Camila Grudova lives in Edinburgh where she works at a cinema. Her first book The Doll’s Alphabet was published in 2017.

Camillus John’s work has been shortlisted in the RTÉ Guide/Penguin Ireland Short Story Competition and published in Boyne Berries and the Inksplinters Anthology 2014. His novel, The Rise and Fall of Cinderella’s Left Testicle, is nearing completion.

Caoilinn Hughes’ debut novel, Orchid & the Wasp, is just out (Oneworld, June 2018). Her poetry collection, Gathering Evidence (Carcanet, 2014), won the dlr Shine/Strong Award. Her writing has appeared in Tin House, POETRY, Granta, Best British Poetry, Poetry Ireland Review and elsewhere.

Carlos Heitor Cony is arguably Brazil’s most distinguished living author. Born in Rio in 1926, he has been a writer and journalist all his life. He has 17 novels and a host of literary prizes to his name, including Brazil’s Book of the Year, won in 1996 for Quase Memória (Quasi Memoir), from which this extract is taken. His books have not been translated into English but he is popular in France, where he is a Knight of Arts and Letters.

Carol Ballantine is a writer and researcher. She is currently completing a PhD in NUI Galway on the lives of migrant women in Ireland.

Carol V. Davis lives in Los Angeles. Awards include The Reuben Rose Award (Jerusalem) and second prize in the Strokestown International Poetry Award ( 2000). She spent the 1 996-97 academic year as a senior Fulbright scholar in St. Petersburg. Her collections are Letters from Prague (1991) and It’s Time to Talk
About… (1997), published in Russia in a bilingual edition.

Caroline Dowling lives and works in Kildare. She has just completed the MA Creative Writing at UCD. She is a recipient of the Tyrone Guthrie Bursary 2009 from Kildare County Council Arts Office. She has published in The Stinging Fly before.

Caroline Hardaker’s poetry has been published widely, most recently or forthcoming in The Emma Press, Neon Magazine, Allegro, and Shoreline of Infinity. She is a poetry and drama reviewer for the Three Drops From a Cauldron e-zine, and the In-House blogger for Mud Press.

Carolyn Jess-Cooke’s debut poetry collection, Inroads (Seren, 2010), received a number of prizes, including the Tyrone Guthrie Prize for Poetry and a Northern Promise Award. Her debut novel, The Guardian Angel’s Journal (Piatkus, 2011), is published in twenty-one languages.

Carys Davies is the author of two collections of short stories. Her most recent awards include the 2015 Frank O’Connor International Short Story Award and a 2016/17 Cullman Fellowship at the New York Public Library. Born in Wales, she now lives in north west England.

Cath Nichols has a PhD in poetry and dramatic writing from Lancaster University. Her publications are My Glamorous Assistant (2007) and a pamphlet, Tales of Boy Nancy (2005). She’s previously worked in mental health services, radio journalism, and literature development. ‘Blink’ is currently expanding within Birdie, a play based on the Philomela myth.

Binh Nguyen was born in Quang Nam Province, Vietnam, and is a political exile to the USA. A former student of literature and philosophy, she holds an MFA in Creative Writing from Boston University, where she was a Robert Pinsky Global Fellow and a George Starbuck Fellow. Now living in New York City, she is working on her first poetry collection, As Though We Are One. More information can be found at maythefirst.net.

Breda Spaight holds an MPhil in creative writing from Trinity College Dublin. Her poetry has been widely published and she won the 2016 Boyle Arts Festival Poetry Prize. She was among the poets selected for the 2017 Poetry Ireland Introductions Series.

Breda Sullivan is a native of Athlone and now lives in Streete, County Westmeath. Her second collection, After the Ball, was published by Salmon in 1998. A third collection is forthcoming.

Breda Wall Ryan has been shortlisted for a Hennessy Award and for the Davy Byrnes Irish Writing Award. Her stories have appeared (or will appear) in Moments, Something Sensational to Read in the Train and The New Hennessy Book of Irish Writing 2005.

Brendan is the author of the book At Swim, a journey of Ireland’s coastal swimming spots. His writing has appeared in The Irish Times, The Sunday Times, The Guardian, Cara Magazine, The Honest Ulsterman and We Are Dublin among others. He currently works freelance for Words Ireland and CreativeCareers.ie.

Brendan Murphy’s fiction has appeared in journals and anthologies in Ireland and
the UK. His play, Kicking Oscar’s Corpse,was performed at the Town Hall Theatre, Galway, in 2015. He is currently working on a collection of short stories.

Brian Davey was born in County Sligo and now lives in Dublin. His essays and reviews have appeared in publications such as Dublin Review of Books, CIRCA Art Magazine and Dublin Inquirer

Brian McGettrick lives a half life in front of the typewriter and a full life with his wife and two daughters in the north of Ireland. His first collection, Everything Else We Must Endure, is available from sunnyoutside press (www.sunnyoutside.com).

Brian Turner is the author of Here, Bullet (Bloodaxe Books, 2007). His recently completed second collection, Talk the Guns, will be available in 2010 from Alice James Books. He has received a Fellowship from the Lannan Foundation and currently lives in California, where he is at work on a third collection.

Briana Corrigan is a singer, songwriter, poet and playwright, best known for her work with the internationally successful band The Beautiful South. In 2012 her first play, The Scarlet Web – Martha’s Story, toured Ireland and Scotland. She has also written and released two self-penned albums: the critically acclaimed When My Arms Wrap You Round and, in 2012, Redbird. Briana holds an MA with Distinction in Creative Writing from Queens University, Belfast.

Bridget Sprouls’s poems and stories have appeared in The Quarryman, The Stinging
Fly, Surge: New Writing from Ireland, The Belleville Park Pages, and Scrivener Creative Review. She lives in New Jersey and teaches writing at Richard Stockton University.

Bridget Talone is the author of The Soft Life. Recent work has appeared in A Perfect Vacuum, Pouch Mag, and Elderly. She lives in Philadelphia.

Broenwynn Detlofsen has been published in The Boston Poet, Exordium and Tuna. A featured reader at poetry events in Seattle, Boston, Edinburgh and Melbourne, she currently lives in Dublin.

Bud Cho-O’Leary is from Cork and lives in New York. A graduate of University College Cork and Trinity College Dublin, he is preparing to start law school in August. This is his first published short story.

C.K. Stead’s novel, Risk, was launched by MacLehose Press in London last October and a new collection of poems, The Yellow Buoy, will be published by Auckland University Press this month to be followed later in the year by a UK edition from Arc. He lives in New Zealand.

Caelainn Hogan is a writer and multimedia journalist who has reported from South Sudan, Uganda, Nigeria, Turkey and Syria. Her work has featured in The New York Times Magazine, Harper’s, The New Yorker, VICE Magazine and The Dublin Review.

Aude is the pseudonym of Claudette Charbonneau-Tissot, a French-Canadian author and professor. Born in Quebec in 1947, she taught French language and literature until her untimely death in 2012, in addition to publishing fifteen works in French, only two of which have been translated into English. Her novel ‘Cet imperceptible mouvement’ was awarded the Governor-General’s Award for French-language fiction in 1997.

Aurelio Busuioc was born in 1928 and is a poet and novelist. Collections include The Flea Walker (1992) and Concert (1993 ).

Averil Meehan is a computing lecturer who writes poetry and drama. Her poetry has been published in The Stinging Fly and The Cork Literary Review, and was selected for the Poetry Ireland Introductions Series.