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KEVIN O’SHEA lived in Connemara, in Moycullen, within earshot of the old Galway-Clifden Railway. Having retreated from the world of technology to timidly confront the world of imagination, Kevin was short-listed for Over The Edge New Writer of the Year in both 2009 and 2010. He has been published in Irish Left Review, Ropes, Pen Tales, Northern Liberties […]
KATE DEMPSEY is from Coventry and studied Physics at Oxford University. She’s lived in the UK, Nijmegen, The Netherlands and Albuquerque, New Mexico before settling in Ireland. Prizes for her writing include The Plough Prize, Cecil Day Lewis Award, shortlisting for the Hennessy New Irish Writing Awardand two commendations for the Patrick Kavanagh Award. She was […]
KAREN J MCDONNELL’s writing has been published in many countries in anthologies and journals, including Vital Signs: Poems of Illness and Healing (Poetry Ireland), Rochford Street Review, Gondal Heights (Sybaritic Press), The Storms 4 — Dublin Days, Drawn to the Light, Boyne Berries, The North, New Irish Writing, and The Irish Times. Best of the […]
JOHN WALSH was born in Derry. His first collection of poetry, Johnny tell Them, was published in 2006 by Guildhall Press. In 2007 he received a Publication Award from Galway County Council to publish his second collection Love’s Enterprise Zone. His third collection, Chopping Wood with T.S. Eliot, was published by Salmon Poetry in 2010. Border Lines, his debut short-story collection […]
JOHN MACKENNA is the author of seventeen books—novels, short-stories, memoir, biography and poetry. He has also written a number of stage and radio plays and is a frequent contributor to RTE Radio 1. He is a winner of the Hennessy New Writing Award, the Irish Times Fiction Award and the Cecil Day Lewis Literary Award; his […]
JO HEMMANT was born in Manchester, but has also lived in Sicily, Holland and Hong Kong. She now lives in Kent with her husband and two sons and is director of Pindrop, a boutique poetry press. Her poems have been published in Magma, Iota, Dream Catcher, Jericho (Cinnamon Press, 2012) and nothing left to burn (Ragged Raven Press, 2011) and […]
JAMES MARTYN JOYCE lives in Galway. His work has appeared in The Cúirt Journal, West 47, Books Ireland, Crannóg, The Sunday Tribune, The Stinging Fly, The Shop, The Honest Ulsterman, The Stony Thursday Book and Skylight47. He was shortlisted for a Hennessy Award in 2006, the Francis McManus award in 2007 and 2008 and The William Trevor International Short […]
GLEN WILSON, from Portadown, Co Armagh, is the winner of the 2017 Seamus Heaney Award for New Writing. He has also won the Poetry Space competition, the Jonathan Swift Creative Writing Award and was shortlisted and placed for the Wasafiri New Writing Prize, Bailieborough Poetry Prize, Padraic Colum Poetry Competition, Hungry Hill Poetry Meet Politics […]
GERRY GALVIN was born in Limerick in 1942 but later moved to Oughterard, Co. Galway. He was a chef and former restaurateur, author of two cookbooks, The Drimcong Food Affair (McDonald Publishing, 1992) and Everyday Gourmet (The O’Brien Press, 1997), and was a columnist for Organic Matters magazine. His poetry and short stories have been published in newspapers and magazines in both the U.K. […]
Emma McKervey won the 2015 PoetryNI/Translink Poetry Competition and in 2016 she was shortlisted for both the NI National Poetry Competition and the Bord Gáis Irish Book Awards’ Poem of the Year Award. In 2017 she had two poems highly commended for the Seamus Heaney Prize. She is also a professionally-trained musician, having played cello […]
