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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Seán Ronayne

Cork, Debut, Irish Writing, Memoir, Nature, Non-Fiction

Seán Ronayne is a Cork-born ornithologist and naturalist who has spent a life immersed in nature. Following a childhood spent…

Anna Ryan Moloney

Environment, Nature, Non-Fiction

Anna Ryan Moloney is author of Where Land Meets Sea: Coastal Explorations of Landscape, Representation and Spatial Experience (Routledge 2016)….

Dr Helen Scales

Environment, Non-Fiction, Travel

Dr Helen Scales is a marine biologist, acclaimed author and broadcaster who explores the wonders and plight of the oceans…

Lina Scheynius

Essays, Memoir, Non-Fiction, Photography, Translation

Lina Scheynius is a photographer known for her distinct, diaristic style of image-making. Her photography captures quiet moments of intimacy…

Annette Skade

Environment, Irish Writing, Poetry, West Cork

Annette Skade was born in Manchester and has lived for many years lived on the Beara Peninsula in West Cork….

Will Sliney

Art, Children, Cork, Fantasy, Illustrator, Irish Writing

Will Sliney is a comic book artist from Ballycotton, Co. Cork. He has worked as an illustrator for Marvel comics…

Angelo Tijssens

Fiction, LGBTQI+, Novel, Translation

Angelo Tijssens is the co-writer of director Lukas Dhont’s award-winning feature films ‘Girl’ and ‘Close’. The Edges is his debut…

Quynh Tran

Fiction, Novel, Translation

Quynh Tran (b. 1989) grew up in Jakobstad in Finnish Ostrobothnia. He now resides in Malmö, Sweden where he…

Saskia Vogel

Translation

Saskia Vogel is a writer and translator from Swedish and German into English. She was awarded a Berlin Senate grant…

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