Seanchaí: With Lydia Renfro
Seanchaí: With Lydia Renfro
Bedclothes for Beckett by Marc de Faoite
Marc de Faoite’s collection of short stories, Tropical Madness was long-listed for the 2014 Frank O’Connor International Short Story Prize.
Seanchaí: With Lydia Renfro
Last Camera, fiction by CJ Vallis
CJ Vallis won the 2019 UTS Writing Anthology prize and was runner-up in the Byron Writers Festival 2019 Flash Fiction competition
Seanchaí: With Lydia Renfro
The Door, Fiction by Angela Amman
Angela Amman co-directed Listen to Your Mother Metro Detroit, bringing stories to the stage to celebrate the courage and connectivity of live storytelling.
Issue 41 |March 2020|
‘My mother has a friend whose sister was a bunnygirl’ Fiction by Kathy Prokhovnik
My
My mother. My father (deceased). My husband, son, daughter, grandson, granddaughters, daughter-in-law, son-in-law, stepson, step daughter-in-law, step- grandchildren. I could go on, imposing...
Seanchaí: With Lydia Renfro
‘The Most Beautiful Suicide’ fiction by Robin Vigfusson
Forty years ago when I was in college, I sat in a darkened classroom next to a window, watching snow fall outside. The class...
Issue 41 |March 2020|
‘Rowing’ fiction by Mark O’Flynn
They rowed on the lake at a different time each day. Usually at the long break or during a paper neither wished to hear....
Issue 41 |March 2020|
‘The Cave’ fiction by Barry Litherland
Barry Litherland writes crime mystery novels, often with a paramormal twist.
Issue 41 |March 2020|
Goodbye Joanna Hales, fiction by Sue Brennan
Sue Brennan was shortlisted for the Wollongong Short Story Award (2018)
Issue 40 | December 2019 |
‘Would I talk to Her?’ Flash by Sass O Flynn
Sucessful poet Sass O'Flynn turns her hand to fiction for the first time.
Issue 41 |March 2020|
‘The Go Aways’ Fiction by Marlon Martinez
Marlon Martinez's writings reflect his curiosity about drugs, sex, the forgotten, addiction, recovery,
love and other technologies.
Issue 41 |March 2020|
Micah Granada, Short Fiction
Micah Granada is a creative writing student at the University of the Philippines-Diliman’s Institute for Creative Writing.
Issue 41 |March 2020|
‘Tackling Middle-Aged Men’. Michael Chacksfield
Michael Chacksfield is a proud member of the PG Wodehouse Society,
Issue 41 |March 2020|
‘Every Thought Flies’. Fiction by K.P. Taylor
South African born author, K.P. Taylor
Issue 41 |March 2020|
‘ #Badsex’ Short Fiction by Sam Hall
Sam Hall is managing editor of Confluence Magazine
Issue 40 | December 2019 |
‘Jitty’. Short Fiction by David Gladwin
What inhabits the narrow cobbled lanes of your town. David Gladwin's atmospheric piece may hold the answers.
Issue 41 |March 2020|
‘Girl Grief’. Short fiction by Cathy Donelan
Cathy Donelan’s first play featured in the 2019 Galway Fringe.
Issue 41 |March 2020|
That old life. Short fiction by Rosalind Goldsmith
Poet, teacher, translator and playwright, Rosalind Goldsmith.
Issue 41 |March 2020|
The Clock Goes Back, Short fiction by Conor Jarrett
Conor Jarrett is a teacher, translator and writer from Naas, Co Kildare.
Issue 40 | December 2019 |
The Situation. Featured Fiction by Dorothy Simmons
Dorothy Simmons is an Irish-Austrailian English/Drama teacher whose first ‘published’ work was a stage play (Murray River Performing Group).
The Nib's Featured Writer
Blood. Featured Writer Brian Kirk
Brian Kirk's short fiction chapbook It’s Not Me, It’s You won the inaugural Southword Fiction Chapbook Competition
The Nib's Featured Writer
The Duck (a story in five parts)
Reyna Marder Gentin's novel, Unreasonable Doubts came, out in November, 2018,
Issue 40 | December 2019 |
Searching for Luna by Andrew Stiggers
Andrew Stiggers is a short fiction writer from Auckland, New Zealand.
Issue 40 | December 2019 |
Tree of Knowledge by emerging writer Jason Jawando
Jason Jawando has an MA in Creative Writing from the Open University.
Issue 40 | December 2019 |
The skin that separates water and air – Sandra Arnold
Sandra Arnold is an award-winning writer who lives in New Zealand.
Issue 40 | December 2019 |
Mittens for Nasma by Tracy Gaughan
Tracy Gaughan presents the popular arts show ‘WestWords’ on Ireland’s Community Radio Network
Issue 40 | December 2019 |
The Closest Thing to Home. Fiction Shinjini Dey
Shinjini Dey has been published in Efiction and Cactus Heart Press.
Issue 40 | December 2019 |
A Field for the British Isles. Nigel Jarrett
Nigel Jarrett a double prizewinner: the Rhys Davies Award for short fiction and the Templar Shorts award.
Issue 40 | December 2019 |
Paris Vagrant. Fiction from Michael Paul Hogan
Michael Paul Hogan is a poet, journalist and fiction writer whose work has appeared extensively in the USA, UK, India and China
Issue 40 | December 2019 |
The Ant Hill. Fiction by emerging writer Mikael Shamsie
Mikael Shamsie is a Pakistani living in Canada, having previously spent his time moving from place to place
Issue 40 | December 2019 |
For Sale Sign by Colette Coen
Colette Coen is a member of the G2 Writers Group.
Issue 40 | December 2019 |
What We Learnt From Vitruvian Man by Joe Williams
Joe Williams is a writer and performing poet from Leeds.
Issue 40 | December 2019 |
After Life. Fiction by Swara Shukla
Swara Shukla is a Creative Writing graduate from University of Glasgow. She has worked on developing a youth-to-youth publishing start-up called MageQuill based in the Scottish Highlands.
Issue 40 | December 2019 |
My Uncle in the Ospital. New Fiction from Rosemary McLeish
Rosemary McLeish won second prize in both the Mslexia Poetry Competition and the Bedford International Poetry Competition.
Issue 40 | December 2019 |
Relief. Short Fiction from Megan Carlson
Megan Carlson earned a master's degree in journalism from the Medill School at Northwestern University
Issue 40 | December 2019 |
Too Much. Short Fiction by Jessica Ciosek
Jessica Ciosek attended Michigan State University where she earned a BA in Marketing and promptly found her passion for fiction writing eight months after graduation.
Issue 40 | December 2019 |
Sexual Predator. Fiction from Melissa Todd
Melissa Todd is a writer, performer and the director of Hags Ahoy theatre company.
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