• 2026 - Speakers

    Jackie Gorman

    Jackie Gorman is a poet from Athlone whose work has been published in a number of publications, including The Honest Ulsterman, Poetry Ireland Review, The Sow’s Ear Poetry Review, The Lonely Crowd, and Obsessed With Pipework. She was runner-up in the Waterford Poetry Prize 2025. She won the Listowel Writers Week…

  • 2026 - RBSS - Speakers

    Clodagh Beresford Dunne

    Clodagh Beresford Dunne was born in Dublin and raised in Dungarvan, Co. Waterford. She was awarded the Emerging Writer Award, Agility Award, and a Travel and Training Award by the Arts Council of Ireland, and her poem Seven Sugar Cubes was voted Irish Poem of the Year at the 2017…

  • 2026 - Speakers

    Margaret Organ

    Margaret Organ is the Waterford County Arts Officer with Waterford City and County Council. Based in Dungarvan, her areas of responsibility include Festivals and Events, Rural Arts, Arts in Education, Community Arts, Public Art, Arts in Health, and several other artforms. She is responsible for the Old Market House Arts Centre…