Workshop

Feel frustrated with your story? It’s not because you don’t know what you want: it’s because your characters don’t. This workshop, with author and poet Tim MacGabhann, features exercises for getting to know your characters’ desires, and setting them in motion, therefore animating your short story or novel-in-progress. The way that this macro level of […]

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Join award-winning poet David McLoghlin for a unique generative course in how to navigate feelings and sentimentality in our poetry. The key in poetry is to infuse work with the right balance of sentiment so that it does not veer into sentimentality. Often, we either have too much feeling in our rough drafts, or not […]

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Join poet Nell Regan for this engaging workshop – bring a picture of a place you love (a landscape or cityscape), a pen and a willingness to play. We’ll look at a myriad ways to approach the same thing/view, aiming for a freshness of language and perspective. Suitable for all.  Tickets for this poetry workshop […]

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Join Sarah Bracken Soper for an accessible introduction to creating, storytelling and self-expression in a zine workshop. The Irish Writers Centre welcomes writers to produce their own mini publications/booklet, with participants guided to creating their own individual bespoke ‘zines’ through writing, drawing and collage. Materials provided, though participants are welcome to bring their own supplies. […]

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