James Yorkston is one of the most celebrated artists in British contemporary music. Over the course of a 15-year career as a singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist, he’s recorded a series of acclaimed albums showcasing a balance of folk and contemporary roots, often drawing deeply on traditional songs and narrative heritage. As a popular live performer and… Read more »
Author type: Fiction
Liam McIlvanney
Liam McIlvanney was born in Scotland and studied at the universities of Glasgow and Oxford. He has written for numerous publications, including the London Review of Books and the Times Literary Supplement. His first book, Burns the Radical (Tuckwell Press, 2002), won the Saltire First Book Award. He has also won the Ngaio Marsh Award… Read more »
Gustav Parker Hibbett
Gustav Parker Hibbett is a Black poet and essayist. They are originally from New Mexico and currently pursuing a PhD at Trinity College Dublin. They are a 2023 Obsidian Foundation Fellow and were selected as a runner-up for The Missouri Review’s 2022 Poem of the Year Award. Their work has appeared in Guernica, fourteen poems,… Read more »
Emma Chapman
Emma Chapman is a British writer, currently living in North Yorkshire. She was born in 1985 and grew up near Manchester. She studied English Literature at Edinburgh University, and completed an MA in Creative Writing at Royal Holloway. Since leaving university, she has lived in London, Western Australia and Indonesia. In 2013, her first novel,… Read more »
Moso Sematlane
Moso Sematlane is a writer and filmmaker based in Maseru, Lesotho. He has previously been shortlisted for the Commonwealth Short Story Prize as well as the Gerald Kraak Award. He won the Stinging Fly’s FBA Fiction Prize in 2024 for his short story A Fern Between Rocks. He is currently working on his first short… Read more »
John Patrick McHugh
John Patrick McHugh is from Galway. His work has appeared in The Stinging Fly, Winter Papers, Banshee, The Tangerine and Granta and been broadcast on BBC Radio3. He is the fiction editor for Banshee magazine. His debut collection of short stories, Pure Gold, was published by 4th Estate in 2021. His debut novel, Fun and Games,… Read more »
Laura Jean McKay
Laura Jean McKay is a writer based in Australia. She is the author of The Animals in That Country (Scribe 2020) – winner of the prestigious Arthur C Clarke Award, The Victorian Prize for Literature, the ABIA Small Publishers Adult Book of the Year and co-winner of the Aurealis Award for Best Science Fiction Novel… Read more »
Louise Hegarty
Louise Hegarty’s stories have appeared in Banshee, The Tangerine, The Stinging Fly and The Dublin Review and have been featured on BBC Radio 4. She was the inaugural winner of the Sunday Business Post/Penguin Ireland Short Story Prize and recently her story ‘Now, Voyager’ was produced as part of A City and A Garden, a… Read more »
William Keohane
William Keohane is a writer from Limerick. His essays have been published in British GQ, Banshee, The Stinging Fly, and The Tangerine. In 2021, he was longlisted for Canongate’s Nan Shepherd Prize for Nature Writing and was selected for the Poetry Ireland Introductions series. William is the current writer-in-residence at Ormston House.
Nina Bhadreshwar
Nina Bhadreshwar trained and worked as a journalist in South Yorkshire before relocating to Watts, Los Angeles in the 1990s with her own magazine. While there, she was recruited to be the press officer and biographer of Death Row Records. She’s worked in woodland management, music journalism and as a high school teacher in England,… Read more »