Meet the Writers

Here you find listings of the writers who are will appear at our 2026 festival. Our 2026 festival will run from 10-17 July 2026. Priority booking for WCLF Festival Friends will open at 10am on 7 April. General booking for workshops will open at 10am on 7 April and for all other events at 10am on 14 April
Raoul De Jong

Raoul De Jong

Memoir, Non-Fiction, Translation

Award-winning Dutch writer, Raoul de Jong (born 1984) has published eight books and written columns for multiple newspapers. Jaguarman, published in 2020, was nominated for…

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Evelien De Vlieger 

Evelien De Vlieger 

Children, Translation

Evelien De Vlieger is a Dutch writer and translator – and a proud chicken owner! She creates quirky, contemporary stories, often laced with subtle…

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Paddy Donnelly

Paddy Donnelly

Children, Illustrator, Irish Writing

Paddy Donnelly is a Northern Irish author and illustrator living in Belgium, who has illustrated many children’s books. He is…

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Ulrike Draesner

Ulrike Draesner

Fiction, Novel, Translation

Ulrike Draesner was born in 1962 in Munich, Germany. She is a poet, a writer of long and short fiction and cultural essays….

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Esther McCarthy

Esther McCarthy

Cork, Interviewer

Esther McCarthy is Life/Style Editor of the Irish Examiner, writing a Saturday column for Weekend magazine. A lifelong reader with…

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Daisy Fancourt

Daisy Fancourt

Non-Fiction

Daisy Fancourt is Professor of Psychobiology and Epidemiology at University College London where she heads the Social Biobehavioural Research Group, and Director of the World Health Organisation…

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Elaine Feeney

Elaine Feeney

Fiction, Irish Writing, Novel

Elaine Feeney is an acclaimed novelist and poet from the west of Ireland. Her debut novel, As You Were, was…

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John FitzGerald

John FitzGerald

Cork, Irish Writing, Poetry

John FitzGerald was born in Cork in 1962. He has lived in Dublin, London and Florence. He won the Patrick…

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Daragh Fleming

Daragh Fleming

Cork, Irish Writing, Poetry

Daragh Fleming (author of Lonely Boy and A Brief Inhalation) is a writer from Cork, Ireland. He has work in…

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Meet the Writers

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