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Shortlisted:
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Press Gazette 2025
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Poet | Critic | Queer |
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Dubliner. Reading, writing, art, film. Novel about Harry Clarke’s ill-fated final masterpiece publishes in 2027 with Stairwell Books. Runner-up, IWC Novel Fair, top 100 Bath Novel Award. National Gallery volunteer.
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the cleveland of reviews of books
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Labour MP for Knowsley. Secretary of the Trade Union Group of Labour MPs. For casework or to get in touch anneliese.midgley.mp@parliament.uk
Professor of Political Science, Xavier University
Irish Politics, Northern Ireland, the Irish Diaspora in the US, Political Culture, US Foreign Policy, and the Politics of War and Peace
Currently working on power transition theory in Northern Ireland
Campaigning journalist & author. THE LIE OF THE LAND was Shortlisted for 2025 Book Of The Year. Published by @penguinbooksireland
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#ClimateEmergency. ThinkOrSwim.ie
Writer, mathematician, chicken-cuddler.
Writer. Reader. Wife, Mom & Mum. #T1D. Mostly vegan. Cambridge & UCLA & just started, CW PhD @Brunel! 🇺🇸🇬🇧🇨🇭 My mom painted the above. She was amazing.
Historian, author. Past: GLOBALISTS, CRACK-UP CAPITALISM, HAYEK’S BASTARDS. Next: MUSKISM with Ben Tarnoff. Preorder here: https://www.harpercollins.com/products/muskism-quinn-slobodianben-tarnoff?variant=43838135402530 quinnslobodian.com
A unique residential library in North Wales with beautiful Reading Rooms, Food for Thought restaurant, accommodation and more.
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Prof Columbia J School. Director Tow Center . Writes Guardian + elsewhere. Lives in airports…views are my own, thank goodness
Bestselling author of THE UNDERTOW: Scenes from a Slow Civil War, THE FAMILY, also a Netflix series, C St, THIS BRILLIANT DARKNESS, & SWEET HEAVEN WHEN I DIE. AI stole them all. Professing @ Dartmouth. That's not my cat.
University of Leeds Music. Dubliner. Woke elite. Bohs before it was popular or profitable.
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crip journalist, historian, editor, organizer
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nerd, unionist, heist enthusiast
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debut novel ♾️ 𝙄𝙉𝙁𝙄𝙉𝙄𝙏𝙀 𝙉𝙄𝙂𝙃𝙏 𝙀𝙔𝙀𝙎 ♾️ arriving autumn 2026 from Black Spring Press (UK) + via Simon & Schuster (US/Can) rep: Katharine Sands
Reader. English professor. Follow books, film, foreign affairs/history, baseball, and soccer (Everton). Partial to hounds.
Writer of stories. 'We Live Here Now.' 'Walter Benjamin Stares at the Sea,' 'The Blind Accordionist,' 'Who's Who When Everyone is Someone Else,' 'The Biographical Dictionary of Literary Failure.' (@melvillehouse.bsky.social)
Writer, collagist, memoirist, essayist. Scavenger. Ex-Radio Dramatist, Ex-Playwright. Retired wanderer.
Author of Ghost Town: A Liverpool Shadowplay, (Little Toller); Deliria, (Rough Trade Books)
Wild Twin, (Little Toller)
Winner Far Horizons Award for Short Fiction 2023; finalist Fiddlehead Short Fiction Prize 2023 & Cambridge Short Story Prize 2024. Edith Wharton WiR 2024. Words: The Waxed Lemon, The Moth, Malahat, The New Quarterly & other lovelies. CCA-funded sabbatical!
Writer, The Maloneys' Magical Weatherbox and Cloak Of Feathers. Repped by The Nuremberg Agency.
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Sociology post-doc at University of Galway
Fiction Reader at Anomaly Litmag
I write about movies and neurodivergence at: https://autcasts.substack.com
Proud #NeuroQueer (She/Her)
CEO @suttontrust.bsky.social campaigning for social mobility. Ex- business leader and consulting global practice lead. Proud father of three.
Author of THIS IS WHERE YOU ARE (Roadside Press, 2025) • WSU MFA • Fiction Reader for Write or Die • Editor • Teacher • Wichita, KS
Bath Flash Fiction Winner • Smokelong Fellow • Storyknife • Wigleaf Top 50 LL • 2025 Best Small Fictions • words in Pithead Chapel, Flash Frog, Ghost Parachute, Fractured Lit, The Forge • dawntasakasteffler.com
Writing on books, movies, the arts: NYT Magazine, Baffler, Washington Post, Atlantic, Liberties, Commonweal, Mubi, Paris Review, Nation, etc. robjrub@gmail.com
Law Librarian with wanderlust living in Dublin 🍉 @biall.org.uk @laibluesky.bsky.social @aslibraries.bsky.social #repealedthe8th #vitaminsea
Artist, writer, sweetheart, battleaxe, she/her
Novels This Is Yesterday & Birding with Corsair Books
Rep: Becky Thomas at Lewinsohn Literary
Chair of The Adamson Collection Trust: work created in the art therapy studio at Netherne hospital during the C20th
Reading, writing, poems, rabbits 🐇 ✡️ Mostly writing short fiction. Director of European Writers Salon @saloneurope.bsky.social
London
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Marketing & Communities Director @ Thames & Hudson. Irish in London.
Author. Mum of neurodivergent teens. Devoted to my Romanian rescue dog and addicted to coffee. 'The Secret to Not Drowning' and 'Captain Jesus' published by Bluemoose Books. 'Celeste' coming in 2025.
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The Lightning (novel) coming 28.05.26!
The Wooden Hill (stories)
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Nom 5 x Pushcart Prize
Judge 2025 Best in Rural Writing
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Husband. Dad. Tay drinker.
N Ireland.
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Reader, Writer, Ozarks dweller. Wigleaf Top 50. Best Microfiction. Editor at trampset.
Writer. Reader for Fractured Lit. Published in Trash Cat Lit, Moonlit Getaway, Gone Lawn, The Phare, Gutter, Hooghly Review, Northern Gravy and National Flash Flood.
Brit/US writer of uncanny fiction. Best Small Fictions 2025. Over 40 stories in The Barcelona Review, LITRO, Southeast Review, The Forge, The Los Angeles Review and others. @nightjarpress Based in Eugene, Oregon (but grew up in UK). www.arthurmandal.com
Weaving ways through poetry. Second full collection, ‘Whatever You Do, Just Don’t’, a Poetry Society Book of the Year 2023, available from HappenStance Press.
Multi award-winning poet /screenwriter | Winner Broken Spine's Reader’s Choice Award 2025 | Winner Loft Books Poetry 2024 | Winner HoHx2, Waltham Forest & FofHCS | Second Shelley Memorial & N2tS 2024 | Nominations BoNx2, Forward Prize & Children's Bafta
Premier book festival showcasing and celebrating Ireland’s writers, illustrators and publishers. Flagship festival 4 - 8 November with year-round pop-up events. Supported by the Arts Council.
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Retired Irish diplomat, occasional lecturer and seminar chair. Interests include foreign policy, Northern Ireland , human rights, philosophy, history. I enjoy golf but rarely win!
Léachtóir sinsearach i Roinn na Nua-Ghaeilge, Coláiste na hOllscoile Corcaigh. An Fhiannaíocht. Na Dánta Grá. Lámhscríbhinní na Gaeilge. Liomsa na tuairimí seo!
Librarian. Archivist. Student. Tea drinker. Cat servant. Anglican't. Irritable and irritating.
Professor of Modern English @ucc.ie | Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences Secretary @ria.ie | Irish Romanticism: a Literary History @universitypress.cambridge.org
https://research.ucc.ie/en/persons/claire-connolly/
Reader | writer | teacher. Been there, done that, got the T. rex.🦖 Researching death, famine, and apocalypse. Irish Studies and beyond. Reviews books. Also writing about Moomins, because why not. Asst Prof at Radboud University, NL. He/him.
Assistant Professor at Maynooth University, Ireland. Interests: climate change, extreme weather events, historical climatology, science communication.
Profile: https://www.maynoothuniversity.ie/people/carla-mateus
Escape from the other place. I make music for lots of things. Feed is mainly shameless propaganda on musical output. Rubbish at chit-chat as need to concentrate on music making. Soz.
Library advocate, and children’s book enthusiast, cat fancier, history geek, nature lover
Music & writing, writing & music. New Overnight album, Put Me In Your Light, released Nov 7, 2025. gillismusicarchive.bandcamp.com
Writer/Researcher. KeatsShelley Essay Prize, Rubery Book Award. Author Wilde's Women. Life & Loves of E. Nesbit, Selected Articles from The Woman’s World. Here for books, art, nature, laughter & tranquility.
✏️ YA writer
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Award winning author of novels Bina (NYRB, Knopf Canada, Fleet), Martin John and Malarky (Biblioasis)
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Agent: Wylie
Words in Book Post, Guardian, Globe
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Writer, artist, stylite.
Fair to middling spinster.
Magpie apologist.
Good at everything.
Spouting nonsense from my roost in northwestern Ireland
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Postdoc on energy coastal narratives in Ireland UCD 🇮🇪 🌊. Research and life between Dublin and Brighton 🌈. Beyond Gender Collective 🛸. Advocate of living with bipolar 🌼💖
Writer, book critic, creative writing facilitator.
Latest book: IN THE MOVIE OF HER LIFE (short stories, Doire Press, 2025).
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Workshops: https://www.clairehennessy.com/store
Writer, editor, creative writing mentor, tutor @ National Centre for Writing. EVERYONE IS WATCHING / Picador / Neri Pozza / Czarna Owca / Elsinore. Repped by Sophie Lambert. www.meganbradbury.com.
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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.
Writer
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www.sliverpress.com
founder & editor @cowboyjamboree.bsky.social; curator @npcountrycovers.bsky.social; curator @ArtArk.bsky.social; author Dylan Quick is a Dairy Queen Don Quixote & more; Minor Regional Novelist
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Debut Novel: IN THE DESERT OUT NOW
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Collection: Some Days are Better than Ours (Reflex Fiction)
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Kerry via San Francisco
Modern Irish and Scottish Literature: https://academic.oup.com/book/44829?login=false
Associate Lecturer, University of St Andrews: https://www.st-andrews.ac.uk/english/people/rab44/
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The consumption of radio, newspapers, books and bread.
The writing was on the wall.
Eastern Ireland. July '23.
Still here.
Writer and publisher (CB editions, 2007 to now: www.cbeditions.com)
Writer, historian, Contrib Ed, FT, Robert Bosch Fellow, Berlin, author These Divided Isles, and Britain Alone (both Faber), British, Irish and European. philipstephens.substack.com, philipstephens.net
Writer from Manchester. LIKE A CAT LOVES A BIRD, my biography of Muriel Spark, out 9 April in UK / 9 June in US (pre-order at the link below!) 🐈⬛
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Dalkey branch of The Gutter Bookshop at 20 Railway Road (opp. Finnegan's). Local bookshop with books, gifts & stationery. Marta & May post randomly.
Director @thisinstitute.cam.ac.uk @uniofcam.bsky.social. I study how to improve and innovate in healthcare quality and safety. Views: Own
‘Somewhere, well out, beyond’
Late Heaney (https://bit.ly/40oRn76)
A freelance writer exploring the intersection of history and folklore. Bylines: The History Channel, The New York Times, BBC, etc. Also @HistoriumU (Historium Unearthia); Grieving mom of Adam.
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The largest UK union for writers, illustrators and literary translators. Fighting for a fairer industry since 1884. #societyofauthors
Protect authors’ livelihoods from the unlicensed use of their work in AI training https://linktr.ee/societyofauthors
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The Times Literary Supplement. Subscribe here: https://www.the-tls.co.uk/buy
Ireland's leading independent publisher, founded in 1984. Proudly supported by The Arts Council. Our Stoneybatter bookshop is open 9.30am-5pm on weekdays.
www.lilliputpress.ie
The representative organisation for writers of stage, screen & radio in Ireland. www.script.ie
Award-winning publisher based in the west of Ireland.
Free worldwide shipping on all orders over €60.
Supported by the Arts Council of Ireland.
Join us 10-17 July 2026. Full line-up 1 April, Friends Priority Booking 7 April, General Booking 14 April. Sign up for our e-newsletter for programme alerts.
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Publisher, Little Island Books @littleislandbooks.bsky.social. The best new Irish writing for young readers.
Broadcaster @rte.ie - currently on Arena on @rteradio1.bsky.social.
Runs Ireland's largest book club, patron @epilepsyireland.bsky.social, board of Fighting Words NI.
Arts event curator and moderator.
Quizzer.
Links: https://linktr.ee/rickoshea
Publishing Director of Raven Books, an imprint of Bloomsbury Books. Lover of the gripping & the gothic, the contemporary & the cunning. Comprehensive school girl in literary world. Easily bribed with a chocolate orange.
Official account of The Irish Times. Diverse opinion, thorough reporting and outstanding writing from http://irishtimes.com
Made in Ireland a long time ago. Cats, books, tea, spotty bananas. Daily recorder of #3goodthings, celebrating the tiny joys. Pub by Hachette Ireland and Sphere Books UK. 23rd novel, Second Chances, out now. Thinking about next.
Be kind, it's easy.
Irish/Cork Book Reviewer/Blogger 💙 📚☘️ FeedSpot Top 25 Irish Book Blog / Goodreads Top 5% Reviewer 2025
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Dig. Mkting/PA for writingIE/Murder One International Crime Festival (Views my own)
Sunday Times, Irish Times, and Kindle bestselling author. Someone in the Attic, No One Saw A Thing, All Her Fault out now with Transworld. Agent: Diana Beaumont.
Inspired writing. Irresistible reading. Posts from the literary imprint of Hodder & Stoughton.
GP, reader, writer. Debut novel SHOW ME WHERE IT HURTS out now from @sceptrebooks.bsky.social Rep’d by @juliasreading.bsky.social
www.clairegleeson.com
Ireland’s biggest independent bookstore - new, secondhand & bargain books - where you find what you didn’t know you were looking for!
An Post Bookshop of the Year 🏆
Ireland's leading general publisher of both adult and children's books.
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🌱 Let me tell you about my garden
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Children's author with lots of books out for kids of all ages 🌟
Publisher Oneworld w/ brilliant prize-winning fiction, inc Marlon James, Paul Beatty, Tayari Jones, Paul Lynch, Tess Gunty, Chelsea Bieker, Caoilinn Hughes etc. OBE.
Bestselling author with O’Brien Press. Solo coming April 2025 with Little Island. Bookseller with Kennys Bookshop. Rontu Literary Service. www.rontuliteraryservice.com
Irish writer. Leonard and Hungry Paul, Panenka, Ghost Mountain.
www.ronanhession.com
Music as Mumblin' Deaf Ro https://mumblindeafro.bandcamp.com/
Own Sweet Time, CB editions
Sovetica, CB editions
Saying Yes in Russian, Agenda Editions
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Ireland's leading publisher of groundbreaking literature and non-fiction from emerging and established writers.
Supported by the Arts Council.
Author, freelance editor, creative writing tutor and fearless slayer of Doubt Demons. Also interested in mudlarking, singing with my choir, micro gardening, working class peeps and radical Jewish voices. Owned by my cat. She/her.
Writes fiction & non-fiction, teaches, blogs @ This Itch of Writing https://linktr.ee/emmadarwinwriter