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Luis Cuauhtemoc Berriozabal was born in Mexico. His lives in California and works in the mental health field in Los Angeles. His poetry has appeared in print and online since the 1980's. His work has appeared in Blue Collar Review, Fixator Press, Impspired, Ink Sweat and Tears, Lothlorien Poetry Journal, Mad Swirl, and Unlikely Stories. His books and chapbooks have been published by Alternating Current Press, Deadbeat Press, FourFeathers Press, KendraSteiner Editions, New Pol

Peter Lingard, born a Briton, sold ice cream on railway stations, worked as a bank clerk, delivered milk, laboured in a large dairy and served in the Royal Marines.  He has also been a barman, an accountant and a farm worker.  He lived in the US for a while and owned a freight forwarding business in New York.  He came to Australia because the sun often shines here and Australians are a positive bunch who speak English.  Peter ( plingaus@bigpond.com ) is a member of the Phoeni

Colin Dardis is the author of ten poetry collections, most recently  with the lakes  (above/ground press, 2023) and  What We Look Like in the Future  (Red Wolf Editions, 2023). A neurodivergent poet, editor and sound artist, his work has been published widely throughout Ireland, the UK and USA. Colin is co-host of the long-running open mic night, Purely Poetry, held in the Crescent Arts Centre, Belfast, and editor of the poetry blog, Poem Alone. I Have Looked For Inspiration

Catherine Kay lives in Inishowen,  Donegal. Her writing was performed in the Waterside Theatre and at Ten x 9. She was highly commended in the Frances Browne Festival 2023.  Her poetry  has been published in the Storms Journal Anthology 4, Caught Alight: An Anthology (publisher: Impspired) and Dark Winter Press. Missing the 212 The door of the bright, welcoming Mona cafe swished shut behind Molly as she carried her coffee into the weak light of that dull Saturday. Making it a

Maureen Sheridan was born and raised in a small farming community just outside the village of Portglenone in Co. Antrim, N.Ireland. Life in the early nineteen fifties in that close-knit rural community was very different from the thrust and frenzy of today. Having studied English Language and Literature at Queen’s University Belfast, in the late nineteen seventies, I went on to spend the next forty years in teaching in the south of England. My final position was as Principal

I was born in Clones Co. Monaghan in 1962. At 19 years old I joined DUNNES STORES as a management trainee in Dublin and five years later I ended up in Belfast as a Branch Manager where I meet my wife Carole Robinson from Portrush, where we now live. I worked in most areas east of northern Ireland  and as an adult student I achieved an MSc in management change communication from Queen’s University in 2001. I have ran 10 marathons and I have a passion for Darts. I have three gr

Ronan still lives in the same small Armagh village where he was born in the early 1970s, and like almost all others reared in the wee North during that period had a soul indelibly smelt to a certain temper. Having studied and worked in Dublin and Glasgow, hes happy to be home again among the thriving descendants of the rabbits, ragwort and wynds of his youth. As long as the days keep coming, Ronan appreciates more and more the survival instincts of other abler civil servants

Alice is originally from Belfast and now lives and works on the North Coast. She has contributed to various Tenx9 storytelling events and enjoys writing about the intersection of the magical and the everyday. The Latin Name for Pigeon First week: new job. Familiar Campus: new role, blending the known and the new. Day one: lunch break. Walking through automatic doors, outside to in. Entering calm from wind.  To meet a flash of wings within.  Trapped in the hallway, high-ceilin

Angela Graham is from Belfast. Culture And Democracy Press published her poetry collection,  Star  in 2024 and next year will bring out  Exposure,  75 poems on media and war. Seren Books published her 2022 poetry collection,  Sanctuary: There Must Be Somewhere , and her short story collection,  A City Burning ,   2020   which was longlisted for the Edge Hill Prize. She was a finalist in this year's Seamus Heaney Award for New Writing. She won the Poetry Prize in the inaugural

I am a 24-year-old amateur writer currently based in Portstewart, Northern Ireland, where I’m completing a PhD in Geography. Originally from Derry, I studied at Ulster University in Coleraine and have remained on the North Coast to pursue both academic and creative work. My research focuses on place, memory, and emotional geographies — themes that often find their way into my prose. My writing explores the quieter edges of human experience: displacement, belonging, mental noi

As a senior barrister then as a judge Paul Girvan wrote extensively on legal matters during a long career and he now enjoys the freedom of creative writing particularly poetry which is often inspired by his travels, by nature, by his sense of place, history and time and by his career in law. A keen amateur artist his work is influenced by an artist's eye for colour, form and atmosphere.  He contributed a prose piece Affairs of the Heart  to The Heart of the Matter  Imspired P

Johanna Gallagher is a Belfast-based playwright, performer, and former nurse whose work explores contemporary issues through a rich blend of lyrical language, folklore, and realism. After seven years working in healthcare, Johanna transitioned into full-time theatre making - in January 2024, and has since been creatively active and gaining recognition across the Northern Irish theatre scene. Her debut solo show  Queen of the Bees  had its debut run at The Sanctuary Theatre –

Gary Devenney is a poet whose journey with spoken word began during lockdown.Though life pulled him away from poetry, he found his way back to the page after the heartbreaking loss of his partner, Fiona, to whom he dedicates all his writing. His work delves into love, grief, and mental health, weaving raw emotion with the influence of Dermot Kennedy’s poetic intensity. Beyond poetry, he is the Head of Football Development, an avid reader of psychology, philosophy, and romanti

Avery was born in Canada and grew up in London, with Northern Ireland his adult home. He studied philosophy and literature at Ulster University (Coleraine) before becoming a social worker. Active in his profession and the voluntary & community sector, he currently leads a fostering service for a national children’s charity. Avery is a member of Portglenone Writers, having joined online during lockdown, and much preferring the face to face world that has returned. Writing poet

My name is Phil Boyce and I live in Belfast, Ireland. In my mid-40s I decided to attempt to fulfil a lifelong dream of becoming a writer. I’d been writing a website called the OiNK Blog for a few years about a classic 80s humour comic which proved a success and so I began to diversify to cover other titles. Through this I’ve got to know lots of individuals in that industry whose positive feedback on my work inspired me to take the next leap. I am currently co-writing a book a

Heidi Edmundson is originally from Portrush As a child she loved telling stories and always wanted to be a writer when she grew up. She studied medicine at Dundee University and currently works as an Emergency Consultant in London. She also spent one summer trying to be a stand up comedian. Both things have equipped to performing in front of a hostile audience. She has had two books published. One , a crime novel called Darkness in the City of Light, is a classic Whodunnit se

Ken Gosse generally writes light poetry using simple language, meter, and rhyme in verses filled with whimsy and humor. First published in The First Literary Review–East in November, 2016, his poetry is also online with Academy of the Heart and Mind, Lothlorien Poetry Journal, Home Planet News, Spillwords, Impspired, and others. He is also in print anthologies from Pure Slush, The Coil, Truth Serum Press, Peking Cat, and others. Raised in the Chicago suburbs, he and his wife

Had four kids but now just three.  Zen and Love.

Michael Igoe, neurodiverse, city boy, Chicago, now Boston. Numerous works appear in journals and anthologies( available at amazon.com , lulu.com , barnesandnoble.com ). National Library of Poetry (Owings Mills, MD) Editor's Choice 1997; Best of the Net nomination 2023. Twitter(X) MichaelIgoe5. Dialogue Revisited

Morgan Laidler is a junior at Boston College studying Secondary Education, English, and Creative Writing. However, she will be spending the year abroad, studying at Manfield College at the University of Oxford. She was born in Atlanta, Georgia, and then moved to Parkland, Florida, where she began writing poetry and prose. She has been published in The Laughing Medusa, Stylus, The Wilderness House Literary Review, The Crossroads Review, Mouthful of Salt, and Girls Right The Wo