Anne Donnellan grew up in the countryside outside Ennis, County Clare. She has lived and worked in Galway for over forty years. Anne’s earliest background was in primary teaching. Her post graduate studies in Law and International Human Rights lead her to lifelong advocacy works in solidarity and justice issues ranging from the progression of age friendly local policy to serving on election observation missions in the Balkans.
After retiring from her work with the Department of Education and Skills, facilitating educational access for Traveller, Anne commenced poetry writing in 2015. Anne was shortlisted for the Poems for Patience competition 2018 and shortlisted for the Allingham Poetry Prize 2021. Her poetry has been published in various publications, literary journals and newspapers.

Eoin Devereux’s creative writing has featured in The Irish Times Hennessy New Irish Writing, The Poetry Programme RTE and on Sunday Miscellany. His poem ‘The Bullfield’ was recently published in the Poetry Ireland Anthology Vital Signs on poetry and medicine, edited by Martin Dyar. ‘The Bodhi Tree’ was shortlisted for a Hennessy Award in 2018. He has performed his work on Podcasts such as Eat The Storms and the Poetry Ireland’s Words Lightly Spoken.

He has been published in The Stony Thursday Book, The Ogham Stone and The Poetry Bus. A new prose poem has just been published for the Cheltenham based journal Lit 102.

In 2022, He curated – April Is The Cruellest Month – featuring work by Kerrie O’Brien, Emily Cullen, John Liddy, Denise Chaila and novelist Donal Ryan.

Eoin teaches on the MA in Creative Writing at the University of Limerick, where he leads the module Creative Writers in The Community.

Stanley Notte is one of Ireland’s most talented writers, speakers and spoken word artists.
His work has been published in numerous publications including:
The Writer’s Magazine,The Galway Review, Stanza’s Chapbook’s, O’Bheal Anthologies, The Evening Echo, Lagans Online Poetry Day Ireland Mix.
His combination of poetry, music and story -telling has received industry and TV recognition. He is also an editor and published author.