Internationally Acclaimed Writer Claire Keegan

Internationally acclaimed short story writer, Claire Keegan, will be joining the English Department, St Patrick's College this semester as the inaugural John McGahern Writer in Residence. Claire is the recipient of very many literary honours and awards. Her first collection of short stories, Antarctica, was awarded the Rooney Prize for literature and her collection, Walk the Blue Fields, published in 2007, received the Edge Hill Prize for Short Stories. Her most recent published work, Foster, won the highly prestigious prize for a single short story, the Davy Byrne’s Irish Writing Award (2009). Distinguished literary critic, Declan Kiberd, in his review of Faber Best Irish Stories, spoke of Keegan as “a natural inheritor of the mantle of John McGahern and Alistair MacLeod, a writer already touched by greatness”.

Claire will be facilitating creative writing workshops for Third Year BA English students in the College who were selected for the group on the basis of their creative work. She will also be giving a series of readings and will participate in the department’s annual John McGahern commemorative evening in April 2012.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Last Updated: Friday January 13 2012