Photo of Bill Nevins and Jeannie Allen by Antoin OHara in-County Donegal

Bill Nevins is active in literary and film groups nationally. He was a designated speaker at the 2025 national American Literature Association Conference in Boston, on behalf of Irish American Writers and Artists. Bill spoke on Irish Poetry & Lyrics and the Peace Process at the twentieth annual Spanish Peaks International Celtic Music Festival in La Veta, Colorado, on September 19, 2025, He’s written screenplays and appeared in films. With Justin R Romine, he made the poetry-film Silence of the Messengers. As a journalist, he has reported from Ireland, Mexico, Quebec and USA locations, and he has written for many New Mexico, national, and international publications, including Z magazine, Green Left Weekly, and TREND. A collection of Bill’s poems, Light Bending, was published in 2025 by Sligo Creek Publishing of Washington DC.