irl - Short Story Creative Writing Weekend
Suitable for the beginner as well as the more experienced writer, this workshop provides a fun and friendly introduction to writing. Participants are given the opportunity to explore their own creative imaginations. The focus of the class includes:
- Workshop triggering ideas to help become comfortable in expressing yourself creatively.
- In-class exercises to explore your own writing style.
- Class writings supported by lively group discussion.
- Participants examining some very short examples from literature, to help develop an awareness of various literary techniques.
Overall, this workshop serves as a stimulating and informative way to learn about how to explore your creative imagination and bring out your own voice as a writer. Encouragement, advice, feedback, on-going tips, and group support all form part of this class. Opportunity to develop and improve your own written work will also be provided. Throughout the weekend, participants will also receive handouts and discussion on the following writing elements:
Getting Started; Observation; Character; Setting; Dialogue; Pacing; Plot; Similes; Metaphors; Style.
Details of the 'Short Story Creative Writing Weekend' are as follows:
Location: Butler House, Patrick's Street, Kilkenny
Date & Time: Saturday 27th February: 10am-5pm (with break for lunch)
Sunday 28th February: 10am-5pm (with break for lunch)
This workshop is taught by Dr. Hilary Lennon, School of English, University College Cork. Hilary is a very experienced teacher of creative writing courses and has taught numerous writing workshops for Triskel Arts Centre, and for University College Cork. Several of her beginner participants in 2013, 2014 and 2015's creative writing workshops made their very successful reading debut at the Cork World Book Festival each year, reading stories that were worked on in her classes, and her participants have also been very successful in winning writing competitions and in getting published, which included three of her beginner participants last winter getting published in book-form after succeeding in the RTE 'short-short story' competition.
In this workshop, Hilary will lead a series of four 3-hour workshops over the course of the Saturday and Sunday, on writing short stories, and will be encouraging and guiding participants' own writings through class exercises, feedback, and group discussion.
There is a fee of €100/€70 (conc) for your place in the course.
Places are limited to 12 participants so please book early to avoid disappointment.
To secure a place on the above courses please contact the Arts Office on 056 7794547 or email: Julie.mcguirk@kilkennycoco.ie
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