Bio

Derville Quigley is a writer from Monaghan, Ireland based in Amsterdam, the Netherlands. Her poems and short stories have been published in The Ogham Stone, Trasna, Hidden Peak Press, HOWL New Irish Writing, ROOM Magazine, CommuterLit and Abridged among others. She placed 2nd in Litro's Surreal and Strange Prose Poetry Contest 2022 , 2nd runner up in the Mairtín Crawford Poetry Award 2024 and was shortlisted for the Patrick Kavanagh Poetry Award 2024 and 2025. Her play Cat and Dog People featured as part of a 10x10 sold-out run at Cork Arts Theatre. Derville graduated with an MA in Screen Arts and, as an award-winning filmmaker, has written and directed short films and documentaries for the Arts Council Northern Ireland, the BBC and Channel 4. She has curated literary and art events and exhibitions for festivals, conferences and local communities. She was selected to attend the Seamus Heaney Poetry Summer School at Queens University Belfast in 2024 and has been awarded a Tyrone Guthrie Centre writers residency for 2026. She is co-founder of Strange Birds a writing feedback community.