Seamus Heaney

NURTURING NEW VOICES Since 2003, the Seamus Heaney Centre has delivered a programme that runs from undergraduate to PhD, student masterclasses, public events, a Poetry Summer School, and a First Collection Poetry Prize. Students are tutored by an illustrious group of writers including: • Poet and novelist Nick Laird, winner of the Somerset Maugham Award • Forward Prize winning poets Leontia Flynn and Stephen Sexton • Screenwriter and Oscar-nominated director Tim Loane • Aislinn Clarke, screenwriter, director and Academy Gold Fellowship awardee • Gail McConnell, winner of the John Pollard Foundation International Poetry Prize. Seamus Heaney Centre Fellows have included Wendy Erskine, Oliver Jeffers, Marian Keyes, Lisa McGee, Denise Riley, Enda Walsh and TimWheeler. For 2022-23, the Seamus Heaney Centre Fellows are Roddy Doyle, Conor Mitchell and Kae Tempest, with Jane Hirshfield appointed Seamus Heaney International Visiting Poetry Fellow at Queen’s.

THE SEAMUS HEANEY CENTRE AT QUEEN’S

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