About Us
The Four Faced Liar is a Cork-inspired and based, Irish-flavoured, internationally-facing journal publishing an eclectic mix of fiction, creative nonfiction, poetry, work in translation and visual art.
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Our mission is to showcase emerging writers and artists, helping them on their creative and publishing journey. Where possible, we aim to offer constructive feedback to submitters whose work hasn't quite made the cut. And we are committed to letting every submitter know the outcome of their submission.
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We determined from the get-go to pay all our contributors for their work, and have been true to our word.
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The four editors of the journal - writers ourselves - work completely voluntarily to bring each issue to print. Issue One was published thanks to a successful crowdfunding campaign. We are thankful for the financial support of Cork City Council which, along with the individual donations via the 'Buy us a Coffee' scheme, and a donation from an anonymous benefactor, has enabled us to bring issue two to fruition.
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Issue Two is out now. ​
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Follow us on social media @the4facedliar
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Patrick Holloway
Editor
Patrick Holloway is a writer of fiction and poetry. He is the winner of the 2023 Bath Short Story Award and is a 2023 Frank O'Connor Mentee. He is also the winner of the Molly Keane Creative Writing Competition, The Flash 500 Prize, and the Allingham Fiction Prize, among others. His work has appeared in The Stinging Fly, Carve, Southword, The Moth, The London Magazine, among others. He is represented by Eleanor Birne of Pew Literary. He lives in Cork with his wife and two daughters.
Sinéad Griffin
Editor
Sinéad Griffin has been published in Poetry Ireland Review, The Irish Times, Hog River
Press, iamb poetry, Honest Ulsterman, Washing Windows anthologies and elsewhere.
A category winner of the Trócaire Poetry Ireland Competition ‘21, she was Pushcart
nominated in ’22 with two chapbooks highly commended in the Munster Literature Centre
Fool for Poetry Prize ’22. One of her poems featured on the PAC Jukebox installation at the
Irish Museum of Modern Art. She’s one of twenty emerging writers to be selected to take part
in the Shared Island Freedom to Write Project 2024 and was awarded an Arts Council Agility
Award in 2023 to work on her first collection. She has been actively involved in poetry
critiquing groups for many years. She lives in Dublin with her husband and daughters.
Rosie Morris
Editor
Rosie Morris is an emerging writer and a champion of minoritised voices. Rosie began writing creatively only in her mid-50s, making her first submission aged 60. Since then, her work - short stories, flash fiction, creative nonfiction and poetry - has been published in anthologies and journals (most recently HU, The Storms and Sonder Magazine). Her short fiction has been placed or listed in many competitions. When not writing or editing, Rosie is a family carer, community worker, researcher, dog walker and nature lover. Grief-stricken about our destruction of this beautiful planet, Rosie is nonetheless hopeful that good sense and compassion will prevail. She is also optimistic that her first novel, for which she was awarded a Munster Literature Centre mentorship, will soon see the light of day.
Stephen Brophy
Editor
Stephen Brophy is the winner of the 2021 Montana Prize in Fiction and the Silver Apples Magazine Short Story Competition. He was a recipient of a Munster Literature Centre Mentoring Fellowship and an Agility Award from the Arts Council of Ireland. His short stories appear in Winter Papers, The Irish Independent, Cutbank, The Honest Ulsterman, The Waxed Lemon, and Bat City Review among others. He lives in Cork with his fiancée and two sons.
Lucy Holme
Editor (Issue 1 & 2)
Lucy Holme is a PhD student at University College Cork. She has work in The Stinging Fly, The Pig’s Back, Banshee, The London Magazine, Poetry Ireland Review, Poetry Wales and more. She has been a finalist in the Fool for Poetry Chapbook Competition, the Brotherton Prize, the Mairtín Crawford Award, the Wales Poetry Prize and won the Cúirt New Writing Prize for Poetry 2024. Her chapbook, Temporary Stasis published by Broken Sleep Books in 2022 was shortlisted for The Patrick Kavanagh Award. A collection of nonfiction essays is forthcoming in September.