The Seamus Heaney Centre at Queen’s hosts three annual Fellowships designed to support writers at a crucial stage of their career, and to maintain relationships between the writers, their research and the University. 

One Publishing Fellowship - established in recognition of the changing landscape of the publishing industry and the role emerging writers can play in shaping it. 

Two Ciaran Carson Writing and the City Fellowships - established in memory of its first director Ciaran Carson, and inspired by his writing about the city of Belfast in poetry and prose. 

They each carry a stipend of £10,000, to be awarded to recently completed PhD students at the Seamus Heaney Centre. Each Fellowship term will begin in January 2022 and run for the calendar year. 

Fellows will be encouraged to carry on with their own creative work, to contribute to or develop projects relevant to the Fellowship’s themes, and to provide occasional teaching support to taught programmes within the Seamus Heaney Centre. 

We invite anyone who has completed a PhD at the Seamus Heaney Centre at Queen's in the past two years to submit an up-to-date CV, with a record of publications and other relevant activities. As the Fellowships are awarded annually, eligible CVs will automatically be carried over into the following year. 

Submit to: shc@qub.ac.uk
Deadline: Fri 10 December 2021

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For further information please contact Rachel Brown, Centre Coordinator on +44(0)28 9097 1077 or email: r.brown@qub.ac.uk

About the Seamus Heaney Centre at Queen’s

Since 2003 the Seamus Heaney Centre has been home to some of the UK and Ireland’s foremost poets, novelists, scriptwriters, and critics, and each year growing their worldwide network of writers and critics. Building on a literary heritage at Queen’s University Belfast that stretches back to the 1960s Belfast Group, the Centre is dedicated to excellence and innovation in creative writing and poetry criticism.