Ronan Kelly

Ronan completed a BA in Literature and Philosophy at Trinity College Dublin. He specialises in prose and has varied experience as an arts journalist, editor, researcher, and author of fiction.

He has lived and worked in Spain, Vietnam, China, and the UK, with his experiences abroad providing creative inspiration – particularly for his short stories.

Ronan was shortlisted for the Fish International Short Story Prize 2013 and his fiction has appeared in Crannóg.

Ronan completed an MA in Children’s and Young Adult Literature with University of Roehampton in 2015. His final dissertation was a narratological study of focalising techniques in a selection of YA novels, film, and multimodal texts (graphic novels).

Currently he is working on a novella set in China. This is the practice-based component of a PhD thesis developed in synergy with a critical study of liminality and the notion of the outsider in contemporary Chinese fiction in English translation.

Ronan has significant experience in teaching and curriculum development in HE. He has held roles at Loughborough University, Royal College of Art, University of Arts London, Solent University, and RMIT Hanoi, among others. He was tutor in English Language and Literature at University of Nottingham Ningbo China 2013-2016, developing provision and leading preliminary year modules in those subjects. He also established and coordinated an extra-curricular extensive reading programme (‘Reading Circles’), which incorporated tutor and peer mentoring to encourage a reading habit and enhance enjoyment of reading.

More recently Ronan has taught Creative Writing at University of Winchester and Surrey Adult Learning.