Congratulations to MA Writing for Media student Christine Kannapel, who is the first of two students  commissioned this year by the Evening Echo to write a fictional serial.  Entitled “One Summer in Cork”, the serial features mystery and history when an American student is transported back to Cork in the 1790s, and appears under the newspaper’s “Summer Soap” banner.  

The serial (in 12 episodes) has been featuring in the Echo for the past fortnight. Today is the final episode but you can binge-read the entire serial on the Evening Echo website – https://www.echolive.ie/

Primarily a poet, Christine (23) came to study at UCC having admired Leanne O’Sullivan’s poetry. (Leanne leads the MA’s poetry modules.)   She hails from Salt Lake City, Utah.  She talks about her writing process in this interview in the Echo in which she explains she did most of her writing during her year-long MA in Cork’s cafés. – https://www.echolive.ie/corklives/I-do-my-writing-in-Corks-cafes-be990dd7-31c6-4805-a63d-17c4c1278fbf-ds

The Summer Soap serial project, now in its fifth year, is the product of a co-operative arrangement between the MACW’s Writing for Media module, led by Mary Morrissy, and the Evening Echo, co-ordinated by Features Editor, John Dolan. 

A second serial by another student from the course, Beau Williams, will run in the newspaper and on the website in August.