Sarah Moore Fitzgerald

Sarah Moore Fitzgerald is an award winning teacher and writer based at the University of Limerick where she’s part of the creative writing teaching team and director of UL’s creative writing Winter School. The author of seven novels for children and young adults including The Apple Tart of Hope, All The Money in The World and The Shark and The Scar, she’s been nominated for many literary awards, including the Waterstone’s Prize, The Irish Book Awards, The Calderdale Prize and Scotland’s Red Prize for children’s fiction. In 2022 she won The London Magazine’s Award for with a piece entitled ‘Matamoros. July 1846’, and last year, her prose poem ‘For Eileen Gray’ was published in ‘Splonk’, and her poem, ‘A Hard Rain’ was commended at the Frances Browne International Literary Festival. She’s a founding member of Limerick’s writing co-operative, ‘Writepace’ and has been leader of a community project called ‘Walls of Limerick’ which offers mentoring and professional development to writers from disadvantaged, marginalised or under-represented groups. An expert in the psychology of creativity, Sarah shares insights and principles on this theme to support writers in the development of their work and has facilitated several programmes for writers at the Irish Writers Centre.

Sarah Moore Fitzgerald’s attendance at West Cork Literary Festival is supported by the Irish Writers Centre