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LITERARY FICTION

MIA GALLAGHER

Mia is a writer and performer. Her debut novel HellFire received international critical acclaim and the Literature Award in Irish Tatler’s Women of the Year 2007. Her short stories have been published in Ireland and abroad and have won the START short fiction award as well as being nominated for a Hennessy Award.  As a performer, Mia has trained extensively in Ireland and France and since 1998 has toured internationally with original theatre productions.

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CREATIVE NONFICTION

PROFESSOR LEE GUTKIND

Professor of English at the University of Pittsburgh and Former Director of the writing program there, Lee Gutkind has pioneered the teaching of creative nonfiction, conducting workshops and presenting readings throughout the United States and abroad. He is founding editor of Creative Nonfiction Journal and prize-winning author or editor of more than a dozen books, the most recent of which is Almost Human: Making Robots Think.  Harper's Magazine have dubbed him founder of the creative nonfiction movement Vanity Fair, its "godfather".  He is passionate about explaining the craft and mission of this exciting genre.

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HISTORICAL FICTION

ORNA ROSS

Orna Ross is a novelist and feature writer and founder of Font Literary Agency & Writing Centre.  Her novels weave across time to explore the relationship between past and future through story. Her first, Lovers' Hollow, received unanimous praise on publication.  Her second, A Dance in Time, will appear in September 2008 and she is currently at work on a set of novels centred on the consequences of race hatred during the New York Draft Riots of 1863. 

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"Working intensely over a four week period in Dublin with my Font mentor I was able to sharpen my focus and my story, and clean up my dialogue. When I left Dublin I felt confident that my manuscript had a good chance of being accepted by a publisher – it was, first time. And when I didn’t like their contract, I was confident enough to walk away and find publisher I liked." 

Karen Lotter, author Follow The Son

“Oh! may I join the choir invisible of those immortal dead who live again In minds made better by their presence.”

George Eliot
(Mary Ann Evans)
1819-1880