King ADZ is a writer & director who has devoted his life to street culture. In the early noughties, he was a founding member of the original street art community working with artists such as Banksy, Blek, Hush, Invader, Obey and Swoon.

Finn is a marine biologist, speaker and best selling author. She is passionate about presenting crucial environmental and oceanic research in a way that is actually understandable, allowing it to have a greater global impact.

I write about communities, invisible boundaries and transgressive experiences, moments of transcendence that make you stop and really see.

Maggie Armstrong’s debut collection, Old Romantics was published by Tramp Press in 2024 and in Canada by Biblioasiss in 2025. She has been shortlisted at the Irish Book Awards for Short Story of the Year and Newcomer of the Year, and shortlisted for the Kate O'Brien Award. Her work has been published in the Dublin Review, Stinging Fly, Banshee and more, and her essay 'High Speed' appears in PVA's 2025 anthology, In the Good Seats: Essays on Cinema. She lives in Dublin.

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Nana Oforiatta Ayim is an award-winning writer and film-maker. She is the founder and director of the cultural research organisation, ANO, in Ghana.

"I write about all women. I find most women in art described in extremes, as villains or heroes, fat or thin, married or single, mothers or not. There is nothing I enjoy more, than observing the unremarkable in-between. Sometimes, I write about men too."

Since beginning her journalistic career over 25 years ago at CNN, Ginanne has covered stories in over 45 countries and on six continents. Her passion is writing stories about the extraordinary things, big and small, that people have entrusted her to share with the wider world.

Louise Bruton is a journalist, disability activist and playwright.

“I will always vehemently fight the cliche that fashion is frivolous or shallow.  The clothes we wear reveal depths about us, our world and our culture. Those are the depths I want to probe into through my work”

Triona Campbell is an award-winning television producer who has been creating content for kids and young adults for over two decades.

Bestselling author and actress, best known for her recurring role as Nicola in RTE’s Fair City.

Edel’s debut novel Breaking Point was acquired by Darcy Nicholson, Editorial Director at Sphere in September 2020 after a multi-publisher auction.

Film Producer, Screenwriter and YA novelist.

John Connell is a multi-award-winning author, film producer and investigative journalist.

Andrea Corr is a true original and a writer of real beauty.

Suzanna Crampton is an environmental farmer, photographer and writer, and her captivating social media posts have created a huge following both here and abroad.

Awards nominated children’s writer from Mallow, Co. Cork

I write about the marginalized, working class, diverse youth of the Dublin suburbs. My work is contemporary not only with its subject matter, but in its language too. I like to deal with Ireland’s attitudes to multiculturalism and diversity in my writing, and show how Ireland can embrace these challenges with empathy and hope.

Winner of The Romantic Novelists’ Association People's Choice Award and a Richard and Judy Summer read.

Martin Doyle has worked for three decades as a journalist in Ireland and Britain. He was editor of the Irish Post in London before spending five years with the Times in London. He joined the Irish Times in 2007 and has been books editor there since 2018.

Adrian Duncan is an artist and award-winning writer based in Ireland and Berlin.

Thrity Engineer is a visionary, author and serial pioneer with no PhD. She searches for and loves the extraordinary, the exquisite and the exceptional.

Clothilde Ewing studied broadcast journalism at Syracuse University, before beginning her working life at CBS News in London. She went on to spend seven years at The Oprah Winfrey Show

FELISPEAKS is a Nigerian-Irish Poet, Performer, Playwright from Co. Longford; currently living in Maynooth town, Co. Kildare.

Seán Farrell is a writer and editor

Emma Flynn's fiction, non-fiction and reviews have appeared in Banshee, Vox, The Cardiff Review, The Stinging Fly, The Irish Times, The Irish Examiner, RTÉ Keywords and others.

Cindy’s work is dedicated to transforming how we understand and act towards Earth, the living system that sustains us.

"Play is not a box of toys. Play is a state of mind and a way of being"

Dr. Maureen Gaffney is a well-known Irish psychologist, writer and broadcaster.

Short Listed For The Costa First Novel Nominated for the Comedy Women in Print 2020 award and also for the Sunday Independent Newcomer Of The Year 2020

Emily is an Irish playwright, theatre maker and novelist.

Alan Gilsenan is an award-winning Irish writer, film-maker and theatre director. His very diverse body of work extends across many mediums and styles.

Winner of the 2020 Spread the Word Life Writing Prize

Conor Griffin is a writer from Tralee in Co Kerry who is based in Dublin.

"I love to tell stories of the problems faced by ordinary families. I'm intrigued by the narratives we tell ourselves, by the vagaries of chance and memory and by the fact  that, in the tangled web of life, there is always a humorous thread."

Sorcha Hamilton has had fiction published in The Dublin Review, The London Magazine, and broadcast on RTE Radio1. She also writes for The Irish Times. In 2020 she completed the MPhil in Creative Writing at Trinity College Dublin.

No. 1 Bestselling Author Of Acclaimed Memoirs, Novelist And Playwright.

Noelle Harrison is an Irish novelist and playwright.

“Writing for children means creating stories that have one foot in real life and several tentacles in the most fantastical worlds”

Based between Massachusetts and Galway, Molly has recently published non-fiction with The Celestial Realm exploring mental illness and maternal lineage.

Dearbhaile Houston’s short fiction has appeared in Banshee, The Dublin Review, the Irish Times and Tolka.

Acclaimed Irish novelist and author of Matchstick Man memoir

Lucy Kennedy is a powerhouse on the Irish entertainment scene.

Award winning bestselling novelist Kate Kerrigan pseudonym of Morag Prunty

Born in Dublin and raised in Co. Mayo, Alice’s work has been published in The Irish Times, Poetry Ireland Review, RTÉ, Banshee, and The North, among others.
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Christy Lefteri’s The Beekeeper of Aleppo International bestseller over one million copies sold worldwide.

I have always been fascinated by the way the world is constructed and how it takes its toll on
the people I meet and read about — psychologically, emotionally and spiritually.
I love to write about people who disconnect from society and their internal journey as they
disassemble and reassemble themselves.

Kathleen MacMahon is an acclaimed international bestselling novelist and short story writer.

“Few writers have articulated the intricacies of friendship with as much authority….a debut bursting with heart.”- Irish Independent

Manchán Magan is a writer and documentary-maker.

“I have always taken my cue from Joyce in that books should dance and be amusing too”

WINNER OF ‘THE INTERNATIONAL DUBLIN LITERARY AWARD’ 2018
WINNER OF ‘THE GOLDSMITHS PRIZE’ 2016
LONGLISTED FOR ‘THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE’ 2017

"Educational systems should be organised in ways which would facilitate exploration and expression of each child’s creative abilities. That would mean that there would be no set curricula or put another that there would be an unlimited range of curricula."

“I’ve always thought what is complicated is rarely important and what is important is rarely complicated”

“I hope you get lost inside my writing, so the story ceases to become about me and becomes about you. If I do my job correctly, I can create a space for people to feel less alone.”

Sinead Moriarty is the number one bestselling author of 17, widely translated, novels published by Penguin Random house. She is also a books ambassador, newspaper columnist, and a former board member of the Arts Council.

Joseph is a Trinity College graduate with a B.A. in Film & Drama and an MSc in Marketing

Lara grew up in Pennsylvania farm country and trained as an actor.  She moved to Britain 20 years ago and earned an MA from RADA / King’s College London.

“I only began to write seriously when I gave up the idea of becoming a serious writer”

“I have always been fascinated by deeply flawed characters (Shakespeare wrote them best) and what led them to becoming the way they are as adults. But I leave it to the reader to decide whether monsters are born that way or shaped by circumstances”

Fionnuala O'Leary is a writer and journalist from Dublin living in New York City.

I write stories about people who have rough edges and lots of things to work out.

'As a young teen, if I was asked to name a hundred things that I would become when I grew up, writing would not have made the list. But, I was a good storyteller. A great one even. I knew that from a young age’

Multi- award-winning Irish journalist and co-anchor of the The SixOne News on the national public service broadcaster, RTÉ.

Kevin Power is the author of Bad Day in Blackrock which was the inspiration for the 2012 award-winning Element Pictures film What Richard Did, directed by Lenny Abrahamson

Catherine Prasifka is a young writer from Dublin. She has a BA in English Literature from Trinity College and an MLitt in Fantasy Literature from the University of Glasgow.

Screenwriter and novelist

Serena Richards is from London, England and studied English Literature at university as an undergraduate, where her love for writing started to take off.

Vanessa Ronan is an American novelist, poet, and screenwriter

“A muscular and compelling read that looks set to see Ryan join the ranks of the thriller-writing heavyweights”

“Everyone knows the word ‘war’. But very few understand what it truly means. Until you’ve been there, you don’t know what war is.”

“I tell stories, through writing and documentaries, to find the extraordinary in the everyday.”

A London based but northern-at-heart writer/director who likes to tell stories any way she can.

Tanya Sweeney is a journalist and columnist. Originally from Dublin, she lives in Kildare, Ireland with her husband and daughter.

Novelist Alison Walsh has worked in book publishing in the UK and Ireland for many years.