Doreen Duffy (MA in Creative Writing) studied at DCU, NUIM UCD and Oxford online. Pushcart Nominated. Publications include, Poetry Ireland Review 129 by Eavan Boland, Washing Windows Volumes Too & Three & Four, Arlen House, Beyond Words Literary Magazine, (Germany), The Storms Journals 1 & 3, The Galway Review, Flash Fiction (USA) and in, Live Encounters (Indonesia), The Incubator Journal, The Woman’s Way and The Irish Times. She won The Jonathan Swift Award and was presented with The Deirdre Purcell Cup at Maria Edgeworth Literary Festival. Shortlisted in Francis MacManus Competition, her story ‘Tattoo’ was broadcast on RTE Radio One.

Susan Condon is a 2024 Irish Writers Centre National Mentoring Programme winner. She holds an MA in Creative Writing from Dublin City University. Awards include first prize in the Jonathan Swift Award. Publications include Washing Windows IV, Boyne Berries, Flash Fiction Magazine (USA), Flash Flood Journal and My Weekly (UK).

Daragh Fleming (author of Lonely Boy) is a writer from Cork, Ireland. His works appears in several literary magazines, including The Ogham Stone, Beir Bua, Trasna, Stand, Gutter, and more. He was highly commended for both the Patrick Kavanagh Award and the Fool For Poetry Prize in 2023, and shortlisted for the Alpine Fellowship Poetry Prize. He won the From The Well Competition in 2021 and the Ducairn Flash Competition in 2024. Daragh was also recently shortlisted for a Mental Health Media Award for this TEDx Talk on using creativity to enhance and maintain our mental health.

Theresa Ryder is a writer and further education teacher with an M.A. in Classics. She is a recipient of the Molly Keane Creative Writing award (2015) and the Bealtaine Emerging Artist Award (2024). Recent literary contributions include: The 32: an Anthology of Irish Working Class Voices, The Same Page Anthology, The Honest Ulsterman, Antigone Journal, The Waxed Lemon, The Irish Times, and Eat the Storms podcast. Her play Ritual Dance was performed in Cork Arts Theatre in 2023. She was awarded a place on the 2022 National Mentoring Programme and the 2024 Northern Soul Roadshow from the Irish Writers Centre. She is currently editing two novels and writing a memoir about her years as assistant to the late author/artist J.P. Donleavy aided by an English literature bursary from the Arts Council of Ireland.

Cormac Culkeen writes poetry, fiction, and nonfiction. He lives in Galway and has completed an MA in Writing at the University of Galway. His poetry has been published in Skylight 47, The Wild Word, Causeway, Apricot Press, Bindweed, Ink, Sweat and Tears, Ropes Literary Journal, the Orphic Review, the Honest Ulsterman, and the Galway Review. His debut collection, The Boy with the Radio, was published by Beir Bua Press in 2022. He is a founding editor of Ragaire magazine.