Sarah Barnsley was shortlisted for an Eric Gregory Award (2004), the Bridport Prize (2010), and was joint runner-up in the Poetry School/Pighog Pamphlet Competition (2014). She has published in a range of magazines; her pamphlet, The Fire Station, is forthcoming from Telltale Press. Sarah teaches at Goldsmiths, University of London.

Sarah Clancy is a page and performance poet from Galway, she has published three collections of poetry, the most recent ‘The Truth and Other Stories from Salmon Poetry in 2014. She has received several awards for performance poetry most recently the 2015 People’s Poet award from The Bogman’s Cannon. Her work has been published in translation in Mexico, Poland, Slovenia and Italy and she is slowly working on a new collection.

Sarah Holland-Batt’s first book, Aria (UQP), was the recipient of several major Australian literary awards, including the Judith Wright Poetry Prize, the FAW Anne Elder Award and the Thomas Shapcott Prize. In 2010, she was Australia Council Writer in Residence at the B.R. Whiting Studio, Rome.

Sarah Maria Griffin is 23 years old and currently living in Dublin after completing the MA in Writing in NUIG. Her first collection of poetry, Follies, was published by Lapwing earlier this year. She is currently Writer in Residence in Collinstown Community College, Clondalkin.

Sarah Purcell grew up in Monaghan, but now lives in California where she is finishing a novel. She was shortlisted for the 2006 Hennessy Literary Awards.

Sarah Salway is the author of three novels, Something Beginning With, Tell Me Everything and Getting The Picture, as well as a short story collection, Leading the Dance. She is currently the RLF Fellow at the London School of Economics and Political Science.

Seamus Keenan lives in Derry. He won the Hennessy Emerging Fiction Award and Overall Hennessy New Irish Writer of Year Award and is currently working on a fourth play. He is a father to three sons.

Séamus Ua Trodd was born in the midlands but lives in Dublin. Biligual, he writes in English and has given readings in Ireland and Canada. He has a collection ready for publication.

Sean Finnan is a writer based in Dublin. He is a co-founder of Dublin Digital Radio and a contributing editor at Rabble magazine. He is a member of the Irish Housing Network, through which he was involved in Apollo House.

Sean Howard is author of Local Calls (2009), Incitements (2011) and The Photographer’s Last Picture (2016). His poetry has been widely published in Canada and elsewhere, and featured in The Best Canadian Poetry in English (2011 & 2014).

Seán Lysaght is the author of six volumes of poems, including ‘Scarecrow’ (1998), ‘The Mouth of a River’ (2007) and ‘Carnival Masks’ (2014) from Gallery Press. He has also written prose about wildlife and landscapes: ‘Eagle Country’ (2018) and ‘Wild Nephin’ (2020). His ‘Selected Poems’ appeared from Gallery in 2010. He lives in Westport, County Mayo.

Seán Mac Gearailt recently returned to Ireland after extensive travels. He has had work published abroad and, since his return, in West 47.

Seán Mac Mathúna has published three novels in Irish, Hulla Hul (Leabhar Breac), Scéal Eitleáin (Coiscéim) and Gealach (Leabhar Breac). His poetry collections in Irish, Ding (Edco) and Banana (Cois Life) won him acclaim, and his English collection, The Atheist (wolfhound), was nominated by the Arts Council for the European Prize in Literature. His play, The Winter Thief/ Gadaí Géar, was produced by the Abbey Theatre.

Sean O’Reilly is the author of Curfew and Other Stories, Love and Sleep, The Swing of Things, Watermark, and Levitation. He is a member of Aosdána.

Sean Tanner’s work has appeared in the Irish Times, The Lonely Crowd and The Holly Bough. In 2017 he received the Hennessy New Irish writing award for first fiction, and in 2018 he received the John McGahern Award.

Sean William O’Keefe was born and brought up in Carshalton, Surrey, and now lives in lnchicore. He has had poems published in The Shop, makaris and moment, and is a co-founder of Liberties Press, a new publisher of nonfiction.

Seanín Hughes is a poet from County Tyrone with work published or forthcoming in Banshee, The Blue Nib, and A New Ulster. Seanín is a shortlistee for the Seamus Heaney Award for New Writing, 2018, and recipient of the Poetry Ireland Access Bursary for Cúirt International Literature Festival, 2018.

Ron Butlin is an international prize-winning novelist and a former Edinburgh Makar/Poet Laureate. His most recent novel is Ghost Moon (Salt, 2014). 2015 will see
the publication of his new collection Scotland’s Magic (Polygon), and his first book of poetry for children, Here Come the Trolls! (Polygon).

Ron Houchin is a retired public school teacher who lives on the banks of the Ohio River. He has three books published by Salmon poetry: Death and The River (1997), Moveable Darkness (2002), and Museum Crows (2009). His other books, Among Wordless Things (2004) and Birds in the Tops of Winter Trees (2008), were published by Wind publications. His awards include Appalachian-Book-of-the-Year-in-Poetry, a National Society of Arts and Letters Prize, an Ohio Arts Council Fellowship, a poetry prize from Indiana University, and a Writers’ Digest Award.

First published in the Stinging Fly in 2011, Rona Fitzgerald’s work has been included in a number of magazines, anthologies and webzines including ‘The Wait’ Poetry Anthology 2014, ‘Soundwaves’, NVP 2016, Three Drops from a Cauldron Winter Special 2016, Aiblins: New Scottish Political Poetry 2016 and forthcoming in Oxford Poetry.

Ronan Doyle was born in County Galway. He has a BA in English and an MA in Journalism. Having lived in Japan for two years, he now teaches English in Dublin and writes fiction. His first story was recently published in The Sunday Tribune, earning him a place on the shortlist for the 2006/2007 Hennessy Awards.

Ronan Flaherty’s stories have appeared in Crannóg, The South Circular, HeadStuff
and The Penny Dreadful. He is currently working on a collection of short stories.
He lives in Dublin.

Ronan Kelly is the author of ‘Bard of Erin: the Life of Thomas Moore’ (2008). His fiction has appeared in ‘The Dublin Review’ and ‘Winter Papers’.

Ronan Murphy is a poet and musician from Dundalk, County Louth. He lives in Dublin, and has just completed a degree in English Literature and Italian at Trinity College. He is lead singer with The Sweet Naive.

Rosemary Jenkinson had a collection of her stories published in 2004. She was part of Rough Magic’s Seeds Programme and her play ‘The Bonefire’ was premiered in the 2006 Dublin International Theatre Festival.

Ross Hackett was born in Dublin in 1971. He’s still alive as far as we know.

Ross O’Connor is a 32-year-old Dubliner, who makes a living pushing paper around desks in a desultory fashion. He lives with his partner Ann in Dun Laoghaire, and has only recently become inspired to start writing fiction again after some fifteen years of just talking about it.

Rosy Wilson recently returned to Ireland after forty years working in adult education in London. She is a member of the Bealtaine writing group and has had poems published in Writing Women, Haiku Quarterly and Jumping the Bus Queue.

Rozz Lewis is a primary teacher living in Carlow. She was highly commended in the Over the Edge New Writer of the Year 2016. Her stories have been published in a number of magazines including Boyne Berries, Wordlegs, Silver Apples, Crannóg, Spontaneity and Literary Orphans.

Rufo Quintavalle was born in London in 1978 and lives in Paris. He is the author of a chapbook, Make Nothing Happen (Oystercatcher Press, 2009), is on the editorial board of the Paris-based literary magazine, Upstairs at Duroc, and is currently Acting Poetry Editor for the online journal, Nthposition.