Paul McCarrick’s poetry has featured in Boyne Berries, Skylight 47, wordlegs, and placed third in the 2015 Over The Edge New Writer Competition. His novel, Happy- Cry with my Brilliant Life, was longlisted at the 2014 IWC Novel Fair.

Paul McMahon’s debut chapbook will be published by Southword Editions in
November. Awards include The Keats-Shelley, The Ballymaloe International, The
Nottingham Open, The Westport, and The Golden Pen.

Paul McVeigh’s plays have toured Ireland and Europe, and his short stories have been published in journals and anthologies and aired on BBC Radio 4. He is Deputy Editor at Word Factory and is curating the London Short Story Festival. He has completed his first novel.

Padraic Walsh is a playwright and fiction writer from Mayo. His plays have been broadcast on BBC Radio 4 and he won the Walter Swan Trust Playwriting Award in 2015.

Padraig Regan is the featured poet in our Summer 2021 issue. They have published two poetry pamphlets: Delicious (Lifeboat, 2016) and Who Seemed Alive & Altogether Real (Emma Press, 2017). They are currently one of the Ciaran Carson Writing and the City Fellows at the Seamus Heaney Centre, QUB. Their first book, ‘Some Integrity’, will be published next year by Carcanet.

Padraig Rooney is an award-winning Irish poet and journalist who lives in Basel, Switzerland. The Gilded Chalet: Off-piste in Literary Switzerland (Nicholas Brealey, 2015) was described by Edmund White as “a superbly amusing guide to all the writers who’ve been drawn to or emerged from Switzerland.”Rooney is translating Swiss writer Annemarie Schwarzenbach’s American journalism from the 1930s.

Pádraigín Riggs lectured in the Department of Modern Irish, UCC, before her
retirement. Her publications include a study of the short story writer, Donncha
Ó Ceileachair and a literary biography of Pádraic Ó Conaire as well as numerous
articles on modern literature in Irish and on the cultural and intellectual history of
the London Irish.

Pascale Petit’s latest collection, What the Water Gave Me: Poems after Frida Kahlo (Seren, 2010), was shortlisted for both the TS Eliot prize and Wales Book of the Year, and was a Book of the Year in The Observer. She leads poetry courses at Tate Modern.

Pat Boran is a prize-winning poet, editor and broadcaster with more than a dozen books of poetry and prose to his name. His most recent is Waveforms: Bull Island Haiku (Orange Crate Books, 2015).

Pat Galvin had his first collection of poems Where the Music Comes From published by Doghouse this year. His work has appeared in journals in the US, England, Ireland and Singapore. He was shortlisted twice for the Hennessy/Sunday Tribune Awards and won the Cecil Day Lewis Award. He lives in Stradbally, County Waterford.

Pat Jourdan lives in Galway. Her poems have appeared in a number of magazines and anthologies. She has also published two pamphlets: The Bedsit Girl and From Berlin to Salthill.

Pat Reid writes about his native docks area. His short story ‘Sara’ appeared in Issue One of this magazine and he has stories forthcoming in Connecticut Review and other US university journals. He received an Anton Chekhov Award (USA) in 1 997.

Patricia Young, a Canadian writer, has received numerous awards for her writing, including the CBC Literary Prize, Arc’s Poem of the Year Award and the National Magazine Award. She has published nine collections of poetry and one of short fiction. Her most recent collection is An Autoerotic History of Swings (Sono Nis Press, 2010). Her work was published in Poetry Ireland Review in 2008.

Patrick Chapman’s nine books include A Promiscuity of Spines: New & Selected Poems (Salmon, 2012), The Negative Cutter (Arlen House, 2014) andSlow Clocks of Decay (Salmon, 2016). His audio credits include writing adventures for Doctor Who and Dan Dare, and producing B7’s 2014 dramatisation of Ray Bradbury’s The Martian Chronicles for BBC Radio 4. He has also written film and television. With Dimitra Xidous he founded and edits The Pickled Body.

Patrick Cotter has been published in the Awl, the Financial Times, PN Review,
Poetry, Poetry Review & elsewhere. He has published two full collections, a verse
novella and several chapbooks. www.patrickcotter.ie

Patrick Deeley’s poems have appeared in many journals here and abroad over the past forty years and been widely anthologised. ‘Groundswell: New and Selected Poems’, is the latest of his six collections with Dedalus Press. He is also a children’s author, and his memoir ‘The Hurley Maker’s Son’ appeared recently from Transworld Ireland.

Patrick Early lives in County Clare, after a life spent mainly overseas working with the Britsh Council. His poems and reviews have been widely published.

Patrick FitzSymons has worked for years in TV and film on both sides of the camera. His screenplay ‘A Year of Greater Love’ aired on the BBC in 2012, the year in which he also completed an MA at the Seamus Heaney Centre at Queen’s University Belfast. He and his family are again living in the city after a five-year sojourn on the north coast.

Patrick Holloway is an Irish writer living and working in Brazil. Last year he took second place in the Raymond Carver Contest and was shortlisted for the Dermot Healy Poetry Prize, Over the Edge New Writer Award and The Bath Short Story Award. His greatest accomplishment is Aurora, his newborn daughter. He is currently writing a novel.

Patrick Maddock is a one-time Hennessy Award winner and featured on the shortlist of the Gregory O’Donoghue International Poetry Competition. His poems have appeared widely in magazines.

Patrick Martin works as a linguistics researcher in Dublin City University. He has previously published fiction, poetry and research papers and has recently finished a novel concerned with genetic modification using household items.

Olga Tokarczuk, born 1962, is one of the most highly regarded Polish contemporary writers, best known for her novels Primeval and Other Times (1996), House of Day, House of Night (1998), Runners (2008) and Drive Your Plough Over the Bones of the Dead (2009). She has won several literary awards, including the prestigious Polish NIKE prize. Educated as a psychologist, and formerly a practising therapist, Tokarczuk takes literary inspiration from C.G. Jung. She is a member of the Polish Green Party and holds refreshingly modern views on Polish traditional conceptions of national identity.

Olive Broderick is from Youghal, and is based in Downpatrick. She is an active member of the Write! Down collective. Recent poems have appeared in Abridged 0-17, The Sunday Tribune and Ulla’s Nib. She took part in the 2009 Poetry Ireland Introductions Series and acknowledges the support of the Arts Council Northern Ireland (General Arts Award, 2009).

Oliver Arnoldi is a writer, journalist and documentary filmmaker from London. He is the recipient of the 2016 Tribeca Film Institute / ESPN Future Filmmaker Prize and works for VICE News on HBO in Brooklyn, New York.

Oliver Dunne is a writer and collage-artist. His work may also be found in the anthologies, Lifelines 2 and Human Rights Have No Borders: Voices of Irish Poets, the current Poetry Ireland Review (No. 84) and in earlier editions of this magazine.

Oliver Farry was born and raised in County Sligo. He lives in Paris, where he works as a journalist, translator and editor.

Oliver Keogh was born in County Tipperary in 1975 and currently lives in London

Oliver Marshall’s collection, Father’s Day, was published by Summer Palace Press in 2005. He lives in Bray, County Wicklow.

Olivia Fitzsimons is from Northern Ireland and now lives in Wicklow. Her debut novel The Quiet Whispers Never Stop is published by John Murray.