Trevor Conway

I'm a writer and editor from Sligo, northwest Ireland. I mainly write poetry, fiction and songs, though I also dabble in plays, non-fiction and articles. My interest in writing began over 20 years ago, studying the Leaving Cert English course in Summerhill College, Sligo, reading Shakespeare's plays, studying poets such as Yeats, Kavanagh, TS Eliot, Thomas Hardy, Emily Dickinson and others. The subjects I find myself returning to most often are nature, sport, creativity, mortality/death, growing older, people/characters and society as a whole.

My first book of poetry, Evidence of Freewheeling, was published by Salmon Poetry in 2015 (available here), while my second collection, Breeding Monsters, was published in 2018 and my third, No Small Thing, in 2023.

In 2009, I completed the MA in Writing at NUI Galway. My poems and short stories have been published in magazines and anthologies in Ireland, England, Scotland, Austria, India, the US and Mexico. Five of my poems were translated into Spanish for the Mexican journals Cuadrivio and Periodico de Poesia. I also contributed to the Artistic Atlas of Galway project, which mapped the city and county of Galway using poems, stories and art. In 2017, I represented Ireland at the Tozeur International Festival of Poetry in Tunisia.