We are always very proud and supportive of our local writers and this event is a wonderful opportunity to showcase their talent and spotlight their voices.
Michelle Dunne is a crime and thriller writer from Cobh whose new psychological thriller, The Good Girl, was published by Bloodhound Books in March 2024. In July 2024, The Hotel Maid will be released as part of a two-book deal with Storm Publishing. Michelle also wrote While Nobody is Watching and The invisible, a series of thrillers following former soldier and UN Peacekeeper Lindsey Ryan as she tries to adapt to her new life in the clutches of PTSD. The series is currently in development for TV and is inspired by Michel’s own experiences as an infantry soldier and UN Peacekeeper. Michelle is organiser and programmer of the Spike Island Literary Festival, a crime-themed festival on Ireland’s own Alcatraz.
Daragh Fleming is a writer and poet from Cork, Ireland. His debut in non-fiction, Lonely Boy, is a collection of essays on mental health which was published in 2022. He was recently highly commended for the Patrick Kavanagh Award and the Fool For Poetry Prize He has also been longlisted for the Cúirt New Irish Writing Prize, the London Magazine Poetry Prize, and shortlisted for the Alpine Fellowship Poetry Prize. Daragh has given TEDx Talks on poetry, and is often invited to speak at universities and festivals. His debut poetry collection, Enigmatic was published in 2023, and his work is widely published in literary magazines
Lynda Marron was born in Dublin, spent her early childhood in a small town in Co. Kildare, and moved to Cork at the age of nine. Lynda graduated from University College Cork in the mid-nineties with two degrees in microbiology, neither of which brought her any closer to her dream of writing a novel. She opted for the longer route, The School of Life Experience Creative Writing Course, which included teaching English to Italian teenagers, filing letters in a GP surgery, writing listicles for an online bookseller, and a twenty-five year module called Read All the Books. She has made and raised four lovely humans, each of whom she taught to read. When she isn’t busy writing, you will find her reading, not weeding, in her rewilding garden. Lynda’s debut novel, Last Chance in Paris was published by Eriu in February 2024. Her second novel is due for release in February 2025.
Michelle McDonagh is an Irish journalist with over twenty-five years’ experience. She is married with three children and lives in Cork. She is the author of two bestselling novels: There’s Something I Have to Tell You (2023) and Somebody Knows (2024).
