Our most recent release from The Four Faced Liar: the competition issue. Copies are available in select stores listed below and online at www.the4facedliar.com. Learn more about the contributors for Issue 4 on our socials as well!

Issue 5 submissions are underway! Meet our editors here on our social media, and on our website where information about The Four Faced Liar, as well as the page to submit your work, is available. www.the4facedliar.com

Issue 5 submissions are officially open until 6th April, so get to know our editors! Guidelines and the submission link can be found on our website: www.the4facedliar.com.

Submissions are open! We look forward to reading your work. Head to the link below for information about guidelines and to submit your work for Issue 5! www.the4facedliar.com

Open for Issue 5 submissions midnight tomorrow. Full guidelines on our website www.the4facedliar.com supported by @artscouncilireland.bsky.social CNF/Flash Fiction/Poetry/Short Stories/Visual Art @munsterlitcentre.bsky.social @irishwriterscentre.bsky.social @poetryireland.bsky.social @writing.ie

With submissions for Issue 5 opening soon, meet the team behind The Four Faced Liar! More information is always available, as well as copies of Issue 4, on our website: www.the4facedliar.com

Meet our editors! Issue 5 submissions will be opening soon, and the team is ready. Read more about Sinéad Griffin below, and check out our website for more information about The Four Faced Liar www.the4facedliar.com

Issue 5 Submissions open from Mar 23 - Apr 6th with @artscouncilireland.bsky.social support. Issue 4 is available from our shop to see the kind of Poetry/CNF/Short Stories/Flash we publish www.the4facedliar.com @irishwriterscentre @writing.ie @poetryireland.bsky.social @munsterlitcentre.bsky.social

See you tonight for vino, art and some gorgeous readings.

Looking forward to this today 🥰🔥👏

Aoife Esmonde was selected in first place for her short story "The First Electrical Measurement of Starlight" by judge Roisín O’Donnell. Read more below, and be sure to check out her work in our upcoming issue!

Christine Maguire's short story "Puce" was selected as Highly Commended by judge Roisín O’Donnell. Read more below, click the link to find The News Edit Substack and follow her on Instagram: chrismmaguire and X: @cmaguirenews thenewsedit.substack.com

Hannah Fitzpatrick's photo "Lahinch" will be featured in the upcoming issue of The Four Faced Liar. Read more below, and click the links to follow Hannah's work and check out the Gaelic Woodland Project. hannahfitzpatrick.home.blog gaelicwoodlandproject.com

Maika Nguyen's "My Brother, The Poet" was selected as Highly Commended in the creative non-fiction category by judge Tim MacGabhann. Read more below, and follow Maika on Bluesky: @maikanguyen.bsky.social

Jeff Mann's "One of Those Days" will be featured in the upcoming issue of The Four Faced Liar. His photos have also appeared in Geist, Zoetic Press (Non-Binary Review), Chestnut Review, Seven Story Hotel, On Spec, Sunspot, and The Woolf.

Holly Loveday's poem 'January' was selected as Highly Commended by judge Micheál McCann. Read more about Holly and her work below, follow her on Instagram: himmel_hund and check out the links for more! dusie.blogspot.com/search?q=holly periodicityjournal.blogspot.com/2025/09/holl...

Holly Loveday's poem 'January' was selected as Highly Commended by judge Micheál McCann. Read more about Holly and her work below, follow her on Instagram: himmel_hund and check out the links for more! dusie.blogspot.com/search?q=holly periodicityjournal.blogspot.com/2025/09/holl...

Olga Musial's piece "I Can Only Be Sure of the Things I Can Count" was first place in the flash fiction category judged by Cathy Sweeney. Read more of her work olgaswriting on Instagram or at olgamusialwrites.wordpress.com.

Only one more week to go! We're very excited for our contributors to present their work at the launch of our competition issue, and we hope you are too. All are welcome to the official launch at Waterstones in Cork City on 17th February at 6:30pm

Lorna Mulvany's short story "The Shandon Clock Tower Strikes A New Hour" was selected as Highly Commended by judge Roisín O’Donnell. Read more below about Lorna's upcoming work, follow her on Instagram: lornamulvany, and check out the substack at the link! midletonwritersgroup.substack.com

Sophia Tone's flash fiction piece "Photo #17" was selected as Highly Commended by judge Cathy Sweeney. Read more below, and check out Memo and HAD at the links. Follow Sophia on Instagram: lilso3, and on X: lilso3x www.haskellindustries.com/memo/ www.havehashad.com/hadposts/aut...

Jim Xi Johnson's "Of Two Minds, July 2023" will be featured in the upcoming issue of The Four Faced Liar. Read more below about Jim's recent work, and follow him on Instagram: jx.pegs

Sneha Subramanian Kanta's poem "Un-Elegy, Or Triptych with Broken Sonnets" was selected as Highly Commended by judge Micheál McCann. Read more below about her work, and follow her on Instagram: SnehaSKanta, and on X: SnehaKantaS

Monica de Bhailís's poem "Remission" was selected as Highly Commended by poetry judge Micheál McCann. Read more below about her recent work, and follow Moinca on Instagram: monicadebhailis and Blusky: @monicadebhailis.bsky.social

We delighted to share the Issue 4 has arrived! Available from our shop www.the4facedliar.com/product-page...

Esther Lay's "Apples at the End of the World" was selected as Highly Commended by poetry judge Micheál McCann. Read more below, and check out more of Esther's work at estherlay.com Follow Esther on X: estherdaponte and on Instagram: hmsoxon

Excited to have a story in the new issue of @the4facedliar.bsky.social Thanks to Roisin and everyone at the magazine!

Ben Tufnell's short story "The Middle Floor" was selected as Highly Commended by judge Roisín O’Donnell. Read more below about Ben's upcoming work, and check out "PARADISE" at the link! Follow Ben on Instagram: ben_tufnell & Blusky: @bentufnell.bsky.social www.influxpress.com/paradise

Issue 4 is launching! The competition issue will be presented by the journal's four editors, Stephen Brophy, Sinéad Griffin, Patrick Holloway and Jennifer Matthews in Waterstones, Cork, on Tuesday 17th February 2026 at 6.30PM, and will include readings from contributors

Maeve Keane's creative non-fiction piece "A Real Death Sentence" was selected as the Runner Up by judge Tim MacGabhann. Read more below, and check out "A Real Death Sentence" in our upcoming issue!

Issue 4 is coming soon! Presales are open now at the link below. Stay tuned for details about the official launch. www.the4facedliar.com/product-page... Cover art by: Jenny Lawlor, jennylawlorart on Instagram @irishpen.bsky.social @irishwriterscentre.bsky.social @writing.ie

Niamh Twomey's poem "Moon's Phases" was selected as Highly Commended by judge Mícheál McCann. Read more about Niamh below, and follow her on Instagram: niamhmariatwomey and on Facebook: niamh.twomey.94

Carolyn Schlam's "Girl, Seated" will be featured in our upcoming issue. Read more about her latest work, and see more at the link below. www.carolynschlam.com

Carolyn Schlam's "Girl, Seated" will be featured in our upcoming issue. Read more about her latest work, and see more at the link below. www.carolynschlam.com

Eamon Doggett's "First Confessions" was selected as Highly Commended in the Flash Fiction category by judge Cathy Sweeney. Read more below on Eamon's current and upcoming work, and check out "First Confessions" in our upcoming issue!

Kathryn Aldridge-Morris's "The Ewe and The Lamb" was selected as Highly Commended by judge Tim MacGabhann. Follow Kathryn on Insta: kazbarwrites and Bluesky: @kazbarwrites.bsky.social Check out more of her work at the link! www.kamwords.com

Finola Cahill's poem "Nothing Girl Makes Friends" was selected as Highly Commended by poetry judge Mícheál McCann. Recently, Finola Cahill was the runner-up for the Patrick Kavanagh Award, and was highly commended in the Fool for Poetry pamphlet competition.

Emer O'Hara's "Court" was selected as Highly Commended in the short story category. Read more below, and check out "Court" in the next issue of The Four Faced Liar.

Alicia Byrne Keane's poem "Spar" will be featured as a Highly Commended selection judged by Mícheál McCann. Read more below, and follow Dr. Keane on instagram at captain_beepo, and click the link to check out her website: aliciabyrnekeane.com

Jillian Murphy's "Cradle" will be featured as a selected artwork in our upcoming issue. Read more about Murphy below, and follow her on Instagram jillian_c_murphy_art for more of her work!

Mícheál McCann, who judged our poetry category for our upcoming issue, has started a Substack! Check it out at the link below. michealmccann.substack.com

Cristín Leach's "This Time Baby" was selected by judge Roisín O'Donnell as the Runner Up in the short story category. Read more below about Cristín, and check out @cristinleach on Instagram and @cristinleach.bsky.social for more of her work

Sylvia Caldwell's "The Making of a Good Girl" was one of the Highly Commended works in Flash Fiction, judged by Cathy Sweeney. Caldwell has been long listed at Write by the Sea, and shortlisted for the Irish Independent New Irish Writing Best Short Story at the Irish Book Awards

Tim MacGabhann, our creative non-fiction judge for the 4th issue of The Four Faced Liar, has a new poetry collection published by Banshee Press! Keep an eye out for "Found in a Context of Destruction," releasing 5.2.26

Congratulations Patrick! His debut novel, The Language of Remembering, was listed on The Top Best Irish Books of 2025 by RTE. "A stunningly emotional novel."

Absolutely stoked to have my Highly Commended CNF 'The Ewe and the Lamb' included in this stellar Arts Council funded journal!

We're thrilled to announce that @the4facedliar.bsky.social has been awarded a Project Award for 2026 by @artscouncilireland.bsky.social which will secure the publication of Issue 5, we are very grateful for their support.

We're excited to announce the cover for Issue 4 of The Four Faced Liar, our competition issue, with artwork by the wonderful Jenny Lawlor! @irishpen.bsky.social @irishwriterscentre.bsky.social @writing.ie

Thanks so much to competition judge & brilliant Irish author Roisín O’Donnell (read her debut novel Nesting if you have not yet), for these gorgeous words about my short story, This Time Baby. Very proud of this one. Can’t wait to see it in print in @the4facedliar.bsky.social soon. Congrats to all🥈💚

Thanks to Roisín O’Donnell for judging our short story competition. Here are her comments on the winning & highly commended entries to be published in Issue 4 @irishpen.bsky.social @writing.ie @irishwriterscentre.bsky.social