From Character to Plot – BOOKED OUT

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 […]

From Character to Plot – BOOKED OUT

Published on 7 September 2026.

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 […]

On Sentiment: How to Effectively Navigate Emotions in Our Poetry – LAST TICKETS REMAINING

Published on 7 September 2026.

Join author Carlo Gébler as he explores what sense is one to make of the death of another? Adopt the stoic position, endure and learn? Accept death, whatever else it is, as educational? It often seems that’s what the culture would like us to do but in No One Tells You, the Last Years of […]

No One Tells You – BOOKED OUT

Published on 7 September 2026.

“Every story would be another story, and unrecognizable if it took up its characters and plot and happened somewhere else.” Eudora Welty Putting their mark, not only on the literary landscape of 2026, but also putting their mark on a particular place, three novelists talk about the importance of location and setting as a character […]

A Sense of Place

Published on 7 September 2026.

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. […]

Zine Workshop – BOOKED OUT

Published on 7 September 2026.