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
Adiba Jaigirdar

Adiba Jaigirdar

Fiction, Irish Writing, LGBTQIA+, Novel

Adiba Jaigirdar is the critically-acclaimed and bestselling author of The Henna Wars and Hani & Ishu’s Guide to Fake Dating. A Bangladeshi/Irish writer and teacher,…

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Cynan Jones

Cynan Jones

Fiction, Professional Development, Short Stories

Cynan Jones won a Society of Authors Betty Trask Award 2007, a Jerwood Fiction Uncovered Prize 2014, the Wales Book…

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Nithy Kasa

Nithy Kasa

Poetry

Nithy Kasa was one of the ten poets selected for Poetry Ireland’s Poetry as Commemoration project. She features on the Adrian Brinkerhoff Poetry Foundation…

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Victoria Kennefick

Victoria Kennefick

Dr Victoria Kennefick’s debut poetry collection, Eat or We Both Starve (Carcanet Press, 2021), won the Seamus Heaney First Collection…

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Catherine Kirwan

Catherine Kirwan

Crime, Interviewer

Catherine Kirwan is the Irish Times bestselling author of three Cork-based legal thrillers Darkest Truth, Cruel Deeds and A Lesson…

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Caitríona Lally

Caitríona Lally

Irish Writing, Memoir, Non-Fiction

Caitríona Lally is the recipient of the Rooney Prize for Irish Literature (2018) and a Lannan Fellowship for Fiction (2019)….

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Nolwenn Le Blevennec

Nolwenn Le Blevennec

Fiction, Novel, Translation

Nolwenn Le Blevennec is a French journalist and writer. She is editor-in-chief at L’Obs, and lives in Paris. The English-language…

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Cristín Leach

Cristín Leach

Cork, Interviewer, Irish Writing

Cristín Leach is an Irish writer and author of the critically acclaimed divorce-art memoir Negative Space. A Sunday Times Ireland art critic for twenty years,…

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Shaunna Lee Lynch 

Shaunna Lee Lynch 

Cork, Irish Writing, Young Adults

Shaunna Lee Lynch is a writer, spoken-word poet, and performer living in Cork. She has performed her poems at arts events…

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Meet the Writers

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