JAN CARSON
Jan Carson is a writer based in Belfast. She is the 2025 Seamus Heaney Centre Fellow at Queen's University and a fellow of the Royal Society of Literature. Author of three novels and three short story collections, she won the EU Prize for Literature for Ireland for her novel The Fire Starters. Her work has been published in numerous journals and broadcast on RTÉ Radio 1 and BBC Radio 3 and 4. Her next novel, Few and Far Between, is forthcoming from Doubleday in 2026.
NEIL HEGARTY
Neil Hegarty's novels include The Jewel; and Inch Levels, 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.
TRISTAN ROSENSTOCK
Tristan Rosenstock is a broadcaster with RTÉ Raidió na Gaeltachta, where he presents the arts series An Cúinne Dána. His debut Irish-language book for young readers Inis Mara was selected for World Book Day 2024, and Inis Mara 2 was recently published by LeabhairCOMHAR. He is co-editor of Inside Innti - A new wave in Irish Poetry (Cork University Press) and is literary editor of the magazine Comhar. He sits on the boards of Irish Writers Centre and Poetry Ireland.