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1. University-based Creative Writing
2. Community Workshops and Outreach 

University-based Creative Writing

  • Sept 2016-January 2017.  Seamus Heaney Centre, Queen’s University Belfast. Tutor. Teaching and assessment cover for Prof Sinéad Morrissey during her sabbatical. Undergraduate 3rd-year dissertation (ENH3000) & MA Creative Writing Workshops (ENG7307)

  • June 2016 & 2015. Seamus Heaney Centre Summer School. Co-ordinator of the Summer School, also providing seminars on Found Poetry and the Lyric Poem.

  • Sept.—Dec.2015: Edinburgh University. Distance Learning tutor for the MA in Creative Writing (Poetry). Cover for Dr Miriam Gamble during her sabbatical. Courses:  Elements of Poetry One, Elements of Poetry Two, Literary Studies Poetry One, Literary Studies Poetry Two.

  • Jan.—June 2014, 2013 & 2012. School of English, University of Leeds. Teaching Fellow in Creative Writing. Course designer, instructor and marker for an MA Creative Writing poetry module and BA Introduction to Creative Writing. Guest Lecturer on first-year core Poetry module. 

  • Sept. 2012—Jan.2013. Seamus Heaney Centre, School of English, Queen’s University Belfast. Cover for Dr Sinéad Morrissey during her sabbatical. Duties included Tutor for MA in Creative Writing, supervision of third-year undergraduate poetry dissertations, and Tutor for second-year Creative Writing students. 

  • Sept.—Dec. 2011.  Open Learning, Queen’s University Belfast School of Education. Creative Writing: Poetry. Course designer, instructor and marker.

  • Feb.—June 2011. Seamus Heaney Centre, School of English, Queen’s University Belfast Creative Writing poetry module (ENG3054). Tutor and marker for 3rd-year undergraduate module.

  • 2008—2010. Seamus Heaney Centre, School of English, Queen’s University Belfast. Introduction to Creative Writing (ENG2090). Tutor and marker for 2nd-year undergraduate module (Drama, Poetry & Prose).

  • 2008—2011. Consecutive Seamus Heaney Centre Summer Schools, Queen’s University Belfast. Seminars on poetry in performance, and advisor for one-to-one and group workshops.

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Community Workshops and Outreach:

  • 2018—ongoing. Visits (unpaid) to GCSE classes to discuss my poem ‘Effacé’, which is included on the GCSE syllabus. Visits to date: Ashfield Boys High School, Belfast Royal Academy (twice), Bloomfield Collegiate, Christian Brother Grammar School Omagh, Rockport School (twice), and The Royal School Armagh.

  • 2015–2017. Ruby Road Hedgerow Collective, Belfast: Facilitator (paid) for poetry seminars and workshops.

  • 2016, 2015, 2014 & 2012. Judge (voluntary) for Funeral Services of Northern Ireland Poetry Competition.

  • 2016. John Hewitt Society & Rockport School, Co Down. Project coordinator (voluntary) for Young People’s Creative Writing Weekend Retreat.

  • 2016, 2015 & 2014. Seamus Heaney Prize for New Writing, Community Arts Partnership, Belfast. Workshop facilitation (paid) & judging responsibilities (2015 & 2104).

  • May-August 2015. Project administration (paid) for Writing and Community: Ideas of Place. A Big Lottery Fund project headed by Dr Leon Litvack, Queen’s University Belfast.

  • 2013. Methodist College, Belfast: Supervision of students on a residential Arvon course (voluntary), organised by Sheena Wilkinson. 

  • 2011. Poetry in Motion in Schools (Community Arts Initiative, Belfast). Project facilitator (paid) with Kirkistown Primary School, Strangford, Co. Down.

  • 2010. Poetry in Motion in Schools (Community Arts Initiative, Belfast). Project facilitator (paid) with Royal Belfast Academical Institution and the Belfast Royal Academy.

  • 2010. Scoil an Droichid Primary School (Belfast). Creative Writing workshops (all years).

  • 2009. Judge for BBC Radio 4 Poetry Slam, Northern Ireland final heat. Black Box Theatre, Belfast (voluntary).

  • 2007-2009. Queen’s Writers’ Group, Queen’s University Belfast, interim facilitator (voluntary). Open to QUB students & members of the public.

  • 2007—2012. Established the Lunchbox series of interviews, readings (poetry and prose), talks, and debates, hosted at the Seamus Heaney Centre Queen’s University Belfast. 

  • 2008 and 2009. Profs and Poets Reading. Readings for first-year undergraduates, given by staff and post-graduates from the School of English at Queen’s and the Seamus Heaney Centre. Designed to introduce students to seminal texts on introductory English courses.

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