Patrick Holloway

Patrick Holloway is an Irish writer of fiction and poetry and is an editor of the literary journal, The Four Faced Liar. He completed his Masters in Creative Writing from the University of Glasgow, before moving to Porto Alegre, Brazil, where he completed his PhD in Creative Writing. He is the winner of the Bath Short Story Award, The Molly Keane Creative Writing Prize, The Flash 500 Prize, the Allingham Fiction contest and he was the recipient of the Paul McVeigh Residency in 2023. His work appears in The Stinging Fly, The London Magazine, Poetry Ireland, The Moth, Southword, The Ilanot Review, Carve, Irish Times and Irish Independent. The Language of Remembering is his debut novel and it was published by époque press in February 2025. Patrick lives in Cork and is also the editor of the 2025 From The Well anthology of short stories which will be published by Cork County Library and Arts Service in July 2025.