Cork World Book Fest 2024 will be the twentieth edition, featuring more exciting author visits, workshops and events.
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Suad Aldarra is a Syrian-Irish writer and data scientist based in Dublin. She lived in Saudi Arabia, Syria, Egypt, and the US before eventually settling in Ireland. Suad was selected as the Common Currency writer in residence for the Cuirt International Festival and English/Irish PEN in 2021 and was awarded the Art Councils of Ireland…
Maggie Armstrong’s work has been published in the Dublin Review, Stinging Fly, Banshee and elsewhere. She has worked as a critic and reporter for various newspapers. In 2023 her story ‘Dinner and a Show’ was long-listed for an Irish Book Award. She grew up in Dublin, where she still lives. Old Romantics is her first…
Susana Sanches Arins is a Galician writer and critic born in Vilagarcía de Arousa in 1974. She has published three collections of poetry, as well as two more recent books that blur the boundaries between poetry and prose. She is one of many authors to have begun to write in Reintegrationist Galician, which envisions modern…
Neil Astley is the editor of Bloodaxe Books which he founded in 1978. His books include many anthologies, most notably those in the Staying Alive series: Staying Alive (2002), Being Alive (2004), Being Human (2011) and Staying Human (2020), along with four collaborations with Pamela Robertson-Pearce, Soul Food (2007) and Soul Feast (2024), and the…
With performance spanning over 20 years of TV – Late Late Show, Kenny Live, SBS, ABC TV – concerts, weddings, recording contracts and extensive touring here and abroad, Irish Singer/Songwriter Neasa de Baróidhas performed venues from the largest stadiums in Australia – Melbourne Cricket Grounds – to more intimate venues. She has twice sung the…
Tony Bates is a clinical psychologist and adjunct professor of Psychology at UCD. Graduated from UCD and completed his postgraduate research and training at the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia and Oxford University. Head of Psychology for 30 years in St James’s Hospital. Established and directed the MSc in Cognitive Psychotherapy in Trinity College Dublin. Founded…
Sam Blake is a multiple No 1 bestselling crime writer, who has been shortlisted for Irish Crime Novel of the Year three times. Her 10th thriller, Three Little Birds, and her 2023 YA debut, Something Terrible Happened Last Night, are both in shops now. Follow her on social @samblakebooks and find out more at http://www.samblakebooks.com,…
Dean Browne received the Geoffrey Dearmer Prize in 2021 and his pamphlet, Kitchens at Night, was a winner of the Poetry Business International Pamphlet Competition; it was published by Smith|Doorstop in 2022. His poems have appeared in Banshee, New York Review of Books, Poetry Magazine, Stinging Fly, and elsewhere. His first collection will be published…
Jo Burns was born in County Derry but now lives in Germany. She is a fluent German speaker and a university lecturer. The author of Circling for Gods (Eyewear Publishing), White Horses and Brink (both Turas Press), Jo has also been published in Oxford Poetry, Poetry Ireland Review, London Magazine, Magma, Acumen and The Stinging…
Peter Bush was born in Spalding, Lincolnshire, on 18 March, 1946.His dad came from a local village, Pinchbeck, and his mum from Sheffield. They both spoke non-standard English of different kinds, so he was brought up speaking a dialect as his first form of English. When he went to the council school at the age…
Nadine Hughes Campbell, the author behind “Noah’s Cork Adventure” traded in the busy streets of her Canadian hometown for the gorgeous landscapes of Cork, Ireland. Born and raised in Montréal, this children’s author and devoted mother discovered her passion for story telling upon the birth of her first child, turning each bedtime into a voyage…
Is file agus údar do pháistí í Eibhlís Carcione. Tá trí chnuasach filíochta foilsithe aici: Tonn Chlíodhna (2015) Eala Oíche (2019) agus Bean Róin (2023). Tá Duais Fhoras na Gaeilge (Seachtain na Scríbhneoirí, Lios Tuathail) buaite aici faoi dhó. Bhuaigh sí Comórtas filíochta Fhéile Raifteirí agus Comórtas Filíochta Cultúrlann McAdam Ó Fiaich Béal Feirste i…
Joe Carrick-Varty is a British-Irish poet, writer and founding editor of bath magg. His work has appeared in New Statesman, Granta and Poetry Magazine. In 2019, he won the New Poets prize and in 2022 he won an Eric Gregory Award. His debut collection, More Sky (Carcanet Press, 2023), was Shortlisted for the T. S.…
Laura Cassidy is publisher and co-editor at the literary journal and small press Banshee, where along with her co-founders she was named a Bookseller Rising Star. Her novels for young adults were published by Penguin Ireland and she is a recipient of the Cecil Day Lewis Literary Bursary Award. From Co. Kildare, Laura lives in…
Paul Casey’s poems have most recently appeared in The Irish Times and Flare, and he is working on his third collection. Virtual Tides was published by Salmon in 2016, which followed home more or less (Salmon, 2012) and a chapbook, It’s Not All Bad (Heaventree, 2009). He edits the Unfinished Book of Poetry and promotes…
Carlos Garrido Castellano is Associate Professor/Senior Lecturer at University College Cork, where he coordinates a BA programme on Portuguese Studies. He is also Associate Researched at the Visual Identities in Art and Design (VIAD), University of Johannesburg. He is the author of Beyond Representation in Contemporary Caribbean Art (Rutgers University Press, 2019), Art Activism for…
Raphael Cohen was born in 1965 in Brighton and grew up in south London. My mother’s native tongue was Swiss German and my father (born under Ottoman rule in Haifa) slipped between quotations from the Bible in Hebrew, the Qur’an in Arabic, and Molière in French. After finishing school, I went in search of my…
Evelyn Conlon is a short story writer, novelist and anthologist. Described as one of Ireland’s truly original voices, she has written about capital punishment, famine, secret lives, the double standard, borders, sex and lies. Her work is widely anthologized and translated, most recently into Mandarin,Tamil and Greek.Her last collection, Moving About the Place, includes Two…
Emily Cooper is a poet and writer based in Donegal. Her poetry and prose has been published widely in Ireland and abroad. Her poetry debut Glass was published by Makina Books in 2021 and The Conversation, a collaborative collection written with Jo Burns is to be published by Doire Press this year. She is an…
Native of Chartres (France), Sophie Delangle-Carton has been teaching French in Cork since 1997. Mother of three, and mad about books, she set up a French Children Library for EFC -Enfants Francophones de Cork, a local organisation run by enthusiastic parents. In that role, and with the help of the French government she launched a…
Katy Derbyshire translates contemporary German writers, including Judith Hermann, Olga Grjasnowa and Selim Özdoğan (with Ayça Türkoğlu). Her translations of Clemens Meyer have been twice nominated for the International Booker Prize and she has taught literary translation in New York, New Delhi and Norwich. She lives in Berlin. Image by Nane Diehl.
Danny Denton is the author of the novels The Earlie King & the Kid In Yellow and All Along The Echo. He lectures on writing at University College Cork and is a contributing editor to The Stinging Fly. Image by Monika Gorka.
Elaine Feeney writes poetry, fiction, and non-fiction. She has published three poetry collections including The Radio was Gospel & Rise. Her debut novel As You Were won Dalkey Book Festival’s Emerging Writer Prize, The Kate O’ Brien Prize, Society of Authors’ McKitterick Prize, and was shortlisted for Novel of the Year at the Irish Book…
Aingeala Flannery is an award-winning journalist, broadcaster and writer. Her critically acclaimed debut The Amusements was published by Penguin Sandycove in 2022. It won the Kerry Group Irish Novel of the Year at Listowel Writers’ Week and the John McGahern Prize. Aingeala is a graduate of the MFA in Creative Writing at UCD. In 2019,…
Leona Forde is an English and History teacher from Bandon, County Cork, and this is her debut series. She wrote Milly McCarthy for her daughter, who wanted to read a Wimpy Kid style story but not one set in the US or UK. Leona is married with four children and is currently writing Milly’s fourth…
The Four Faced Liar is a Cork-inspired and based, Irish-flavoured, internationally-facing journal publishing an eclectic mix of fiction, creative nonfiction, poetry, work in translation and visual art. Our mission is to showcase emerging writers and artists, helping them on their creative and publishing journey. Where possible, we aim to offer constructive feedback to submitters whose…
Miriam Gamble has published three books of poems with Bloodaxe Books: The Squirrels Are Dead (2010), Pirate Music (2014) and What Planet (2019). What Planet won the 2020 Pigott Poetry Prize; Miriam has also received the Somerset Maugham Award (for The Squirrels Are Dead), an Eric Gregory Award, the Vincent Buckley Poetry Prize and the…
Peter Geoghegan is an author, journalist and broadcaster based in London. He works as an investigative reporter at the Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project (OCCRP.) His most recent book is Democracy for Sale: Dark Money and Dirty Politics. He began his writing career with a series of little-read, self-published fanzines distributed exclusively in and…
Claire Glynn is a dedicated entrepreneur and the founder of an acclaimed baby sign programme – Clever Little Handies. Her profound dedication to assisting parents and infants led her to devise an innovative method for early communication development, greatly benefiting families throughout the nation.Rhyme & Sign Storytimes offer a unique opportunity for children and caregivers…
Elvira Grassi was born in Ancona, Italy. She works in Rome as a literary translator, editor and scout. In 2005 she cofounded the editorial and literary agency Oblique Studio based in Rome. She has translated over twenty works of fiction, including authors like Anna Burns, Rónán Hession, Ian Williams, Angela Flournoy, Frances Greenslade, Sarah Shun-lien…
Sarah Harte is a prize-winning author of short stories both in Ireland and the UK. She won the Byran MacMahon short story prize and has been shortlisted or longlisted in the Bridport Prize, the Manchester Fiction Prize, The Fish Prize, and the Sean O’Faolain Prize. She is a columnist with The Irish Examiner and is…
Karen Harte is an illustrator, comic creator and visual designer from Dublin. She has worked with a variety of clients such as Positive Period Ireland, Girls Rock Dublin, Fighting Words, Dublin Feminist Film Festival and more.
Mairéad Hearne is an Irish blogger from Cork with a passion for reading. Having established her book blog, Swirl and Thread, in 2016 Mairéad has developed relationships with many authors, publishers and fellow book bloggers across the globe. She has hosted events both online and in-person. Her favourite genres are historical, contemporary, crime/psychological thrillers and…
Rónán Hession is an Irish writer and musician. He has published two novels: Leonard and Hungry Paul and Panenka, which have been listed for a number of major national and international awards and have been translated into eight languages. Rónán’s story The Translator’s Funeral was longlisted for the Irish Short Story of the Year. His…
Alannah Hopkin is a writer and journalist. Her books include travel writing, two novels and a story collection, The Dogs of Inishere (Dalkey Archive Press). In 2020 she was the Frank O’Connor Short Story Fellow at the Munster Literature Centre and University College Cork where she taught on the Creative Writing M.A. In 2021 she…
Pádraig Kenny is an award winning and best selling children’s novelist from Newbridge in County Kildare. He is the author of Tin, Pog, the Rookhaven duology, and his most recent novel is Stitch. His work has been published in over a dozen different languages.
Peadar King is a documentary filmmaker and non-fiction writer. For the past 20 years, he has presented, produced and occasionally directed the RTÉ Global Affairs series What in the World? His latest book is The Art of Place: People and landscape of County Clare. Prior to that he published War, Suffering and the Stuggle for…
Declan Long is an art critic and lecturer, based in Dublin. He is the author of Ghost-Haunted Land: Contemporary Art and Post-Troubles Northern Ireland (2017).
Fabiola Lobo recently retired from a Finance job and is a part-time artist. She has spent a few years teaching art to children. She also does some volunteering work in art in CUH. She uses a variety of media – watercolours, acrylics, charcoal. She does a lot of crafts as well, children love that! She…
Paul Lynch is the prize-winning author of five novels: Prophet Song, Beyond the Sea, Grace, The Black Snow, and Red Sky in Morning. He was awarded The Booker Prize 2023 for his esteemed novel Prophet Song. He has won the Kerry Group Irish Novel of the Year and the French booksellers’ prize Prix Libr’à Nous…
Marwan Makhoul is a Palestinian poet, born in 1979 in the village of al-Buqei’a, Upper Galilee, to a Palestinian father and a Lebanese mother. He works in engineering as a managing director of a construction company. He has several published works in poetry, prose and drama, including the poetry collections: Hunter of Daffodils, Land of…
Mich Maroney is a visual artist and writer. She is the designer and editor, together with Dan Fraser (Poetry) and Gillian Watt (Prose), of SWERVE Magazine. SWERVE is an annual journal, based in West Cork, focussing on new and emerging writers and artists from Ireland and internationally.SWERVE publishes poetry and prose as well as visual…
Lynda Marron was born in Dublin and spent her early childhood in a small town called Prosperous in Co. Kildare. At the age of nine she moved to Cork. She has not yet mastered the language.In her teens, she learned that reading curbed her anxiety, and that writing swept it clean away. Thus began her…
Joanne McCarthy writes in Waterford in English and Irish. She is published in Rattle, The Stinging Fly, Poetry Ireland Review, Aneas, Comhar and more. Bronnadh Gradam Máire Mac an tSaoi uirthu I 2022 agus bhuaigh dán dá cuid comórtas an Fhéich Dhuibh 2023. She is founder and co-editor of the literary journal The Waxed Lemon.…
Thomas McCarthy was born in Cappoquin, Co. Waterford, in 1954. He worked for many years at Cork City Libraries. He is the author of ten collections of poetry, two novels and three books of non-fiction. Carcanet Press ill publish his next collection of poems, PLENITUDE, in the spring of 2025. Image by Gallery Press.
Mike McCormack comes from the west of Ireland and is the author of two collections of short stories Getting it in the Head and Forensic Songs, and four novels Crowe’s Requiem, Notes from a Coma, Solar Bones and This Plague of Souls. In 1996 he was awarded the Rooney Prize for Literature and Getting it…
Danielle McLaughlin’s short story collection Dinosaurs on Other Planets was published in 2015 by The Stinging Fly Press. In 2019, she was a Windham-Campbell Prize recipient, and won the Sunday Times Audible Short Story Award. Her first novel, The Art of Falling, was published in 2021 by John Murray and was shortlisted for the Dublin…
Laura McKenna‘s debut novel, Words to Shape My Name, was a winner at the 2020 Novel Fair. It was published by New Island in 2021 and shortlisted for the Kerry Group Irish Novel of the Year Award. Laura has a PhD in Creative writing from UCC. She is the recipient of Tyrone Guthrie, Cork County…
Clemens Meyer was born in 1977 in Halle and lives in Leipzig. Bricks and Mortar, his first novel to be published in English by Fitzcarraldo Editions, was shortlisted for the German Book Prize, awarded the Bremer Literaturpreis 2014, longlisted for the 2017 Man Booker International Prize, and shortlisted for the 2019 Best Translated Book Awards.…
Amano Miura is a multidisciplinary artist based in Killarney, Co. Kerry. She is a singer, poet and songwriter working bilingually in English and Gaeilge. Born in Kyūshū and raised in Kerry, her work is informed by her Irish and Japanese heritage, a dynamic relationship with the natural world, and her academic studies in world religions,…
Mary Morrissy is the author of four novels, Mother of Pearl, The Pretender, The Rising of Bella Casey and, most recently, Penelope Unbound. She has also published two collections of stories, A Lazy Eye and Prosperity Drive. A third collection of short fiction is forthcoming in spring 2025. Her work has won her the Hennessy…
David Nash was born in County Cork and lives between Ireland and Chile. His work has been published in Poetry Ireland Review, The Stinging Fly, The White Review, Propel, Modern Queer Poets, and the Dedalus anthology Local Wonders, among others. His texts have appeared in numerous art exhibitions and books, including for Wolfgang Tillmans at…
Scríbhneoir agus craoltóir í Ciara Ní É a bhfuil a cuid fiíochta léite aici i Nua-Eabhrac, i Londain, sa Bhruiséil, sa tSualainn, agus sa bhaile in Éirinn. Bhí sí ar an liosta ‘100 Women Changing Ireland in 2022’ de chuid an Irish Examiner. Bhí sí mar Ealaíontóir Cónaithe le Scoil na Gaeilge, an Léinn Cheiltigh…
Is file, scríbhneoir, aisteoir, feadógaí, pianódóir, amhránaí ar an sean-nós agus rinceoir seite í Gormfhlaith Ní Shíocháin Ní Bheoláin. Tá mórán duaiseanna bainte ag a cuid scríbhneoireachta agus ceoil, agus tá a saothar le léamh i bhfoilsiúcháin éagsúla, ina measc sna cnuasaigh Lampa ar Lasadh: Gradam Mháire Mhac an tSaoi agus Washing Windows Too: Irish…
Is file, múinteoir, athair, agus cúlbáire (uaireanta) é Tomás Ó Coileáin, a rugadh agus a tógadh i gCathair Luimnigh. D’fhoilsigh Revival Press a chéad chnuasach filíochta, “Inside Out” ag deireadh 2020, agus tiocfaidh a chéad chnuasach dátheangach, “Ar An Leoithne”, amach in Aibreán 2024. Foilsíodh dánta i mBéarla agus i nGaeilge aige in The Stony…
Lauren O’Donovan is a writer from Cork, Ireland. In 2023, she won the Patrick Kavanagh Award, the Cúirt New Writing Prize in Poetry, and placed 2nd for the Southword Flash Fiction Competition. Also in 2023, Lauren’s work was shortlisted or came runner-up for Listowel Writers’ Week Collection Award, Poetry Business Book & Pamphlet Competition, the…
James O’Leary is a poet from Cork. His latest chapbook is Sacrament of the Sick (Well Review Editions, 2023). His first chapbook is There are Monsters in this House (Southword Editions, 2018). His poetry-films have screened at festivals in Ireland, Scotland and Canada.
Olivia O’Leary is a journalist and broadcaster. She has presented current affairs programmes for RTE, BBC and ITV. In recent years she presented RTE Radio One’s ‘The Poetry Programme’. The O’Brien Press has published two collections of her radio columns for RTE’s Drivetime-‘Politicians and Other Animals’ , and ‘Party Animals’. She has won three Jacob’s…
Colin O’ Mahoney is a writer and editor who has had comic and prose work published in Ireland, England, America, and South America. As well as comic and prose, he also has several film & TV projects in active development. Colin teaches creative writing and comic-making, and is passionate about the benefits of creativity, self…
Peadar Ó Riada is a composer, musician, choir director, and broadcaster. He has been the director of Cór Cúil Aodha since 1971 and holds a BMus from UCC (1976). Ó Riada is the founder of the women’s choir Cor Ban Cúil Aodha (1985) and has co-founded traditional music groups such as Triúr (with Martin Hayes and Caoimhín Ó Raghallaigh), The Drole, and served as director…
Gemma Ruiz Palà, born in Sabadell, Barcelona, in 1975, is a journalist and writer. She worked as a scriptwriter for Spanish Television, and as a journalist specialising in culture in such media outlets as Catalunya Ràdio, the daily ARA, and the magazine Enderrock. She is presently deputy director of News in TV3, the Catalan Television…
Louis de Paor has been involved with the contemporary renaissance of poetry in Irish since 1980 when he was first published in the poetry journal Innti which he subsequently edited for a time.His most recent works are Obair Bhaile (LeabhairComhar, 2021) and Grá fiar/Crooked love (Bloodaxe 2022) which includes a recording of his collaboration with…
Keith Payne is the author of nine collections of poetry in translation and original poetry, most recently Building the Boat (Badly Made Books, 2023), as featured on BBC Radio 3’s The Essay. He was John Broderick Writer in Residence 2021- 22, Cork City Eco Poet in Residence 2023, was awarded an Artist in the Community…
Mari Rolin is a Brazilian comic book artist and linguist residing in Kerry, Ireland. She’s one half of the team behind the webcomic Chaotic Neutral and one of the organisers of ‘OPArt’, nominated for the Angoulême Alternative Comics Award in 2024. Mari is also the artist in ‘When Language Fails’ (2023, Hearts & Lines) and…
Eimear Ryan is the author of a novel, Holding Her Breath (2021), and a memoir, The Grass Ceiling (2023). Other writing has appeared in The Stinging Fly, Winter Papers, Granta and The Dublin Review. She is a co-founder of the literary journal Banshee and its publishing imprint, Banshee Press. Image by Trevor Patchett.
From India, Sree Sen is currently based in Dublin, Ireland. Her debut poetry pamphlet Cracked Asphalt was published by Fly On The Wall Press (UK) in 2022. Her creative works have appeared in Poetry Ireland Review, Stinging Fly, Banshee, Honest Ulsterman, bath magg, The Night Heron Barks, several anthologies and others. She’s the winner of…
Simon Trewin has been an agent for three decades and has launched the careers of many novelists who have gone on to be published in up to 60 languages and see their work also adapted for stage and screen. Irish writing is a particular passion and he is proud to be the agent for Number…
Molly Twomey‘s debut collection, Raised Among Vultures, was published in 2022 by The Gallery Press. It won the Southword Debut Collection Poetry Award and was shortlisted for the Seamus Heaney Poetry Prize for Best First Collection. She was awarded the 2023 Ireland Chair of Poetry Bursary and is working on her second collection. Image by…
Áine Uí Fhoghlú is a poet and teenage fiction writer who comes from the Waterford Gaeltacht. She has published four collections of poetry to date. She has received commissions and bursaries from The Arts Council, Ealaín na Gaeltachta and Foras na Gaeilge. Awards won for her writing include the Michael Hartnett Poetry Award, Oireachtas na…
Martín Veiga is a Senior Lecturer and Head of Department of Spanish, Portuguese and Latin American Studies, University College Cork, where he is also the director of the Irish Centre for Galician Studies. His main research areas are contemporary Galician and Irish poetry, literary translation, creative writing, ecocriticism, and travel and mobility narratives in the…
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