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Current & Past Editors and Readers

Scripts - Flash - Song Lyrics Editor

LEIGH BRADY is a writer and editor from Dublin, Ireland. She has completed her MA and BA in English Literature from Maynooth University, and has published poetry and short stories in various publications such as Luain Press, Propel Magazine, Moss Puppy, Suburban Witchcraft, Urban Pigs Press, and Cosmic Daffodil. She has recently judged for the International NYC Midnight competitions. Outside of literary pursuits, she can be found immersed in musical theatre.
(Instagram @uncoveringbooks)

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Blog Editor for our Spring Blog and Autumn Blog 2024

Editor for Issues 1, 2, 3, 4, 5

Fiction Editor

JASMIN AWOODUN earned a MA Creative Writing at Queen's University Belfast. She was an Irish Writers Centre Young Writer Delegate for Belfast Book Festival, 2024, had a short story broadcast on BBC Radio Ulster, and has published in The Honest Ulsterman and The Blackbird. She grew up in England but currenly lives in Madrid.

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Previously Fiction Reader for Issues 2, 4, 5

Poetry Editor

KERRY SCOTT is from Magherafelt and currently lives in Belfast. She completed a MA in English at the University of St Andrews, Scotland, and achieved a Distinction in Creative Writing in her MA at the Open University. Kerry is a writer and English teacher, and is currently working on a first collection of stories.

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Poetry Editor Issues 2, 3, 4, 5

Nonfiction Editor - tba

Current vacancy.

Past Readers & Editors

Nonfiction Editor

JEN HERRON writes poetry, prose and non-fiction. Her work has been published in The Irish Times, The Honest Ulsterman, Poetry Jukebox, Lumpen Magazine, Bowery Gothic, Hearth and Coffin, Seaside Gothic and more. She won the Seamus Heaney Award for New Writing, 2022. She lives in Larne, Northern Ireland, and teaches in Belfast.  

(TW @_jenherron)  

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Issues 1, 2,  3, 4, 5  (Credited as Associate Editor Issue 1)

Poetry Editor

NATALIA PRUSINSKA (she/her) is a queer, Polish American poet based in Los Angeles. She is author of the chapbook, Hard Jolts of Hope, and her poems have been featured in various publications including Hooligan Magazine, Storm Cellar, and High Shelf Press.

(TW @nataliagodyla)

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Issues 1 & 2

Poetry Editor

KENNETH HICKEY was born in Cobh, Co. Cork. His work has been published in various literary journals. He has won the Eamon Keane Full Length Play Award as well as being shortlisted for several poetry competitions. He has been awarded a poetry mentorship by Munster Literature Centre and a Tyrone Guthrie Centre residency by Cork County Council. His debut collection ‘The Unicycle Paradox’ was published November 2021. He still resides in Cork.

(TW @HickeyKen IG @kjh_poetry)

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Issues 1 & 2

Fiction Reader

MINGLU JIANG is a student at the University of Michigan studying double bass performance and economics. Her short fiction has appeared in FLashFlood, Voyage YA Journal, and Five on the Firth, among other journals. She calls Detroit, Michigan her home.

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Issue 1

Fiction - Nonfiction - Poetry Editor

JACQUELINE BROWN is an Irish American and elder millennial residing on the American West Coast. She was previously a Contributor at The Publishing Post, and her creative work can be found in numerous places including The Madrigal, Paper Lanterns, Tír na nÓg, and Neuro Logical.

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Issue 1

Fiction Editor

MICHAEL KELTERS is a writer and editor from Belfast, Northern Ireland. He has a BA in Literature and MA in Creative Writing, both from Queen's University, Belfast. Currently he is a member of the Seamus Heaney Centre's writing workshop.

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Issues 2 & 3

Fiction Reader

NWANNE AGWU is a student of Sociology with publication credits both in print and online. He was twice longlisted for the Commonwealth Short Story Prize, and shortlisted for the Isele Nonfiction Prize. He has previously been a reader/editor at The Belfast Review, Akowdee Magazine, and Fiery Scribe Review.

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Issue 1

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