Creative Writing Programme Team Gains Two New Lecturers

18 Oct 2024

The School of English & Digital Humanities is thrilled to welcome two new Lecturers in Creative Writing to the Creative Writing Programme team: Eimear Ryan and Rosa Rogers.

Eimear Ryan is the author of a novel, Holding Her Breath (Penguin Sandycove, 2021), and a memoir, The Grass Ceiling (Penguin Sandycove, 2023). Other writing has appeared in Granta, The Dublin Review, The Stinging Fly, Winter Papers, Lit Hub, and elsewhere. She is a co-founder and editor of Banshee literary journal and its publishing imprint, Banshee Press. From Co. Tipperary, she now lives in Cork city.

Dr Rosa Rogers (she/her) is an Anglo-Irish writer and interdisciplinary artist, originally from Yorkshire. She holds a PhD in The Contemporary Novel for her forthcoming debut, Composition, which explores the coming-of-age tale of a working-class daughter of the Irish diaspora. Her writing has been published widely, including Flash Fiction North, A Personal Anthology, The Menteur, and The Mersey Review, and her multimedia projects have been exhibited at The Photographers' Gallery (London), Reid Hall (Paris), and as part of The Bookshop Podcast's Creative Series (Ojai, California). She is the founder of Poetry Etc, Tales of a Town and former Co-Director of Vortex Gallery, where she has spent nearly a decade advocating in community settings for increased access to arts and literary education.

Eimear and Rosa are brilliant additions to the creative writing team, and are delivering creative writing modules across undergraduate and postgraduate English studies at University College Cork. You can learn more about creative writing at UCC here.