Meet the Writers 2023

Here you find listings of the writers who are appearing at our 2023 festival. Click on any writer to see their full biography. The writers appear alphabetically.
Ashlin O’Sullivan

Ashlin O’Sullivan

Irish Writing, New & Emerging Writing, Young Writer Delegate

Ashlin O’Sullivan is a recent University College Cork graduate and aspiring writer with a current focus on speculative fiction. She…

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Keith Payne

Keith Payne

Cork, Interviewer, Poetry

Keith Payne is an award-winning poet, translator and editor of over 10 collections of poetry in translation and original poetry, most…

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Jente Posthuma

Jente Posthuma

Fiction, Novel, Translation

Jente Posthuma’s critically acclaimed first novel, Mensen zonder uitstraling (People Without Charisma), was published in 2016 and nominated for the…

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John David Ratajkowski 

John David Ratajkowski 

Art, West Cork

Growing up in the 1950’s in the seaside town of Coronado, California across the bay from San Diego, painter John…

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Dave Rudden

Dave Rudden

Children, Fiction, Irish Writing, Professional Development, Young Adults

Dave Rudden is the author of the award-winning Knights of the Borrowed Dark trilogy, as well as three Doctor Who anthologies and numerous works…

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Donal Ryan

Donal Ryan

Fiction, Irish Writing, Novel

Donal Ryan is an award-winning author from Nenagh, County Tipperary, whose work has been published in over twenty languages to…

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Catherine Ryan Howard

Catherine Ryan Howard

Cork, Crime, Fiction, Irish Writing, Novel, Workshop

Catherine Ryan Howard is the award-winning, no. 1 bestselling author of seven thrillers including The Nothing Man, 56 Days and…

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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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Hannah Sullivan

Hannah Sullivan

Poetry

Hannah Sullivan teaches English at New College, Oxford. Her debut collection of poetry, Three Poems, won the T.S. Eliot Prize…

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Meet the Writers 2023

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