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.

Our mission is to showcase emerging writers and artists, helping them on their creative and publishing journey. We are committed to letting every submitter know the outcome of their submission.

We determined from the get-go to pay all our contributors for their work, and have been true to our word.

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 three to fruition.

Issue Three is out now.

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.

Jennifer Matthews

Editor

Jennifer Matthews writes fiction and poetry, and was the founding editor of Long Story, Short Journal. In 2015 she was selected for the Poetry Ireland Introductions series, and in the same year Rootless, a chapbook, was published by Smithereens Press. Her poem ‘Monsters’ was shortlisted for the 2019 Hennessy/Irish Times New Irish Writing award. Other work has been anthologised in such collections as The Book of Life (Dedalus 2022) and Washing Windows Too (Arlen House 2022).

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.