Meet the Writers 2022

Here you find listings of the writers who appeared at our 2022 festival. Click on any writer to see their full biography. The writers appear alphabetically.
Mary McGill

Mary McGill

Interviewer, Irish Writing

Dr Mary McGill is a Media Studies lecturer, researcher and journalist. She is a former Hardiman Scholar at the National…

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Afric McGlinchey

Afric McGlinchey

Autofiction, Irish Writing, Memoir, West Cork

Afric McGlinchey is an Irish poet with strong African connections, having spent her childhood and early adulthood in Zambia, Zimbabwe…

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Lisa McInerney

Lisa McInerney

Fiction, Irish Writing, Novel

Lisa McInerney is the author of three novels set in Cork city: The Glorious Heresies, The Blood Miracles and The Rules of Revelation. She…

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Danielle McLaughlin

Danielle McLaughlin

Cork, Interviewer, Irish Writing, Professional Development, Young Writer Delegate

Danielle McLaughlin is the author of the short story collection Dinosaurs on Other Planets. In 2019, she was a Windham-Campbell…

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Wayne Miller

Wayne Miller

Poetry

Wayne Miller is the author of five poetry collections, most recently We the Jury (Milkweed, 2021) and Post- (2016), which…

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Nina Mingya Powles

Nina Mingya Powles

Essays, Memoir, Nature

A lyrical, poetic essay collection that blends memoir with powerful writing on the natural world, taking us from London to…

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Oonagh Montague

Oonagh Montague

Cork, Interviewer, Irish Writing

Oonagh Montague is a writer whose fiction has been published in Winter Papers. A former editor of Arts Ireland she worked as a…

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Fiona Mozley

Fiona Mozley

Fiction, Novel

Fiona Mozley grew up in York and lives in Edinburgh. Her first novel, Elmet, won a Somerset Maugham Award and…

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Majed Mujed

Majed Mujed

Irish Writing, New & Emerging Writing, Poetry, Translation

Majed Mujed is an Iraqi poet, born in 1971. Writing in Arabic, his poetry focuses on love as well as…

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Meet the Writers 2022

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