Olivia Heal is a writer and translator from French. Her most recent translation was
collected in Best European Fiction 2016. She is doing a Creative-Critical PhD at UEA.
Olivia McCannon
Olivia McCannon is currently completing a new translation of Balzac’s Old Goriot for Penguin Classics. Her poetry appears in the latest Carcanet Oxford Poets Anthology and Penguin’s Poems for Life.
Olivia Rosenthall
Olivia Rosenthall is a bookseller from Essex. ‘Food Shop’ is her first story to be published.
Oran Ryan
Oran Ryan’s novels include The Death of Finn, Ten Short Novels by Arthur Kruger
and One-Inch Punch. He has written plays for the stage and radio as well as
publishing poetry and short stories. He regularly contributes literary criticism to
magazines at home and abroad.
Órfhlaith Foyle
Órfhlaith Foyle’s first novel Belios was published by The Lilliput Press. Her first full poetry collection Red Riding Hood’s Dilemma was published by Arlen House, who also published her debut short fiction Somewhere in Minnesota in 2011.Órfhlaith’s second short story collection titled Clemency Browne Dreams of Gin (Arlen House), was published in 2014
Orlaith O’Sullivan
Orlaith O’Sullivan is an award-winning writer with a PhD in Renaissance literature. She has recently relocated from Madeira to WestCork, where she is working on the thriller Mortal Treasures. For further details see www.orlaithosullivan.com.
Owen Gallagher
Owen Gallagher was born of Irish parents in the Gorbals area of Glasgow. He now lives in London and was a Primary Teacher in Southall. His previous publications are: Sat Guru Snowman, Peterloo Poets, Tea with the Taliban, Smokestack Books, and A Good Enough Love, Salmon Poetry, Ireland, 2015, which was nominated for the T.S.Eliot Award.
Ozotu Rosemary Abu
Ozotu Rosemary Abu is from Nigeria. A medical doctor, she is a primary care facilitator and volunteer with Mayo Intercultural Action. She is a wife, mother and lover of poetry.
P Kearney Byrne
P Kearney Byrne is working on a novel in short stories, assisted by funding from the Arts Council. Her work has appeared in The Dublin Review, The White Review, Banshee, Per Contra and elsewhere. She lives in County Clare.
Nicole Flattery
Nicole Flattery is a writer and critic. Her story collection Show Them A Good Time, was published by The Stinging Fly and Bloomsbury in 2019. Her first novel, Nothing Special, will be published by Bloomsbury in March 2023.
Nigel McLoughlin
Nigel McLoughlin is Reader in Creative Writing at the University of Gloucestershire and the author of five collections, the latest of which, Chora: New & Selected Poems is published by Templar Poetry in 2009.
Noel Conneely
Noel Conneely has had poems in Chelsea, Cyphers, Orbis, The Yellow Crane, Yellow Medicine Review, Main Street Rag and other publications in Ireland, the UK and the US. He was Featured Poet in our Spring 2006 edition.
Noel Harrington
Noel Harrington is from Tuamgraney in County Clare. He is a regular reader at the White House Revival in Limerick and was one of three poets published in the first Revival ‘Trio’ series. He is roughly 61% of the way through finishing his first novel.
Noel King
Noel King was born and lives in Tralee, County Kerry. His poems have been published in journals and magazines in over thirty countries. His debut collection, Prophesying the Past, appears from Salmon in 2010.
Noel Monahan
Noel Monahan has published five collections of poetry. His most recent publication was Curve Of The Moon, published by Salmon Poetry in 2010. He has won several national literary awards for his poetry and drama. His poetry was prescribed text for the Leaving Certificate English Course in 2011 and 2012. He is co-editor of Windows Publications and holds an MA in Creative Writing.
Noel O’Regan
Noel O’ Regan is the recipient of a number of prizes, including the Seán Dunne Young Writers’ Award. A former Kerry County Council Writer-in-Residence, his stories have appeared in publications such as Ambit, The Lonely Crowd and The Penny Dreadful.
Nolan Natasha Pike
Nolan Natasha Pike is a queer and trans writer living in Nova Scotia, Canada. His poems have appeared in The Puritan, Grain, Event, and Plenitude. Nolan has been short-listed for the Atlantic Writing Competition and long-listed for the CBC Poetry Prize.
Nora Mahony
Nora Mahony is a translator based in Dublin. She founded Parkbench Publishing Services in 2008.
Nora Pyne
Nora Pyne lives in Dublin. ‘Jeopardy’ is her first story to be published.
Noreen Desmond
Noreen Desmond is from Cork and has lived in Dublin for the past eight years. She has been shortlisted for the Francis MacManus radio awards and was awarded a literature bursary from the Arts Council in 2002.
Nuala Ní Chonchúir
Nuala O’Connor aka Nuala Ní Chonchúir lives in East Galway. Her fifth short story collection Joyride to Jupiter will appear from New Island in 2017. Nuala’s third novel, Miss Emily, about the poet Emily Dickinson and her Irish maid, is currently longlisted for the 2017 International DUBLIN Literary Award. Nuala’s novel, Becoming Belle, is forthcoming. www.nualanoconnor.com
Oisín Fagan
Oisín Fagan has previously been published in The Stinging Fly, New Planet Cabaret and Young Irelanders and his work has featured at the Irish Museum of Modern Art. In June, 2016 he won the inaugural Penny Dreadful Novella Prize for The Hierophants. Hostages, his first collection, came out with New Island in September, 2016.
Ojo Taiye
Ojo Taiye is a young Nigerian who uses poetry as a handy tool to hide his frustration with society. He loves coffee and can be found on Twitter @Ojo_poems.
Naoise Dolan
Naoise Dolan is an Irish writer born in Dublin who studied at Trinity College and Oxford University. Her writing has appeared in publications including The London Review of Books, Vogue and The Guardian. Her debut novel Exciting Times was published by W&N and Ecco in 2020.
Natalie Holborow
Natalie Holborow, born in Swansea, was named winner of the Terry Hetherington Award and Robin Reeves Prize in 2015. In 2016, she was the runner-up for the PEN Cymru New Voices Award. Her debut poetry collection is forthcoming from Parthian in spring 2017.
Natalie Ryan
Natalie Ryan is a Dublin writer. In 2011 she received the Bryan MacMahon Short Story Award and has since been shortlisted for The Hennessy and Francis MacMahon awards. She was included in the 2015 Faber and Faber anthology, All Over Ireland.
Natasha Calder
Natasha Calder studied English at Trinity College Dublin and later at Cambridge
University. She now works as a technical writer in the cyber security industry.
Nathan Thanki
Nathan Thanki is a human ecologist and jack-of-all-trades climate justice activist currently based in Belfast but often found wandering further afield. He likes whiskey and R&B, sometimes together.
Neal Hoskins
Neal Hoskins works in publishing. This is the first story he has written for quite some time. He is on instagram @wingedchariot
Neasa McHale
Neasa McHale is a short story writer from Dublin. Her short story, ‘While you were Working,’ was published in Town and Country: New Irish Short Stories edited by Kevin Barry (Faber and Faber) in 2013 and in 2015 her story, ‘Envelopes,’ was shortlisted in the RTÉ Francis MacManus competition.