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Represented By: Sharmaine Lovegrove
Cyrielle Tamby is a French diasporic writer, researcher and cultural curator based in Berlin.
Born and raised in Paris to a family whose roots span India, Vietnam and the Republic of the Congo, she is interested in how history lives on in families, relationships and communities, and in the ways people negotiate belonging and home across generations.
She studied Social Sciences at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin before completing a degree in Sociocultural Studies at Europa-Universität Viadrina. She later became a Visiting Scholar in African Diaspora Studies and Black Geographies at the University of California, Berkeley. Her research explores Black popular culture, dancehall, postcolonial identity and transnational cultural exchange, and has resulted in two academic books, Welches Geschlecht hat Dancehall? and Resistdance.
Alongside her literary practice, Cyrielle works in creative project management, leading international creative productions and campaigns for global fashion brands. She has spent more than a decade developing cultural programmes that bring together literature, dance, music and critical dialogue. As former Chair of MINCE e.V., she helped shape the CDC Festival in Berlin, one of Europe's leading Afro-Caribbean dance festivals, where she curated the conference programme and community sessions, creating spaces for exchange between artists, scholars and communities.
Cyrielle is an alumna of the Black Women Writers in Europe residency. She has participated in the Kweli International Literary Festival and developed her fiction through the Stuyvesant Writing Workshop under the mentorship of novelist Nicole Dennis-Benn.
At the heart of her writing is a fascination with how people inherit, resist and reinvent the worlds they come from.
Represented By: Sharmaine Lovegrove
Imogen grew up on a farm in Devon and moved to London to train at RADA in the 90s.
As an actor and director, she has toured France, New Zealand, India, Brazil and the UK and has written and directed plays exploring drug abuse, capoeira and sexual harm in English, Portuguese, Bengali and Hindi. Foreign Body, her award-winning solo play about repair after sexual harm, toured the UK and internationally, selling out runs at Soho Theatre, the VAULT Festival and WOW Festival at the Southbank Centre.
Imogen has consulted with journalists at BBC 1Xtra, The Independent, The Mail on Sunday and Medium to destigmatise the conversation around sexual harm.
As a facilitator of embodied leadership for women, Imogen has designed and delivered transformational change programmes for top global brands such as Chanel, Stella McCartney, Tiktok and Warner Music. She has also worked as a producer for Shakespeare’s Globe, a casting director for the BBC and a lecturer in drama and creative writing departments at the Universities of Oxford, Westminster, Loughborough, Calcutta, Mumbai and Dhaka.
Imogen co-hosted the Loving Colour podcast, a series of personal conversations about race and racism. The series explores what it means when justice starts at home.
Her work has been featured in Cosmopolitan and the Vagina Museum’s zine Lip Service.
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Seren Jones is a multi award-winning journalist specialising in documentaries and podcasts.
In the podcast space, Seren has hosted, produced and written mini series for some of the audio industry's biggest platforms including Wondery, iHeart, Apple, BBC Sounds and Audible. Her original podcast series, Black and Blue: Behind the Badge, was recognised at the British Podcast Awards in the 'Best Factual' category. She has also been named one of the Radio Academy's 30 Under 30 finalists, as well as one of PodPod's Faces to Watch.
In television, Seren has also gained recognition for her documentary work. Seren holds a BAFTA nomination in the ‘Breakthrough’ category, and was recently named Presenter of the Year at RTS Wales, 2026.
Prior to her time in narrative audio, Seren spent five years working as a multi-media reporter and producer at BBC News covering national and international affairs for the BBC World Service, BBC Radio 4, BBC Wales, BBC Cymru and BBC 1Xtra. Seren was one of the founding producers of the BBC’s first flagship daily news podcast, Beyond Today, before going on to produce the award-winning podcasts Newscast and Americast, as well as a range of ‘always on’ programmes and original feature documentaries.
Beyond journalism, Seren is co-founder of the Black Swimming Association (BSA), an award-winning charity set up to raise awareness of water safety and drowning prevention. She speaks on numerous panels on issues involving media, Welsh affairs and race, gender and equality in sport.
Represented By: Ivan Mulcahy
Jamey is a British Screenwriter and Development Consultant based in Los Angeles, where he currently balances original writing projects, development consulting work on UK and US Features, and writing Vertical Streaming Dramas for various platforms.
In 2023, he moved from his native London to LA to undertake the Screenwriting MFA at USC's School of Cinematic Arts, graduating in 2025. He brings to his writing nearly two decades of development experience across British film and television. He was Development Executive at the BFI Film Fund (where he developed scripts that include Pride, Frank, Lady Macbeth and God's Own Country), and for Paul Abbott (Shameless, State of Play), VP Creative at Elton John’s Rocket Pictures, Development Producer at Simon Pegg and Nick Frost’s Stolen Picture and Head of Development for Oscar-winning filmmaker Steve McQueen (12 Years a Slave).
Jamey read Psychology & Neuroscience at Oxford, planning to be a therapist before deciding fictional people were easier to help. He then did the Producing MA at the NFTS before beginning his career as assistant to director David Yates on the Harry Potter films, where he also wrote additional material and made his acting debut and swansong simultaneously with the pivotal role of “Newspaper Vendor” in Order of the Phoenix.
Jamey is drawn to clever characters who are hopelessly underequipped for life. He writes across genres, but usually with a vein of surreal comedy.
Represented By: Sharmaine Lovegrove
Thora Dahlke is a writer based in Berlin.
Her work has appeared in Volume 0, Wigleaf, Barrelhouse, Best Microfiction 2026, and elsewhere.
Represented By: Ivan Mulcahy
Bishon wrote early drafts for her first novel, Paradise Madness, in the backs of her high school notebooks instead of completing assignments. She is now an accomplished author, screenwriter, and director living in New York City.
In 2024, Bishon became an Academy Award Nicholl Fellowship semi-finalist with her dark comedy screenplay, Sucks to Be Stacey. Her high school #MeToo centered screenplay No Fury, and her television pilot, Hire, have also both been shortlisted by The Blacklist / Women In Film for their 2022 feature and 2024 episodic residency programs. In June 2026, Bishon wrote and directed a short horror film called Green Ribbon, based on the folktale about the headless girl who wears a ribbon around her neck, told through a survivor lens. Her work seeks to examine an intersectional feminine experience under patriarchal oppression, revealing the systemic dehumanization that so often plagues girlhood. Paradise Madness explores the autonomy of love and desire in a world that seeks to oppress and control.
Bishon lives in Queens with her partner, two Machiavellian kittens, and an ever-growing collection of Criterion Blu-Rays
Represented By: Sharmaine Lovegrove
Michelle Meagher is a leading anti-monopoly lawyer and author of COMPETITION IS KILLING US: HOW BIG BUSINESS IS HARMING OUR SOCIETY AND PLANET – AND WHAT TO DO ABOUT IT (Penguin Business, 2020; a Financial Times Book of the Year).
In 2020, she co-founded Europe’s first nonprofit anti-monopoly think-tank, the Balanced Economy Project, to catalyse an international anti-monopoly movement. She holds economics and law degrees from Oxford and Georgetown, and practised antitrust/competition law at top law firms in London and Brussels, at regulators in the UK and US, and at the World Bank. Frequently sought after as keynote speaker, panellist, and podcast guest, she has delivered presentations for the Financial Times, the OECD, University of Chicago, Harvard, Yale, and Oxford. Major media outlets feature her insights, including national television, radio, and leading publications such as the Guardian and Financial Times.
Represented By: Sharmaine Lovegrove
Raymond E. Slacker is a writer and editor based in London.
He works across fiction, theory, and drama. Slacker works in editorial at an independent Black press and holds a postgraduate degree in Art Theory & Philosophy from Central Saint Martins.
Represented By: Sharmaine Lovegrove
Stef Macbeth grew up in a railway family in the UK, studied philosophy at the University of Glasgow, and was part of the inner circle at the Sub Club during the years that made Glasgow's underground scene one of the most influential in Europe.
In London he worked in advertising and co-created Global Soundtracks, a music podcast made with Tom Ravenscroft before his BBC 6 Music years. He moved to Berlin in 2013, where he has worked as a communications consultant and raised three children.
His writing returns repeatedly to what he calls the geographies of belonging: the places, scenes and shared rituals that hold people together, and what happens to them when the conditions that made them possible disappear. His debut novel FOLK was published by Velocity Press in 2025 and longlisted for the McKitterick Prize. Hannah McGill called it "a warm, perceptive, funny and wise book about finding your tribe — how it can save you, how it can lead you into danger, and ultimately how it all goes into the person you become." Emma Warren, with whom he appeared at Faversham Literary Festival, praised its "new insights into the freedoms offered by illegal raves and radical youth clubs."
For Borealis Festival he created Argument of the Broken Window, a site-specific walking piece reimagining Emmeline Pankhurst's 1912 suffrage speech as a route through central London. His second novel The Municipal draws on his founding of The Night Trains, a cultural rail project featured in the Evening Standard and SUITCASE. He lives in Berlin with his partner and their three children.
Represented By: Seoyeon Park
Jina Kim is a literary translator and an aspiring writer based in Los Angeles, where she lives with her five year old son.
She has written multiple original works often based on her own experiences, including short stories “Deodorization” and “Quarter Life Crisis”.
She has also written poetry collections such as “The Land of Morning Calm: An EP”. She is especially drawn to semi-surrealistic works that address social issues – particularly around gender and race – or have philosophical, psychological, or moral messages.
She recently graduated from University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) with a Bachelor of Arts degree in English Literature. During Jina’s time in school, she was nominated for the 2025 Peter Rotter and Teague-Melville essay awards for her research paper “The Role of Deception and its Evolution in the Original and Remake ‘Mr. and Mrs. Smith’’.
Represented By: Sharmaine Lovegrove
Paola Thomas is a novelist, photographer and food writer who looks for the stories behind everything she creates.
She grew up in London, addicted to Parmesan and prosciutto, thanks to her Italian mother. After years in the corporate trenches, she moved to Seattle where she swapped spreadsheets for saltimbocca and reinvented herself as a food and travel photographer and writer, documenting the stories behind our food and those who produce it.
Her work has appeared in The Kitchn, Eater, Edible Seattle, and Zagat’s. She won the Evening Standard’s Gourmet of the Year award, had several photographs shortlisted for World Food Photography Awards, and published a children’s short story in Richard & Judy’s Winning Stories. She studied French and Italian at Oxford University, has lived in both France and Italy and speaks both languages fluently.
Influenced by Jilly Cooper, Judith Krantz, and Helen Fielding, Paola has always loved a love story andLOVE FOCACCIALLYis her debut contemporary romance: a witty, escapist, emotionally intelligent romcom blending food, travel, and the chaotic glamour of social media and celebrity culture, viewed through a photographic lens.
Paola now lives in the Oxfordshire Cotswolds with her husband, daughter, two feisty cats and hundreds of cookbooks.
Represented By: Sharmaine Lovegrove
Precious Adesina is a London-based writer, journalist and radio host whose work often explores the intersections of art, culture and politics.
She regularly writes for major publications, including The New York Times, BBC, Financial Times, The Economist, and cultural magazines such as Kinfolk and i-D, among many others.
She has been invited to speak at several leading institutions, including Whitechapel Gallery, The Barbican, The Royal Academy, Nottingham Contemporary, Baillie Gifford and University College London, her alma mater.
After studying History of Art, she received a prestigious scholarship from the National Union of Journalism to study an MA in Newspaper Journalism, where she specialised in politics and wrote her thesis on art forgery.
Represented By: Sharmaine Lovegrove
Kirsteen McNish is a writer, events curator and broadcaster.
She has a regular column for the celebrated online arts and culture journal Caught By The River.
She was writer in residence for UNESCO’s Exeter Quay Words in 2025. She has had essays published online and in print by various outlets including publishers Little Toller, and Elliot & Thompson. She reviews music for The Quietus and has worked in sound with Resonance FM and the BBC.
Kirsteen is also an events curator who works filmmakers, musicians and artists on special one-off events remote places ranging from Epping Forest, The RIBA, The Minack Theatre, and within the hills and tors of Dartmoor.
She has co-curated and contributed to a number of panel events, most recently with The Wellcome Collection, and Dartmoor Preservation Association. Kirsteen also developed the story around an album called “Mirry” which was about the secret life and lost music of a female composer. Kirsteen lives in Devon.
Represented By: Sharmaine Lovegrove
Lucy Golding is a writer and historian based in Oxfordshire.
Born in London, she has degrees from the University of Bristol and Royal Holloway, University of London, and a History DPhil from Wadham College, University of Oxford. Her doctoral thesis Educated expectations: graduate mothers and their work in the long 1950s explored women’s lives and work in post-war Britain.
Her fiction is sometimes inspired by the letters and diaries from across the centuries found in archival collections, and by the cities and rural landscapes where she’s lived and worked. She writes to try to make sense of the world, to explore ideas, make connections between them, and to imagine characters and their motivations as they navigate the complexities of life.
When not reading, researching, and writing, she can be found wandering around art galleries and museums, walking in the countryside with her dog, or pottering amongst the roses in her garden.
Author photo credit: Hannah Veale
Represented By: Sallyanne Sweeney
Alex Dunne is a writer from the west of Ireland.
Her first children's novel, The Book of Secrets, was published by The O'Brien Press in September 2022 and went on to win the Eilís Dillon Award for a First Book at the 2023 KPMG Children's Book Ireland Awards. It was also nominated for the 2023 Yoto Carnegie Medal for Writing and won "Best Debut" at the 2024 Renaissance Quiz Writers' Choice Awards.
A follow-up novel, The Harp of Power, was published in October 2023 and was shortlisted for the Literacy Ireland Biennial Awards.
Her third children's novel, Small Magics is due to be published by The O'Brien Press in March 2026. Alex is a co-founder of Silver Apples Magazine, an online literary journal dedicated to showcasing the best of Irish and international writing.
Alex is on Instagram as @alexdunnewrites.
Represented By: Sharmaine Lovegrove
Ralph Martin is a novelist and screenwriter based in Berlin. His work aims to stir empathy and bring heart to high-tension narratives in fiction and film.
His work uses thriller structures to tell stories of families under pressure, featuring recognizable, initially low-stakes scenarios that morph into gripping tales where everything is on the line.
He co-created the HBO Europe miniseries Hackerville and worked in the writers’ room on Deutschland 83. As a journalist he has written for the New York Times, the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, GQ, and numerous travel magazines. He also works as a news reporter at Deutsche Welle in Berlin.
His debut novel Foreign Bodies (working title) explores just how wrong an American family vacation can go in Paris. (Very, very wrong.)
Represented By: Sharmaine Lovegrove
Carolin Würfel is a writer, screenwriter, and journalist from East Germany.
She studied History and Journalism in Berlin and Istanbul and holds an MA from Freie Universität Berlin. Her work explores how women’s lives can reframe cultural memory and has sparked major debates — from bringing the #MeToo conversation into the German art world to reshaping discussions around East German identity. Her narrative non-fiction Three Women Who Dreamed of Socialism became a SPIEGEL bestseller, and she recently published her first novel with Hanser Berlin. She writes regularly for DIE ZEIT and The Guardian, and works across print, film, and television. She lives between Berlin and Istanbul.
Photo credit: Erdem Varol
Represented By: Sharmaine Lovegrove
Zeynep Demirelli MSc. is a therapist, influencer and eating disorder survivor.
After battling with eating disorders half her life, she now has her own practice helping others, not only through individual therapy sessions, but also through her Instagram @realistic.body.therapist. She shares her experiences and reflections on the struggles of body image, diet culture and eating disorders.
In a culture where body positivity rules the discourse on how we ‘should be’ treating our bodies, Zeynep strives for a more “realistic” outlook on eating disorder recovery. She challenges conventional portrayals of recovery as a fun, empowering and liberating process by addressing what is all too often left out: the slip-ups, tears, and frustrations. Recovery is tough and it certainly isn’t linear. Zeynep is brutally honest about these realities, which crop up before, during and after eating disorder recovery. Her approach is not to fully reject societal standards, but to co-exist with them.
Represented By: Ivan Mulcahy
Jin R. Choi is a literary translator and academic in queer/feminist studies, critical Korean studies, and communication/rhetoric studies.
She holds a Ph.D. (coming in 2026) in Communication, M.A. in Communication, and a B.A. in Sociology and Communication Arts. Find her work at jinrchoi.com.
Represented By: Sharmaine Lovegrove
Jake Kwon is a senior journalist at the BBC based in Seoul, South Korea.
He was previously a producer for CNN covering politics and culture of the Korean Peninsula. Since 2016, he has covered Kim Jong Un’s missile programme, the sudden fall of South Korean leaders, and the rise of South Korea’s soft power in the world.
Kwon was born in Seoul and moved to Canada after the Asian financial crisis of 1997. He studied musical theatre in New York City before moving back to Seoul to open a backpacker’s hostel. He believes his life was largely shaped by South Korean social trends.
Represented By: Sallyanne Sweeney
Imogen Usherwood is a novelist and playwright.
She was born in rural Shropshire but raised in suburban North Carolina, then Mid Devon, then North Hampshire – these different landscapes inform her fiction about place, regional identity and everything that comes with it.
She read English Literature at Durham, then earned her MSt in Creative Writing from Oxford. Her prose has been published in Joyland and Mslexia, and in 2022 she was shortlisted for The Telegraph’s Cassandra Jardine Memorial Prize for non-fiction. In 2023, her short story ‘Small Hours’ placed runner-up in the Oxford Review of Books short fiction prize, judged by Octavia Bright. Her plays have been performed at venues including the Edinburgh Festival Fringe, New Wimbledon Theatre Studio, Tristan Bates Theatre, Oxford Playhouse, and Mountview Academy of Theatre Arts. She is the Playwright-in-Residence at Trinity College, Cambridge for the 2025-26 academic year, supported by the Peter Shaffer Foundation.
Represented By: Sallyanne Sweeney
Emma Simpson is an award-winning author and wild swimmer specialising in narrative non-fiction.
Her debut book, Breaking Waves: Discovery, Healing and Inspiration in the Open Water, was published in March 2025 by Icon Books. Breaking Waves is an exploration into the primal powers of femininity and water and has received consistent 5-star reviews. Emma intertwines stories of women around the world with her own experiences, taking the reader on an uplifting journey of hope and renewal; celebrating community, connection, and the power of rewriting your own life story.
A trained tea sommelier, Emma is currently working on her second book, rooted in her passion for tea. Blending memoir and cultural history, this is a modern love story with a twist. The shared love of tea frames the narrative, providing both a literal setting for pivotal moments as well as a symbolic thread throughout representing moments of pause, comfort and ways of coming together.
Emma lives in Surrey with her fire-fighter husband, two teenage daughters and a sixty-year-old tortoise. She can generally be found swimming in rivers in a bikini in the snow, drinking tea with friends or embarrassing her children with her compulsion to talk with anyone she meets.
Represented By: Sharmaine Lovegrove
Posture Ellie (Eleanor Dalton) is a Postural Alignment Therapist, Yoga Teacher and Breathwork Instructor who helps people to learn how to move pain free.
Ellie focuses on teaching people how to improve the quality of their movement patterns, before they increase the quantity of their movement patterns. When we focus on the basics: restoring balance across the joints, ease into the nervous system and function back to the muscles (through corrective posture and breathwork exercises), we can move as much as we like, into our later years, without any pain or problems. Ellie's upcoming book 'Posture Power' delves into this empowering and transformative work and aims to enlighten her readers as to how much power they have within themselves to create monumental change in their life.
Represented By: Sallyanne Sweeney
Sue Rainsford is an Irish novelist and arts writer based in Dublin.
She is a graduate of Trinity College, IADT, and Bennington College, Vermont. Her debut novel, Follow Me To Ground, was originally published by New Island Books in Ireland (2018), in the UK by Doubleday (2019), and by Scribner in the US (2021). Her second novel, Redder Days, was published by Doubleday in Ireland and the UK (2021).
Her stories and novels have been nominated for the Republic of Consciousness Award, the Desmond Elliott Prize, the Prix Jean Monnet des Jeunes Européens, the New York Radio Festival Awards, the Desperate Literature Prize for Short Fiction, and have received starred reviews from Kirkus Reviews and Publishers Weekly.
Sue is also the grateful recipient of the VAI/DCC Art Writing Award, the Arts Council Literature Bursary Award, a MacDowell Fellowship, the Kate O’Brien Award and le Prix Imaginales Award, and she has been awarded residencies by such institutions as the Irish Museum of Modern Art, Maynooth University and University College Dublin. Notable commissions include BBC Radio 4 and RTÉ Radio 1; her short story, "Shorn", was read by Saoirse Ronan.
Most recently, Follow Me To Ground and Redder Days have been published by Aux Forges de Vulcain in France.
Photo Credit: Ali Rainsford
Represented By: Sallyanne Sweeney
A Journalist and Ghostwriter, Sue is the co-author of two recent number one bestsellers: Whispering Hope, the True Story of the Magdalene Women, (Orion 2015,) and An Act of Love with Marie Fleming, recounting Marie’s extraordinary life, and fight for the right to die with dignity (Hachette Ireland, 2014).
She has worked on eight other books as a ghost writer, two, for Penguin Ireland, were best sellers. She is the author of Keys to the Cage (New Island, 2010).
As a journalist, Sue has written for The Irish Times, the Irish Independent, the Irish Examiner, The Evening Herald, Image Magazine, and numerous other publications. A former columnist with the Evening Herald she currently writes the ‘Beginner’s Pluck’ book column for the Irish Examiner, and the Debut Roundup Column for Books Ireland. She has interviewed countless authors, including eleven winners of the Man Booker Prize.
She teaches Freelance Journalism, and Ghostwriting at The Irish Writer’s Centre , IEL Abroad, and on line, and gives one to one tuition on both subjects. She also hosts public interviews, including at The West Cork Literary Festival where she has interviewed Zadie Smith and Nick Laird, Fay Weldon, Anne Enright, Paula Meehan, John Boyne, Patrick Gale, Kit De Waal, Kate Mosse and Linda Grant among others.
Represented By: Sallyanne Sweeney
Sarah Moore Fitzgerald is an Irish novelist, short story writer, teacher and researcher.
Her fiction for children and young adults has won/been shortlisted for several literary prizes including the Jack Harte Bursary, The Calderdale Prize, Scotland's Red Book Award, The Waterstones' Prize for Children's Literature and The Irish Book Awards. Her creative work has been adapted for the stage and translated into over twenty different languages.
Sarah is a recent winner of the London Magazine's annual award for short fiction with her story entitled 'Matamoros, July 1846' set during the Mexican-American War. She's a member of the University of Limerick's creative writing team, founder of UL's renowned Creative Writing Winter School, and in 2016 was awarded a professorship for her work in teaching enhancement and educational development.
A lifelong literacy advocate, Sarah has completed a three-year project in collaboration with Children's Books Ireland, entitled 'Every Child a Reader' and she works actively with communities to promote and support creative writing. Her academic research includes a focus on the writing process and how creative and academic writers go about the complex, often challenging task of putting their work on paper.
Represented By: Sallyanne Sweeney
Lucy van Smit is a novelist, non-fiction writer, speaker, television documentary maker and fine artist.
She worked worldwide for NBC News and Canadian Broadcasting, making author documentaries on Ian McEwan, John Le Carré, Martin Amis, and Nadine Gordimer.
Finally, Lucy listened to the small voice she’d heard since childhood, saying she was a writer. Her debut The Hurting won the inaugural Bath Children’s Novel Award and was published by Barry Cunningham, Chicken House Books, when she turned sixty.
Her non-fiction builds on her passion for creativity and the inner life of writers. A Writer’s Journal Workbook (Bloomsbury, 2022) became an instant word-of-mouth bestseller, helping thousands of authors overcome anxiety and writer’s block. Her forthcoming book The Creative Heart (Bloomsbury, 2026) is her most ambitious work: part-guided journal, part creative-nonfiction that takes its theme — Know Yourself — from the psychological to the soul level.
Drawing on thirty-five years of studying spirituality, Lucy shows why in an era of AI, there's never been a more vital time to be a writer—-to write with depth, courage, and conscience.
Lucy speaks regularly at festivals, including the London Screenwriter’s Festival, and runs popular workshops for writers seeking resilience, inspiration, and joy in their work.
Represented By: Sallyanne Sweeney
Liadán Hynes is a journalist who lives in Dublin with her five-year-old daughter
She writes for a number of publications including the Sunday Independent, the Irish Independent, Irish Tatler and Image.
Liadán hosts the podcast How to Fall Apart: a podcast about picking up pieces, which examines how people coped, or didn’t cope, during the difficult times in life, and writes a weekly column called Things Fall Apart for Image.ie about putting life back together, all of which came together to form the book, How To Fall Apart, published earlier this year by Hachette.
She is also a founding member of online publication rogue.
Represented By: Sallyanne Sweeney
Leona Forde is a children’s author and teacher from Bandon, County Cork. She is the author of the Milly McCarthy series published by Gill Books Ireland.
The series has received widespread praise including been dubbed Ireland's answer to The Wimpy Kid. Milly McCarthy is a Complete Catastrophe was a top five Irish children’s fiction bestseller and Milly McCarthy and the Irish Dancing Disaster was shortlisted for an Irish Children’s Book Award. Milly McCarthy and the Sports Day Shambles was a top three children’s bestseller overall and was shortlisted for the Irish Children’s Book Awards. This highly illustrated middle grade series follows the antics of a young Irish girl Milly, who is a magnet for mayhem, the books are feel-good, funny and well-paced for young readers.
Represented By: Niamh Mulvey
Clíodhna O'Sullivan is an Irish author.
Her debut fantasy novel, Her Hidden Fire, published in March 2026 and was a number one international bestseller, a Good Morning America book club pick, an ABA Indies pick and an Amazon Best Books of 2026 so far with multiple starred reviews. The sequel, Her Rising Flame, publishes in November 2026 with the final book in the trilogy, Her Bright Fury, out in July 2027.
She lives on the east coast of Ireland and is married with three children, far too many cats and a dog.