Announcing 2024-2025 Support Schemes Recipients (supported by the Arts Council of Northern Ireland)

We are very happy to announce the recipients of this year’s support schemes for writers from or based in the North, made possible with support from the Arts Council of Northern Ireland.

This year we awarded:

20 Course Bursaries

Each recipient will receive course credit worth €165 towards a course at the Irish Writers Centre:

Aaron Meehan
Alex Cregan
Beckie Stew
Cal O’Reilly
Ciara Campbell
Colin Crummy
Damian McElgunn
Drew Dillon
Eimear Kilcullen
Gerry McBride
Jill Nelis
Lia Grogan
Marie-Louise McGuinness
Nathan Martin
Nicole Lee
Orla Lauder
Peter Reid
Robin Sheeran
Roisin McGinn
Rosaline Callaghan

20 Irish Writers Centre Memberships (Associate and Professional)

Each recipient will receive one-year’s membership to the Irish Writers Centre:

Associate:

Ciara Campbell
Damian McElgunn
Eimear Kilcullen
Ellen Kirkpatrick
Emma Dellow-Perry
Jill Nelis
Marie-Louise McGuinness
Patrick Hughes
Paul Carson
Peter Reid
Roisin McGinn

Professional:

Byddi Lee
Dara Collins
Deirdre Cartmill
Jason Thompson
Jay Rafferty
Kathleen McCracken
Mary Farrell
Nandi Jola
Rosaline Callaghan

30 Mentorships 

Each recipient will receive one-to-one mentoring support from a professional writer:

Andrew H-M
Bernie McQuillan
Cal O’Reilly
Carmen Bryce
Catherine Higgins-Moore
Christopher Linforth
Ciara Campbell
Cyrus Larcombe-Moore
Dervla O’Brien
Eimear Kilcullen
E.F. Walker
Fiona Murphy McCormack
Florence Forbes
Gerry McBride
Helena Stuart
Jill K Wilson
John Paul Grimes
Kelsey May Daly
Maeve O’Lynn
Mark Mullan
Matthew Bradley
Nathan Martin
Orla Lauder
Patrick Hughes
Peter Reid
Robert Hamilton
Roisin McGinn
Rosaline Callaghan
Alexandra Connolly
Stan McWilliams

This initiative is supported by the National Lottery through the Arts Council of Northern Ireland.