Deirdre Kinahan is an award-winning playwright. She is an elected member of Aosdána, Ireland's elected organisation of outstanding artists and Literary Associate with Meath County Council Arts Office. Deirdre collaborates with artists and theatres all over the world and has a large canon of regularly produced plays to her credit. She is published by Nick Hern Books.

Born in Dublin in 1969, Emma Donoghue is an award-winning writer based in Canada. Her international bestseller Room won the Rogers Writers Trust and Commonwealth Prizes and was a finalist for the Man Booker and Orange; the film earned her Oscar, Golden Globe, and BAFTA nominations. Donoghue co-wrote the Netflix film The Wonder based on her novel. Her other books include Haven, The Pull of the Stars, Akin, Frog Music, The Sealed Letter, and The Lotterys series.

Nicky Gogan is a graduate of the National College of Art and Design Ireland and of EAVE 2008. In her college days, Nicky became involved in the dance music scene in the early 90's running club events in Dublin. This experience sparked an interest in collective collaboration with a community ethos, which led to her early practice of process filmmaking.

Darach Ó Scolaí is a writer and publisher. His novel An Cléireach (2007) won the Oireachtas Prize 2007 and Gradam Uí Shúilleabháin ‘Irish language Book of the Year’ 2008, and his edition of Táin Bó Cuailnge won the Aodán Mac Poilín Memorial Prize 2017 and Gradam Uí Shúilleabháin ‘Irish language Book of the Year 2018. His most recent novel Súil an Daill (2021) won the Oireachtas Prize 2019. 

Éilís Ní Dhuibhne was born in Dublin. Author of more than thirty books, her work includes The Dancers Dancing, The Shelter of Neighbours, and Fox, Swallow, Scarecrow. Her most recent books are Twelve Thousand Days: A Memoir (shortlisted for the Michel Déon Award 2020), Little Red and Other Stories (Blackstaff 2020), and Look!

Rosaleen McDonagh is a Traveller woman with a disability. Originally from Sligo. She worked in Pavee Point Traveller & Roma Centre for ten years, managing the Violence Against Women programme, and remains a board member. Rosaleen has a BA in Biblical & Theological Studies, an MPhil in Ethnic & Racial Studies & an MPhil in Creative Writing, all from TCD. She holds a PhD from Northumbria University. She is a regular contributor to the Irish Times and has written ostensibly within the framework of a Traveller feminist perspective.

Sharon Dempsey is a Northern Irish based writer. Her new novel The Midnight Killing, published by Avon Harper Collins, is out now. The first in the series, Who took Eden Mulligan?, came out in 2021 and is available now in the US, and both books have been sold for translation rights in the Czech region.

Paul Murray is the author of four novels: An Evening of Long Goodbyes (shortlisted for the Whitbread First Novel Award), Skippy Dies (longlisted for the Man Booker Prize and shortlisted for various other awards including the Costa Book Awards) and The Mark and the Void (winner of the Bollinger Wodehouse Prize for Comic Fiction). The Beesting, his latest novel, is published in June 2023. He also wrote the screenplay for Metal Heart (2018), which was directed by Hugh O’Conor.