Artists

Andrew Flynn is the director of Theatre at Galway Arts Centre and the Artistic Director of Decadent Theatre Company. He also works as a freelance theatre director.… Read more

Since 2013 Melissa Shiels has been a Heritage Expert on the Heritage in Schools panel.  She researches and recreates historic clothing from a 1,000 year period of history… Read more

Rose Servitova is an Irish writer. Her second novel, The Watsons, won Bronze at the International SPR Book Awards 2019 while shorter works were runners-up in the… Read more

Alan McMonagle lives in Galway. In 2015, he signed a two-book deal with Picador, and in 2017, Ithaca, his debut novel was published and longlisted for the Desmond Elliott Award… Read more

Elaine Feeney is an award-winning writer from Galway. Feeney teaches at The National University of Ireland, Galway. She has published three collections of poetry, including The Radio… Read more

Alice Lyons is a writer whose work embraces the visual arts. She is a recipient of the Patrick Kavanagh Award for Poetry (2002) and the inaugural Ireland… Read more

Cat Hogan is an award nominated Irish Novelist and screenwriter from Co. Wexford. She has published two fiction novels, They All Fall Down (2016) and the Bord Gais Energy nominated… Read more

Catherine Kirwan grew up on a farm in the parish of Fews, County Waterford. She studied law at UCC and lives in Cork where she works as… Read more

Siobhan was born in Cork where she learned to read, and she moved to Limerick where she entertained notions of becoming a writer. Educated at Laurel Hill… Read more

Sarah Moore Fitzgerald was born in New York, grew up in Dublin and lives in Limerick where she works as an academic. She says she wrote fiction constantly as a… Read more

Patricia Gibney is a crime author from Mullingar, Co. Westmeath. Her debut novel, The Missing Ones, was published by London based digital publisher, Bookouture, in March 2017… Read more

Donal Ryan, from Nenagh, Co. Tipperary, is the author of six bestselling books. He has won numerous awards for his fiction, among them the European Union Prize… Read more