Three Times Daily: New Voices in Poetry, Fiction and Non-fiction

A wonderful collection from new voices in poetry, fiction and non-fiction from the class of 2009 MA in Writing, NUIG.

Table of Contents:
Paige Morgan (Poetry) Cave & Atheist Prayer Alexander Lumans (Fiction) Wands Michael Halloran (Poetry) Don't Look Now Maura McElhone (Non-fiction) Southern California: A Traveller's & Literary Companion (Extract) Jonathan Farrar (Fiction) Storyteller Ryan Dennis (Fiction, Poetry) Forget Harold Shaw, The Difference Between You and Me and Why it's & Harder for Barn Cats Jenny McCudden (Fiction, Non-fiction) Pride & Pop the Cherry Niamh Fleming-Farrell (Fiction) Summer on the Market Erin Buttner (Poetry) No Dreams for the Lazy, My Sister, the Wild Beauty Motorhead, Becomes a Homemaker & Dead in the Tree Jessica Maybury (Fiction) Ragsdale Aileen Armstrong (Fiction) The Cat and the Cradle Nicola Griffin (Fiction, Poetry) Ash & January Garden Orla Higgins (Fiction) Thin Blue Line Cristina Galvin (Fiction) Chrissy's World Tristan Burke (Travel Essay) Time in the Mara

About the Author :
Aileen Armstrong lives in Galway. She works as a technical writer and also writes fiction and non-fiction. Tristan Burke lives in Galway. He writes both non-fiction and fiction and has been published on the online literary journal www.someblindalleys.com Erin Buttner's poems have been published in Chronogram, NY and Ropes Unravelled. She lives in Kinvara, where she is writing poems, baking 'New York Cheesecakes' and continuing work on a memoir about her time served in the US military. Ryan Dennis writes about agriculture in various genres. His most recent publications include Poetry Ireland Review, Poetry New Zealand and Progressive Dairyman. He's trying to launch The Milk House, the first international dairy farming journal. Jonathan Farrar comes from County Longford. He writes fiction, non-fiction and poetry. Niamh Fleming-Farrell is from Ireland and enjoys writing. Cristina Galvin writes in a room with a view in Co. Galway, Ireland. Nicola Griffin writes fiction, non-fiction and poetry. She has a regular column in Inland Waterways News and her poetry has recently been published in Ropes Unravelled and Crannog. She lives in East Clare with her husband and dogs. Michael Halloran was educated in Dublin, Maynooth and Galway. He writes poetry and non-fiction. He has published online and he read his poetry at the Dublin Book Festival 2009. Orla Higgins lives in Galway city. She won the 2009 Over the Edge New Fiction Writer of the Year prize for her story Thin Blue Line and was a featured reader at the Emerging Writers Showcase at the 2009 Cuirt International Festival of Literature. Her work has been published in Crannog and Ropes Unravelled. Alexander Lumans recently graduated with his MFA in Fiction from Southern Illinois University Carbondale. His fiction has been published in Clarkesworld Magazine, The Versus Anthology, and Press 53 Open Awards 2009, and it is forthcoming in Greensboro Review, Black Warrior Review, Story Quarterly, Gargoyle, and Southern Indiana Review as well as in the anthologies Surreal South '09, Realms 2, and Writer's Voice 2009. He currently lives in Boulder, CO. Jessica Maybury was born in Dublin in 1985 and now lives in Galway. She has published flash fiction in Word Riot and Nth Word, and has just finished her first novel, which is as yet untitled. Jessica plays the piano and the mandolin. Paige Morgan is a high school English teacher in Moorestown, NJ, USA. She writes mostly poetry, nonfiction, and regular commentary on adolescents' essays. She lives between the ocean and the mountains, clarity and confusion. Jenny McCudden works as Western Correspondent for TV3 News. She has a BA in Journalism from DCU. Her first book, Out of Control, published by The Collins Press, is due to hit the shelves in spring 2010. She was a featured writer at the Over the Edge New Writer Showcase at the Cuirt International Festival of Literature 2009. Having led an entertaining life so far, she hopes to one day write entertaining fiction. Maura McElhone is a native of County Derry, Northern Ireland. Her writing has featured in publications including The Irish Herald, The Irish Emigrant and The Sharpe Review. In 2004, she spent a year studying abroad at the University of California San Diego and it is her dream to someday return to California long-term.

Review :
I look forward to the publication of this first salvo from these committed and energetic writers. They are full of life and curiosity and long may their work reflect this. - Mary O'Malley The variety of voices, and variety of forms in which those voices make themselves heard, are remarkable in this collection. The authors have come together from a wide experience of the world, united by the depth of their commitment to the art of writing. Many have published before; all will publish more and more in the time to come. - Aidan Frazier A terrific anthology laced with edgy wit and imagination. Here are the confident, sparky voices of a new generation of writers. - Mike McCormack