Bundanon

Bebe Ashley lives in Northern Ireland and works at the Seamus Heaney Centre at Queen’s University Belfast. Her work is most recently published in Granta and The Stinging Fly and has also featured in anthologies such as Prototype’s Intertitles: an anthology at the intersection of writing & visual art.

In 2023, Bebe received the Ivan Juritz Prize for Creative Experiment (Text) and a major Creative Practitioner Bursary from Belfast City Council. Prior to this, Bebe received a Digital Evolution Award from the Arts Council of Northern Ireland and Future Screens NI. Her 3D-printed Braille poems featured in a six-month exhibition at the Museum of Literature Ireland in 2024.

Bebe’s debut collection Gold Light Shining was published by Banshee Press and selected as one of 21 Irish titles to be celebrated on Culture Night 2022. Her second collection, Harbour Doubts, will be published in June 2025.

In Residence at Bundanon

During this residency, I will focus on two projects that combine my work in poetry with my aim to produce work that increases access to the arts for traditionally neglected audiences. The primary elements of these projects include writing a series of audio description style poetic responses to the holdings of Bundanon’s Art Museum and to prepare and create new 3D-printed Braille poems inspired by the landscape.