Maggie Doyle

Maggie Doyle is an independent author and poet from the townland of Dechomet in the Dromara Hills, Co. Down. Her first book Mountain Notes – A Nature Diary was published in 2021.  Her poetry has been published in various journals, including The Blackbird, Crannóg, Empty House, Poetry Ireland Review, and the Community Arts Partnership anthology Poetry in Motion.

She was shortlisted for the Seamus Heaney Award for New Writing in 2023 and the Bridport Prize for Poetry in 2024. She holds an MA in Creative Writing and an MA in Poetry from Queen’s University Belfast. She also manages Magy’s Farm, a small independent jazz venue in the Dromara Hills.