Dublin Book Fair @dublinbookfair.bsky.social Next fair: Sun 6th Sept 2026,
St Thérèse Parish Centre, Mount Merrion.
sheila armstrong @sheelanogig.bsky.social Writer & dog botherer
armstrongsheila.com
Louise Kennedy @louisekennedy.bsky.social Writer, galoot, sunscreen aficionado
north by northwest
Martina Durac @mdurac.bsky.social Film, Music, Writing, Running. Documentary film maker and artistic director of Ennis Book Club Festival, Ireland
Úna-Minh's ✨ Open to Work ✨ @unaminh.bsky.social 🌱 IrishAsian Forager & Author
🗣️ Irish Language Creator. Artist.
📚 Writing Books. Writing for Games
⚔️ Game Master. Resident Bisexual. TTRPGer.
Award-Winning Game Dev https://unaminh.itch.io/
Creative Director - ORGANIC MATTERS
Writer - Good Folk Café
Mark O’Connell @mrkocnnll.bsky.social Writer and so forth
Emma Donoghue @emmadonoghue.bsky.social writer of fiction (The Paris Express, Learned by Heart, Haven, The Pull of the Stars, The Wonder, Room, etc), films, plays...
sarah maria griff @griffski.bsky.social don’t do anything i wouldn’t do 😎
now: eat the ones you love 🌱
next: strange is the light 👁️✨
& then: everything not saved🐅
Carol Ballantine @cballantine.bsky.social Slow. Learner.
Amy Clarkin @amyclarkinwrites.bsky.social Powered mostly by coffee and vibes. Chronically ill (M.E), bisexual writer. The PSI Investigations series What Walks These Halls, Who Watches This Place & Where The Shadows Hide, published by The O’Brien Press, are in all good bookshops now. 👻 🏳️🌈
Elaina Ryan @elainaryan.bsky.social CEO of Children's Books Ireland. Co-artistic director of Towers and Tales Children's Book Festival. I swear I like things that aren't children's books too...
Sheila O’Flanagan @sheilawriter.bsky.social Writer, reader, armchair sportswoman. Secrets Between Friends out 26 March 2026
The Gutter Bookshop, Dublin @gutterbookshop.bsky.social Two lovely bookshops in Dublin, Ireland - named after that famous Oscar Wilde quote... Store Manager Marta posts here whenever she gets a moment.
Jane Casey @janecasey.bsky.social Author from Ireland. Responsible for the Maeve Kerrigan series and Everything She Didn't Say (out 16 July). Also owner of the world’s least cooperative spaniel.
Lucy Holme @lucyrebeccaholme.bsky.social Writer | Work in The Stinging Fly, Banshee & more | Shortlisted | Brotherton Prize & Mairtín Crawford Award ‘24 |🥇Cúirt New Writing Award & Southword Editor’s Prize ‘24 | 𝕋𝕖𝕞𝕡𝕠𝕣𝕒𝕣𝕪 𝕊𝕥𝕒𝕤𝕚𝕤 & 𝔹𝕝𝕦𝕖 𝔻𝕚𝕒𝕘𝕠𝕟𝕒𝕝𝕤 | Broken Sleep Books
Christine Breen & Niall Williams in Kiltumper @christinebreen.bsky.social In Kiltumper, we write, we garden, we read, we make art…Niall Williams’ most recent novel is ‘Time of the Child’
Four Letters of Love is out mid July
Niamh Dowdall @dowdalln.bsky.social (she/her) | libraries & publishing & open research | Irish women's writing/art/history/culture | dress and clothing in literature | labhair Gaeilge liom! | Views all mine!
S.C. Flynn @scyflynn.bsky.social Poet. The Colour of Extinction (@renardpress, October 2024) - Observer Poetry Book of the Month. An Ocean Called Hope (@downingfield, May 2025).
https://scflynn.com
Jean @jeano.bsky.social JMOBrien_Dublin in the Bad Place. Reader & writer (Novel Fair 2024). Lover & hater. Day job: digital for non-profits, founder @digitalcharitylab.bsky.social
Dublin, Ireland. She/her ☺️
Emma Walsh @walshiewrites.bsky.social Reading, writing, rambling & growing things by the sea in Dublin. Half Dub, half Nordie. Getting more pagan in my old age. PR pro. News nerd. LUFC fan for my sins. She/Her.
Susan Maxwell @ Bibliothèque des Refusés @bibliorefuses.bsky.social linktr.ee/dr.susan.maxwell
Bibliothèque des Refusés is the imprint of independent author & scholar Susan Maxwell.
Fiction: Literary — Fantasy — Mystery (as R.S. Maxwell).
Non-fiction: academic themes related to archives & fiction. Reviews.
Máire T. Robinson @momomightymo.bsky.social Writer living in the West of Ireland. Most recent work in Banshee, Trasna, and on Sunday Miscellany 💚
Brian Dillon @briangdillon.bsky.social Writer. AFFINITIES, ESSAYISM & SUPPOSE A SENTENCE published by Fitzcarraldo & NYRB. GONE TO EARTH (on Hounds of Love) & AMBIVALENCE (on education) forthcoming.
Martin Doyle @martindoyle.bsky.social Books Editor of The Irish Times; author of Dirty Linen: The Troubles in My Home Place (Merrion Press)
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
Róisín Lanigan @roisinlanigan.bsky.social 
Dean Van Nguyen @deanvannguyen.bsky.social Writer. Irish-Vietnamese. Author of Iron Age: The Art of Ghostface Killah (2019) and Words for My Comrades: A Political History of Tupac Shakur (May 2025). Agent: Chris Clemans at Janklow Nesbit
Helen Cullen @wordsofhelen.bsky.social Irish writer. Author of The Truth Must Dazzle Gradually and The Lost Letters of William Woolf. Repd. by Peter Straus, RCW (UK) and Kim Witherspoon, Inkwell (USA). www.helencullen.ie
Lucy Caldwell @lucycaldwell.bsky.social Writer of short story collections Multitudes, Intimacies, Openings, Devotions and novels inc. These Days. Regular masterclass series at Faber Academy.
Aoife Barry @sweetoblivion.bsky.social Journalist, author of Social Capital, Corkonian in Dublin.
Helen Corcoran @hcor.bsky.social QUEEN OF COIN AND WHISPERS and DAUGHTER OF WINTER AND TWILIGHT from The O’Brien Press | Agent: Eric Smith at Neighborhood Literary | 🇮🇪🏳️🌈 she/her
helencorcoran.com
Anna Carey @urchinette.bsky.social Writes things. My new book, Our Song, is out now. First book The Real Rebecca won an Irish Book Award. Latest book The Boldness of Betty, about teen strikers in 1913, was shortlisted in 2020. Co-hosts @svhpodcast She/her
Peggy Hughes @hughespeg.bsky.social Chief Executive at @writerscentre.bsky.social. Feat. books, whimsy, radio, outdoors, running, walking, looking. NIrish via Scotland in Norwich
Tara Flynn @taraflynnirl.bsky.social Irish actor, writer, talker. She/ her
Emma on RTÉ’s Fair City
Now You’re Asking with Marian Keyes and Tara Flynn on BBC Sounds
Might be here, but mostly not
Ken Mooney @kenmooney.bsky.social Ireland, gay, knows what it's like to be awake while getting your skull drilled open (thanks brain cancer.)
Writer of Godhead, Apocalypse...Whenever, Tackling The Issue et al.
Punk shit, tattoos, horror/SF, queer stuff, video games. He/Him. 
Edel Coffey @edelcoffey.bsky.social Author and journalist
https://linktr.ee/edelcoffey
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
https://linktr.ee/susancahillwrites
Caoilinn Hughes @caoilinnhughes.bsky.social Irish writer.
Novels: THE ALTERNATIVES, THE WILD LAUGHTER and ORCHID & THE WASP. Short stories about the place.
Darach Ó Séaghdha @darach.bsky.social I was that @theirishfor guy on Twitter.
"Calling 353" on @thejournal.ie
Author of Motherfoclóir & Craic Baby. He/Him. Wink in bio 😉
Sheelagh na Gig: Books Coffee Gifts Wholefoods in Cloughjordan @sheelaghnagig.bsky.social Independent book and wholefoods shop offering the best in fiction for all ages and nonfiction on permaculture, sustainability, activism. Local and organic foods too. Open 6 days 1pm to 6pm. Closed Tuesdays.
Emma Devlin @theactualemma.bsky.social Writer w work in Irish Times, Stinging Fly & more | 2026 Ciaran Carson Writing and the City Fellow at SHC | Rep'd by Sophie Scard | https://linktr.ee/emma.devlin.writer
Stan Carey @stancarey.bsky.social Editor, writer, lapsed biologist in Ireland
Copy-editing, writing: https://stancarey.com
Language: https://stancarey.wordpress.com
Strong language: https://stronglang.wordpress.com
🎞 https://letterboxd.com/stancarey
🦣 @stancarey@mastodon.ie
Doire Press @doirepress.bsky.social Award-winning publisher based in the west of Ireland.
Free worldwide shipping on all orders over €60.
Supported by the Arts Council of Ireland.
Sídhe Press @sidhepress.bsky.social One-woman press based in Berlin. EIC @missyerem.bsky.social
https://sidhe-press.eu Trans rights are human rights.
Free Palestine!
Poetry Bus Press @poetrybuspress.bsky.social Tiny but mighty indie press specialising in poetry books and magazines. Hyena! by Fran Lock was shortlisted for the 2023 T.S. Eliot Prize and the PEN Heaney Prize. Grab a copy here https://thepoetrybuspress.onlineweb.shop/
Kevin MacAlan @kevinmacalan.bsky.social Poet/writer/ditherer. MA in Creative Writing. Living in rural West Waterford. Contributor of stuff to books and mags and the occasional live event.
Mentored by the best.
Nell Regan @nellree.bsky.social Poet, non- fiction writer, sea lover www.nellregan.com 
The Caterpillar Magazine @thecaterpillarmag.bsky.social Annual Caterpillar Poetry Prize and art & lit mag for children (2013-2023), still available online. Younger sibling of @themothmagazine.
David Butler @davidbutlerbray.bsky.social Novelist, poet, short-storyist, playwright, also writes as Dara Kavanagh
Amanda Bell @gagebybell.bsky.social Poet, author, editor: new fiction and poetry titles forthcoming in 2027, from Salt Publishing and Doire Press. Funded by the Arts Council of Ireland.
www.amandabell.ie
Arnold Thomas Fanning @arnoldtfanning.bsky.social Writer, Walker, Photographer, Record Collector. Essays & Stories in The Dublin Review, Banshee, The Stinging Fly, The Lonely Crowd & elsewhere. Author of Mind on Fire (Penguin Ireland, 2018).
https://about.me/arnoldthomasfanning
Naoise Dolan @naoisedolan.bsky.social Novelist. Author of EXCITING TIMES (2020), THE HAPPY COUPLE (2023), third novel coming 2027 ⁊ ag scríobh an 4ú ceann i nGaeilge
linktr.ee/naoisedolan
Laura Keating @lorekeating.bsky.social Writer of Fiction; Bae of Fundy
Irish-Canadian
Website https://www.lorekeating.com/
Novella AGONY'S LODESTONE https://store.tenebrouspress.com/products/agonys-lodestone-print
Collection THE TRUEST SENSE https://a.co/d/090sQN3I
She/Her
Zoë Miller Books @zoemillerauthor.bsky.social Irish novelist~suspense~psychological thriller
*THE GIRLS' TRIP
*THE BIRTHDAY WEEKEND
*THE PERFECT SISTER & more...
www.zoemillerauthor.com
Loves: books~walking~photography ~nature~music
No DMs Tx
Pub:Hachette Ireland
Rep:Sheila Crowley,Curtis Brown
Jamie Guiney @jamesgwriter.bsky.social WRITER.
The Lightning (novel)
The Wooden Hill (stories)
Work Broadcast BBCRadio4
Nom 5 x Pushcart Prize
Judge 2025 Best in Rural Writing
L-list Irish SS of the Year
Husband. Dad. Tay drinker.
N Ireland.
www.jamieguiney.com
https://ko-fi.com/jamesgwriter
Susan Condon @susancondon.bsky.social Irish Writer & Poet | Winner of the Jonathan Swift Creative Writing Award | MA Creative Writing from DCU | 2024 Irish Writers Centre National Mentoring Programme
Susancondon.Wordpress.com
Bernadette Murphy @bernadetmurphy.bsky.social Author at Spiegel & Grau + others. NYT-bestselling collaborative writer. First/bio mom, advocating for reproductive justice.
Mike McGrath-Bryan @mikemcgb.bsky.social Squabbling, strácáiling, best-selling scribbler in Cork City, Ireland. 'Have I Got Your Attention?' out now via Merrion Press. #AuDHD. Opinions my own. Check https://www.linktr.ee/mike_mcgb for latest.
Amanda Dunne @amandadunne.bsky.social PhD researcher at TCD in early adolescent books (young teen). British Book Awards Individual Bookseller of the Year 2024. Reader, compulsive book recommender.
Carmel Mc Mahon @carmelmcmahon.bsky.social Writer. Irish. Free Palestine.
In Ordinary Time (Duckworth, 2023)
Essays & reviews: The Guardian, The Irish Times, Longreads, Humanities Review etc.
Méabh Ní Choileáin / Collins @meabhagscriobh.bsky.social YA novelist, PhD candidate, reader, múinteoir, greyhound enthusiast. Gaeilge agus fáilte 💛
David Green @davidgreenwriter.bsky.social Autistic writer of fantasy! Obsessed with Tolkien, Wheel of Time, maps. BFS secretary. Multi-British Fantasy Award los...ahem, nominee 📖
https://linktr.ee/davidgreenwriter
Rep'd by @losbennett.bsky.social
He/They
Trevor Joyce @trevorjoyce.bsky.social 'Poet' from central Dublin, now Shandon, Cork.
Co-founder New Writers' Press, Dublin & SoundEye Festival, Cork.
Language, climate, history, art, music, travel, China, hist. of science, hist. of photography.
Two cats, many thousand books, small garden.
Hanna Nielson @hannaswork.bsky.social EIC The Belfast Review | Editor Uí Néill Press | Writer Artist Filmmaker in Belfast | Editorial Services | Novel: Did You Pay the Piper Man?
Rónán Hession @ronanhession.bsky.social Irish writer. Leonard and Hungry Paul, Panenka, Ghost Mountain. Richard Heart Julianne out in summer 2027
www.ronanhession.com
Music as Mumblin' Deaf Ro https://mumblindeafro.bandcamp.com/
PATRICIA SCANLAN Author @patriciascanlan.bsky.social Author. Series Editor Open Door books. Half Dub half culchie. Loves Wickla and country life. Hates book snobbery. Also on @patriciascanlanauthor@mastodon.ie
Niamh Garvey @niamhgarvey.bsky.social Autistic Author, Irish.
Books published with New Island Books, and Jessica Kingsley Publishers.
Rep'd by Jessica Killiney at the Bks agency, London.
She/her
niamhgarvey.com
Crab Tales Magazine @crabtalesmagazine.bsky.social A SFF flash fiction magazine about crabs.
Art submissions: OPEN.
Fiction submissions: CLOSED.
🦀
EIC @rachelhandley.bsky.social
Submit: crabtalesmagazine.com
Support: https://ko-fi.com/crabtalesmagazine
Dublin
Winter Papers @winterpapers.bsky.social An annual anthology for the arts in Ireland and beyond.
www.winterpapers.com Supported by the Arts Council
Posts by Olivia.
Raven Books @ravenbooks.bsky.social Bookshop
34 Main Street, Blackrock, Co. Dublin, Ireland
info@ravenbooks.ie ¦ (01) 278 9509 ¦ 086 3390231
Mon-Sat 10-6, Sun 12-5
hollowaywriter.bsky.social @hollowaywriter.bsky.social The Language of Remembering, my debut novel, out in February 2025. Work in The Stinging Fly, The London Magazine, Irish Times, Irish Examiner. Winner of Bath Short Story Award 2023. Agent Eleanor Birne, RCW
https://bio.site/patrickholloway
Jessica Grene @jgrenewriter.bsky.social Irish writer. Reader. Mother of redheads. Leftie nerd. She/her.
https://www.jessica-grene-writer.com
https://humag.co/prose/the-egg-that-split
Sarah Davis-Goff @sarahdavisgoff.bsky.social Tramp, dweeb
she / her
Sarah Clancy @sarahmaintains.bsky.social Poet, Community Worker, LGBTQIA+ Politics, Climate Action
FREE PALESTINE 
Angelseyrie1901 @angelseyrie1901.bsky.social Author of Source published by Story Machines. Stories in Honest Ulsterman, MIRonline, Howl, Galway Review, Belfast Review
Paul Murray @renebatt.bsky.social Artist, feeder of two cats,walker of my wife’s dogs, love art, poetry, James Joyce, St.Patrick’s Athletic, Leinster Rugby ( why are my teams so far away from where I live???) I live in Sligo, Nth West of Ireland: where W.B.Yeats is buried.
Janina Franck @xilaya.bsky.social Irish-German Author, Photographer, Adventurer
Find my books here: https://books2read.com/ap/8PMBpo/Janina-Franck
Website: https://janinafranck.com
Newsletter: https://janinafranck.eo.page/7grzp
NO AI USED
Anne O'Brien @whereisthesea.bsky.social Wasafiri 2021 Life Writing and Bath Short Story Award winner. Hennessy New Irish Writer. Stories in RA pindrop A Short Affair, The London Magazine, The Irish Times, Crannóg...
JacquiWine @jacquiwine.bsky.social Book lover, film lover, art lover, wine lover. I write about books at JacquiWine's Journal. https://linktr.ee/jacquiwine
Richard Morris @ahistoryinart.bsky.social Art historian, dealer/art consultant 19thC and 20thC British/European art. Writing book on lesser known great artists. Seen in/on: CNN, NBC, The Spectator, The Times etc.
website: richardmorris.org
richard@richardmorris.org
@reisingerart.bsky.social @reisingerart.bsky.social Our paintings are the result of teamwork. Henriëtte envisions the concepts. She composes and chooses from a multitude of ideas the most potential ones. Roman paints, this technique enables him to paint realistically and in great detail.
Anne Denoon @annedenoon.bsky.social Crone, wastrel, lapsed (but twitching) novelist. Posts about art & lit.
Me: https://www.writersunion.ca/member/anne-denoon
My book: Back Flip, a novel about art & the 1960s: https://t.co/m7fQSOo6At or (with reviews) https://tinyurl.com/4dzwzpdp
James Bailey @drjamesbailey.bsky.social Writer from Manchester. LIKE A CAT LOVES A BIRD, my biography of Muriel Spark, out now! 🐈⬛
https://lnk.to/LikeaCatLovesaBird
Instagram.com/drjamesbailey
Dr Robert Bohan @robertbohan.bsky.social Artist, Scientist, Woodland Ecologist, Statistician, Historian & former Research Scholar at the RIA | Art from Dublin, Ireland 🌈 He/Him | Sé/é
Buy my work here: https://robertbohan.etsy.com
Macha Press @machapress.bsky.social experimental / formally hybrid / intercultural / recovered poetries
Supported by the Arts Council of Ireland, the Arts Council of Northern Ireland & Shared Island Civic Society Fund, DFAT machapress.com
Sara Mullen @sarapoetry.bsky.social Poeting, Dublin 7.
Rush Festival of Writing @rushfestofwriting.bsky.social A new literary festival by the sea in North County Dublin. The inaugural edition took place on April 25th 2026. www.rushfestivalofwriting.com
Amanda @akscotland.bsky.social Co-host of the Not Quite Write Podcast and judge of the Not Quite Write Prize for Flash Fiction.
Writes in the tiny spaces in between.
Stephen Delaney @stephendelaney.bsky.social Writer, editor, human. Words in New World Writing, Bending Genres, South Florida Poetry Journal, and elsewhere. Author of the chapbook OUR PLACE IS IN BETWEEN. 💙 #foreignlit #frogs
https://bottlecap.press/products/ourpsd
https://stephen-delaney.com
betancur . n @nelbeu.bsky.social art & architectural historian / visual, material & religious culture
Ferry Godmother @ferrygodmother.com Spotlighting #TouretteSyndrome, #Neurodivergent, #AuDHD, #ADHD, #Autism, #MultipleSclerosis, #LGBT and #Veterans. Promoting our premiere #VR #Event Space rental, go to @FerryGodmother.org
National Celtic Honor Society @celtichonorsoc.bsky.social 
Chris Dodds @liquid-chicken.bsky.social I write things. And make things. All the things. chrisdodds.net
My debut, Necessary Cuts (https://necessarycuts.com), won the @miamioh-press.bsky.social Novella Prize and will land in 2027. Other work in Pithead Chapel, Marrow Magazine, and BULL.
AyaRay @ayaraywords.bsky.social A Poet, a storyteller. These are my insides, raw and unfiltered. Not always pretty. Always real. Maybe one lands where no one else could.
Marie Studer @mariestuder.bsky.social Poetry Collection - Real Words - Winner Trocaire Poetry Ireland 2020
Lori Jones @lorijonespoetry.bsky.social Dreamer. Artist. Poet.
(she/her)
My debut poetry collection, The Sweetening, is available now.
https://shop.ingramspark.com/b/084?params=tNc4PEbsbvaXfnA9b8WVRq1j2CfnRZBZCDjCL053p8L
Liam Carson @liamcarson.bsky.social Author of memoir Call Mother a Lonely Field. Haiku poet (first collection Belfast Twilight just published by Salmon Poetry). Director of IMRAM Féile Litríochta Gaeilge/Irish-language Literature Festival.
The Memory Pools @memorypool.bsky.social https://memorypool.bearblog.dev/blog/
Vesper @vesperevening.bsky.social I read and I learn.