Quadrivium
by Daniel Ayiotis
MIA GALLAGHER writes novels and short stories and performs her work live. Her short fiction has been published in Ireland, the UK and the US, and has been anthologised by Fish and The Stinging Fly, while her contemporary translations of Catullus’ verses appeared in The Irish Catullus (Farmar, Dublin: 2010). She has been critically acclaimed for her writing and won the START Short Fiction award (2005) for her chapbook You First and the Irish Tatler Literature Award (2007) for her debut novel HellFire (Penguin Ireland, 2006). She was also shortlisted for Hennessy (1991), Fish (2004) and Trevor/ Bowen (2011) Awards. Extracts from her second novel have been published in Literary Imagination (Oxford University Press, 2012) and Spolia (New York, 2013). Mia has received several Bursaries for Literature from the Arts Council of Ireland and was writer-in-residence with IADT/dlr Arts Office (2009-2010). She is highly regarded for her performances of her own fiction and for her skill as a live interviewer – favourite interviewees include Kate Mosse, Emma Donoghue, Audrey Niffenegger and Kate Atkinson. In 2014 she will be travelling to Italy as part of the Italo-Irish Literature Exchange. Her short story 'Quasimodo', illustrated with drawings by Kirsten Stolle, was published in September 2013 as a limited edition chapbook by Spolia.
DANIEL AYIOTIS is 33 and from Dublin. He started writing regularly after joining the Dublin Writer’s Forum in November 2012 and has been an active member ever since. He has performed original pieces of prose, poetry and drama at The Monday Echo, Dublin’s Underground Beat, Takin’ the Mic and Dublin Writer’s Forum performance events.In conjunction with Victoria Fradgley, Daniel founded Mixed Messages, which held its inaugural event on 24 January 2014 and which aims to deviate from the usual format of performance nights. There's no stage, no host and no introductions. Rather, the format is geared towards making the acts an organic part of the audience and helping / challenging the performers to come up with novel ways to use the space without having a single focal point and grab the audience's attention without being introduced by a host. The second event is currently in the pipeline.
ROISÍN O DONNELL’s family are from Derry and she grew up in Sheffield. She holds a First in English Studies from Trinity College, Dublin. Having taught abroad in Barcelona and Malta, Roisín is currently teaching English as an additional language at Dublin City University and working on her first collection of short fiction.
JESSICA TRAYNOR was awarded the Ireland Chair of Poetry Bursary in 2014 and was Hennessy New Writer of the Year in 2013. She won the Listowel Single Poem Prize in 2011 and was featured in the 2009 Poetry Ireland Introduction Series. She teaches poetry and playwriting courses at Big Smoke Writing Factory. Poems are forthcoming or have appeared in If Ever You Go (Dedalus Press), The Irish Times, New Planet Cabaret (New Island), Peloton (Templar Poetry), The Weary Blues, The SHOp, The Moth, Wordlegs, The Stinging Fly, New Irish Writing and Burning Bush II among others. Her first collection of poems, Liffey Swim, is forthcoming from Dedalus Press in 2014. This is her first short fiction publication.
Twenty-four Hours in Tahoma
by Roisín O’Donnell
Renoir, Chagall, Matisse
by Jessica Traynor
FICTION
HUGH FULHAM-MCQUILLAN is studying for a doctorate in psychology in Trinity College Dublin, having completed his undergraduate, and master's degree in same. His work has been published, or is forthcoming, in The Stinging Fly, Gorse Journal, The Honest Ulsterman, Burning Bush 2, and Long Story Short. He is currently working on a collection of short stories, essays, and things in between. Follow him on Twitter @HughFMcQ
CLAIRE-LOUISE BENNETT urges you to read Natalia Ginzburg.
Postcard
by Claire-Louise Bennett