Presents

Strandhill Summerfest

A Weekend Feast

of

Creative Writing

2nd July—4th July 2010

With

Órfhlaith Ní Chonaill

Ted & Annie Deppe

Joe Kearney

Strandhill Summerfest 2010

Strandhill Summerfest is a weekend celebration of writing. It brings writers of all ages, beginners and advanced, together in a gentle, supportive environment where they feel safe to create new work.

The four facilitators are all published writers whose aim is to nurture new writing from the participants.

Órfhlaith Ní Chonaill’s workshops use the AWA method devised by Pat Schneider. These are multi-genre workshops which evoke and enable writing and encourage writers to find and use their own voices confidently.

Ted & Annie Deppe are skilled poets and teachers whose poetry workshops are gentle, inspirational and challenging.

Joe Kearney is a writer and broadcaster whose voice is familiar to Lyric FM and RTE Radio One listeners. Joe offers an insider view of writing for radio.

The Summerfest will be held in the home of Órfhlaith Ní Chonaill in Strandhill, Co. Sligo.

Early booking is advisable as numbers are limited.

“Genius is hidden everywhere; it is in every person, waiting to be evoked, enabled, supported, celebrated. It is in you.” Pat Schneider

• Take time out for yourself and your writing

• Explore your creativity in a safe environment

• Share and celebrate your writing with others

• Choose any form of• writing that suits you: fiction, memoir, poetry.

• Enjoy the beautiful setting of Strandhill

Facilitator Profiles:

Joe Kearney is a regular contributor to RTE Radio One s Sunday Miscellany and Lyric FM s Quiet Quarter. He is an award winning independent documentary maker. His radio documentary No Cure for Mickey Finn was a prizewinner in the 2008 Tribeca Film Festival in New York and was shortlisted in the Prix Europa in the same year. His documentary Bullfight at Inchicore is RTE’s 2010 entry in the same competition. Joe is currently working on a documentary that follows a group of wannabe cowboys as they follow the Colorado trail, the American Rockies.

His first collection The Bend of the Road will be published later this year. His work has been included in many anthologies including the latest Quiet Quarter and Sunday Miscellany collections. Two short stories that were written during the 05 and 06 Summer Fests have been included in the collection of new writing Last Orders and a short story written during the 2004 event was short-listed for the Francis MacManus award in 2005. A memoir piece also inspired by the workshops in Strandhill will be published in a forthcoming anthology published in conjunction with Ireland’s Own and Original Publishing.

Joe is an Arts graduate who majored in English Literature and is currently completing a PhD in Creative Writing at UCD.

Annie Deppe is the author of Wren Cantata (Summer Palace, 2009) and Sitting in the Sky (Summer Palace, 2003). Her work has been anthologized in the Forward Book of Poetry 2004 (England). She has received grants from the Irish Arts Council and the Northern Ireland Arts Council and was selected by Poetry Ireland for their Introductions reading series. Her work has appeared in Poetry Ireland, Sou’wester, The Stinging Fly, The Shop, The Recorder, and elsewhere.

Ted Deppe is the author of Children of the Air (Alice James, 1990), The Wanderer King (Alice James, 1996), Cape Clear: New and Selected Poems (Salmon, 2002), and Orpheus on the Red Line (Tupelo Press, U.S. 2009). His work has been recognized by a Pushcart Prize and two grants from the National Endowment for the Arts. He directs Stonecoast in Ireland, a program that makes it possible for Master’s degree students in the U.S. to study in Ireland. Annie and Ted Deppe currently live in Galway City.

Órfhlaith Ní Chonaill’s novel, The Man With No Skin (Dialogue Publishing Inc. 2005) won first prize in fiction in the Colorado Independent Book Publisher’s (CIPA) Awards and was a finalist in the Independent Book Publisher’s (IPPY) Awards in the US. Her short story, Kikuyu Grass, was shortlisted for a Hennessy Award and her stories, poems and interviews have been published in Force 10 and other publications. She holds an M. Phil in Creative Writing from Trinity College, Dublin and is an affiliated workshop leader of Amherst Writers & Artists, Massachusetts, USA.

Programme

Friday 2nd July 2010

6 p.m.—7 p.m.

7 p.m.—9 p.m. Workshops

Saturday 3rd July 2010

9.30 a.m.—1.30 p.m. Workshops

2 p.m. Lunch

3 p.m. Open Forum

7. p.m. Evening Meal followed by Social Evening and an open mic. for participating writers

Sunday 4th July 2009

9.30 a.m.—1.30 p.m. Workshops

Cost: €125 includes lunch and evening meal on Saturday and snacks.

Venue:

‘Aherlow’, Strandhill, Co. Sligo.

(between Kellys and Strandhill Church)

Accommodation: B&B list available.

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