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Dawn Watson is a Lecturer in Creative Writing at Queen's University Belfast's School of Arts, English and Languages. She teaches undergraduate and postgraduate courses, including ENG1090: Introduction to Creative Writing and MA-level workshops. Her research focuses on poetics, narrative and lyric intersections, and childhood landscapes, particularly in Belfast's working-class contexts. She holds a PhD from the Seamus Heaney Centre (2022), examining Elizabeth Bishop's prose techniques. Watson is the author of We Play Here (2023) and The Stack of Owls is Getting Higher (2019), both critically acclaimed. Her work explores themes of memory, identity, and historical trauma, with appearances on BBC Radio and international literary festivals.
Education: PhD in Creative Writing (Queen's University Belfast, 2022); prior career as a sub-editor at national newspapers including The Sunday Times.
Research interests include: childhood narratives, Irish poetry, form experimentation, and queer-Irish perspectives. Her writing has been broadcast on BBC Radio 4 and featured in journals like Granta and The Poetry Review.
- Awards: Artists' Career Enhancement Award (2019), Dermot Healey Poetry Award finalist (2017), Doolin Writers’ Poetry Award (2018).
- Advising: Supervises MA creative writing dissertations; accepts PhD students.
- Media: UTV interviews, BBC Radio features, and performances at events like the Belfast Book Festival.
