Sarah Gilmartin is an award-winning Irish writer whose short stories have been published in The Dublin Review, The Tangerine and The Stinging Fly and who won the Máirtín Crawford Short Story Award in 2020. Her bestselling debut novel Party (ONE, 2021) was shortlisted for an Irish Book Award and the Kate O’Brien Award. Her second novel Service (ONE, 2023) was a Washington Post top books of summer and included in the Irish Times list of the best Irish fiction of the 21st century (2025). She is the current Arts Council Writer-in-Residence at Dublin City University. Sarah’s wry and deftly observed new novel, Little Vanities (ONE 2026), focusses on two couples, from their Trinity College days to the reckonings of midlife, and explores the distance between the lives we imagine and the ones we find ourselves living.

'Fantastic at examining the tussles between people in relationships' The Times 'Acutely observed, beautifully written' Joseph O'Connor 

'A natural writer' Anne Enright 

Aingeala Flannery, is author of, The Amusements (2022)) which won the Kerry Group Irish Novel of the Year 2023 and the John McGahern Prize.