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Trinity College Dublin and Pembroke College Cambridge are delighted to announce that Claire Keegan is the 2021 Briena Staunton Visiting Fellow. The fellowship has been generously endowed by Clinical Professor in Radiology James Meaney in memory of his aunt, Briena Staunton. Following an agreement between the two Colleges, a leading international writer, nominated alternately by Trinity and Pembroke, will spend a month writing and supporting students in Dublin or Cambridge. This year Trinity nominated Claire Keegan an international award-winning short story writer, who will spend March 2021 in Cambridge.

Jack is an Irish Research Council postdoctoral fellow in the School of English researching the relationship between poetry and sculpture in the work of W.B. Yeats and other Irish writers of the early twentieth century. His IRC project is mentored by Dr Tom Walker. Jack’s prestigious British Academy fellowship at Birmingham will begin in October and will involve a wider investigation of poet and sculptor networks in Britain and Ireland from the Victorian period to the modernist period.

The John Pollard Foundation International Poetry Prize is for an outstanding debut poetry book collection by a poet, in the English language. Deadline for submissions October 16 2020

Throughout his career in poetry, Seamus Heaney maintained roles in education and was a visible presence in the print and broadcast media. Seamus Heaney and Society examines the ways in which his work as a poet was shaped by his work as a teacher, lecturer, critic, and public figure.

The prize is designed to reflect Butler’s interest in the common ground between the European nation states that emerged after the First World War; his concern with the position of religious and ethnic minorities; his life and writings as an encapsulation of the mantra ‘Think globally, act locally’; the importance of the individual conscience; and his work with refugees. The title for this year’s essay is “Communal solidarity and individual freedom: antagonists or allies?” and the application form can be found here. The closing date for submissions is 4th September 2020.