Meet the Writers

Here you find listings of the writers who are will appear at our 2025 festival. Click on any writer to see their full biography. The writers appear alphabetically.

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Paul O’Donoghue

Open Mic, Yoga

Paul O’Donoghue has been practising yoga for more than 40 years. Over the decades he has trained with teachers in…

Gráinne O’Hare

Debut, Fiction, Irish Writing, Novel

Gráinne O’Hare is a writer from Belfast based in Newcastle upon Tyne. She received a Northern Debut Award for Fiction…

Oluwaseun Olayiwola

Debut, Poetry

Oluwaseun (Seun) Olayiwola is a poet, critic, choreographer and performer based in London. He has been published by the Guardian,…

Raphael Olympio

Cork, Irish Writing, Poetry, Spoken Word

Raphael Olympio is a Cork-based artist who explores various genres to showcase his versatility. Primarily a rapper and spoken word…

Ruth Padel

Poetry, Workshop

Ruth Padel is a writer of unusual range, with close links to India, Greece, music and wildlife, but first and…

Niamh Prior

Cork, Irish Publishing, Spoken Word, Storytelling

Niamh Prior is from Kinsale in Co. Cork. She studied English with Film and TV Studies at Brunel University London,…

Liz Quirke

Cork, Irish Writing, LGBTQIA+, Poetry

Liz Quirke is a poet and lecturer and has published The Road, Slowly (2018) and How We Arrive in Winter…

Ross Raisin

Fiction, Novel, Short Stories, Workshop

Ross Raisin is the author of four novels: A Hunger (2022), A Natural (2017), Waterline (2011) and God’s Own Country (2008). In 2013, he was named on Granta’s…