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2026 UCC Writer in Residence: Dean Browne

Dean Browne is an award-winning poet from Co. Tipperary. His debut collection After Party (Picador, 2025) is a Poetry Society Recommendation. He received the Geoffrey Dearmer Prize in 2021, and his pamphlet, Kitchens at Night (Smith|Doorstop, 2022), won the Poetry Business International Pamphlet Competition. His poems are widely published internationally, in outlets such as New York Review of Books, Columbia Review, London Magazine, Poetry Review, The Irish Times, Stinging Fly, PN Review, and Poetry magazine. He lives in Cork. 
Dean.Browne@ucc.ie

Previous writers in residence

2025: Ellen Dillon

Ellen Dillon is a plurilingual poet (and teacher!) from Limerick. Her latest book, Fare Thee Well, Miss Carousel, was published by HVTN Press in 2023. Previous books look at Irish history from the perspective of butter (Butter Intervention, Veer 2, 2022), the teaching life of St茅phane Mallarm茅 (Morsel May Sleep, Sublunary Editions, 2021), and Stephen Malkmus鈥檚 guitar (Sonnets to Malkmus, Sad Press, 2019). Her chapbooks include Heave (Smithereens Press, 2018), Achatina, achatina! (SoundEye Press, 2019) and Excavate (Poems after Pasolini) (2020, Oystercatcher Press). She is a board member for the SoundEye Festival.

2024: Ian Maleney 

Ian Maleney is a writer, editor, and documentary producer from Co. Offaly. His first book, a collection of essays entitled Minor Monuments, was published in 2019 by Tramp Press. It was shortlisted for the Michel Deon Prize and the Butler Literary Award. His writing has been widely published, including in The Guardian, Esquire, and the New Statesman. He was the Temple Bar Gallery & Studios writer in residence in 2020, and a recipient of the Arts Council鈥檚 Next Generation Bursary Award in 2019. He is the founder of , an interdisciplinary online journal of literature and other media, and he has produced numerous successful podcasts, including The Witness: In His Own Words, which won Podcast of the Year at the Irish Podcast Awards and was chosen as one of the top podcasts of 2021 by Apple Podcasts and The Guardian.

2023: Lisa Harding

Lisa is a writer, actress and playwright. She received an MPhil in creative writing from TCD in 2014. Harvesting, her debut novel, won the Kate O鈥橞rien Award and was shortlisted for an Irish Book Award and the Kerry Group Prize in 2018. It was published in the US in 2023 under the title of Cloud Girls. Her second novel, Bright Burning Things, was published internationally to widespread critical acclaim. It received a starred review in Publisher鈥檚 Weekly, was a New York Times Editor鈥檚 Choice, was shortlisted for the Kerry Group Irish Novel of the Year and a Dalkey Literary Award, and was a Read With Jenna Book Club Pick as featured on The Today Show.

2022: Cathy Sweeney

Cathy Sweeney鈥檚 short fiction has been published in The Stinging Fly, The Dublin Review, Egress, Winter Papers, Banshee, The Tangerine and Granta, and has been broadcast on BBC Radio 4. Her debut collection of short stories, Modern Times, was published by The Stinging Fly Press and W&N in 2020. Her novel Breakdown was published by W&N in 2023.

2021: Eimear Ryan

Eimear Ryan is the author of a novel, Holding Her Breath (2021) and a sports memoir, The Grass Ceiling (2023), both published by Penguin Sandycove. Her short fiction has appeared in Granta, The Dublin Review, The Stinging Fly, The Long Gaze Back (New Island) and Town & Country (Faber). She is a co-founder of the literary journal Banshee and its publishing imprint, Banshee Press. She is a sports columnist with the Irish Examiner and has written about women in sport for Literary Hub, The 42, Image, Stranger鈥檚 Guide, Winter Papers and elsewhere. She lives in Cork city.

2019鈥�2020: Danny Denton

Danny Denton鈥�(he/him) is a writer from Cork, Ireland. His first novel,鈥�The Earlie King & The Kid In Yellow鈥�(Granta Books, 2018) was shortlisted for an Irish Book Award and The Collyer-Bristow Prize. All Along The Echo, his second novel, was published by Atlantic Books in 2022. Among other publications, his work has appeared in鈥�The Stinging Fly,鈥�Granta,鈥�Winter Papers,鈥�The Dublin Review,鈥�Tate Etc,鈥�The Guardian,鈥�The Irish Times,鈥�Architecture Ireland鈥�补苍诲鈥�The Big Issue, and has also been broadcast on BBC and RTE. He was the editor of鈥�The Stinging Fly鈥痬补驳补锄颈苍别&苍产蝉辫;from 2018 to 2022. danny.denton@ucc.ie 

2018鈥�2019: Danielle McLaughlin

Danielle McLaughlin鈥檚 short story collection Dinosaurs on Other Planets was published in 2015 by The Stinging Fly Press. In 2019, she was a Windham-Campbell Prize recipient, and won the Sunday Times Audible Short Story Award. Her first novel, The Art of Falling, was published in 2021 by John Murray and was shortlisted for the Dublin Literary Award 2022.

2017鈥�2018: Thomas Morris

Thomas Morris鈥檚 debut story collection We Don鈥檛 Know What We鈥檙e Doing won the Wales Book of the Year Award, the Rhys Davies Trust Fiction Award and a Somerset Maugham Award. His stories have been broadcast on BBC Radio 4 and published and anthologised in Zoetrope, Best European Fiction 2018 and The Penguin Book of the Contemporary British Short Story. He lives in Dublin, where he is Editor-at-Large at the Stinging Fly.

2016鈥�2017: C贸nal Creedon

Co虂nal Creedon is a novelist, playwright and documentary film maker. He was appointed Adjunct Professor of Creative Writing at 晚上福利在线观看 Cork. C贸nal鈥檚 recently published collection of award-winning short fictions Pancho and Lefty Ride Again (2021) has been awarded Cork鈥檚 One City One Book Award 2022.

2015鈥�2016: Michael West

Michael West's work for the Corn Exchange includes A Play on Two Chairs, Car Show, Dublin By Lamplight, Everyday, Man of Valour and an adaptation of James Joyce's Dubliners. In collaboration with Team Theatre he has written two plays for children: Forest Man and Jack Fell Down. Other work includes versions of The Marriage of Figaro (Abbey), Tartuffe (Gate), Moliere's Don Juan and The Tender Trap (an adaptation of La Double Inconstance by Marivaux), both for Pigsback. He has also translated or adapted work by Arrabel, de Musset, Bely and Brecht. Other plays include Monkey, Sardines, Snow, The Quirk Estate, and a piece for radio, The Death of Naturalism. His play Conservatory was produced by the Abbey Theatre at the Peacock in 2014.

2013鈥�2015: Leanne O'Sullivan

Leanne O'Sullivan was born in 1983, and comes from the Beara peninsula in West Cork. She received an MA in English in 2006 from 晚上福利在线观看 Cork. The winner of several of Ireland's poetry competitions in her early twenties (including the Seacat, Davoren Hanna and RTE Rattlebag Poetry Slam), she has published four collections, all from Bloodaxe: Waiting for My Clothes (2004), Cailleach: The Hag of Beara (2009),The Mining Road (2013) and A Quarter of an Hour (2018), winner of the inaugural Farmgate Caf茅 National Poetry Award 2019.  A Quarter of an Hour was also shortlisted for the Irish Times Poetry Now Award 2019 and the Pigott Poetry Prize 2019. She was given the Ireland Chair of Poetry Bursary Award in 2009, the Rooney Prize for Irish Literature in 2010, and the Lawrence O鈥橲haughnessy Award for Irish Poetry in 2011. She received a UCC Alumni Award in 2012. Her work has been included in various anthologies, including Selina Guinness's The New Irish Poets (Bloodaxe Books, 2004) and Billy Collins's Poetry 180: A Turning Back to Poetry (Random House, 2003). Residencies and festival readings have taken her to France, India, China and America.

2012鈥�2013: Matthew Sweeney

Matthew Sweeney (1952-2018) was a major Irish poet. Born in Donegal, he moved to London to study after he finished secondary school. London was where he developed and worked as a poet, with spells in Berlin before he settled in Cork in 2008. He published seventeen collections of poetry, notably The Bridal Suite (Cape), Black Moon (Cape) and Horse Music (Bloodaxe). He was shorlisted for the T. S. Eliot Prize, was a recipient of a Cholmondeley Award and a winner of the Piggot Prize. He was a member of Aosd谩na. He died in August 2018 of motor neuron disease. One of his final poems '' is an astonishing meditation on mortality and is considered one of his masterpieces.