{"id":21820,"date":"2025-01-09T17:16:41","date_gmt":"2025-01-09T17:16:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.obheal.ie\/blog\/?page_id=21820"},"modified":"2025-04-09T16:09:17","modified_gmt":"2025-04-09T16:09:17","slug":"guests-107-feb-mar-2025","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.obheal.ie\/blog\/guest-poets\/guests-107-feb-mar-2025\/","title":{"rendered":"Guests> (107) Feb\/Mar 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"
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10th February<\/em><\/p>\n

New Creative Writing from UCC<\/font><\/strong><\/p>\n

& special guest<\/i> Pam Campbell<\/strong>
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Each February, \u00d3 Bh\u00e9al showcases poets and short fiction writers engaged in UCC’s MA Creative Writing<\/strong> programme, to hear them read their new work. This year’s event features James Carroll, John O’Boyle, Leah Sohotra, Lucie Pereira, Jessica Anne Rose, Andie McNamara<\/strong> and Angelia D’Souza<\/strong>.<\/font>
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You can listen to all seven poets reading here<\/a>.<\/font><\/center><\/p>\n

<\/font>James Carroll<\/strong> is a 22-year old cork native, currently studying the Creative Writing MA in UCC. He has previously published poems and articles in Motley<\/em>, UCC\u2019s Magazine. His favorite poet is Sylvia Plath, whom he takes great inspiration from. This event will be his first time reading his work in public. <\/p>\n

 
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<\/font><\/font>John O’Boyle<\/strong> is a Cork-based writer currently enrolled in the MA in Creative Writing at UCC. His poetry explores the dialectic between personhood and mythos, the exigencies which arise from contradictions therein. He has been published by the Summit Avenue Review<\/em> and University of Minnesota Women’s Center<\/em>. <\/p>\n

 
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<\/font><\/font>Leah Sohotra<\/strong> is a poet in UCC\u2019s MACWE program. She published a short story in \u00d3 Bh\u00e9al\u2019s 2019 Cork Anthology A Journey Called Home<\/em>, about the unassisted birth of her daughter. She’s also a songwriter whose singles have aired on RT\u00c9 and BBC, receiving reviews from Hot Press<\/em> and PROG<\/em> magazine. <\/p>\n

 
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<\/font><\/font>Lucie Pereira<\/strong> is a writer and educator from California. She has published poems in The Hellebore<\/em> and Honey Literary<\/em>, among others, and her debut chapbook, From Here to the Ocean<\/em>, is forthcoming from Finishing Line Press. She currently lives in Cobh while pursuing a master’s in creative writing at University College Cork. <\/font><\/p>\n

 
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<\/font>Jessica Anne Rose<\/strong> was awarded a National Student Media Award as Feature Writer of the Year: Pop Culture & Arts 2022. She is a contributing journalist for Hot Press Magazine<\/em>. She was recently awarded the Miriam Cotter Award, a full scholarship for an exciting and emerging writer who was accepted into University College Cork\u2019s MA in Creative Writing. Jessica\u2019s published poetry is included in Green Carnations Anthology<\/em>, Drawn to The Light Press<\/em>\u2019 Issue 5, Cork Pride Magazine 2024<\/em>, and Hide and Seek Anthology<\/em>.
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<\/font>Andie McNamara<\/strong>\u2019s writing has appeared in the Echo<\/em>, the Hollybough<\/em>, and Cork Words 3<\/em>, as well as online in Sledgehammer Lit Magazine<\/em> and the Mark Burns Radio Show. She self\u2013published her first collection of poetry, Generously Curved<\/em> in 2023 and is currently doing an M.A. in Creative Writing in U.C.C. <\/font><\/p>\n

 
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<\/font>Angelia D’Souza<\/strong> is from Dublin, California and is currently a MA Creative Writing student at UCC. She is a recent graduate of Creighton University, with a BA in Cultural Anthropology and English. Her poetry and fiction have been published in Volume 13 of Mary Baldwin University\u2019s Outrageous Fortune Literary Magazine<\/em>. <\/font><\/p>\n

 
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You can listen to Pam’s reading here<\/a>.<\/font><\/center><\/p>\n

<\/font>Pam Campbell<\/strong> is a daughter of the Appalachian Mountains, born in Alabama and raised in Eastern Kentucky and Virginia. She favors the song-like qualities of poetic form and how it serves to contain human suffering and joy. <\/p>\n

Her poems have appeared in \u00d3 Bh\u00e9al Five Words<\/em> Anthologies, Volumes XIV-XVII, Blue Mondays Poetry Anthology<\/em> 2021, PMS&G Literary Journal<\/em>, Volume 25-27, & The Petigru Review<\/em>, Fall 2024 & her prose in PMS&G<\/em> Literary Journal, Volume 24, & in To Life, Holocaust Stories of Hampton Roads Survivors, Liberators, and Rescuers<\/em>. She is the 2024 Tennessee Mountain Writers first place winner in children\u2019s literature.<\/font>
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You can watch a video of the event here<\/font><\/b>
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