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From the Editor-in-Chief:
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Thank You!
To all who ventured with us into the deep without testing the
waters; all who kept faith in our very humble beginning: -
Jason O'Toole, Rudolph Lewis, Fergus Lynch, Mississippi Review, Frances Cassidy, Barbara
Fletcher, Laura Hird, Eugene McEldowney, Tony Coleman, Helen Monaghan, The Kenyon Review,
Penguin Books, James Joyce Centre, Luzette Strauss, Caryl Phillips, Jason Sanford,
Tom Dooley, WW Norton, Aidan Kelly, Fran Orford, Sarah Savitt, Phoenix FM,
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Helon Habila, Alex Keegan, Beverly Jackson, Martin Malone, Lee Dunne, John Pickard, Patrick
Chapman, David Butler, Roger Duncan, Maureen Gallagher, Simon Kay, Eli Evans, Dorothee Lang,
Arlene Ang, Donnie Cox, Hazera Forth, John Sweet, JJ Campbell, Peter Uche Umez, Owen Roberts,
Molara Wood, Lyn Lifshin, Ulrike Gerbig, Eyitemi Egwuenu, Simon Maslin, Pat McMahon,
ChickenBones; a journal, John Dorsey, Steven Mayoff, Northside People Newspaper, Alex Kitty,
Kate Baggott, David Jordan, Community Voice Newspapers, Martin Burke, Rob McClure Smith, The
Local News Newspaper, Matthew Fries, Ashok Niyogi, JK Mason, Zdravka Evtimova, Michael Hulme,
Michael Spring, Moez Surani, The Adirondack Review, Kevin Higgins, DGA Ltd, Wole Soyinka Society,
Brenda Sharpe, Luke Finsaas, Brendan Nolan, Peter Oghina, African Review of Books, Eclectica,
Story South, 3am Magazine, Pauline Ahearne, Dan Schneider, Places for Writers, Ask About Writing,
Nathan Graziano, Open Wide Magazine, Assumpta Hickey, Pandora Collectives, Spoiled Ink, Colm Fogarty,
Blanchardstown Library Book Club (Morning), Bill Collopy and, of course, you the reader.
Some of the names above are our contributors this past one year,
others have our link on their sites, some gave us the needed publicity and undeserved
recognition in their newspapers and on the radio, some granted us express
permission to republish their work or the material they control the copyrights, and others
facilitated important contacts that would have been impossible with our limited reach and
resources. Every support, major or minor, we have shown our sincere appreciation.
But there were schedule interviews with prominent writers
that were cancelled at the last hour; there were several doors that were slammed in our faces;
there were desperate demands that were blatantly rebuffed. So many, so many very painful
disappointments. But we have never been discouraged. They merely serve as reminders that even
with our growing influence in the literary world, we still have a lot of ground to cover. So we
are motivated, not by our successes and achievements, but these failures. It is our hope that by
this time next year we would look back and say confidently that we have entered through every
door we knocked. It is a tall order; but so was the idea of walking on the moon.
One of our two immediate goals is to have a printed version of the Dublin Quarterly,
simultaneously with this electronic version. (However, both versions will have different
contents.) We have fine-tuned the blueprints, mapped out the logistics and smoothen out the
thorny edges of our masterplan. The other goal is the Best of Dublin Quarterly;
a collection of the best of our online fiction, essays and poetry since 2004. It will be in
print, beautifully packaged and spiced with some new fiction and an exclusive interview with a
world renowned writer.
For both goals we are almost ready to go--only the financial
aspect remains to be tidied up with our sponsors (there is still room for more sponsors who are
willing to come on board). Our target is spring 2006. And God, to those that deeply believe, is
always on our side.
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This one year anniversary edition marks our transition to the
next level.
The Big Conversation is
with Martin Malone, Ireland's man of the moment. Martin's new short story,
Lake of Dreams is also published here for the first time.
Helon Habila is, at the moment, the most exciting writer of his generation from Africa.
His Love Poems tells it all. Also, there are Scot-Free by Rob McMclure Smith;
The Animal Room by Steven Mayoff;
A Train Trip by Luke Finsaas; and
Virus by JK Mason. Dealing With Rejection by Alex Keegan is a very educative
and highly enriching essay.
The quality of our poetry continues to get better with every new
edition: Patrick Chapman and
Kevin Higgins are among the finest poets of contemporary Irish poetry. The last, but not the
least creative, is Ashok Niyogi. His "Water Sport" is
mind-blowing.
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Our Book Reviews is a
special on the best of the 2005 International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award shortlists:
The Known World by Edward P. Jones (the winner);
Gardening at Night by Diane Awerbuck; and
The Good Doctor by Damon Galgut. IMPAC is the largest
and most international of the literary awards. The prize of One Hundred Thousand Euros makes it
the world's third highest prize money in Literature, after Nobel Prize and The Astrid Lindgren
Memorial Award. It is an award made in Dublin; from we the Irish people to the world. We are
celebrating it!
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Once again, thank you...and welcome to the next level!
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© 2004-2005 the Dublin Quarterly--to see familiar things with unfamiliar
eyes!
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