Meet the Writers 2023

Here you find listings of our Children and YA writers.

Kip Alizadeh

Kip Alizadeh

Illustrator, Irish Writing, LGBTQI+ Writing, Young Adults

Kip Alizadeh is an illustrator and visual artist. When they aren’t creating, they like to DJ, spend time with their...

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Raymond Antrobus

Raymond Antrobus

Children, Poetry

Raymond Antrobus was born in London, Hackney to an English mother and Jamaican father. He is the author of To...

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Danny Denton

Danny Denton

Cork, Environment, Fiction, Irish Writing

Danny Denton is a writer from Passage West, Cork. His novels to date are The Earlie King & The Kid In...

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Leona Forde

Leona Forde

Children, Cork, Debut, Fiction, Irish Writing, Novel, West Cork

Leona Forde is an English and History teacher from Bandon, County Cork, and Milly McCarthy is a Complete Catastrophe is...

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David & Adam King

David & Adam King

Children, Cork, Irish Writing

David King is an Irish children's author passionate about telling engaging stories with heartfelt messages. He has worked in education his...

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Clara Kumagai

Clara Kumagai

Debut, Fiction, Irish Writing, Novel, Young Adults

Clara Kumagai is from Canada, Japan and Ireland. Her fiction and non-fiction for children and adults has been published in The Stinging...

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David McLoghlin

David McLoghlin

Irish Writing, Poetry, Professional Development

David McLoghlin is a poet, writer of creative nonfiction and teacher of creative writing. His books are Waiting for Saint...

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Keira O'Connell

Keira O'Connell

Interpreter

Keira O'Connell is a freelance Irish Sign Language interpreter based in Cork. She studied ISL interpreting at the Centre for...

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Yeva Skalietska

Yeva Skalietska

Children, Debut, Memoir, Non-Fiction

Yeva Skalietska is a 12-year-old Ukrainian girl who grew up living with her granny in Kharkiv, near the Russian border....

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Leo Timmers

Leo Timmers

Children, Illustrator, Translation

  Leo Timmers was born in 1970 in Belgium. At 12 he started to draw comics and later trained in...

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Sarah Webb

Sarah Webb

Children, Interviewer

Sarah Webb is an award-winning children’s writer and creative writing teacher. She runs creative writing clubs for children and reviews children’s...

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