• Heritage of Secrets - Aoife Mannix

    Heritage of Secrets ’20th Anniversary Edition’

    “Heritage of Secrets” has echoes of Thomas Hardy’s “Far from the Madding Crowd” in more than just the name of the American sailor, Troy. With a keen eye for drama, Aoife Mannix navigates the peaks and troughs of intertwining lives in this exploration of a society in flux.

    Available now here at flippedeye and here at Easons.

  • Reconstruction - Aoife Mannix

    Reconstruction

    Aoife Mannix’s latest full collection begins with a series of poems that chronicle her recovery from cancer and surgery. In the wake of physical and personal transformation, the seemingly reliable constant of the outside world is in turn transformed by the global pandemic.

    Available here at flippedeye.

Creative Writing

I ran creative writing workshops at Maggie’s Centre Oxford as part of One Stage At A Time.

I have been a tutor on Urban Arvon running writing workshops with novelist Courttia Newland in Virginia Woolf’s old home.

I give individual tutorials for the Poetry School.

I have run writing workshops at the British Library’s Writing Our Place conference for teachers interested in creative writing using ‘Writing Britain’ exhibition as inspiration

I ran workshops for young people at Keats House.

I have been Writer in Residence for Portsmouth Museum working with their A Hard Choice exhibition. I ran workshops in the museum for adults, families and secondary school student. I was one of the judges for their children’s writing competition 500 Pompey Words. This culminated in the launch of an anthology of poetry and stories. https://aoifemannixportsmouthmuseum.wordpress.com/

I ran a writers group for Spread The Word at Sutton Mental Health Drop In Centre.

I ran creative writing workshops for young people for the National Trust as part of their regeneration of 575 Wandsworth Road, the former home of Khadambi Asalache.

I ran creative writing workshops in libraries in Lewisham and the Horniman Museum using their ‘The Body Adorned’ exhibition as inspiration. This was part of Out of My Window, a project for Spread The Word and Lewisham Libraries.

I performed and ran workshops as part of both the 2004 and 2003 Spit-Lit Festival (Celebrating Women’s Writing).

Aoife Mannix

About

AOIFE MANNIX is an award-winning Irish poet and writer, the author of a novel, five collections of poetry, two pamphlets, and seven libretti. She has been poet-in-residence for the Royal Shakespeare Company and BBC Radio 4’s Saturday Live.  She has written articles for the Irish Independent and the Gloss (the lifestyle magazine of the Irish Times) among others. She has toured internationally with the British Council as well as throughout the UK and Ireland including the Southbank Centre, Latitude and the Big Chill.  She has previously worked as a librettist with composer Stephen McNeff on ‘A Star Next to the Moon’ (opera which premiered at the Barbican in 2024), ‘The Horizons of Doubt’ (recorded by the BBC Singers as part of BBC Radio 3’s Afternoon concert) ‘Beyond the Garden’ (a one act opera with mezzo-soprano Susan Bickley), ‘The Walking Shadows’ (a choral work about the First World War which premiered at St-Martin-in-the-Fields) and ‘A Half Darkness’ (commissioned by Chamber Choir Ireland as part of the 1916 centenary.)  

She has been commissioned by the BBC, the National Archives, the Portsmouth Museum, Youth Music Theatre UK, Apples and Snakes, the National Gallery of Ireland, the O’Brien Collection, the Bronte Parsonage, and Cherwell Theatre Company. She has taught creative writing at Goldsmiths, University of London, the University of Westminster, Anglia Ruskin University, and Bucks New University. She has previously worked as a script editor for the BBC as well as for Channel 4 and the Royal Court Theatre. She has a PhD in creative writing from Goldsmiths, University of London. She lives in Oxfordshire.