacifist and fabulist. Auguries of a Minor God, her first collection, was published with Faber & Faber in 2021. A finalist for the Dylan Thomas Prize, John Pollard Foundation International Poetry Prize, Michael Murphy Memorial Prize and the Butler Literary Award, it was chosen as a Poetry Book Society Recommendation, National Poetry Day Recommendation, Shakespeare & Co. Year of Reading Selection, and a ‘Book of the Year’ by both The Irish Times and The Irish Independent.

Founder of the Play It Forward Fellowships for underrepresented writers, Nidhi is poetry editor at Skein Press and Fallow Media, and contributing editor with The Stinging Fly. She is a recipient of the Rooney Writer Fellowship at Trinity College Dublin, Next Generation Artist Award from the Arts Council of Ireland, and currently serves on the Expert Advisory Committee for Culture Ireland as well as the Advisory Board of Diversifying Irish Poetry. She is the 2024 Commissioned Writer at Temple Bar Art Gallery + Studios in Dublin.

Nidhi has been commissioned to create work in celebration of UNESCO Creative Cities of Literature, Ulysses 100, Lá Fhéile Pádraig/St Patrick’s Day 2021, Lá Fhéile Bríde/St Brigid’s Day 2021, RTÉ’s Illuminations 2020, Galway 2020 European Capital of Culture, and the Rio 2016 Olympic Truce. Her poems have been widely published in literary journals and anthologies including Banshee, Magma, Poetry Ireland Review, Rattle, The Stinging Fly, Winter Papers and The Penguin Book of Indian Poets, and broadcast on BBC Radio London, RTÉ Radio 1’s Arena, and Sunday Miscellany. She is the co-editor of Hold Open The Door, a special commemorative anthology from The Ireland Chair of Poetry. In 2023, she was appointed as a guest editor of the highly-regarded national poetry journal, Poetry Ireland Review.

John Patrick McHugh – Fiction Editor

John Patrick McHugh was born in Galway. His fiction has appeared in The Stinging Fly, Granta, The Tangerine, and Winter Papers, and been broadcast on BBC Radio 3. His debut collection of short stories, Pure Gold, was published by New Island in February 2021, and by Fourth Estate in 2022. His debut novel is forthcoming from Fourth Estate next year. A recipient of the Next Generation Award in 2022, he is the NUI Galway Writer-in-Residence for 2024. John has worked extensively as an editor of long and short-form fiction, both privately and with journals like The Stinging Fly and Banshee.