QUALIFICATIONS

ACADEMIC QUALIFICATIONS

Master of Poetry Studies, 1.1, DCU

Diploma in Library & Information Studies, 2.1, UCD

BA Mod Hons (French & English), 1.1 with Distinction, TCD

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CONTINUING PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT

EDITING

Faster and Smarter with Macros, AFEPI, 15 May 2024

Efficient Editing, Dr Hester Higton, CIEP, 15 April 2024

A Beginner’s Guide to Project Managing Illustrated Books, Neil Burkey, AFEPI, 24 October 2023

Insight into Indexing, Rachel Gee (AFEPI), 20 February 2023

Advanced Copy-editing with Margaret Aherne, The Publishing Training Centre, April 2019

Writing and Editing for the Web, The Publishing Training Centre, November 2016

Certificate in Desktop Publishing, Griffith College, Dublin 8, 2016 (distinction)

Book Design, Publishing Ireland, 2015

Onscreen editing with Microsoft Word, 2014

Clé Grammar for Editors, 2007

In-house experience with The Lilliput Press, 1994-7

In-house training as an abstract writer for The H.W. Wilson Company, a leading reference publisher, 1993

WRITING

Writing Summary vs Writing Scenes, seminar with Tessa Hadley, The Stinging Fly, 12 May 2026

The Joy of Renga, Erica Hesketh, The Poetry Business, 24 June 2025

The Autopoetic Essay, a seven module course with Máighréad Meadhbh, Irish Writers Centre, January to March 2025

Writers Retreat with Claire Keegan, May 2024

From Women’s Points of View, fiction course with Prof. Mary MacCay, Autumn 2023

Anton Chekhov’s Stories and Letters, Claire Keegan, January 2023

UL’s Creative Writing Winter School, December 2022

Experiments in Prose, with Joanna Walsh, Irish Writers Centre, September 2021

Autofiction, with Joanna Walsh, Maynooth University, March 2021

Editing Your Novel: The Finishing Touches, with Brian Langan, Irish Writers Centre, September 2020

Sustaining a Flourishing Writing Practice, with Anne Tannam, Irish Writers Centre, April 2020

FACILITATING

Facilitation Skills for Writers, with Anne Tannam, Irish Writers Centre, March 2021

Working with Microsoft Teams, Fardus Soltan, Poetry Ireland / CBI, November 2021

Child Safeguarding, with Theresa Barnett, Poetry Ireland, January 2021

Online Workshops with Children, Fardus Sultan, Poetry Ireland, January 2021

Writers in Schools Forum, Poetry Ireland, October 2020

Digital Events Training for Children’s Artists, Children’s Books Ireland, September 2020

How to Lead a Workshop for Writers, with Lynn Buckle, Irish Writers Centre, July 2019

OTHER

CERT / Bord Fáilte National Tour Guide Training (francophone)

Diploma in Embroidered Textiles, City and Guilds

Certificate in Embroidered Textiles, City and Guilds

Scoil Scairte, Irish course with The Trailblazery, Autumn 2023