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Below you find listings of all the writers who appeared online as part of our virtual festival and subsequent events in 2020. Click here to see a list of the other writers whose appearance at our festival was cancelled due to COVID-19. Click on any writer to see their full biography.
The writers appear alphabetically.
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Welcome to Day 1 of our West Cork Literary Festival Advent Calendar. Our author today is Paddy Bushe. Born in...
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Welcome to Day 2 of our West Cork Literary Festival Advent Calendar. Our author today is Caoilinn Hughes. Caoilinn Hughes...
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Welcome to Day 3 of our West Cork Literary Festival Advent Calendar. Our author today is Alan McMonagle. Alan McMonagle lives...
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Welcome to Day 4 of our West Cork Literary Festival Advent Calendar. Our author today is Frances Macken. Frances Macken...
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Welcome to Day 5 of our West Cork Literary Festival Advent Calendar. Our author today is Bebe Ashley. Bebe Ashley...
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Welcome to Day 6 of our West Cork Literary Festival Advent Calendar. Our author today is Seán Hewitt. Seán Hewitt...
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Welcome to Day 7 of our West Cork Literary Festival Advent Calendar. Our author today is Gráinne Murphy. Gráinne Murphy...
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Welcome to Day 8 of our West Cork Literary Festival Advent Calendar. Our author today is Marianne Lee. Marianne Lee...
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Kevin Barry is co-editor of Winter Papers as well as being the author of three novels and three short story...
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Welcome to Day 10 of our West Cork Literary Festival Advent Calendar. Our author today is Helena Close. Limerick City...
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Welcome to Day 11 of our West Cork Literary Festival Advent Calendar. Our author today is Stephen Sexton. Stephen Sexton’s...
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Welcome to Day 12 of our West Cork Literary Festival Advent Calendar. Our author today is Michelle Gallen. Michelle Gallen...
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Welcome to Day 13 of our West Cork Literary Festival Advent Calendar. Our author today is Cauvery Madhavan. Cauvery Madhavan...
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Welcome to Day 14 of our West Cork Literary Festival Advent Calendar. Our author today is Oein DeBhairduin. Oein DeBhairduin...
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Welcome to Day 15 of our West Cork Literary Festival Advent Calendar. Our author today is Enda Wyley. Enda Wyley...
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Welcome to Day 16 of our West Cork Literary Festival Advent Calendar. Our author today is Patrick Freyne. Patrick Freyne...
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Welcome to Day 17 of our West Cork Literary Festival Advent Calendar. Our author today is Alice Lyons. Alice Lyons...
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Welcome to Day 18 of our West Cork Literary Festival Advent Calendar. Our author today is Colin Barrett. Colin Barrett...
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Welcome to Day 19 of our West Cork Literary Festival Advent Calendar. Our author today is Niamh Campbell. Niamh Campbell’s...
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Welcome to Day 20 of our West Cork Literary Festival Advent Calendar. Our author today is Tim MacGabhann. Tim MacGabhann...
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Welcome to Day 21 of our West Cork Literary Festival Advent Calendar. Our author today is Chiamaka Enyi-Amadi. Chiamaka Enyi-Amadi...
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Welcome to Day 22 of our West Cork Literary Festival Advent Calendar. Our author today is John Connell. John Connell’s...
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Welcome to Day 23 of our West Cork Literary Festival Advent Calendar. Our author today is Sarah Crossan. Sarah Crossan...
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Welcome to Day 24 of our West Cork Literary Festival Advent Calendar. Our author today is Eoin Colfer. Eoin Colfer...
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Federico Andornino is Editorial Director at Weidenfeld & Nicolson, the literary imprint of the Orion Publishing Group, where he commissions...
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Rachel Andrews’ essays and criticism have appeared or are forthcoming in outlets including the London Review of Books, n+1, Brick literary journal, the Stinging Fly, Longreads, Gorse, Banshee, the...
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Sara Baume grew up in County Cork and studied fine art at Dun Laoghaire College of Art and Design before...
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Kate Burke was born in Dublin but grew up in Brussels. She joined Blake Friedmann as Senior Agent in January...
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Children’s Books Ireland (CBI) is the national children's books organisation of Ireland. Through their many activities and events they aim...
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Jane Clarke is the author of two poetry collections, The River and When the Tree Falls (Bloodaxe Books 2015 & 2019),...
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Tadhg Coakley is from Mallow and lives in Cork city. His debut novel The First Sunday in September was shortlisted...
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Juno Dawson is the multi award-winning author of 12 books, including the best-selling CLEAN, Meat Market and adult memoir, The...
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Sinéad Gleeson’s essays have been published by Granta, Winter Papers and Gorse, and broadcast by BBC and RTÉ. Her debut essay collection Constellations: Reflections from...
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Maeve Higgins is a contributing writer for the New York Times and the host of the hit podcast Maeve in...
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Widely considered one of the defining voices of her generation, Leslie Jamison is the author of the New York Times...
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Cynan Jones was born in 1975 near Aberaeron, Wales where he now lives and works. He is the author of...
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Dave Lordan is a multi-genre writer, performer, editor, and pathbreaking multimedia educator with four acclaimed books & twenty years experience in...
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Originally from Philadelphia, Una Mannion is a writer and teacher based in County Sligo. She has won numerous prizes for...
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Kelly McCaughrain is a YA writer from Belfast. Her first novel, Flying Tips for Flightless Birds won the Children’s Books Ireland...
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John Patrick McHugh is from Galway. His work has appeared in The Tangerine, Banshee, Granta, Winter Papers 2 and 6,...
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Paul McVeigh's debut novel, The Good Son, won The Polari First Novel Prize and The McCrea Literary Award and was shortlisted...
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Oonagh Montague is a writer from Cork. She was the editor of Arts Ireland for five years. She is also...
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Elizabeth Rose Murray writes novels for children and young adults and short fiction. Her books include The Book of Learning –...
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Claire Nelson is a New Zealander who spent more than a decade in London working in food and travel journalism,...
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Doireann Ní Ghríofa is a bilingual writer whose books explore birth, death, desire, and domesticity. Doireann’s awards include a Lannan...
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Louise O’Neill is the feminist powerhouse and outspoken voice for change whose novels Only Ever Yours and Asking for It...
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Nadine O'Regan is an award-winning arts journalist and broadcaster. Editor of the Business Post Magazine and head of podcasting with...
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Since graduating in 2007, Julie has worked extensively as a facilitator and director for a range of companies both nationally...
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Cork author Catherine Ryan Howard published her debut novel, Distress Signals, in 2016. It was a bestseller on both sides...
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Deirdre Sullivan is an award-winning writer from Galway. As well as the Primrose Leary trilogy (Prim Improper, Improper Order and...
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