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Billy Brennan
Billy Brennan is a 23-year-old poet and musician, currently based in Galway.
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Mairéad Maguire
Mairéad Maguire is from Dublin. She received an honourable mention in the Dark Poets Prize IV and participated in the 2025 winter Notre Dame Kylemore Writing Residency.
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Conaill Muldoon
Conaill Muldoon is 23, from Westport, Co. Mayo. His creative writing interests lie in fiction, nonfiction, and screenwriting. In 2025, he graduated from the University of Galway with a BA in…
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Aoife McLoughlin
Aoife McLoughlin is a 24-year-old Irish poet based in the West of Ireland. Her poetry explores the natural world, as well as aspects of Irish culture and issues within Irish society.
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Emma Flannery
Emma Flannery is a writer from the West of Ireland. She writes both fiction and poetry, but has been known to dabble in screenwriting.
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Boo Moorhead
Boo Moorhead is from County Down. She’s returned to Ireland, after twenty-five years in the UK, with a broad portfolio of artistic projects.
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Patrick Deely
Patrick Deely is a M.A. Student at University of Galway. His interests include art, writing, philosophy, history, general aspects of culture and society.
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S.E. Drake
S. E. Drake grew up in a small town in Southern Illinois but now lives in Galway. She has a B.A. in language arts from Cedarville University and is completing an…
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Jordan Lydon
Jordan Lydon is an Irish writer based between Galway and Dublin. Her work is also featured in Ropes and the Medusa.
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Ella Titterington
Ella is a writer, musician in Galway, Ireland. She is American, raised in France and other places.
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Sophie-Claire Cordoux
Originally from the Caribbean Islands, Sophie-Claire Coudoux’s poetry circles themes of spirituality, family, history, womanhood and nature within the Caribbean context.
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Jana Lizinski
Jana Lizinski, born in Lübeck, studying an MA in Writing in Galway after Comparative Literature in Berlin.
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Sophie Schulze
Sophie is a fiction and poetry writer and is currently working on her debut romance novel. She has previously published pieces of fiction and non-fiction in Across The Margin, Active Muse, and Suburban Witchcraft.
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Fíona Cunney
Fíona Cunney is a young poet and novelist from the working class in the West of Ireland, and is currently completing her MA in English literature at University of Galway.
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Anna Kabel
Originally from New York, Anna is a Danish-American who has spent the last three years working and living in Copenhagen. She holds a Bachelor’s in Creative Writing from SUNY Brockport and…
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Panna Békési
Panna Békési is a student of MA Writing at the University of Galway. She enjoys writing about the strange and the macabre. Two of her fiction pieces will be appearing in…
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Jane Dell’Albani
Bachelor’s Degree in English language and literature, with an interest in mythology, urban fantasy, romantic fiction, and poetry.
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Nika Knez
A lover of all things whimsy, tragic and magical, Nika Knez is an aspiring author from Croatia. Currently based in Cork City, Ireland, Nika holds a BA honours degree in English…
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Ellen McDonough
Marketing communication, journalism and technology reigned for decades. Creative writing hobbied in the shadows until a recent explosion of light.
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Shivangi Dhiman
Hi, I am Shivangi Dhiman, a MA English student who loves writing poems inspired by observation, emotions, and everyday life.
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Marah Mallm
Marah Mallm is originally from Germany, but she currently lives in Ireland. She is one of the co-founders of The Medusa Literary Magazine and had self-published five collections of poetry.
University of Galway MA Showcase
Sunday 26th April 2026
12:30 -1:30 Nuns Island Theatre
We are delighted to introduce some of the most vibrant new voices in the Galway literary landscape. This digital resource was designed to accompany the live performance hosted by Masters in Writing students from the University of Galway at Cúirt International Festival of Literature. This diverse and dynamic portfolio of fiction, non-fiction and poetry, provides a timely snapshot of each students individual style, talent and interest. Thank you for visiting and supporting new writing. Click on name.
