We are pleased to announce a dedicated Fulbright award for the MA in Creative Writing at University College Cork (2016-2017). Closing date 3 October 2015. A wonderful opportunity to write and study in Ireland.

Free one-day seminar and workshop at Kinsale Pottery and Arts Centre on the relationship between creative writing and visual art. Short talks by poet Leanne O’Sullivan, and painter Katherine Boucher Beug, and hands-on workshops. Run by four of this year’s students of the MA in Creative Writing at UCC. 10am to 6pm, Sunday May 10th. All welcome.

Email  tradingwords2015@gmail.com to book your place.

Triskel Arts Centre, Cork – Saturday, April 25, 9pm

Join us for the launch of UCC’s revamped literary magazine, The Quarryman. First published in the 1920s & dormant for 30 years, UCC’s inaugural graduates of the MA in Creative Writing have worked hard to revive and invigorate the journal, with contributions by local and alumni poets Greg Delanty, William Wall, Nuala Ní Dhomhnaill, Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin and Gerry Murphy, as well as work from newly-graduated writers.
Booker-nominated Donal Ryan has described the new Quarryman as “a perfect reading excursion, its pages inhabited by cyber-stalkers, bereft lovers, dying crows, web-less spiders, disillusioned radicals, illicit cadavers, and people treading the uncertain pathways of life”.

Launch at Triskel Arts Centre, Saturday, April 25, 9pm. This is the final event of the Cork World Book Fest. All very welcome.

Scottish poet Robin Robertson, will give a reading as part of UCC’s Spring Reading Series on Thursday, April 9, 6pm in Learning Zone, UCC Library. All welcome; admission free.

Robertson has published five collections of poetry. Two of his volumes, A Painted Field (1997) and Swithering (2006) have won the Forward Prize and Hill of Doors (2013) was shortlisted for the Costa Book Award. In 2004 he received the E.M. Forster Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters and he was jointly award the Petrarch Prize in 2013.

He is also a publishing editor at Jonathan Cape and has edited the work of many writers, including John Banville, Seamus Heaney, Michael Longley, Sharon Olds, J.M. Coetzee, Anne Enright, as well as UCC’s lecturer in creative writing, Mary Morrissy, whose collection of short stories is forthcoming from Cape.

We are delighted to congratulate our lovely colleague Mary Morrissy on the great honour of being elected to Aosdána. Aosdána is an affiliation of creative artists in Ireland, and was established in 1981 by the Arts Council to honour artists whose work has made an outstanding contribution to the arts in Ireland.

with Regina Sexton & Jools Gilson, Friday 15th May 2 – 6pm

Join the staff of UCC’s MA in Creative Writing for this Food Writing Intensive – bring along a recipe that you love or that means something to you, and work with food historian Regina Sexton and writer Jools Gilson to produce creative food writing based on recipes, memoir and fiction. Venue: The Carrigaun Room at The Grainstore, Ballymaloe House, East Cork. Cost: €25.

Madeleine graduated with an MA in Creative Writing from UCC a few weeks ago. This article was in the Irish Times postgraduate supplement on Tuesday, and outlines what it meant for D’Arcy to return to education to study creative writing, after studying law.

A Q & A with UCC’s Film Artist in Residence, Carmel Winters, & a screening of her award-winning film Snap, followed by a wine reception. Thursday 19th March at 5pm, Film & Screen Media Auditorium, Windle Building, UCC. All Welcome.

Hollis is the author of Ground Water which was shortlisted for the Guardian, Whitbread and Forward Prizes. He is also the editor of the First World War poet Edward Thomas’s Selected Poems and his biography of Thomas, Now all Roads Lead to France; the Last Years of Edward Thomas (2011) won the Costa Award and was named Sunday Times biography of the Year.

The reading takes place in the Learning Zone, UCC Library, at 6pm.

Some of the graduates from the inaugural year of the MA in Creative Writing, in the School of English at UCC, last week. From L to R, Alan Kelly, Niamh Prior, Michelle McAdoo, (Mary Morrissy – Lecturer in Creative Writing), Eoghan Walsh and Maeve Bancroft.