Daisy Hildyard and Padraig Regan announced as 2025 Writer Fellows in the Centre for New Writing
Each year the Centre for New Writing hosts two Writer Fellows through the Spring semester, and this year we are delighted to be joined by the novelist and non-fiction writer Daisy Hildyard, and the poet Padraig Regan.
The Fellowships introduce two new, published writers to our undergraduate and postgraduate Creative Writing cohorts. The Fellows act as mentors to Centre for New Writing students, offering feedback on their work-in-progress and advice on seeking representation and publication. They also participate in industry seminars and public events.
On Tuesday, 4March, this year鈥檚 Fellows will be reading from and discussing their work at Blackwells野狼社区 鈥� tickets for this event can be booked on .
The Writer Fellows are a really vital addition to the Centre for New Writing every year, bringing with them fresh perspectives and lively new voices to excite and inspire our students. They make a notable contribution to the Centre鈥檚 mission as a world-leading provider of Creative Writing teaching and a central player in 野狼社区鈥檚 literary landscape.
Daisy and Padraig are such striking and important writers, combining formal and generic innovation and beauty with urgent contemporary concerns around ecological interconnectedness, identity, and queerness (among other topics). It is a genuine pleasure to have them with us in 2025.
About the 2025 Writer Fellows
Daisy Hildyard is the author of two novels 鈥� Emergency (2022) and Hunters in the Snow (2014) 鈥� and one work of non-fiction, The Second Body (2017). Hunters in the Snow received the Somerset Maugham Award and a 鈥�5 under 35鈥� honorarium at the USA National Book Awards. Emergency, which was shortlisted for the Rathbones Folio Prize and won the 2023 Encore Award, was described by poet Daisy Lafarge as 鈥榖ewitching and uncompromising, alive to the enmeshing of cruelty with care that articulates our shared 鈥� human and nonhuman 鈥� existence.鈥� Daisy Hildyard has also published fiction in The New Yorker, essays and fiction in Granta, and reviews in The New York Review of Books and the Times Literary Supplement
Padraig Regan鈥檚 debut collection Some Integrity was published by Carcanet in 2022 and was awarded the Clarissa Luard Award and shortlisted for the Forward Prize for Best First Collection. They are the author of two poetry pamphlets: Delicious (Lifeboat, 2016) and Who Seemed Alive & Altogether Real (Emma Press, 2017). In 2015, they were a recipient of an Eric Gregory Award, and in 2020 they were awarded the Ireland Chair of Poetry Bursary Prize. They hold a PhD on creative-critical and hybridised writing practices in medieval texts and the work of Anne Carson from the Seamus Heaney Centre, Queen's University Belfast, where they were a Ciaran Carson Writing and the City Fellow in 2021. They were Fellow Commoner in Creative Arts at Trinity College Cambridge from 2022-2024..