Bio: Janne has just finished her BA in English and is returning to mainland Europe to take up studies for her MA, after which she intends to pursue a career in research and teaching. Her main areas of interest are modern poetry, intertextuality, ecocriticism (especially the Blue Humanities), and the study of spaces. She is also one of Europe's foremost Knäckebröd/Knækbrød connoiseurs and unlicensed mead brewers.

 

Quote: "And not by eastern windows only.

When daylight comes, comes in the light.

In front the sun climbs slow, how slowly.

But westward, look, the land is bright." - Arthur Hugh Clough

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Favourite Book: Spaceman of Bohemia by Jaroslav Kalfař and House of Names by Colm Tóibín.

Bio: Amina is a final-year English student interested in Early Modern drama, mythology and Old English literature. Her academic interests include feminist literary criticism, queer theory and eco-criticism. When she's not writing her dissertation or working at Double Space she likes to sit back with a mug of tea and an action packed book about witches, elves, wizards and many more fantastical creatures.

She aspires to one day work in the book publishing industry and read her silly little books for a living. 

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Quote: "My writing is a picture of the mind moving" - Philip Whalen

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Favourite Book: Autobiography of Red by Anne Carson

Bio: Ciara is a final-year BA English student. She has always been interested in editorial work – her primary school projects frequently consisted of homemade ‘teen magazines,’ and more recently, she worked as one of the head editors on an issue of a student magazine while on Erasmus. Her research interests span from Shakespeare to feminist literary criticism to horror and monstrosity, and any intersections she can find between the three. When she is not working on Double Space, you can find her reading fantasy novels about witches, trying to learn multiple languages at once, and making Pinterest boards for the book she will write – one day.

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Quote: “With freedom, books, flowers and the moon, who could not be happy?” – Oscar Wilde

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Favourite Book:  If We Were Villains by M.L. Rio

Bio: Lauren is going into her final year of BA English. She enjoys reading fantasy and dystopian novels and doing her best to write a novel herself. When she's not reading or writing, you'll find Lauren in the gym, disassociating and daydreaming about aforementioned novels.

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Quote: "The worst enemy to creativity is self doubt" –Sylvia Plath

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Favourite Book: The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins 

Bio: James is currently a second year student of BA English in UCC. In his time in UCC, he's been on UCC dance squads and also been on the English Literature Committee.

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Quote: "This too shall pass"

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Favourite Book: The Song of Achilles by Madeline Miller

Bio: Jessica "Jess" is a BA English Student at UCC. She is the OCM for the English Literature Society Committee, and recently received the position of Publishing Officer. 

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Quote: "Would you like an adventure now, or would you like to have your tea first?" - James M. Barrie, Peter Pan

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Bio: Vinca is a second year BA English student from a little town near Barcelona (Catalonia, Spain) who chose Ireland for her degree. She is passionate about words and enjoys collecting them in all forms. She also loves cats and firmly believes in the superiority of their knowledge. 

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Quote: "You must be the best judge of your own happiness" - Jane Austen

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Favourite Book: The Blue Castle by L.M. Montgomery

Bio: Hanna is going into her final year of BA English. She likes researching obscure essay topics and reading translated works of literature.

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Quote: "There is something beautiful coming, even if it's only the sun." 

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Favourite Book: Memory of Fire by Eduardo Galeano

Bio: Polly is going into her third year of BA English. She has a particular interest in the field of Feminist Literary Criticism and wishes to pursue publishing as a career path after college. 
 

Quote: "A place belongs forever to whoever claims it hardest, remembers it most obsessively, wrenches it from itself, shapes it, renders it, loves it so radically that he remakes it in his image." – Joan Didion 

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Favourite Book: Play it As it Lays by Joan Didion 

Bio: John is a transfer student from the University of Saint Thomas and will graduate from University College Cork with a BA(Hons) in English in 2024. He has also served as an editor on the 2020 edition of the Summit Avenue Review as well as published two poems, one in the 2019 edition of the Summit Avenue Review and another in the 60th Anniversary Zine for the University of Minnesota Women's Center.

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Quote: "Without community there is no liberation, only the most vulnerable and temporary armistice between an individual and [their] oppression" — Audre Lorde from The Master's Tools Will Never Dismantle the Master's House

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Favourite Book: Braiding Sweetgrass by Robin Wall Kimmerer

Luke is entering his final year of a BA in English Literature at UCC. In addition to working on Double Space, he has previously served as Gaming Editor for UCC’s official student news publication, the University Express. He has also hosted radio shows for UCC’s 98.3fm station. His hobbies include reading, drinking coffee, and desperately trying to convince people that video games are a form of art. 

 

Quote: "Live to the point of tears.” – Albert Camus

 

Favourite Book: War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy