Dr. Eleanor Hooker FLS @eleanorhooker.bsky.social Poet & Writer | PhD non-naturalistic narratives of trauma | RNLI Lifeboat Press Officer | Fellow of Linnean Society | Michael Hartnett & Markievicz Awards | Of Ochre and Ash (DedalusPress) | Where Memory Lies(Bonnefant Press) www.eleanorhooker.com
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Gareth Hanrahan @mytholder.bsky.social He/Him. Novel THE DUNGEON BOOK out August '26. Currently writing: Black Iron 4, The Dreadful Heir, Terraforming Mars rpg, Metadungeon!, Tunnels & Trolls, too much tbh
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Patrick Freyne @patrickfreyne.bsky.social Irish Times writer & author of OK, Let's Do Your Stupid Idea & now, out in June, Experts in a Dying Field. You can preorder here: https://linktr.ee/expertsinadyingfield
Jack Fennell @jfennellauthor.bsky.social Writer, anthologist, geek. Anthologies: "A Brilliant Void," "It Rose Up" and "Your Own Dark Shadow" published by Tramp Press; academic tomes "Irish Science Fiction" and "Rough Beasts" by LUP. He/him for convenience's sake.
Neil Hegarty @neilhegarty.bsky.social Writer, Dublin & Derry. Worlds, words.
Novels: The Jewel•Inch Levels.
Essays (ed.): Impermanence.
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Ailbhe McDaid @ailbhemcdaid.bsky.social PI, PATHOS: Inscriptions of Global Conflict in Irish Writing, Research Ireland Pathways Fellowship.
Lecturer in English Literature, MIC
Jan Carson @jancarsonwrites.bsky.social I’m not terrific but I’m competent
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Sally Hayden @sallyhayd.bsky.social Journalist etc. Currently Irish Times correspondent in Beirut/Damascus & author of ‘My Fourth Time, We Drowned’ (Orwell Prize, Terzani Prize, Inge Feltrinelli Prize, Michel Deon Prize, Irish Book of the Year) & new book 'This is Also a Love Story'.
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Philip Ardagh @philipardagh.bsky.social Award-winning children's author, poet, reviewer & commentator. Lifetime Ambassador CILIP School Libraries Group, ambassador Stratford-upon-Avon Literary Festival and Northern Children's Book Festival. Co-writer 'High in the Clouds' with Paul McCartney
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Gráinne O’Brien @grainneobrien.bsky.social Bestselling author with O’Brien Press. Solo coming April 2025 with Little Island. Bookseller with Kennys Bookshop. Rontu Literary Service. www.rontuliteraryservice.com
Sarah Rees Brennan @sarahreesbrennan.bsky.social Writer of books, drinker of tears! Carnegie nominated, Locus and Nebula shortlisted. LONG LIVE EVIL, a portal fantasy in which the villains unionise, is my #1 Sunday Times & USA Today bestselling adult fantasy debut. She/her
Ian Green @ianthegreen.bsky.social SFF author; EXTREMOPHILE & THE ROTSTORM trilogy out now with HoZ books/Ad Astra; PhD in epigenetics; ᛉᚷᛏᚫ; www.ianthegreen.com; https://geni.us/extremophile
Dave Rudden @daveruddenwrites.bsky.social Storysmith. DOCTOR WHO. KNIGHTS OF THE BORROWED DARK. And CONN OF THE DEAD - coming soon!
The Irish Pages Press @irishpages.bsky.social Biannual journal, edited in Belfast, publishing writing from Ireland and overseas. Publisher of The Irish Pages Press. Edited by Chris Agee and Kathleen Jamie.
Comma Press @commapress.bsky.social Award-winning publisher of short fiction from the UK & beyond. Championing the next generation of writers & translators. Shares do not equal endorsements.
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Ellen Brickley @ellenbrickley.bsky.social Writer, reader, Dubliner, historian. Strong opinions about chai lattes. Grateful recipient of 2x Agility Awards + 2x Bursary Awards from the Arts Council. Essays, YA and history.
She/her
Prof Cathryn Costello @profccostello.bsky.social Full Prof of Global Refugee and Migration Law, Sutherland School of Law, UCD; ex-Refugee Studies Centre, University of Oxford; ex-Centre for Fundamental Rights, Hertie School, Berlin. Recent return migrant after two decades.
Una Mullally @unamullally.bsky.social Writer
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Attawoman @attawoman.bsky.social Irish lass living in Berlin.
Catch my improv shows at the Comedy Café Berlin.
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Jenny Litster @sethornelgtales.bsky.social Scottish children's fantasy writer and purveyor of eight-year-old humor. 
Rowan Brighton Brown @rowanbrightonbrown.bsky.social ⋆Queer Southern Novelist 🌿
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Susan Cahill @susancahill.bsky.social 🌧THE WORLD BETWEEN THE RAIN 🌧 middle-grade children’s fantasy, out now!
🌟Longlisted for Branford Boase Award 2025
🎙️STORYSHAPED: podcast about children’s books that shape us
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Sinéad O'Hart @sineadohart.bsky.social She/Her/Sí/Í; children's author, podcaster (shows.acast.com/storyshaped), dormant medievalist. linktr.ee/sinead.ohart. Rep: Clare Wallace. Art: Úna Woods. Free Palestine.
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💼 Previously Irish Film Institute, currently RTÉ Concert Orchestra
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Cathie Mullen @cathiemullen.bsky.social Irish in Germany. International educator, lover of words and stories and trees and cats! Stinging Fly Summer School, The Mersey Review. Currently finishing a memoir.
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Fic/non-fic
The "Finfarran" novels
Standalone novel #AWinterWedding Hachette Sept 2026
Keynote speaker
London UK/Corca Dhuibhne Irl
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Agent Georgia Garrett @RCWLitAgency
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Kate Wise @katewise.bsky.social possible poet.
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Cristín Leach @cristinleach.bsky.social Irish Writer. Art Critic. Author, art/divorce memoir Negative Space; RHA From Ten Till Dusk. Fiction, non-fiction, journalism: RTÉ Culture, Irish Arts Review, Winter Papers. Hybrid texts, collaborations. 20yrs ✍🏻 Sunday Times. https://linktr.ee/cristinleach
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Martha Sprackland @marrrtha.bsky.social Editor, writer and translator. Dark Night: Poems & Selected Prose of John of the Cross (Penguin Classics, 2026)
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Rhiannon Lewis @rhiannonlewis.bsky.social Author, My Beautiful Imperial, I Am the Mask Maker and other stories, shortlisted for Wales Book of the Year 2022, The Significance of Swans
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Arash Zeini @arashzeini.com Researcher @mantrams.bsky.social, @ox.ac.uk; FRHistS; Iran, Zoroastrianism, late antiquity, philology; Founder of @biblioIranica.info; AIS inaugural Book Prize for Ancient Iranian Studies 2022. Personal account, my views.
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Oona Frawley @oonaf.bsky.social This Interim Time out with Lilliput Press May '25. Assoc Prof at Maynooth University. 
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Www.katehuber.org
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UCD Library @ucdlibrary.bsky.social Based in five locations at University College Dublin, we provide access to a large range of print and electronic resources, and services to support your studies.
Niamh Howlin @niamhh.bsky.social Associate Professor, Sutherland School of Law, University College Dublin.
Researching legal history, legal professions and trials
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The Derwent Press @derwent-press.bsky.social A literary magazine for the Midlands. Submissions open for Issue 2. Issue 1 available https://derwentpress.bigcartel.com/. Instagram @derwent_press.
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Ken Brydon @prison-stories.bsky.social Award-winning writer. 39 years incarcerated, 23 at San Quentin. PEN America recognized. Published by Joyce Carol Oates. I write about prison, redemption, loss, humor & hope—and the humanity found where most people never look.
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Galiano Island, British Columbia, Canada
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Thomas D. Kersting @tdkerst.bsky.social Writer: Historical Fiction, Memoir, Personal Essays
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