Ian Wild

is a writer, director and composer. He has published two novels, a collection of short stories and four plays. His broadcast work includes Way Out West – a comedy series for RTE Radio One; and over twenty children’s stories for RTE’s Fiction Fifteen. He has won numerous writing awards, the most recent being The Aeon Short Story Prize 2012 and the Fish International Short Story Prize 2009. Four of his highly successful musical comedies appeared in Cork Midsummer Festivals between 1998 and 2003: The Pirates in Short Pants, Marco Polo’s Toilet Brush, Rachmaninov’s Maid and Spaghetti Western.

His compositional work for the theatre includes songs and incidental music for productions of Shakespeare at Cork Opera House. Hamlet (2005), King Lear (2006), and Othello (2007). He also composed songs and incidental music for The Elephant Man at the Everyman Palace and The Tempest at the Granary Theatre.

He has received three literature bursaries from the Irish Arts Council.From 2010 to 2012 he was short fiction editor of Southword magazine for the Munster Literature Centre and judge of the Seán Ó Faoláín Prize.