Writing Creative Nonfiction: Methods, Process and Key Texts is an 8 week short course taught by Lucy Holme
11am-1pm|2 October – 20 November
Location: Connolly Building, Room S3A, UCC
Closing date for applications: 20th of September 2024

Course Overview:
In this course we will look at a variety of forms of creative nonfiction, including literary memoir, travel / nature writing and the personal essay. We will explore how autobiography can be approached using new and innovative creative methods such as ekphrasis (describing in vivid detail a piece of visual art or using it as inspiration), interview, poetic and epistolary (literary work in the forms of letters) and other hybrid forms.

Course Lecturer:
Lucy Holme is a writer, mother and creative writing teacher from Kent who lives in Cork, Ireland. She gained a BA in English at Manchester University and then travelled the world, working in the private yachting industry as a chief stewardess, sommelier and purser. Her poems feature in PN Review, Banshee, The London Magazine, The Stinging Fly, Southword, Atrium, Poetry Wales, Wild Court and Poetry Birmingham Literary Journal amongst others. She has been shortlisted for The London Magazine Poetry Prize, The Red Line Poetry Competition and the Fool for Poetry Chapbok Competition. She was runner-up in the Munster Literature Centre’s Southword Literary Essay Award and Subscriber’s Poetry Competition, placed as 1st runner up in the Mairtín Crawford Award for poetry, and won the Cúirt New Writing Prize for Poetry. Her debut chapbook, Temporary Stasis, which was shortlisted for The Patrick Kavanagh Award, was published by Broken Sleep Books in August 2022. Her CNF features in The Pig’s Back, Banshee, Poetry Birmingham Literary Journal, Annie Journal and Southword and a collection of personal essays will be published by Broken Sleep Books in September 2024. She holds an MA with distinction in Creative Writing from UCC and is currently studying for a PhD in Poetry also at UCC. She was founding co-editor of Cork based literary and visual arts journal, The Four Faced Liar.

Entry Requirements:
Applicants must be at least 18 years old at course commencement.

Contact Details for Further Information:
Email: shortcourses@ucc.ie

Please note our refund policy as follows:

• 100% refund if student cancels 1 week prior to course commencement, less €50 processing fee.
• 100% refund if student’s course is cancelled due to insufficient numbers.

Please note that ACE will receive your contact details so as to email you with any necessary information regarding the course