Donal Ryan is the author of The Spinning Heart, The Thing About December and A Slanting of the Sun, and is the winner of numerous awards, including the Guardian First Book Award and the Book of the Year at the Irish Book Awards.
Claire Savage (Features Editor) has stories published in The Lonely Crowd and The Incubator journals, SHIFT Lit – Derry, and The Launchpad. Her poetry has appeared in Abridged, two Community Arts Partnership (CAP) poetry anthologies, the Co Derry Post newspaper and A New Ulster. In 2014 Claire received a SIAP grant from the Arts Council NI.
Fiona Smith is a Dublin poet, music journalist (Hot Press, craic-it.com), screenwriter (winner WildSound Festival, Toronto, for Rolling, 2014, shortlisted Galway Short Screen Commission 2015, Fiddler's Green), and blog editor for firstfortnight.ie, the annual festival of mental health awareness through the arts. @fifilebon
Susanne Stich was born in NĂźrnberg and lives in the Northwest of Ireland. Her stories have been published by The Stinging Fly, Ambit and others. She is currently the Literary Guide for the Reading Rooms project at Verbal Arts Centre, Derry and writes regularly for online magazine The Honest Ulsterman.
Glen Wilson has been widely published having work in The Honest Ulsterman and The Interpreters House amongst others. In 2014 he won the Poetry Space competition and was shortlisted for the Wasafiri New Writing Prize. He was runner up in the Glebe House Harmony Trust poetry competition in 2015. glenhswilson@facebook.com
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