Jan Carson, Fiona Benson and Writing Partners Adam Patterson and Declan Lawn Glen Patterson, Director of Seamus Heaney Centre at Queen’s, joins the 2025 Fellows to talk about their writing lives.  Three-time T.S. Eliot Prize-shortlisted poet Fiona Benson will release her fourth collection _Midden Witch_ in May. Her awards include the Forward Prize, the Seamus Heaney First Collection Prize and the Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize.  Belfast-based novelist and short story writer Jan Carson won the EU Prize for Literature for Ireland for _The Fire Starters_. Her new novel, _Few and Far Between_, is forthcoming in 2026.  Screenwriters Declan Lawn and Adam Patterson spent a decade making documentaries for _Panorama_ before moving into drama with _The Salisbury Poisonings_, followed by the _feature Rogue Agent_. They are currently working on a new series of their original scripted drama_ Blue Lights._