David McLoghlin

Teaching Bio: In my classes you can expect to be supported in your creative process in a warm, discussion-based environment where every contribution is valued. You will leave my courses having absorbed highly practical, actionable advice. With over a decade's experience teaching and mentoring in creative writing, I have taught over 100 hours of memoir with Hudson Valley Writers Center, The Center for Fiction, and The Irish Writers Centre, and I teach online and in-person workshops in life writing and poetry in libraries and schools with organisations like Poetry Ireland’s Writers in Schools and The Heritage Council. My teaching style is open and friendly, and I am very familiar with the workshop model of supportive critique used at university-level MA and MFA writing programmes, having attended New York University's MFA Programme between 2010 and 2012 where I was a Writing Fellow at Coler-Specialty Hospital. I have also taught at University College, Dublin (UCD) and the American College, Dublin and was Resident Writer at Hunts Point Alliance for Children in the South Bronx, where I taught dynamic bilingual poetry workshops to teenagers. I worked extensively with UCD's Poetry as Commemoration project during 2023, leading adults and secondary school students in responding to primary source materials from the Irish War of Independence and the Civil War. I teach individual writers and poets and facilitate group classes, guiding students in moving their work towards completion, and in shaping the arc of poetry collections. Previous students includes a National Poetry Series winner (USA), and writers who have gone on to publish their first and second books.

Writing Bio: I am an award-winning poet, and a writer of memoir, I was a Patrick and Katherine Kavanagh Fellowship Recipient in 2023. My books are Crash Centre (May 2024), Waiting For Saint Brendan and Other Poems (2012) and Santiago Sketches (2017), all with Ireland's Salmon Poetry. Apart from a major bursary (grant) for memoir from Ireland’s Arts Council, and a personal essay published in the anthology Others Will Enter the Gates: Immigrant Poets on Poetry, Influences, and Writing in America (Black Lawrence Press), my writing has been broadcast on WNYC’s Radiolab and published in Literary Hub. He has published personal essays, short stories and memoir extracts in The Stinging Fly, Poetry Ireland Review and other journals. An essay on being mentored by poet Sharon Olds is forthcoming in This Glistening Verb (University of Michigan Press) as part of their “Under Discussion” series. He is currently at work on a book about my grandfather, the golf architect, Eddie Hackett, widely considered “the Father of Irish Golf Design.” In October 2023 I played one of my grandfather’s designs, Connemara Golf Links: an immersion piece will feature in Golfer’s Journal in the USA in February 2025.