Danny Denton
Danny Denton (he/him) is a writer from Cork, Ireland. His first novel, The Earlie King & The Kid In Yellow (Granta Books, 2018) was shortlisted for an Irish Book Award and The Collyer-Bristow Prize. All Along The Echo, his second novel, was published by Atlantic Books in 2022. Among other publications, his work has appeared in The Stinging Fly, Granta, Winter Papers, The Dublin Review, Tate Etc, The Guardian, The Irish Times, Architecture Ireland and The Big Issue, and has also been broadcast on BBC and RTE radios. He was the editor of The Stinging Fly magazine from 2018 to 2022, and lectures on Creative Writing at University College Cork. danny.denton@ucc.ie
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Dr Liz Quirke
Dr. Liz Quirke is a poet and scholar from Kerry with two collections from Salmon Poetry (The Road, Slowly in 2018 and How We Arrive in Winter in 2021). Dr. Quirke was an Irish Research Council Government of Ireland Postgraduate Scholar, a Galway Doctoral Fellow while pursuing a PhD through Creative Practice in Poetry on Queer Kinship in Contemporary Poetry at the University of Galway. She is one of the founders of Pendemic.ie, a social history and literary project that has been archived by UCD and funded by the Arts Council of Ireland. Quirke’s poems have been described in The Irish Times as “hard-won poems that rise out of a larger silence, re-doing the lyrics of Máire Mhac an tSaoi and Eavan Boland for 21st-century Ireland” and How We Arrive In Winter - a best poetry collection of 2021 choice by The Irish Times - has been described as “brilliant and deeply moving” and an “affecting and assured book, written from the frontlines of mourning, but attuned, too, to the possibility of a future as in The Promise of Sweetbread which ends with the epiphany that ‘there has never been/ such a call/ for light/ as this.” She lectures in Creative Writing at University College Cork. lquirke@ucc.ie
Eimear Ryan
Eimear Ryan is the author of a novel, Holding Her Breath (Penguin Sandycove, 2021), and a memoir, The Grass Ceiling (Penguin Sandycove, 2023). Other writing has appeared in Granta, The Dublin Review, The Stinging Fly, Winter Papers, Lit Hub, and elsewhere. She is a co-founder and editor of Banshee literary journal and its publishing imprint, Banshee Press. From Co. Tipperary, she now lives in Cork city. eimearryan@ucc.ie
John FitzGerald
John FitzGerald was born in Cork in 1962. He won the Patrick Kavanagh Poetry Award in 2014 and was shortlisted for a Hennessy Award in 2015. A chapbook, First Cut, appeared in 2017, followed by Darklight, a limited edition, in 2019.
A recipient of a Key West Literary Bursary, John FitzGerald has lived in Dublin, London and Florence, and since 1995 worked as University Librarian at University College Cork. He lives with his family on their farm in Carrigdarrery, County Cork. The Time Being is his first collection with The Gallery Press.
A new edition of Caoineadh Airt Uí Laoghaire by Eileen O’Connell The Lament for Art O’Leary translated by John FitzGerald includes the Irish and, for the first time, Jack B Yeats’s monochrome drawings will be published in April 2023.
Ellen Dillon
Ellen Dillon is a plurilingual poet (and teacher!) from Limerick. Her latest book, Fare Thee Well, Miss Carousel, was published by HVTN Press this year. Previous books look at Irish history from the perspective of butter (Butter Intervention, Veer 2, 2022), the teaching life of Stéphane Mallarmé (Morsel May Sleep, Sublunary Editions, 2021), and Stephen Malkmus’s guitar (Sonnets to Malkmus, Sad Press, 2019). Her chapbooks include Heave (Smithereens Press, 2018), Achatina, achatina! (SoundEye Press, 2019) and Excavate (Poems after Pasolini) (2020, Oystercatcher Press). She was also a board member for the much-loved and missed SoundEye Festival.
Conal Creedon
Conal Creedon is an internationally renowned Cork novelist, short story writer, playwright and broadcaster. His novels include Pancho and Lefty Ride Out (1995), Passion Play (1999), Second City Trilogy (2007) and most recently, The Immortal Deed of Michael O’Leary. His plays include The Trial Of Jesus (2000), Glory Be To The Father (2002), After Luke (2005) and When I Was God (2005), and have won two Irish National Business To Arts Awards and have been shortlisted for the Irish Times Theatre Awards. Productions of his plays have also won awards at the 2009 and 2013 Irish New York Theatre Awards. He has also written over 60 hours of radio drama ─ broadcast on RTÉ, Lyric FM, BBC, BBC Radio 4 & BBC World Service
