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A journal of poetry, prose & visual art. Submissions are closed for issue 4. EIC @deuxiemepeau Extension of poetry podcast @eatthestorms
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⚡️We’re now officially closed
for Issue 4 submissions⚡️
Thank you to everyone who
submitted to our Dublin Days issue 💙
EIC
@deuxiemepeau
& subeditor
@fionamkorourke
can’t wait to dive in
Thank you to
@DublinCityofLit
&
@fingalarts
🙏🙏
Launch date: 10.11.24 ⭐️
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We are open for
#submissions
⚡️⚡️
We are looking for your Storm in the form of
#poetry
#prose
&
#visualart
For issue 3,
@deuxiemepeau
as editor-in-chief is joined by
@nithykasa
as sub-editor with thanks to
@fingalarts
for their support
For full details
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Overjoyed to announce
@Joseph_Fasano_
will be our featured poet for Issue 3
Joseph Fasano is an American poet, novelist & songwriter. His poetry books include The Last Song of the World (forthcoming, BOA Editions, 2024), The Crossing (2018), Vincent (2015) & Inheritance(2014)
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A toast 🥂
to every person involved
with our inaugural issue
of
@StormsJournal
💥💥We have gone to print 💥💥
Thanks to sub-editor
@gaynorkane
& all our contributors & everyone who submitted & cheered &encouraged
& thanks to
@artscouncil_ie
&
@Fingalcoco
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⭐️Issue 2 Shoutouts⭐️
Our featured poet is
@VKennefick
whose debut poetry collection, Eat or We Both Starve, won the Seamus Heaney First Collection Poetry Prize 2022 & was shortlisted for the T.S. Eliot Prize. Victoria is the current poet in residence at
@Yeatssocietyirl
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🔥Look what arrived today 🔥
Issue 2 of The Storms
A journal of
#poetry
#prose
&
#visualart
⚡️⚡️⚡️
Thanks to
@walshprint
⭐️🙏
@artscouncil_ie
@fingalarts
🙏⭐️🙏⭐️
Editor-in-chief
@deuxiemepeau
& subeditor
@edepaor
🕺🏻💃🏻
& pre-sales are open 🎉🎉🎉
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🎉🎉🎉And the
@PushcartPrize
nominations for 2022 from the inaugural issue of The Storms, a new printed journal of poetry, prose and visual art are…
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Issue 2 will be off to the printers shortly. We’ll have a mid-February Dublin launch, a zoom launch & bumper episode of
@EatTheStorms
Editor-in-chief
@deuxiemepeau
Subeditor
@edepaor
77 International Contributors ✨
Support from
@artscouncil_ie
&
@fingalarts
Cover teaser💜🎉
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⚡️Full cover reveal ⚡️
⚡️Issue 2 ⚡️
⚡️The Storms, a journal of
#poetry
#prose
&
#visualart
with thanks to our featured visual artist
#JaneRainey
for cover painting
Launching 18th feb
pre-sales coming soon to
Thanks to
@artscouncil_ie
&
@fingalarts
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Editor-in-chief
@deuxiemepeau
& sub-editor
@gaynorkane
& Sebastian- a teddy who only speaks French (bien sûr). A happy hug yesterday after a review of our new journal coming august. Incredible reaction, sensational submissions, never enough room in the pages but so grateful 🙏👏
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What a journey it’s been to Issue 2 of The Storms, which would have been impossible to achieve without subeditor
@edepaor
💐 🙏who lives in Dublin, her poems have appeared various journals & she co-wrote the pamphlet, In the Jitterfritz of Neon, published by
@hedgehogpoetry
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Subs have been read & read, reread, pushed, pulled, tugged and over 2000 pages are now somehow less than 100! And Issue 2 is under construction and will arrive to brighten the new year.
From myself
@deuxiemepeau
(editor-in-chief) and subeditor
@edepaor
Thank you 🙏💙
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Meet the contributors:
@SeaGoatScreams
is a queer poet from Aotearoa. He’s been widely published, 8-times nominated for the Pushcart Prize & co-edits
@IcefloeP
. His debut collection is The Water Engine from Femme Salvé Books.
Delighted to include his poem Points of No Return
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Can’t tell you how wonderful it is to walk into the fabulous
@BooksUpstairs
& see the inaugural issue of your journal of
#poetry
#prose
&
#visualart
sitting top shelf next to your idols like
@bansheelit
@Skylight47Poems
@Channel_LitMag
@tolkajournal
#cyphers
@ThePigsBack1
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Delighted to say Issue 2 is almost completed. By next week all contributors should receive proofs for final approval and then it’s off to the printers for a 2023 launch.
Meanwhile, it’s a few days of rest for strained eyes who’ve looked deep into the storm and back again 😉
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A new printed journal
of
#poetry
#prose
&
#visualart
, coming to your bookshelf August22
Editor-in-chef
@deuxiemepeau
Inaugural issue sub-editor
@gaynorkane
Supported by
@artscouncil_ie
&
@fingalarts
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What an incredible
@PoetryDay_IRL
it’s been. From live in-person readings to poetry podcasts, it’s been quite the Storm & what a day to receive word that we’ve funding for another Storm🙏
Thanks to the
@fingalarts
See you all back here soon for submission details for issue 3
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⚡️⚡️⚡️
Allow me to present to you
the new sub-editor of
@StormsJournal
Issue 3
@nithykasa
⚡️⚡️⚡️
Find out more about Nithy at…
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Of course, the inaugural issue of the journal owes a forever-debt to subeditor
@gaynorkane
who brought light, laughter & not a single deadline to her role. I was honoured to have her on my side & now equally thrilled to join
@edepaor
on issue 2, coming soon 💕💕🎉🎉🙏🙏⭐️⭐️
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And here we go…
The contributors and their
bios and social media links.
With thanks to everyone who submitted ✨✨✨
To the
@artscouncil_ie
&
@Fingalcoco
To sub-editor
@gaynorkane
👑👑
And
@walshprint
💐💐
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Look at this!
It’s a triple Storm ⚡️⚡️⚡️
with
@StormsJournal
editor-in-chief
@deuxiemepeau
, former issue 2 sub-editor
@edepaor
& new Issue 3 sub-editor
@nithykasa
Damien & Eilín were cheering on Nithy at the Living room Sessions tonight at
@IrishWritersCtr
where she shone ✨
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Bound for Belfast
and accidentally colour coordinated!
The Storms is going North!!! 💜💛
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Today, from 5pm, on most platforms,
@EatTheStorms
the
#poetry
#podcast
will play host to the poetry & prose from The Storms, Issue 2, making this episode its audio companion
So settle yourself on the sofa with a slice of something nice & something to sip, a storm is on the way⚡️
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Issue 3 of the printed journal
of
#poetry
#prose
&
#visualart
is due out in one month
Over the coming weeks we’ll be shouting about its star ⭐️ contributors
Thanks to subeditor
@nithykasa
for joining editor-in-chief
@deuxiemepeau
for this issue 🙏
Supported by
@fingalarts
🙏
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Starting off Wednesday morning in Thurles, Co.Tipperary with a shoutout to two wonderful artists
@adele_cordner
and
@Aoifedowdartist
who lit up our inaugural issue 🙏🙏🎉🎉💙💙
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Behind the scenes, we are lightning lunging between lines, working our way through edits, weaving our way through layouts. Details coming to Issue 3 contributors in the coming weeks with launches in October, date to be finalised but prepare yourself -
A Storm is coming ⚡️
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✨Issue 2 Shoutouts✨
@RegineEbner
is a teacher & writer in the American Southwest. Her work has been published in numerous journals/magazines including
@blackboughpoems
, Loft Books, Cerasus Magazine & many others.
@thealienbuddha
published her debut chapbook, Oxidized Pennies
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🎉Issue 2 Shoutout🎉
@fionamkorourke
writes Troubles fiction & the odd piece of time travel. Stories with The Waxed Lemon, Sonder Magazine, The Lonely Crowd, & more. Facilitates writing communities with Irish Writers Centre, libraries, and festivals.
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I’m overjoyed to say
@StormsJournal
the new printed journal of
#poetry
#prose
&
#visualart
is now available in
@ByrnesBooks
in
#Galway
@BooksUpstairs
in Dublin and is currently in the window of
@Winding_Stair
gazing upon the ha’penny bridge ☘️✨✨🙏🙏
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Former patternmaker,
now editor-in-chief of The Storms
@deuxiemepeau
is the Pushcart nominated author of Eat the Storms pamphlet, host & producer of the Saboteur nominated poetry podcast
@EatTheStorms
& his debut full collection Enough! arrives 29th August from
@hedgehogpoetry
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And the ⚡️Shoutouts ⚡️ are over
One more sleep till our 1st live launch at Swords Castle in Dublin
followed by our international Zoom launch Wed 22nd
& podcast launch on Sat 25th Feb.
✨Here are our issue 2 stars ✨
& their bios are all available at
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A shoutout to issue 3 contributor
@JulianD86666247
⭐️
The Storms is a printed journal
of
#poetry
#prose
&
#visualart
Julian opens our anthology,
coming next month,
with his poem Prayers in Starlight
This issue’s theme is
Shelter / Sanctuary / Sanctum
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✨Issue 2 Shout Outs
Featured artist Jane Rainey is a painter in Belfast. Solo shows include Lunar Tides, 2022 & The Horizon is never still, 2019, at Molesworth Gallery. Recent group show - Hennessy Craig Exhibition, RHA (2022).
Recent commission for Meta Open Arts, Dublin, 2022
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⚡️⚡️⚡️Hello Universe!
The Storm is here!
With thanks to my subeditor
@nithykasa
& all our sensational contributors.
Issue III has arrived & will be available
to pre-order from this Friday ⚡️⚡️⚡️
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Meet the contributors:
@dizzylynn
lives in the Scottish Highlands. Her debut collection, Life’s Stink and Honey, was with Cinnamon Press in 2022 & her Scots language pamphlet, A Glimmer o Stars, with
@hedgehogpoetry
.
Delighted to include her poem Stargazing beyond Las Vegas
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🔥Issue 2 shoutouts🔥
@jackbedell
is Professor of English & Coordinator of Creative Writing at Southeastern Louisiana University. He edits Louisiana Literature & directs Louisiana Literature Press. His latest collection is Against the Woods’ Dark Trunks, Mercer University Press
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⚡️Issue 2 Shoutout⚡️
⭐️Our featured prose writer ⭐️
@Rhona_Greene
is a Pushcart Prize-nominated writer from Dublin, published in several
@blackboughpoems
editions, shortlisted for the Dai Fry Mystical Award, featured in Sarah Connor’s Advent poems & Annick Yerem’s Advent project
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🎉Issue 2 Shoutout🎉
@_MartinaDalton
lives in Waterford. Publications include Poetry Ireland Review, The Irish Times, The Irish Independent, The Stinging Fly, The Stony Thursday Book. Her poem Wedding Dress won the Listowel Writers’ Week Poem of the Year/Irish Book Awards ‘22
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A shoutout to editor-in-chief
@deuxiemepeau
⭐️
The Storms is a printed journal of
#poetry
#prose
&
#visualart
Thank you to everyone who submitted, contributed, cheered & supported. Issue 3 launches this Sunday ⚡️⚡️
This issue’s theme is
Shelter / Sanctuary / Sanctum
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Enormous thanks to
@image_magazine
&
@MegWalkerDublin
for featuring
@thestorms
in Words of Art in their blooming Spring issue
What an honour to be here with
@stingingfly
&
@the4facedliar
Huge congratulations to all our Storm stars,
@fingalarts
@artscouncil_ie
@gaynorkane
@edepaor
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A shoutout to issue 3 contributor
@Joseph_Fasano_
⭐️
The Storms is a printed journal of
#poetry
#prose
&
#visualart
Joseph Fasano is our featured poet for the new issue, due out end of October.
This issue’s theme is
Shelter / Sanctuary / Sanctum
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Meet the contributors:
@Aoifedowdartist
is a Conamara based artist. Aoife works mainly through the medium of oil paint. The richness and depth of colour is a fundamental part of her creative expression.
Delighted to include her painting
On The Rocks, Carna
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Some very exciting news coming this weekend about our live launch in Dublin & our zoom launch coming right into your own living room
🙏🙏👏👏✨✨
The Storms, a journal of
#poetry
#prose
and
#visualart
supported by
@artscouncil_ie
&
@Fingalcoco
from
@deuxiemepeau
&
@gaynorkane
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To all who came out last night to the zoom room to share, support, cheer, laugh, cry, connect. Thank you
To all who joined us in person in Dublin at the Casino to share, support, cheer laugh, cry, connect. Thank you.
To all who bought the journal. Thank you.
To
@gaynorkane
🙏💕
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Deeply saddened to hear of the passing of poet, teacher and, as
@stingingfly
said, ��likely the most read living poet in Ireland.’
Together with his wife
#SusanMillarDuMars
&
@OverTheEdgeOpen
they made a glorious space to welcome writers.
My thoughts are with Susan 🤍
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Thanks to all who submitted to Issue 3 of The Storms ⚡️printed journal of
#poetry
#prose
&
#visualart
Editor-in-chief
@deuxiemepeau
& subeditor
@nithykasa
have made the selection
Really tough yet again, taking 8wks instead of 6wks so apologies to held breaths
Stars coming soon���
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🎉Issue 2 Shoutouts🎉
@galia_melon
(Galia Admoni) is Head of English at a school in London. She has poems in Bad Lilies, Anthropocene, Streetcake and The North. She placed third in Briefly Write’s Poetry Prize. Her debut pamphlet will be published in 2024.
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The Storm is officially coming
Sunday 22nd Oct 2023
Issue III, The Dublin Live Launch
at St Audoen’s Church, Dublin
Tickets available next week
along with details of the live zoom launch & the audio companion special episode of
@EatTheStorms
with thanks to
@fingalarts
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⚡️Issue 2 Shoutouts⚡️
@C_Redford_
lives in the West Midlands. She started writing poetry after being widowed at the age of 35. She has poems published/forthcoming in Under the Radar, New Welsh Reader, Lighthouse, Black Bough Poetry, Atrium, Alchemy Spoon & Green Ink Poetry.
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Meet the contributors
@MoloneyKing
is a poet, asemic poet, editor of
@beirbuajournal
& works as a primary teacher. Her collections include Another Word For Mother with SurVision Books & Womxn Heatwave Mama by Beir Bua Press.
Delighted to include her poem Climbers at Sun-Up
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And so it begins
packing a Storm
first stop - all our star contributors
🌟🌟🌟🎉🎉🎉💙💙💙⚡️⚡️⚡️
The journal of
#poetry
#prose
&
#visualarts
🎉🎉🎉
Pre-sale now on at
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And just as contributor copies fly out into the world, ahead of our first live launch in Dublin on the 22nd Oct, the pre-sales for Issue III are ready to go over at eatthestorms
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Much merriment this morning as the proof copy of
@StormsJournal
arrived
@gaynorkane
& I may have sobbed with joy ☺️
Our first baby will certainly be blithe & bonny.
We’re on Twitter,
@instagram
- thestormsjournal &
@facebook
-TheStormsJournal 💙
Thanks to
#WalshColourPrint
☘️
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Delighted that the inaugural issue of
@StormsJournal
a new journal celebrating poetry, prose & visual art will have its launch at Lord Charlemont’s Casino where art & culture always take centre stage. Thanks to
@artscouncil_ie
@Fingalcoco
&
@opwireland
Booking details on the way
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What a setting yesterday for the launch of Issue III of
@StormsJournal
a medieval sanctuary
a sanctum for artists
& a shelter for the prehistoric 🦖
Thank you to all those contributors who shared (in and out of costume) and those who came to enjoy
It was indeed joyous 🤍
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If you’re in Dublin, Issue 2 of The Storms, the printed journal of
#poetry
#prose
&
#visualart
is now available at
@Winding_Stair
where editor-in-chief
@deuxiemepeau
& subeditor
@edepaor
bumped paths
Official launch is 18th feb!
Also available at
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What a sensational week of launches for Issue 2.
Thank you to our contributors for being Storm Stars ✨🤍
to subeditor
@edepaor
@artscouncil_ie
@fingalarts
&
@Fingalcoco
We held court in castles, in living rooms on zoom & on podcast platforms connecting continents
🙏💙✨
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Meet the contributors:
@soopoftheday
’s debut collection, Magnifying Glass, was published in 2020. Her work has also appeared in a number of online magazines. She lives with her wife in North Wales. She loves the scent of ice-cream freezers. Delighted to include her poem Her Skin
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Submissions for issue 2 of
@StormsJournal
opens tomorrow 26th Sept until 11.59pm 23rd Oct. Editor-in-chief
@deuxiemepeau
is delighted to welcome
@edepaor
as subeditor for issue 2.
Full details are available at
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Oh Lordy! Just winding down from an incredible night on zoom with so many star contributors from issue 2 of The Storms 🌟🌟
Thanks to all the reading contributors & the audience.
A joy to hear each piece come to life.
Back on Saturday with the
@EatTheStorms
audio companion
💙💙
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⚡️⚡️Things are happening
with the next Storm
coming your way…
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🎉Issue 2 Shoutouts🎉
@oormilaprahlad
is an Indian-Australian artist, poet & improv pianist. Her recent artworks have been showcased in West Trestle Review, Oyster River Pages & Libretto, on the covers of Glassworks. She lives & works in Sydney on traditional Gammeragal land
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Last Saturday we gathering, shared, cheered, clapped, cried, laughed & felt more connected than ever, ignoring continents & bridging communities.
Our international launch now available
The Storms International Live Launch. The Inaugural Issue via
@YouTube
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Subeditor issue 2
⭐️
@edepaor
has had poems in The Stony Thursday Book, The Waxed Lemon, Abridged, 14, Raleigh Review, Belfield Literary Review & Dedalus Local Wonders Anthology. Her pamphlet, In the Jitterfritz of Neon, a collab with
@deuxiemepeau
was published by
@hedgehogpoetry
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About a week to go before we start announcing the stars of issue 2, but that still leaves time to celebrate our inaugural issue gems like these two from
@QuietCompereMcr
and
@colin_bancroft
💎💎👏👏
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Guests this Saturday from 5pm on
@eatthestorms
, the
#poetry
#podcast
(available on most podcast platforms) to celebrate the inaugural issue of
@StormsJournal
include
#sarahterkaoui
@1karenmooney
@soopoftheday
@GGeorgiahilton
@CharlotteOlivr
@PMOsborneWriter
#lyndatavakoli
✨
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Such excitement this week when we announced over very first
@PushcartPrize
nominations from our inaugural issue.
Congratulations again to
@dogwithoutlegs
@AliceStainer
@dizzylynn
@TaraAElliott
@doreen_duffy13
&
@bringonthejoy
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉
❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️
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And so let the Christmas countdown begins 🎄❄️🎄
Order the Inaugural Issue
of
@StormsJournal
the new printed journal of
#poetry
#prose
&
#visualart
as a perfect stocking filler & it’s on sale right now 🤭
Issue 2 coming in January 🎉
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Well, the
@PushcartPrize
nominations for Issue II of The Storms are out & issue II subeditor
@edepaor
& myself deserve a drink or three.
It was so tough as the work has been breathtaking ever since Issue I.
Thank you to all who have submitted, contributed & supported 🥂🙏💙
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🎉Issue 2 Shoutout🎉
@KellySean79
lives in Cork City & is CEO of The Everyman Theatre. His work has appeared in Poetry Ireland Review, RTÉ Poem of the Day, The Moth, The High Window, Skylight 47, Crannog. He was highly commended in the 2019 Patrick Kavanagh poetry award
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Shining from our pages was this star of issue 2, our featured prose writer
@Rhona_Greene
⭐️
⚡️Issue 2 Shoutout⚡️
⭐️Our featured prose writer ⭐️
@Rhona_Greene
is a Pushcart Prize-nominated writer from Dublin, published in several
@blackboughpoems
editions, shortlisted for the Dai Fry Mystical Award, featured in Sarah Connor’s Advent poems & Annick Yerem’s Advent project
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Adding artwork
& colour schemes to issue 2!
It’s gonna be a tornado of terrific!
As soon as I’ve all layouts & colours captured, I’ll be back to all contributors for final approvals.
From subeditor
@edepaor
& myself (
@deuxiemepeau
) -
you’re all amazing 🤩✨🙏👏
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🎉Issue 2 Shoutouts🎉
@ElCurwen
is a broadcaster, poet & sailor living in Devon. She often writes about the sea, loss & rescue. Her poems have been published by Broken Sleep, Black Bough, Arachne Press and Green Ink. She has a collaborative pamphlet forthcoming with
@nine_pens
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⚡️Issue 2 Shoutouts⚡️
Emily Roys is a student at University of Limerick. She’s been passionate about poetry and spoken word since she was 11. She draws on personal experiences & thoughts in her work, in the hope of making her poems relatable and interesting.
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✨Issue 2 shoutouts✨
Sacha Hutchinson is an eye doctor living in Galway. She won the Poems for Patience competition as part of Cuirt Art Festival Galway. Her poetry has appeared in several journals & anthologies. She was a featured poet at Over The Edge, Nov 2021
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Meet the contributors:
@crowofminerva
is an emerging writer & artist based in Kildare. An upcoming solo exhibition at Cultúrlann (Belfast) will feature her most recent paintings responding to Irish landscape and literature.
Delighted to have Róisín as our featured artist
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A reminder that submissions are open for Issue 3 of our journal of
#poetry
#prose
&
#visualart
till this Saturday at 11.59pm so get creative
Shelter Sanctuary Sanctum
@deuxiemepeau
editor-in-chief
@nithykasa
subeditor
Supported by
@fingalarts
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Settling dates and locations for issue 2 launches which gives us time for more inaugural issue shoutouts and today it’s two wonders
@AttractaFahy
&
@RogerHare6
⭐️⭐️🎉🎉
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Issue 2 is getting closer to printer time and it’s looking bloody brilliant meanwhile, looking back to our inaugural outing and two of its stars, with visuals from
@Koss51209969
and poetic perfection from
@SeaGoatScreams
⭐️⭐️💙💙👏👏
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🎉Issue 2 Shoutouts🎉
@frede_kenter
is a Pushcart nominated poet in Toronto, an editor, visual artist, multiple grant recipient & EIC/Publisher of
@IcefloeP
Recent publications incl. EDEN, work in The Book of Penteract, Acropolis, CutbowQ, Feral, Erato, WatchYrHead, Anthropocene
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Our inaugural Storms sub-editor,
@gaynorkane
loves lots of different things including smashing down literal & metaphorical walls and often uses her writing to give others a voice. Her next collection of poems 'Eight Types of Love', from
@hedgehogpoetry
, is released 30th July
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Thank you to everyone who came out (to their living room or Athens hotel room) last night & to those who joined us Sunday in Dublin for the launch of The Storms Issue III 🙏🙏🙏💙💙💙
We have one last launch this Saturday when
@EatTheStorms
becomes Issue III audio companion ⚡️
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Final approvals for The Storms, a printed journal of
#poetry
#prose
and
#visualart
will be sent to all contributors this week in the hope of Issue 3 being whisked off to the printers at the end of next week
This Storm is definitely on the way ⚡️⚡️⚡️
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Meet the contributors
@GGeorgiahilton
is an Irish writer living in England & the author of the pamphlet I went up the Lane Quite Cheerful, the collection Swing and the collaborative pamphlet
Sea Between Us from
@nine_pens
Delighted to include her poem The Emigrant
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⚡️Issue 2 Shoutouts⚡️
@dorseifer
lives in Limerick. She runs the online series
@LimeSquarePoets
Her work has appeared in Skylight 47, Abridged, Ink Sweat & Tears and Romance Options anthology, among others. She read at the Over the Edge New Writers Showcase
@CuirtFestival
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Meet the Contributors
Galway man
@LukeMorganPoet
’s 2nd collection Beast was published by
@ArlenHouse
following his debut Honest Walls in 2016. He's appeared in Poetry Review, Poetry Ireland Review & is an award-winning filmmaker/theatre director.
Thrilled to include his poem Ark
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And this evening the stars are shining bright ⭐️⭐️ with two fabulous contributors from our inaugural issue
@JudeMarr1
&
@GrimalkinGerry
🎉🎉
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✨Issue 2 Shoutout✨
Bernie Crawford lives in Galway. Her poetry has been published widely including The Irish Times, Poetry Ireland Review, the North magazine, Banshee, Her collection Living Water was published by Chaffinch Press in 2021. She is a co-editor of
@Skylight47Poems
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Between now & our launch in mid august, we will be dropping tweets celebrating all the contributors in our inaugural issue of
@StormsJournal
a new printed journal of
#poetry
#prose
&
#visualart
supported by
@artscouncil_ie
&
@Fingalcoco
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🎉Issue 2 Shoutout🎉
@zr_ghani
is a poet from London. Her poems have appeared in anthologies published by Arachne Press, Magma Poetry, The Willowherb Review, Black Bough Poetry, Square Wheel Press, and The Adriatic. Her pamphlet Nightjars was co-written by
@macgregor_andy
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⚡️Issue 2 Shoutouts⚡️
Former recipient of the David St. John Thomas Award & nominee for the Dai Fry Award,
@helen_laycock
’s collection Frame was recently featured by the East Ridge Review.
Publications include Reflex Fiction, Ekphrastic Review, Cabinet of Heed, Visual Verse
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Meet the contributors:
@RogerHare6
, now retired, rediscovered a love for poetry a few years ago. He writes primarily from a love of being diverted by an idea, something overheard, an observation, a fascination, insight or emotion.
Delighted to include his poem Slipping
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A shoutout to issue 3 contributor
@gaynorkane
⭐️
The Storms is a printed journal of
#poetry
#prose
&
#visualart
We are delighted to feature her photography in the new issue, due out end of October.
This issue’s theme is
Shelter / Sanctuary / Sanctum
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🔥Issue 2 Shoutouts🔥
@KelliLage
is a poetry reader for Bracken Magazine & Best of the Net nominated poet. Her debut full-length poetry collection, Early Cuts, is forthcoming with Kelsay Books & her poetry chapbook, I’m Glad We Did This, is forthcoming with Prolific Pulse Press
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⭐️Issue 2 Shoutouts⭐️
@DarrenDonohue1
is a poet and playwright living in Co. Kilkenny. His poetry is widely published in journals & newspapers and his work received the Dennis O’Driscoll Literary Award, 2020. His debut poetry collection Secret Poets is published by
@TurasPress
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We were over the moon 🌙 to have the remarkable
@VKennefick
❤️ join us for issue 2 as our Featured Poet. Huge thanks and joy to you Victoria ⭐️🙏
Looking forward to
@Joseph_Fasano_
joining us as featured poet for issue 3
⭐️Issue 2 Shoutouts⭐️
Our featured poet is
@VKennefick
whose debut poetry collection, Eat or We Both Starve, won the Seamus Heaney First Collection Poetry Prize 2022 & was shortlisted for the T.S. Eliot Prize. Victoria is the current poet in residence at
@Yeatssocietyirl
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⚡️Issue 2 Shoutouts⚡️
@_RachelHandley
is a poet, fiction writer, and an academic based in Dublin, Ireland. Their poetry has recently published by Poetry Ireland and Arlen House, among others.
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🔥Issue 2 Shoutouts🔥
@TheresaWriter
is an Irish/Canadian poet. A member of The Ontario Poetry Society & a founding member of the Brooklin Poetry Society. Canadian poet Vanessa Shields described her poetry as “a delectable arrangement of observations that both haunt & honour”
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