Our People
Our people make us the preeminent centre for Creative Writing in all its forms on the island of Ireland as well as a globally recognised and celebrated venue for literary events and research.
Professor Glenn Patterson has been the Director of the Seamus Heaney Centre at Queen's since 2017. Glenn has written four works of non-fiction including Backstop Land (2019) and The Last Irish Question (2021), and ten novels, most recently Where Are We Now? (2020). With Colin Carberrry, he co-wrote the film Good Vibrations, for which the pair were nominated for Outstanding Debut at the 2014 BAFTA Film awards. He has written plays for Radio 3 and Radio 4, and with composer Neil Martin, he wrote Long Story Short: The Belfast Opera in 2016.
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Glenn Patterson |
Rachel Brown |
Fran Brearton Professor |
Garrett Carr Senior Lecturer |
| Ciaran Carson Emeritus Professor |
Aislinn Clarke Lecturer |
Leontia Flynn Professor |
Sam Thompson Senior Lecturer |
| Nick Laird Professor |
Tim Loane |
Edna Longley Emeritus Professor |
James McAleavey Senior Lecturer |
| Gail McConnell Reader |
Stephen Sexton |
Dawn Watson Lecturer |
Michael West Lecturer |
| Tara West Lecturer |
Our Advisory Board
Catherine Heaney (Seamus Heaney Estate)
Cathy Brown (Seamus Heaney HomePlace)
Professor Gerald Dawe (Fellow Emeritus, Trinity College Dublin)
Professor Edna Longley (Professor Emeritus, Queen's University Belfast)
Emily DeDakis (Fighting Words Belfast)
Peter Spratt (Anderson Spratt Group)
Rosie Lavin (Assistant Professor in the School of English, Trinity College Dublin)
Professor Andrew Pepper (Head of English, AEL, Queen's University Belfast)
Professor Kurt Taroff (School of AEL, Queen’s University Belfast)
Professor Nola Hewitt-Dundas (Queen’s University Belfast)