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Very much looking forward to hosting @Jeremy_D_Scott Centre for Research in Linguistics on 12Dec, when he will talk about how stylistics can inform creative practice/writing research Seamus Heaney Centre QUB AEL QUB Research Strategy and Engagement QUB Research Development English at QUB qub.ac.uk/schools/ael/ev…

Congratulations to Susannah Dickey on winning the inaugural PEN Heaney Prize which we celebrated on Monday night with a number of friends of the Seamus Heaney Centre and beyond. qub.ac.uk/schools/seamus…

Just spotted in Waterstones Forestside , THE MANY GHOSTS OF DONAHUE BYRNES by Laura McLoughlin is number 49 in my list of books by our former students. "A unique twist on the traditional haunted house tale," says Anne Corlett. Published Black & White

We're launching Garrett Carr's The Boy from the Sea in the SHC on February 6th.

Rebecca Hunter, one of my PhD students, and a marine biologist, has a great essay in the Irish Times this weekend.

SHC lecturer Garrett Carr discussed his novel The Boy from the Sea on the radio yesterday.

Tonight in Waterstones, Fountain Street, Belfast, SHC lecturer Garrett Carr will be speaking about his new novel The Boy from the Sea. Free and all welcome. 7pm. “A surprising, tender and warm-hearted novel about a real place and real people” – The Guardian

We've reached big number 50 in my list of books by Seamus Heaney Centre students: BUT & THROUGH by Jake Hawkey, Jake Hawkey. Published yesterday by Picador Books. "Hawkey's poems are electric, buzzing with all the possibilities of language. He has much to say, and is saying it

QUB Creative Writing lecturer Garrett Carr remembers Donegal's Muckross Head in this short piece for Boundless: boundlesslit.substack.com/p/on-muckross-…

I'm looking forward to visiting Bath to talk about The Boy from the Sea. My event is at Topping & Company Booksellers of Bath on Monday March 17th, 7PM. Info here: toppingbooks.co.uk/events/bath/ga…

London - next Wednesday - come along!! 🫠☘️ waterstones.com/events/irish-v… Garrett Carr Suzi Feay Waterstones Islington Embassy of Ireland Oneworld Publications

SHC Lecturer in Creative Writing Garrett Carr wrote about writing and dyslexia for DUA LIPA 's culture website Service95 . service95.com/can-you-write-…

SHC lecturer Garrett Carr will be appearing at the Cúirt Festival of Literature in Galway in an event with Roisín O'Donnell, author of Nesting, on April 9th. Info here: cuirt.ie/whats-on/debut…

The #DromoreBookFestival author spotlights continue! I'm very excited for an evening with three incredible writers of stunning fiction Sarah Gilmartin Caoilinn Hughes & Garrett Carr. It's going to be an unforgettable evening with three literary talents! ticketsource.co.uk/whats-on/co-do…

Number 51 in my list of books by Seamus Heaney Centre students: FATHER'S FATHER'S FATHER by Dane Holt, published just days ago by @carcanet. "Dane Holt zooms us through the chaos of grief, suspends us from our heels and makes us weep, then forces us to laugh against our will. One

The SHC's Garrett Carr is heading to the Cúirt International Festival of Literature:

A list of books by Seamus Heaney Centre students, number 52: AFTER THE PARTY by Sharon Dempsey. "Complex, courageous and hard-hitting ... genuinely unsettling in the way all serious crime fiction should aspire to be," says the Irish Times. Published by Pegasus Publishers.

The SHC's Garrett Carr, author of The Boy from the Sea, will be appearing at two events in England later this week. Links are included in the post.

The SHC's Garrett Carr is appearing in Cambridge today, discussing The Boy from the Sea.

It's great to see that Garrett Carr's The Boy from the Sea is the Radio Times Book Club selection for May. The BBC Radio 4 adaption continues this week and next, every night at 10:45PM.