Queen’s University Belfast, English

I am a critically acclaimed author of ten novels, mostly in the crime fiction and historical fiction genres. My debut…

Peter Hollywood was twenty-one when his first short story ‘The Accident’ was accepted by the famed editor David Marcus for…

Bernie McGill is the 2023 winner of the Edge Hill Short Story Prize for her collection This Train is For (No Alibis Press).…

Described in The Irish Times as ‘one of our foremost writers for young people’, Sheena Wilkinson writes novels for  children…

Brian McAvera is a dramatist, director, curator and art historian. He has written 25 stage plays, radio plays for the…

Owen McCafferty lives and works in Belfast. He has been a playwright for over 20 years. Within that time he…

Pádraigín Ní Uallacháin is the first Irish-language RLF Fellow. She is an acclaimed singer, songwriter and author, specialising in Irish-language…

Carlo Gébler was born in Dublin in 1954. He is the author of novels including The Cure (1994), How to…

Gary Mitchell is a writer and director for television, film, radio and theatre. In 1990, he won a BBC Radio…