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A trio of successes

Our MA students have been making a name for themselves in the world of publishing.

kelly warburton

An online soap by Kelly Warburton (class of 2015/16) has been accepted by the collaborative website Headstuff – http://www.headstuff.org.  “Pure Awkward” is about flat-sharing in Cork – written in a very distinct Cork accent – but it’s a universal comic story with a sting in the tail.  The soap opera was a runner-up in the Evening Echo soap contest run in conjunction with the Writing for Media module.

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Nora Shychuk (class of 2015/16) has  been offered an emerging writer residency at the Wellstone Centre in the Redwoods, California –  http://www.wellstoneredwoods.org/. The writers’ retreat provides a sylvan setting for writers to develop creative work, as well as mentoring sessions for participants. The centre also publishes books through its Wellstone Books imprint.

bridget sprouls

Finally, one of our alumni, Bridget Sprouls, who graduated from our inaugural MA, 2013/14, has had a poem accepted by the prestigious New Yorker magazine –http://www.newyorker.com. Surely, every writer’s dream! Bridget graduated with first class honours; her thesis comprised an extract from a children’s novel, which she has subsequently completed.

Congratulations to one and all!