Mentoring for Kilkenny Writers with Writer in Residence Rita Kelly
The Arts Office is delighted to announce their mentoring programme with Kilkenny County Council's Writer in Residence Rita Kelly. These mentoring opportunities will be available to a select number of Kilkenny writers and places will be allocated through an application and selection process.
Rita will support a number of writers in their chosen genre, at a time of transition, on a one-to-one basis.
What is that transition? It is the raising of your work to a new level. It is a new awareness of your work which will allow you to further build on gained insights long after the actual mentoring time is over.
What is mentoring? It is a professional relationship with a sympathetic writer for a timetabled period. Both mentor and mentee will bring evidence of commitment to the engagement. The mentoring will help you move beyond the private process of writing as Rita will investigate and evaluate that writing process. She will endeavour to discover what you want to achieve with your writing and will help and facilitate you in achieving this.
The successful candidates will need to evidence a certain level of competency and experience as part of their applications as the mentoring will only be of benefit to writers who have already committed to the production of a body of work. The quantity is not significant but the quality and the promise of quality is very important to Rita as part of this process.
Overall the mentoring sessions will encourage growth and development by providing guidance and support. Writers and poets tend to have individual issues and concerns; these will be addressed as part of this mentoring process.
The mentoring sessions will run over a 5 week period over April and May 2015 at the Arts Office in Dean Street, Kilkenny. The practical arrangements and the specifics of the sessions will worked out between Rita and the successful candidates. Cost to mentees is €15 per 2 hourly sessions. The dates and times of sessions, as well as number of sessions to be arranged between mentor and mentee.
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Interested in applying?
To apply for a mentoring opportunity, please prepare a cover letter, (no longer than 2 pages), outlining your creative work to date and what you feel you will gain from the mentoring and send to:
Rita Kelly at ritakelly26@gmail.com or contact her with any queries on 087-672 8974.
DEADLINE FOR APPLICATION IS 17th April
Numbers are strictly limited and early application is advised. Open to Kilkenny based writers only.
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Rita Kelly Biography
Rita Kelly, considered by some as a gifted poet in both English and Irish, has won many awards for her writing. She has published six collections of poetry. Born in Galway, 1953 she now lives in Tramore with breathtaking views of the sea and the beach. She has had a long and very enjoyable connection to the Kilkenny Writers for nearly 30 years now; working with wonderful poets and writers in the Clogh, Bennettsbridge, Thomastown, Graiguenamanagh areas and most recently with great and creative students in Scoil Aireagail, Ballyhale's Transition Years.
The Arts Office, Kilkenny County Council acknowledges the support of the Arts Council/An Chomhairle Ealaíon and Kilkenny County Council Library Service.
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