25 February 2026
After a competitive process, the College of Arts and Humanities is delighted to announce the appointment of the prize-winning novelist Niamh Campbell to the School of English, Drama and Film Studies, where she will join the Creative Writing Team from August 2026. Niamh joins an exciting department - Anne Enright, Sarah Moss, Paul Perry, Paula McGrath, Declan Hughes, and Jonathan Creasy - where she will contribute to the School's reputation for excellence in the delivery of exciting Undergraduate and Postgraduate programmes.
Niamh Campbell's debut novel This Happy was published by Weidenfeld and Nicolson in 2020, and nominated for the An Post Irish Book Awards, the Kerry Group Irish Novel of the Year Award, and the John McGahern Book Prize. In 2020 she won the Sunday Times Audible Short Story Award for her story 'Love Many', and in 2021 she was awarded the Rooney Prize for Irish Literature.
Her short work can be found in The Dublin Review, 3:AM, Banshee, Tangerine, Five Dials, Granta, and gorse. Niamh was the Arts Council Writer in Residence at UCD in 2021. Her second novel We Were Young was published by Weidenfeld and Nicolson in 2022. Her third novel, Make Strange, is forthcoming in June 2026.'