Laura McKenna
LAURA McKENNA’s debut novel, Words to Shape My Name, (New Island, 2021), was shortlisted for the Kerry Group Irish Novel of the Year Award and was a winner at the 2020 IWC Novel Fair. Twice nominated for a Hennessy Literary Award, Laura was chosen for the 2021 Poetry Ireland Introduc¬tions Series. Laura’s short fiction has […]
Órfhlaith Foyle
ÓRFHLAITH FOYLE is a short story writer, poet and dramatist and lives in Galway. She’s published a novel, a poetry collection and two volumes of short stories. She also wrote and directed the radio dramas May’s End and How I Murdered Lucrezia, which were both adapted from her short stories and received full BAI funding, […]
Fergus Cronin
FERGUS CRONIN was born in Dublin. His stories have been published in Surge (a Brandon Books collection of new writing from Ireland), The Manchester Review, The Irish Times and The Lonely Crowd. He was awarded the Maria Edgeworth prize for fiction in 2022 and completed an MPhil degree in Creative Writing at the Oscar Wilde […]
Leland Bardwell
Leland Bardwell, born in India in 1922, was an Irish poet, prose writer and playwright. In her lifetime, she published five collections of poetry, five novels, a book of short stories and a memoir, as well as having four stage plays and a number of radio plays produced. Her prose and poetry was translated into […]
Paul O’Reilly
PAUL O’REILLY lives in County Wexford. His stories shortlisted for the Hennessy First Fiction Award, the Seán O’Faoláin Prize, the Bristol Prize and twice for the William Trevor/Elizabeth Bowen International Prize. His work has been published in the Irish Independent, the Irish Times, The Stinging Fly, The Scaldy Detail, Natural Bridge (US), the Bristol Prize Anthology (UK), the Red Lamp Black Piano Anthology. He was selected for The Lonely Voice reading series at […]
Paul McVeigh
PAUL MCVEIGH’s debut novel, The Good Son, won the Polari First Novel Prize and the McCrea Literary Award, as well as Brighton’s City Reads Choice in 2016. His stories have appeared in The London Magazine and The Stinging Fly, and in 2019, Faber’s anthology Being Various: New Irish Short Stories, Kit de Waal’s Common People: An Anthology of Working Class Writers, on […]
Martin Malone
MARTIN MALONE is the author of seven novels, a memoir, two short story collections and several radio plays. His first novel Us won the John B Keane/Sunday Independent Literature Award and was shortlisted for the Kerry Ingredients Irish Fiction Award. His second novel After Kafra was optioned by and scripted for RTE TV. The Broken Cedar […]
Madeleine D’Arcy
MADELEINE D’ARCY was born in Ireland. In 2010 she received a Hennessy X.O Literary Award for First Fiction as well as the overall Hennessy X.O Literary Award for New Irish Writer. Her stories have been short-listed and commended in many competitions, including the William Trevor/Elizabeth Bowen Short Story Competition, Fish Short Story Prize, the Bridport Prize […]
Alan McMonagle
ALAN MCMONAGLE is a writer based in Galway, Ireland. In 2015, he signed a two-book deal with Picador, and his debut novel, Ithaca, was published in March, 2017 and nominated for the Desmond Elliott Award for first novels, a Bord Gáis Irish Book Award and the Dublin Literary Award. He has received awards for his work from […]
Lisa Frank
LISA FRANK was born and raised in Los Angeles but lived in the Pacific Northwest for several years before moving to Ireland in 2007. She received her MFA in Creative Writing from Eastern Washington University and has published fiction, poetry, creative non-fiction and screenplays. She has taught Creative Writing in a variety of settings and worked […]