Niamh Sharkey is an award-winning picturebook creator and former Children’s Laureate of Ireland. Her books have won numerous awards including the prestigious Mother Goose Award. Niamh’s books have been translated into over twenty-eight languages. Her titles include The Ravenous Beast, Santasaurus and On the Road with Mavis and Marge. Niamh is the creator and executive producer of Disney Junior’s Henry Hugglemonster, an animated show based on her picturebook I’m a Happy Hugglewug (Walker Books). Niamh is also the creator and executive producer of Eureka! which launches this November on Disney Junior. She is really excited to be working on a new series of picturebooks with her husband Owen.

Flora Delargy is an author and illustrator from Belfast who loves to bring to life true tales and events from the past. In 2020, Flora completed an MA in Children’s Book Illustration from the Cambridge School of Art, graduating with a Distinction. She also holds a Bachelor of Music degree from King’s College London. In 2019, she was selected for the Illustrators Exhibition at the Bologna Children’s Book Fair. Rescuing Titanic, published by Quarto in September 2021, is her first book.

Oisín McGann is one of Ireland’s most prolific writer-illustrators, producing books for all ages. He is the author of the hugely popular Mad Grandad books, Headbomz: Wreckin’ Yer Head and novels such as Race the Atlantic Wind. He is also the illustrator of The Secret Scientist, the latest in Jason Byrne’s Onion O’Brien series. He is a winner of the European Science Fiction Society Award, CBI’s Children’s Choice Award and has been shortlisted for numerous other awards. He lives somewhere in the Irish countryside, where he won’t be heard shouting at his computer.

Judi Curtin was born in London and grew up in Cork. She trained as a primary school teacher, but is now a full-time writer. She has written thirty-one books for adults and children, many of which have been bestsellers. She is best known for the Alice and Megan series, the Eva series and the Molly and Beth series. In 2019 she wrote her first historical novel for children, Lily at Lissadell, which tells the story of a young girl who has to leave school to work as a housemaid in Lissadell House. Judi’s latest book is Lily’s Dream.

In 2009, Jacqui became the first female anchor of Sunday Sport on RTE Radio One. She presents the daily sports bulletins on RTE’s 6.1 news and is also a regular anchor of RTE’s soccer output on television. She is a former Irish basketball international and also played camogie for Cork.