Stephen Murray is an award-winning poet and adventurer who lives in county Galway. His debut collection ‘House of Bees’ was published in 2011 by Salmon Poetry. His work has appeared in numerous journals around the world.

Stephen Sexton lives in Belfast where he teaches at the Seamus Heaney Centre for Poetry. His poems have appeared in Granta, Poetry London, and Best British Poetry 2015. His pamphlet, Oils, published by The Emma Press in 2014, was the Poetry Book Society’s Winter Pamphlet Choice. His first book will be published by Penguin in 2019.

Stephen Walsh lives in Dublin. He started writing stories a few years ago. Some of them have been featured in The White Review Short Story Prize and the RTÉ Francis MacManus Short Story Competition. He’s currently working on a first collection.

Steve Ely’s collections Oswald’s Book of Hours (2013) andEnglaland (2015) are published by Smokestack Books. His pamphlet Werewolf has just been published by Calder Valley Poetry. His biographical work Ted Hughes’s South Yorkshire: Made in Mexborough, was published by Palgrave Macmillan in 2015. He lectures in Creative Writing at the University of Huddersfield where he is Director of the newly formed Ted Hughes Network.

Steven Doran is 36 years old. Born in Liverpool, he lived in Dublin from 1997 until 2002, and after a year ‘trying’ to live in Paris, he moved to Barcelona where he lives still. This is his first published poem.

Steven E. Byrne is a writer, filmmaker and multimedia content creator. He lives in Dublin.

Steven Taylor grew up in Hyde near Manchester and now lives in Kilburn, North London, as the English part of an Irish family. His poems have been widely published in magazines and journals.

Stiofán Ó Cadhla was born in Ring, County Waterford, and was raised both there and in Bishopstown in Cork city. He is Head of the Department of Folklore and Ethnology, University College Cork. His first collection, ‘An Creidmheachach Déanach’ (Coiscéim 2009), was awarded the Michael Hartnett Memorial Prize in 2012 and his second, ‘Tarraing na Cuirtíní, a Dhochtúir’ (Coiscéim 2012), was given a prize of merit in Comórtas Literary an Oireachtais 2012.

Stiofán Ó hIfearnáin is studying history in University College Dublin. He was selected for the Poetry Ireland Introductions Series this year.

Serena Lawless has an MA in Writing from NUI Galway. She was chosen as one of Words Ireland mentees under their first National Mentoring Programme. Her work appeared as part of Hennessy New Irish Writing in the Irish Times. She was awarded a Tyrone Guthrie Residency from Galway City Council. You can find her on twitter @serenalawless.

Serge Shea has published his short stories in several journals. He was a runner-up in the Seán Ó Faoláin short story contest and was included in the anthology Philly Fiction. More recently, he was awarded a fellowship from the Rhode Island State Council on the Arts. He makes his home in Providence, Rhode Island.

Shane Holohan lives in Ringsend, Dublin. When he’s not making ads, teaching creativity or studying physics, he likes to write, take photos and surf.

Sharon Flynn lives near the Causeway Coast. She fits reading and writing poetry into the corners of her life when she can escape from other commitments. She is currently completing an MA at the Seamus Heaney Centre at Queen’s University, Belfast.

Sharon Olds is the author of nine books of poetry. The Dead and the Living received the National Book Critics Circle Award; The Unswept Room was a finalist for the National Book Award and The National Book Critics Circle Award, and One Secret Thing was a finalist for the Forward Prize. She teaches at New York University.

Shauna Gilligan lives in Kildare, Ireland. She is interested in the depiction of historical events in fiction, creative processes and artistic collaboration. She is currently a community writer-in-residence with the Irish Writers’ Centre and is working on her second novel. www.shaunaswriting.com

Sheila Armstrong is a writer from the northwest of Ireland. Her first collection of short stories, How To Gut A Fish, was published in 2022. Falling Animals, her debut novel, will be published in May 2023.

Sheila Phelan was born in Dublin in 1971 and now lives in Galway where she is completing an MA in Writing.

Shereen Pandit is a South African living in London. Her first collection of short stories, Aloes, will be published this year. She delivered the Dr Seamus Wilmot Memorial Lecture at this year’s Listowel Writers’ Week.

Shriram Sivaramakrishnan is a proud alumnus of Seamus Heaney Centre for Poetry. His poems have recently appeared in The Fenland Reed, Coast to Coast to Coast, Riggwelter, Pidgeonholes, among others. His debut pamphlet Let the Light In was published by Ghost City P in June 2018. He tweets at @shriiram.

Sighle Meehan’s work has been nominated for various awards (Winner: Poems for Patients, Goldsmith Poetry and Imbas Short Story (Australia). Runner-up: Fish Poetry. Shortlisted: CC (California) Poetry, Over the Edge New Writer and Cúirt) and published in many magazines and anthologies. Her full-length, bi-lingual play, Maum, was produced by An Taibhdhearc for the Galway International Arts Festival, 2015.

Simon Armitage has published nine volumes of poetry including The Universal Home Doctor and Travelling Songs, both published by Faber & Faber in 2002. He has received numerous awards including the Sunday Times Author of the Year, one of the first Forward Prizes and a Lannan Award. He has also published two novels with Penguin: Little Green Man (2001) and The White Stuff (2004).

Simon Costello is from Offaly and a graduate of Athlone Institute of Technology. Previously published by US poetry magazine Rattle, he was both editor’s choice and winner of their ekphrastic poetry competition in October 2017. He currently lives in China.

Simon Lewis was the 2015 winner of the Hennessy award for poetry and runnerup
in the Patrick Kavanagh Award. His first collection, Jewtown, is published by
Doire Press.

Simon Ó Faoláin was born in Dublin and raised in West Kerry. His poetry has been published in various journals including Feasta, Comhar, An Guth, Cyphers, Irish Pages and Poetry Ireland Review. He won the Colm Cille Prize in the years 2008 and 2010. His first collection, Anam Mhadra (Coiscéim 2008), won the Glen Dimplex Irish Award and the Eithne and Rupert Strong Award.

Simple Kid, real name Ciaran McFeely, grew up in Cork and has released two albums to date: 1 in 2003 and 2 in 2006. www.simplekid.com

Sinéad Morrissey is the author of five collections of poetry, the most recent of which, Parallax, won the TS Eliot Prize and the Irish Times Poetry Award in 2013. Her sixth collection, On Balance, will be published in May 2017.

Sandra Hoffmann lives in Munich, where she teaches creative writing and writes for radio and newspapers. Her debut, ‘Schwimmen Gegen Blond’, was published in 2002, and her fifth novel ‘Paula’ (tr. Katy Derbyshire) won the Hans Fallada Prize for politically and socially engaged writing.

Sara Baume won the Davy Byrne’s Short Story Award in 2014, the Rooney Prize in 2015, and the Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize in 2016. She is author of two novels, Spill Simmer Falter Wither and A Line Made by Walking.

Sara Berkeley is the author of several books of poetry and short stories. She was born in Dublin in 1967. She left Ireland in 1989. She has since lived in London and the San Francisco Bay Area, where she now works and writes. Her first novel, Shadowing Hannah, is due from New Island Books this autumn.