Kearney Byrne has an MA in Creative Writing from University College, Dublin and was awarded the John McGahern Award (2016) with a residency at Tyrone Guthrie Centre and an Irish Arts Council Emerging Writer Award (2017) to assist in the completion of a novel begun on the MA. Kearney Byrne is
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She was chosen after a vote at the Publishers Publicity Circle whose 450 members include publicists at leading publishers Little Brown, HarperCollins, Virago, Bloomsbury and Penguin. Dionne organises author readings, poetry readings, book signings, music events and talks for adults, as well as
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Hastings born, Gary has been Kent based since the 1980s and says there is a wealth of creative folk living in the county. Running monthly spoken word events in Canterbury, Deal and Herne Bay, plus teaching creative writing and art at the latter's Beach Creative CIC, he has met many artists giving their
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Ta-Nehisi Coates' book, Between the World and Me, is a prime example of creative scholarly writing, Vossoughi says, with its blending of narrative and scholarship. After she assigned the book to her SLI students, a young black woman in the program wrote an essay on the difference between reading
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