Diary Detectives

Erika McGann grew up in Drogheda, County Louth, and now lives in Dublin. She is the author of a number of children’s books, including the winner of the Waverton Good Read Children’s Prize 2014, The Demon Notebook, the first in her magical series about Grace and her four friends. Other books in the series are: The Broken Spell, The Watching Wood and The Midnight Carnival. She is also the author of the ‘Cass and the Bubble Street Gang’ series.

Aoife McElwain is a food writer and creative events planner. She writes about food for The Irish Times and Totally Dublin. She is one half of the video and recipe series forkful.tv and works as a food stylist across print, digital and TV. She is the Programme Curator and Community Manager of Turkfest, a community-led arts and music festival on a small island called Inishturk, home to just 58 people, off the west coast of Ireland, and the founder and curator of the slow:series, a talk series delving into different aspects of the slow movement.