Meet the Writers

Here you find listings of the writers who are will appear at our 2025 festival. Click on any writer to see their full biography. The writers appear alphabetically.

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Raphael Olympio

Cork, Irish Writing, Poetry, Spoken Word

Raphael Olympio is a Cork-based artist who explores various genres to showcase his versatility. Primarily a rapper and spoken word…

Ruth Padel

Poetry, Workshop

Ruth Padel is a writer of unusual range, with close links to India, Greece, music and wildlife, but first and…

Niamh Prior

Cork, Irish Publishing, Spoken Word, Storytelling

Niamh Prior is from Kinsale in Co. Cork. She studied English with Film and TV Studies at Brunel University London,…

Liz Quirke

Cork, Irish Writing, LGBTQIA+, Poetry

Liz Quirke is a poet and lecturer and has published The Road, Slowly (2018) and How We Arrive in Winter…

Ross Raisin

Fiction, Novel, Short Stories, Workshop

Ross Raisin is the author of four novels: A Hunger (2022), A Natural (2017), Waterline (2011) and God’s Own Country (2008). In 2013, he was named on Granta’s…