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Damien B Donnelly @eatthestorms.com · 1d

Meet the Stormers of Issue V

@eoinflannery.bsky.social is a writer & critic based in Limerick. His poetry has appeared in The Honest Ulsterman; Rochford Street Review; Rust & Moth; The Belfast Review and many other international publications.

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Damien B Donnelly @eatthestorms.com · 1d

⚡️Meet the Stormers of Issue V ⚡️

Gerry Stewart is a poet, creative writing tutor and editor based in Finland. Her poetry collection Post-Holiday Blues was published by Flambard Press, UK. Her poetry is widely published in journals.

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Damien B Donnelly @eatthestorms.com · 1d

Meet the Stormers of Issue V

Beatriz Silva is a Brazilian writer & gender equality advocate. She has a MA in Gender, Politics and International Relations from University College Dublin. Substack bsdeab.substack.com

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Damien B Donnelly @eatthestorms.com · 2d

Meet the Stormers of Issue V

Billy Fenton writes fiction & poetry & has been widely published including The Rialto, Irish Times, Cyphers, Banshee, Poetry Ireland Review & more. He was chosen for Poetry Ireland Introductions 2025

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Damien B Donnelly @eatthestorms.com · 3d

⚡️Meet the Stormers of Issue V⚡️

@sandyseeberquayle.bsky.social is a German writer based in Ireland. She writes poetry, fiction, and essays. Her debut novel, Aus der Sicht der Dinge, was published in German in 2013.

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Damien B Donnelly @eatthestorms.com · 3d

Meet the Stormers of Issue V

Jack Kennedy is from Kerry. lives in Dublin & works as a biochemist. He is the winner of the Seán Ó Faoláin International Short Story Competition 2024 and is due to be published in Southward in 2025.

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Damien B Donnelly @eatthestorms.com · 3d

⚡️Meet the Stormers of Issue V ⚡️

Courtney Darby writes from the West Coast of Ireland. She holds a Creative Writing degree from the University of Galway. She graduated with first-class honours and as a University Scholar.

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Damien B Donnelly @eatthestorms.com · 4d

⚡️Meet the Stormers of Issue V ⚡️

Jo Morrigan Black (they/them) is a Paris-born performance poet. Their writing dwells in journals such as Poetry Ireland Review, Skylight 47 and Abridged. Their poetry drag show is Carpet Muncher.

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Damien B Donnelly @eatthestorms.com · 4d

It’s coming back!⚡️

12.10.25

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Damien B Donnelly @eatthestorms.com · 5d

Meet the Stormers of Issue V

@karenpgonzalez.bsky.social is an award-winning intuitive artist. To date, 75+ of her works have been published in a range of literary journals & four hybrid manuscripts. She lives in San Francisco.

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Damien B Donnelly @eatthestorms.com · 5d

Meet the Stormers of Issue V

@rfredekenter.bsky.social a widely published writer, visual artist & publisher, Ice Floe Press, is 4-time Pushcart Prize & BOTN nominee whose books include Father Tectonic and Audacity of Form.

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Damien B Donnelly @eatthestorms.com · 6d

⚡️Meet the Stormers of Issue V ⚡️

Emily Cullen is the Meskell Poet in Residence at the University of Limerick where she lectures on the MA in Creative Writing and MA in English. Her 3rd collection is Conditional Perfect.

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Damien B Donnelly @eatthestorms.com · 7d

⚡️Meet the Stormers of Issue V ⚡️

Thérèse Kieran is a Belfast based creative practitioner. Her work has been widely published. She is currently on the MA poetry programme at QUB and is Vice-Chair of Irish PEN/PEN na hÉireann.

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Damien B Donnelly @eatthestorms.com · 7d

⚡️Meet the Stormers of Issue V ⚡️

Doryn Herbst, a former water industry scientist working in Wales, now lives in Germany. Doryn has a collection coming out with Yaffle Press in spring 2026 called A Barbed and Twisted Place.

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Damien B Donnelly @eatthestorms.com · 8d

⚡️Meet the Stormers of Issue V ⚡️

Maria Isakova-Bennett, an artist and writer from Liverpool, has a Poetry Society Peggy Poole and New North Poet Award, and is Writer-in-Residence teaching for Mersey Care, NHS. She has 6 pamphlets.

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Damien B Donnelly @eatthestorms.com · 8d

⚡️Meet the Stormers of Issue V ⚡️

Maeve O'Sullivan’s poetry & haikai have been widely published, anthologised & translated. She has six collections, the latest being Where All Ladders Start (2024). She leads workshops in haiku.

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Damien B Donnelly @eatthestorms.com · 8d

⚡️Meet the Stormers of Issue V ⚡️

Bello Taiwo Victoria is a dental student and a writer based on Nigeria. She has works published in Brittle Paper, Afrocritik and elsewhere.

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Arrives Nov 2025

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Damien B Donnelly @eatthestorms.com · 9d

Meet the Stormers of Issue V

Sheena Hussain is a poet, writer, essayist. A former lawyer who turned to poetry after receiving a cancer diagnosis. In 2024 she was commissioned as a New Northern Poet by Ilkley Literature Festival.

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Damien B Donnelly @eatthestorms.com · 10d

Meet the Stormers of Issue V

@maryodonnell.bsky.social is an award-winning poet, novelist & short fiction writer. In 2026 Wake Forest University Press will publish her ninth collection, Tenderness. A new novel arrives in 2026.

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Damien B Donnelly @eatthestorms.com · 10d

⚡️Meet the Stormers of Issue V

@julianday.bsky.social is a poet, based in Surrey, UK with work in The Storms, Blackbough Poetry, The FolkHeart Press, and Patricia's Pen and A Thousand Shades Of Green. He’s a Best Of Net nominee.

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Damien B Donnelly @eatthestorms.com · 11d

⚡️Meet the Stormers of Issue V ⚡️

Zach Keali’i Murphy is a Hawaii-born writer. His stories appear in Raritan Quarterly, Reed Magazine, The MacGuffin, The Coachella Review, and more. He has published the chapbook Tiny Universes.

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Damien B Donnelly @eatthestorms.com · 11d

⚡️Meet the Stormers of Issue V ⚡️

Danielle Gilmour lives in Gloucestershire & is a Pushcart Prize nominated writer with work published in Poetry Wales, Propel, The Broken Spine, Dreich, and elsewhere.

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Damien B Donnelly @eatthestorms.com · 12d

Meet the Stormers of Issue V

@angelagraham.bsky.social is the author of the poetry collections Star, Sanctuary: There Must Be Somewhere, & the short stories, A City Burning. angelagraham.org

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Damien B Donnelly @eatthestorms.com · 12d

⚡️Meet the Stormers of Issue V ⚡️

@annmariedunne.bsky.social lives in Kildare. She is pursuing a Masters in Poetry in Queens. Her poems are in Washing Windows V, Sidhe Press, The Apiary, The Ogham Stone & The Honest Ulsterman.

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Damien B Donnelly @eatthestorms.com · 13d

⚡️Meet the Stormers of Issue V

Aisling Keogh is a writer & psychotherapist, who lives in County Galway. Her writing has appeared in place like The Irish Independent, The Honest Ulsterman, Crannog Magazine, Wordlegs and Ropes.

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