Hi! I am poet S. C. Flynn. I was born in Australia of Irish origin and now live in Ireland.

My forthcoming collections are: The Colour of Extinction (Renard Press, October 2024) and An Ocean Called Hope (Downingfield Press, May 2025).

I was longlisted for the Erbacce Poetry Prize in 2023 (out of more than 10,000 entries). I have given lots of readings in various countries.

My poetry has been published in more than a hundred magazines in more than ten countries, including: Rattle, Quadrant, Acumen, The Antigonish Review, The Honest Ulsterman, Cyphers, Orbis, A New Ulster, Abridged, Allegro, Drawn to the Light, Ink Sweat & Tears, Martello, New Critique, New Word Order, The Galway Review, The Madrigal, The Waxed Lemon, Antipodes, Dreich, Ecozona, Anthology of Contemporary Surrealist and Magical Realist Poetry, Lothlorien Poetry Journal, Mercurius, Neuro, Obsessed With Pipework, Scintilla, SurVision, The Ecological Citizen, The Roscommon Herald, Tir na Nóg, Trasna, ZiN Daily, Fevers of the Mind, A Thin Slice of Anxiety, Unapologetic, Gaia Literary Review, The Storms, The Horizon Magazine, Seventh Quarry, Osmosis, Howl, Fearless anthology, An Aituil anthology, Creative Ireland anthology, Causeway, Rio Faineant, Anvil Tongue, Prole, The Frogmore Papers, Don’t Submit!, Dadakuku, Danse Macabre, Synchronised Chaos, Exacting Clam, Streetcake, New Roscommon Writing anthology, The Belfast Review, Shot Glass Journal, Cape, Lighthouse, D.O.R., New Isles Press, Pinhole, The Orphic Review and Ragaire.

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I love nature and am a lifetime jazz musician and singer. I am also a genre fiction novelist with two books published so far my epic fantasy novel The Hidden Face and my Australian post-apocalyptic fantasy novel, Children of the Different.

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