Visiting Writers

Rob Doyle

Residency Period
10 January to 13 May 2022

Rob Doyle’s third book, THRESHOLD, was published by Bloomsbury in 2020, and was shortlisted for the Kerry Group Irish Novel of the Year. Doyle’s debut novel, HERE ARE THE YOUNG MEN, was published in 2014 by Bloomsbury and the Lilliput Press. It was selected as one of Hot Press magazine’s ‘20 Greatest Irish Novels 1916-2016’, and has been made into a film starring Dean Charles Chapman and Anya Taylor Joy. THIS IS THE RITUAL, a collection of short stories, was published in 2016 to widespread acclaim. Rob Doyle is the editor of the anthology THE OTHER IRISH TRADITION (Dalkey Archive Press), and IN THIS SKULL HOTEL WHERE I NEVER SLEEP (Broken Dimanche Press). He has written for the New York Times, TLS, Vice, Sunday Times, Dublin Review, Observer and many other publications, and throughout 2019 he wrote a weekly column on cult books for the Irish Times. His next book, Autobibliography, will be published later in 2021.

Awards

  • 2021: Shortlisted for the Kerry Group Irish Novel of the Year (for Threshold)
  • 2014: Shortlisted for the Newcomer of the Year Award at the Irish Book Awards (for Here Are the Young Men)

Publications

  • Threshold (novel), Bloomsbury, 2020
  • This is the Ritual, Bloomsbury, 2016
  • Here Are The Young Men (novel), Bloomsbury, 2014

Literary Focus

Rob Doyle writes from the depths – and the heights – of human experience.

Courses & Events

Date / Venue Programme Activities

January to May 2022
NTU undergraduate course

 

(Intermediate to Advanced)

[Course Completed]

Advanced Fiction/Non-Fiction

A 13‐week semester long course designed for undergraduates at Nanyang Technological University to give participants experience and support in the development of a sustained writing project towards publication or production standard. The course can accommodate a variety of projects in poetry, fiction, and creative non‐fiction, but will focus on developing only one project throughout the course, such as a draft of a novel, a themed or stylistically or formally linked collection of poems or short stories; or a single longer short story.

Course code: RD1

More information here

 

 

January to May 2022
Various venues
Limited spaces available. Per 1-hour session:
$25 per session for adults*

(Intermediate to Advanced)

[Course Completed]

Writer to Writer

Book a one-on-one mentoring session with award-winning writer, Rob Doyle to discuss your writing project. Rob will provide guidance to help your creative practice and support your writing life.

Course code: RD2

More information here

4 workshops
12, 19 & 26 March and 2 April 2022 (Saturday)
2:00 to 5:00pm SGT

NTU@one-north (TBC)
$150 for 4 sessions*

 

(Foundation to Intermediate)

 

[Course Completed]

Creative Non-Fiction and Autobiographical Writing

In this four‐week workshop series students will read and discuss sample texts from a rich and varied field of writing that includes autobiography, essay, literary journalism, travel writing, diary, epistolary writing, autofiction, and other styles that can be grouped under the broad label ‘creative non‐fiction’. These readings will be used to inspire writing exercises that incorporate the techniques, styles and innovations in superb creative non‐fiction writing from the past and present, and from around the world.

Course code: RD3

More information here

* Concession rates available at $10 per session for students, unemployed, low income migrant workers & free for undergraduates from Singapore tertiary institutions.

 

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