Female Voices

Victoria Kennefick’s most recent collection Egg/Shell is a deeply personal collection which breaks new ground with generosity, emotional complexity, formal ingenuity and wit. Her debut collection, Eat or We Both Starve won the Seamus Heaney First Collection Poetry Prize. She was the UCD/Arts Council of Ireland Writer-in- Residence 2023 and Poet-in-Residence at the Yeats Society Sligo 2022-2024. Victoria grew up in Cork and lives in Kerry.

Emma McKervey has been a recipient of the Tyrone Guthrie Bursary from Ards and North Down Borough Council and a Heinrich Boll residency award. Her work is published across the UK and Ireland. Emma p Highland Boundary Fault is based on the story of her great grandparents, stolen love letters, and a Sheriff's court case in Stornoway in 1895. Emma is originally from Holywood.

Kelly Creighton is an award-winning poet, novelist and short story writer from Newtownards. Her poetry collection 'Unbecoming' is based on the case of the Staten Island Witch, Polly Bodine, who was tried for the murder of her sister and niece in the 1840s. Her trial gripped the nation so much that her wax effigy was displayed by P T Barnum in New York!