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 

http://research.ucc.ie/profiles/A014/danny.denton@ucc.ie 

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 She is one of the founders of Pendemic.ie, a social history and literary project that has been archived by UCD and funded by the Arts Council of Ireland.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

Rosa Rogers

Dr Rosa Rogers (she/her) is an Anglo-Irish writer and interdisciplinary artist, originally from Yorkshire. She holds a PhD in The Contemporary Novel for her forthcoming debut, Composition, which explores the coming-of-age tale of a working-class daughter of the Irish diaspora. Her writing has been published widely, including Flash Fiction North, A Personal Anthology, The Menteur, and The Mersey Review, and her multimedia projects have been exhibited at The Photographers' Gallery (London), Reid Hall (Paris), and as part of The Bookshop Podcast's Creative Series (Ojai, California). She is the founder of Poetry Etc, Tales of a Town and former Co-Director of Vortex Gallery, where she has spent nearly a decade advocating in community settings for increased access to arts and literary education. rrogers@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.

Leanne O'Sullivan

Leanne O'Sullivan was born in 1983, and comes from the Beara peninsula in West Cork. She received an MA in English in 2006 from University College, Cork, where she now teaches. The winner of several of Ireland's poetry competitions in her early 20s (including the Seacat, Davoren Hanna and RTE Rattlebag Poetry Slam), she has published four collections, all from Bloodaxe, Waiting for My Clothes (2004), Cailleach: The Hag of Beara (2009), winner of the Rooney Prize for Irish Literature in 2010, The Mining Road (2013) and A Quarter of an Hour (2018), winner of the inaugural Farmgate Café National Poetry Award 2019.  A Quarter of an Hour was also shortlisted for the Irish Times Poetry Now Award 2019 and the Pigott Poetry Prize 2019. She was given the Ireland Chair of Poetry Bursary Award in 2009 and the Lawrence O’Shaughnessy Award for Irish Poetry in 2011, and received a UCC Alumni Award in 2012. Her work has been included in various anthologies, including Selina Guinness's The New Irish Poets (Bloodaxe Books, 2004) and Billy Collins's Poetry 180: A Turning Back to Poetry(Random House, 2003). Residencies and festival readings have taken her to France, India, China and America, amongst other locations.

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