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 °Ç¸ç³Ô¹Ï 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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Our Advisory Board
Cathy Brown (Seamus Heaney HomePlace)
Professor Gerald Dawe (Fellow Emeritus, Trinity College Dublin)
Professor Edna Longley (Professor Emeritus, °Ç¸ç³Ô¹Ï 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, °Ç¸ç³Ô¹Ï Belfast)
Professor Kurt Taroff (School of AEL, Queen’s University Belfast)
Professor Nola Hewitt-Dundas (Queen’s University Belfast)