Sarah Clancy has published three poetry collections, Stacey and the Mechanical Bull (Lapwing Press 2011), Thanks for Nothing, Hippies (Salmon Poetry 2012), and The Truth and Other Stories (Salmon Poetry 2014), and has had her work published in Queering the Green (The Lifeboat 2022) and ‘The Art of Place – People and Landscape of County Clare’ (Liffey Press 2021). Her work has been published and anthologised in Ireland, Canada, Mexico, Nicaragua, Slovenia, Spain, Poland, the USA and Italy. In 2025, she had the life changing opportunity to take part in the Global Sumud Flotilla, a civil society attempt to break the illegal Israeli siege on Gaza. 

Gráinnemir Abualrob is a Dublin-based Palestinian Actor, Workshop Facilitator, and writer, who completed a four-year programme at The Freedom Theatre in the Jenin refugee camp, Palestine. During their early years at the Freedom Theatre, they joined both the 2nd and 3rd generations of the school, focused on Theatre Studies and Cultural Resistance, a form of resistance that emphasises the importance of art as a powerful way to fight and confront oppression in all its forms. In 2025 with a group of Irish artists/activists Gráinnemir established Cairde Amharclann na Saoirse in Éirinn (The Friends of The Freedom Theatre Ireland). 

Susannah Dickey is a poet and novelist. Her prizes include the inaugural Irish Pen Heaney Award.

Sinéad Morrissey was born in Northern Ireland in 1972. She has published six collections with Carcanet as well as a selected poems, Found Architecture (2020). Her awards include a Lannan Literary Fellowship (2007), First Prize in the UK National Poetry Competition (2007), the Irish Times Award (2009, 2013) and the T. S. Eliot Prize for her fifth collection, Parallax, in 2013. In 2016 she received the EM Forster Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. Her latest collection, On Balance (2017) was awarded the Forward Prize and was a Poetry Book Society Choice. In 2020 Sinéad Morrissey was named the European Poet of Freedom by the City of Gdańsk, Poland and in 2024 she was the recipient of the Seamus Heaney Award (Japan). She has served as Belfast Poet Laureate and in 2019 was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature. 

Nicholas Allen, The Irish Times