Tuesday Mornings

Suitable for  Beginners & Emerging writers

 This course aims to explore the many ways in which we write about our life with a specific focus on memoir.

Other genres touched on are autobiography, biography, essay, travel writing, food writing, nature writing and some forms of journalism.

Full details and and booking here

Mastering The Craft

The Essential Writing Workshop

In-Person

Wednesday Evenings

Suitable for  all levels

This course takes you through the craft of writing, whether that is a short story or a novel, it introduces you to the masters of the forms, both classical and contemporary, and affords you the opportunity to write a story or the chapter of your novel each week or work on one or two stories/chapters intensely over the eight weeks. 

Full details and and booking here

Let's Make a Play

Suitable for  all levels

10am to 4pm

Full day workshop including lunch and refreshments. 

 This is a hands-on writing workshop with one of Ireland's most celebrated playwrights exploring how to find a window into story and then how to make it drama 

Full details and and booking here

Suitable for  all levels

10am to 4pm

Full day workshop including lunch and refreshments.

 How reliable is memory or does it need to be when it comes to writing memoir? This workshop will focus on the prompts that can help us remember and create written or recorded memoir. It will also look at the things we choose to forget and what writing treasures may lie in those darker regions. 

Full details and and booking here

Let's Make a Play

Suitable for  all levels

10am to 4pm

Full day workshop including lunch and refreshments. 

 This is a hands-on writing workshop with one of Ireland's most celebrated playwrights exploring how to find a window into story and then how to make it drama 

Full details and and booking here

Suitable for Intermediate/Advanced 

10am to 4pm

Full day workshop including lunch and refreshments. 

   This one-day course will focus on editing techniques, approaches to literary journals and magazines, and techniques to shape poems into a pamphlet or collection. 

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Suitable for  all levels

10am to 4pm

Full day workshop including lunch and refreshments. 

  Together we will explore the elements which make up a good crime novel: voice, setting, character and plot, along with research, denouements and endings.  

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Writing for Children and Young Adults.

Suitable for  all levels

10am to 4pm

Full day workshop including  lunch and refreshments. 

Learn about writing for Children from Irish Times Best Selling and Irish Book Award nominated author Caroline Busher. 

This workshop will focus on writing a best-selling book for children.

You will receive practical advice on getting your manuscript ready for submission to agents and publishers. 

This workshop is perfect for anyone who wants to learn how to make their book stand out from the crowd.   

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The Craft of Songwriting

Suitable for  all levels

10am to 4pm

Full day workshop including lunch and refreshments.

Mike shares his experience and knowledge of song-writing from five decades of writing, recording and performances.

Full details and and booking here

Suitable for  all levels

10am to 4pm

Full day workshop including lunch and refreshments.

 How reliable is memory or does it need to be when it comes to writing memoir? This workshop will focus on the prompts that can help us remember and create written or recorded memoir. It will also look at the things we choose to forget and what writing treasures may lie in those darker regions. 

Full details and and booking here