UL Creative Writing Events
The University of Limerick offers a Master of Arts in Creative Writing. Our Chair of Creative Writing is Prof Joseph O’Connor (author of ten novels including My Father's House, Ghost Light, The Thrill of it All, the million-selling Star of the Sea, and Shadowplay, winner of the Novel of the Year Award at the 2019 Irish Book Awards, shortlisted for the UK's prestigious Costa Novel Award, 2020). Our outstanding teachers include twice Booker-Prize-longlisted Donal Ryan, (author of The Spinning Heart, From a Low and Quiet Sea and Strange Flowers), Irish Book Award nominee Prof Sarah Moore Fitzgerald (The Shark and the Scar, The Apple Tart of Hope and A Strange Kind of Brave), internationally published Young Adult author and lecturer on self-motivation for writers, Prof. Eoin Devereux (who leads our unique 'Creative Writers in the Community' module and is a widely published poet and creative writer), our Meskell Poet in Residence, Dr. Emily Cullen (whose collection, Conditional Perfect was an Irish Times Book of the Year, and who devised the popular, ongoing 'Espresso Shot of Thought' series with the MA students) and Fíona Scarlett (author of the critically acclaimed Boys Don’t Cry).
For further information on the MA in Creative Writing at UL and application details, copy this link into your browser: https://www.ul.ie/gps/course/creative-writing-ma