Issue 11 Bio notes

Anne Daly is a writer who lives in Co. Meath. Her work has recently appeared in The Honest Ulsterman, The Waxed Lemon and Reflex Fiction. Her debut pamphlet Triptych was published by Alien Buddha Press in April 2022.

Is as Cill Mhantáin ó dhúchas mé ach tá mé ag cur fúm in California anois. Ba léachtóir ollscoile mé le litríocht na Stát Aontaithe agus tá leabhar agus aistí scríofa agam ar litríocht na hinimirce. Is é seo mo chéad phíosa scríbhneoireachta chruthaitheach i nGaeilge.

DG Herring‘s poems have appeared in South Poetry Magazine, Dreich, Nangle’s The Occasional Poetry Magazine and New Isles Press issue 2; and is forthcoming in Poetry Salzburg Review 41 and Orbis. His chapbook, ‘The Sheliand’, is published by Dithering Chaps. David writes about art, identity and the telos of words.

Frances Gapper’s stories have been published in three Best Microfiction anthologies and online in places including Splonk, Forge, Gooseberry Pie, Wigleaf, trampset, 100 Word Story, Switch, the Dribble Drabble Review, Twin Pies, Janus, Fictive Dream and New Flash Fiction Review. She lives in the UK’s Black Country. @biddablesheep

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Tá Gearóidín Nic Cárthaigh ag cur fúithi in Iarthar Chorcaí. Scríobhann sí splancscéalta, gearrscéalta agus dánta. Tá saothar dá cuid foilsithe in irisí éagsúla. Is é Geansaithe Móra an chéad chnuasach óna peann. @GearoidinC

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Scríobhann Hannah Ní Chonghaile splancfhicsean agus gearrscéalta, chomh maith le colún don iris Nós. Is as Iarthar Chorcaí di ó dhúchas ach tá sí ag cur fuithi fé láthair i gChorca Dhuibhne.

James Montgomery (he/him) is a flash fiction writer based in Staffordshire, UK. He has won the Pokrass Prize and Retreat West’s best micro fiction prize, and been highly commended in the Bath Flash Fiction Award. Find him at http://www.jamesmontgomerywrites.com

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Kathryn Aldridge-Morris is a writer from Bristol, UK, whose work has appeared in a variety of literary journals and anthologies and the Wigleaf Top 50. She is the winner of The Forge Flash Nonfiction competition, Lucent Dreaming’s prize for flash fiction and The Manchester Writing School’s ‘QuietManDave’ prize. Website: http://www.kamwords.com

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Lydia Davis is the author of eight collections of stories, one novel—The End of the Story (Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1995)–and two books of non-fiction, Essays One (FSG, 2019) and Essays Two (FSG, 2021). She is also the translator of many works from French and other languages, including Proust’s Swann’s Way, Flaubert’s Madame Bovary, and a selection of the very short stories of the Dutch writer A.L. Snijders entitled Night Train (New Directions, 2021). Her most recent collection of short fiction, Our Strangers, appeared in Fall 2023 from Bookshop Editions. She lives in upstate New York.

Nan Wigington lives in the U.S. near a ridge of the Rocky Mountains. Her flash fiction has appeared in Nunum, The Ekphrastic Review, and New Flash Fiction Review.

Rae Cowie has had pieces published by the Bath Award, Cranked Anvil, Ellipsis Zine, Potluck Zine, Northwords Now, Oxford Flash Prize, Postbox Magazine, Retreat West and more.
She was granted a Scottish Book Trust Award 2022 and is editing her debut flash fiction collection. Discover more about Rae at http://www.raecowie.com

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Sarah Moore Fitzgerald is a writer and academic based at the University of Limerick where she’s founding director of UL’s Creative Writing Winter School. Her fiction for children and young adults has been translated into over twenty languages. In 2022 she won The London Magazine Award for short fiction.

Originally from Missouri, Sherry Morris (@Uksherka, @uksherka.bsky.social) writes prize-winning fiction from a farm in the Scottish Highlands where she pets cows, watches clouds & dabbles in photography. She reads for the wonderfully wacky Taco Bell Quarterly and her first published story was about her Peace Corps experience in 1990s Ukraine.

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A queer writer of odd things, Tania Hershman is the author of nine books of poetry, fictions and hybrids, and editor of Fuel: An Anthology of Prize-Winning Flash Fictions Raising Funds to Fight Fuel Poverty (Feb 2023). http://www.taniahershman.com

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