David McWilliamsJoe DuffyFiona LooneyClaire KilroyMichael KellyEoghan HarrisRuth Dudley EdwardsPaul DurcanGerry HuntTim Pat CooganJoseph O’ConnorDiarmaid FerriterClaire KeeganThomas LynchPaul HowardNiall MacMonagleAlan Titley
Claire Keegan is the author of Antarctica and Walk the Blue Fields. Her stories have won numerous awards including The Rooney Prize for Irish Literature, The William Trevor Prize (judged by William Trevor), The Macaulay Fellowship, The Martin Healy Prize, The Tom Gallon Award, The Kilkenny Prize, The Olive Cook Award and The Hugh Leonard Bursary. She was twice the winner of The Francis MacManus Award, and last year won The Edge Hill Prize for the finest book of stories published in the British Isles. Keegan was recently announced as the winner of The Davy Byrne’s Award – the world’s largest prize for a single short story and judged by Richard Ford.

She has taught at The University of Wales; Dublin City University; University College, Dublin; University College, Cork; was Heimbold Professor of Irish Studies at Villanova University, Pennsylvania in 2007 and was writer in residence at the Celtic Studies Department at the University of Toronto earlier this year. Once a Wingate scholar, she is now a member of Aosdana.