CREATIVE WRITING – Getting Started, Keeping Going
Please Note: Autumn course is NOW FULLY ENROLLED
Course Description:
It’s often hard to begin writing, even if you really want to and it’s also hard to keep going, even if you
really want to! Finding time & space, building self-belief & writing habits, all need practice and
encouragement.
This course offers you strategies to get started & to keep going …
In class, we will work on short exercises which prompt writing – opening lines, photographs, objects
and we’ll read samples of writing from published authors – to see how they do it – which will help
stimulate ideas. These starts can be worked on for the following week.
You will be encouraged to delve into memories, experience, imagination as your material & to try
out stories, memoir, short drama, poems etc.
There will also be a focus on tools of the trade: finding a voice, creating setting, character, dialogue,
& action.
Expect lively discussion too!
Course Day & Time: Tuesday evening 7.30 – 9.30pm
Start Date: 03/10/23
Cost: €85
Course Format: In class with tutor. Maximum of 12 students.
Duration: 8 weeks
Enrolment: You can enrol online by clicking on the Easy Payments Plus button. Enrolment will begin on Wednesday the 9th of August at 10am.
Please Note: Autumn course is NOW FULLY ENROLLED
Tutor: Mary Lennon
Mary Lennon is a writer and Creative Writer Tutor. She co-edited “Across the Water – Irish women’s live in Britain”, published by Virago Press & has published poems and short stories. Her first novel, Amethyst Country, a contemporary novel set in Achill, will be published in June 2022.
She has taught Creative writing in many settings, in school, prison & Adult Education.
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