Cúirt MA Showcase 2026 Presenters

Category: Writer

  • Billy Brennan

    Billy Brennan is a 23-year-old poet and musician, currently based in Galway.

  • 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.

  • 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 Journalism and English. Conaill’s interests include film, music, and sport. He also plays guitar and is currently learning Italian, badly.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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 M.A. in writing at the University of Galway and has been previously published in the Bright Flash Literary Review and October Hill. Her favorite…

  • Jordan Lydon

    Jordan Lydon is an Irish writer based between Galway and Dublin. Her work is also featured in Ropes and the Medusa.

  • Ella Titterington

    Ella is a writer, musician in Galway, Ireland. She is American, raised in France and other places.

  • 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.

  • Jana Lizinski

    Jana Lizinski, born in Lübeck, studying an MA in Writing in Galway after Comparative Literature in Berlin.

  • 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. 

  • 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.

  • 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 is now a Master’s Student at the University of Galway in the Writing Program. Her interests include contemporary literature, short stories, design, and visual…

  • 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 Literatum and The Medusa.

  • Jane Dell’Albani

    Bachelor’s Degree in English language and literature, with an interest in mythology, urban fantasy, romantic fiction, and poetry.

  • 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 Literature from University College Cork and is currently enrolled in a MA Writing Programme at the University of Galway. She has self-published a collection…

  • Ellen McDonough

    Marketing communication, journalism and technology reigned for decades. Creative writing hobbied in the shadows until a recent explosion of light.

  • Shivangi Dhiman

    Hi, I am Shivangi Dhiman, a MA English student who loves writing poems inspired by observation, emotions, and everyday life.

  • 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.