Clare Egan is an award-winning writer. Her weekly newsletter is read by 1000+ readers in 50 countries.
Her work has appeared in The Huffington Post, The Irish Times, The Irish Independent, The Irish Examiner, TheJournal.ie, Image Magazine, Púca, Scoop Magazine, Rogue, Longreads, GCN, and others.
She works with writers and other creative people as a workshop facilitator, creative mentor and advisor. She has written a novel (unpublished) and is working on her first book of non-fiction. Clare lives in Dublin with her family.
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In 2023, Clare founded Life after Trauma, an early-stage social enterprise which aims to help survivors of sexual violence feel less alone. She was selected for the Social Entrepreneurs Ireland Ideas Academy, and successfully pitched a panel of investors to secure seed funding. She volunteered with the Dublin Rape Crisis Centre both as a phone counsellor on the helpline and accompanying people to the Sexual Assault Treatment Unit. Clare is also a graduate of the Rethink Ireland Start Your Own Social Enterprise Course.
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The Artist's Way
A gentle, trauma-informed exploration of the iconic creative recovery programme
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Trauma informed yoga
A virtual 90 minute trauma-informed yoga class for the Life after Trauma community.
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Community survey
Community perspectives on surviving sexual violence
Prior to her writing career, Clare spent more than a decade working in communications for non-profits causes. she worked with small, community organisations and big international brands like UNICEF and Amnesty International. Her career took her all over the world: rural Zambian villages, Malawian prisons, hopscotching across India, leading press trips to report on the Syrian refugee crisis, a trip to Gaza, a year in New York and two summers in Washington DC.
Clare has a BA Arts from Maynooth University and an MSc in Human Rights from UCD.
The best compliment she ever received was from her senior infants teacher who said she was “a good reader”. This is still true.
Contact Clare
clareeganwrites AT gmail
Dublin, Ireland