Claire Simpson is originally from north Antrim. She read English at TCD and creative writing at Queen’s. Her work has been published in Crannóg and on Spontaneity.org. She is studying for a Ph.D. at the Seamus Heaney Centre and lives in Belfast.
BRIDGET SPROULS
Bridget Sprouls is from New Jersey. Her poems and stories have appeared in the Belleville Park Pages, Steps Magazine, Scrivener Creative Review, Casino, The Red Wheelbarrow Poets Anthology and the McGill Daily. In 2013, her work was shortlisted for the Atlantic Writing Prize in the categories of Short Fiction and Writing for Children.
Universities
NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF IRELAND, GALWAY
Mike McCormack (Fiction Tutor)
Helena Kilty
Ruth Quinlan
QUEEN’S UNIVERSITY BELFAST
Dr Darran McCann (Creative Writing Lecturer)
Sheila Llewellyn
Claire Simpson
TRINITY COLLEGE DUBLIN
Gina Moxley (Creative Writing Graduate)
Fergus Cronin
Derek Flynn
UNIVERSITY COLLEGE DUBLIN
Professor Frank McGuinness (Writer-in-Residence)
Dr Éilís Ní Dhuibhne (Fellow in Creative Writing)
Colin Corrigan
Paula McGrath
UNIVERSITY COLLEGE CORK
Mary Morrissy (Writer Fellow)
Madeleine D’Arcy
Bridget Sprouls
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First published 2014
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