Submission Details
If you are a writer, poet, playwright, novelist, or any other kind of wordsmith or simply a person with an interest in words, and would like to get involved, drop us an email or contact us directly through the website contact form. (Both to be found under the contact heading).
Submission possibilities
All contributions will be posted on this website, as well as across our social media pages.
The hope is that in time we will be able to gather all contributed material into a publication highlighting a new perspective of the city.
Note: All material contributed will be automatically posted on the website, unless requested otherwise. Material will not be published in a printed publication without prior consent. And all contributions, both writings and documentation photographs will be properly acknowledged unless there is a request for anonymity.
Submission possibilities
- You can submit a piece of writing by email and request that it is written on the street for you by one of our members. Just make sure to include details of the specific place you want it written as well as whether or not you wish to be acknowledged or remain anonymous.
- You can also go and write on the street yourself and send in your piece of writing as well as documentation photographs of it in situ and we will post it up on the website and place it in the website archive.
All contributions will be posted on this website, as well as across our social media pages.
The hope is that in time we will be able to gather all contributed material into a publication highlighting a new perspective of the city.
Note: All material contributed will be automatically posted on the website, unless requested otherwise. Material will not be published in a printed publication without prior consent. And all contributions, both writings and documentation photographs will be properly acknowledged unless there is a request for anonymity.
Owen Hill is the author of two mystery novels, The Chandler Apartments and The Incredible Double. He is currently working as co-editor and annotator of the new edition of Raymond Chandler’s The Big Sleep, due from Random House in 2014. Owen has participated in panels at the San Francisco Book Fair, at the Hardboiled for Hard Times symposium, and has given talks on the genre at Bouchercon mystery conventions in Austin and San Francisco. He is a reviewer for the Los Angeles Times and the Washington Independent Review, and has taught writing and literature as a guest teacher at the California College of the Arts, San Francisco State University and Sonoma State University. He currently teaches at the Bay Area Public School. Also a poet, he received the Howard Moss residency for poetry at Yaddo in 2005. 
Dave Lordan was born in Derby, England, in 1975, and grew up in Clonakilty in West Cork. In 2004 he was awarded an Arts Council bursary and in 2005 he won the Patrick Kavanagh Award for Poetry. His collections are The Boy in the Ring (Cliffs of Moher, Salmon Poetry, 2007), which won the Strong Award for best first collection by an Irish writer and was shortlisted for the Irish Times poetry prize; and Invitation to a Sacrifice (Salmon Poetry, 2010). Eigse Riada theatre company produced his first play, Jo Bangles, at the Mill Theatre, Dundrum in 2010. He has lived in Holland, Greece and Italy, and now resides in Greystones, Co Wicklow. His First Book of Frags appeared from Wurm Press in 2013. 
Alannah Hopkin has published two novels with Hamish Hamilton, A Joke Goes a Long Way in the Country and The Out-haul. Her stories have appeared in the London Magazine, Stand, and the Cork Review among others, and been broadcast on RTE. She is also an arts journalist and has written several non-fiction books including Eating Scenery: West Cork, the People & the Place and The Ship of Seven Murders (co-author).
Jon Boilard was born and raised in Western Massachusetts. He has been living and writing in Northern California since 1986. His short stories have been published in literary journals in the U.S., Canada, Europe and Asia. One was nominated for a Pushcart Prize, another received a special mention for the same, a third won the Sean O'Faolain Award and several others have earned individual small press honors. His first novel, A River Closely Watched, was published by MacAdam Cage in 2012. 
Michèle Roberts is the author of twelve highly acclaimed novels, including The Looking Glass and Daughters of the House which won the WH Smith Literary Award and was shortlisted for the Booker Prize. She has also published poetry and short stories, most recently collected in Mud-stories of sex and love (2010). She is Emeritus Professor of Creative Writing at the University of East Anglia. 
John Minihan was born in Dublin in 1946 and raised in Athy, County Kildare. At the age of 12 he was brought to live in London, and went on to become an apprentice photographer with the Daily Mail. At 21 he became the youngest staff photographer for the Evening Standard. Over the years Minihan developed a close relationship with many writers and his photographs of Samuel Beckett show a particular affinity between the two men. William Burroughs once referred to Minihan as "a painless photographer". His friendship with Samuel Beckett produced some of the most remarkable photographs ever taken of the writer.He is currently a freelance photographer specialising in 'the arts'. 
John Spillane is a musician, songwriter, performer, recording artist, storyteller, poet, dreamer. He has released nine albums and many singles and EPs. Two-time Meteor award winner, John is one of the most accomplished songwriters in Ireland today. Among those who have covered his songs are Christy Moore, Karen Casey, Pauline Scanlon, Cathy Ryan, Sharon Shannon, Sean Keane and George Murphy, to name a few. He performs to audiences, both large and small, everywhere. John has been conducting Songwriting Workshops for many years. Among the places John has presented workshops are Listowel Writers’ Week 2005 and 2006; Composer in the Classroom Scheme with the Cork International Choral Festival; The West Cork Literary Festival; Mountains to the Sea Book Festival and at the Cork Prison Education Unit. 