CLAIRE KILROY
Claire Kilroy is the author of five novels. Her latest novel, Soldier Sailor, about the early years of motherhood, was published by Faber to universal acclaim and named as The Times Novel of The Year, and a best book of 2023 by The Irish Times, The Guardian, The Financial Times, The Telegraph, The Irish Examiner, The Irish Independent, the Journal.ie and many other publications. It is currently longlisted for the 2024 Women's Prize for Fiction and the Dublin Literary Award. Kilroy won the Rooney Prize for Irish Literature in 2004 and has been shortlisted many times for the Kerry Group Irish Novel of the Year and the Irish Novel of the Year.
KATHLEEN MacMAHON
Kathleen MacMahon is the author of four novels and numerous short stories. Her novels, which include The Home Scar (2023) and Nothing But Blue Sky (2020), have been listed for the Irish Book Awards, the Kerry Group Irish Novel of the Year and the Women's Prize for Fiction. Her short stories have been published in the Winter Papers, the Stinging Fly and The Irish Times, among others. Her work has been translated into over twenty languages
NEIL HEGARTY
Neil Hegarty's novels include The Jewel; and Inch Levels, which was shortlisted for the Kerry Group Novel of the Year award. Neil’s non-fiction titles include the biography Frost: That Was the Life That Was, and The Story of Ireland, which accompanies the RTÉ-BBC television history of Ireland. His short fiction and essays have appeared in the Dublin Review, Stinging Fly, Tangerine, and elsewhere; and he is co-editor of the essay collection Impermanence. He is a regular literary reviewer on the Irish Times.