Aoife Barry is a Dublin-based freelance arts journalist and broadcaster. She is the author of the bestselling non-fiction book Social Capital (HarperCollins Ireland) about the impact of social media on our lives, which was nominated for an Irish Book Award in 2023. Her essays and fiction have been published by ROPES journal, Banshee, ThiWurd, and Visual Verse, and broadcast on Sunday Miscellany. She is a weekly arts columnist with the Sunday Times and features regularly on RTÉ and Today FM.

Daragh Fleming (author of Lonely Boy and A Brief Inhalation) is a writer from Cork, Ireland. His work appears in several literary magazines, including Southword, Crannóg, Stand, and Gutter. He was highly commended for both the Patrick Kavanagh Award and the Fool For Poetry Prize in 2023, and shortlisted for the Alpine Fellowship Poetry Prize in 2024. Daragh was also shortlisted for two Mental Health Media Award for his TEDx Talk on using creativity to enhance and maintain our mental health

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