Karl Parkinson is a writer from inner-city Dublin. Butterflies of a Bad Summer is his second collection of poetry. The Blocks his début novel was published in 2016 by New Binary Press.

Alan McMonagle lives in Galway. He has published two collections of short stories, Liar Liar (Wordsonthestreet, 2009) and Psychotic Episodes (Arlen House, 2013)

Dimitra Xidous is the author of Keeping Bees (2014, Doire Press). Her work has appeared in a number of literary journals, including Room Magazine (Canada)

Mike McCormack is an award-winning novelist and short story writer from Mayo. His previous work includes Getting it in the Head (1995), Crowe’s Requiem (1998)

Sara Baume won the 2014 Davy Byrne’s Short Story Award, and in 2015, the Hennessy New Irish Writing Award, the Rooney Prize for Literature 

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Claire-Louise Bennett is the author of Pond, which was shortlisted for The Dylan Thomas Prize 2015 and has been translated into seven languages.

Boston-born writer and editor Anthony Glavin is the author of two short story collections, One For Sorrow and The Draughtsman and The Unicorn

Dave Lordan is a renowned writer, teacher, editor and creativity-in education advocate and the first writer to have won all three of Ireland's national prizes for young poets.

Stephen Murray is an award winning poet and the director of Inspireland. Since 2007 he has provided workshops to over 30,000 Irish teenagers and adults.

Elaine Feeney grew up on a farm in County Galway, where she now lives, and is considered a strong part of contemporary political Irish writers.

E.M. Reapy is from Mayo, has an MA in Creative Writing from Queen’s University, Belfast and was the founding editor of wordlegs.com.

Rita Ann Higgins was born in Galway. She has published ten collections of poetry, her most recent collection Tongulish was received to great acclaim.

Sallyanne Sweeney grew up in Dublin and studied English at Trinity College before completing an MPhil in American Literature at Queens' College, Cambridge.

Sinéad Gleeson is a writer, broadcaster, critic who presents The Book Show on RTE Radio 1. She is the editor of three short story anthologies

Anna Kelly began her publishing career as an Editorial Assistant at Hamish Hamilton, where she worked with authors including Paul Murray, Ali Smith, Zadie Smith

June is a journalist, award-winning blogger & fiction writer. Her story SOMAT is published in The Long Gaze Back – An Anthology of Irish Women Writers edited

Elizabeth Rose Murray lives in West Cork. Her debut, The Book of Learning: Nine Lives Trilogy 1 (Mercier Press) has been chosen as the Dublin UNESCO

Kathy D'Arcy is a Cork poet whose collections Encounter (Lapwing), and The Wild Pupil (Bradshaw) were published in 2010 and 2012 respectively. 

Alvy's first collection Falling in Love with Broken Things is available from Salmon Poetry. She blogs sporadically and

Declan Meade is publisher and founding editor of The Stinging Fly magazine.            

Sarah Clancy is a page and performance poet from Galway. She is the author of three collections of poetry, including

Dave Rudden's debut novel, Knights of the Borrowed Dark, was the recipient of the Specsavers' Children's Book of the Year 2016 (senior) and

Julian Gough is the Author of three acclaimed novels, two BBC radio plays, a successful stage play, and the ending to Time Magazine's 2011 computer game of the year, Minecraft. He also  sang with