Evoke the Genius Within You                                                                                                                     AWIreland Affiliate
 
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Writers' Ink Workshop at Lismore Immrama Festival '08

Creative Writing Workshops 2009 

Monthly Workshops in Holy Hill Hermitage


21st February to 19th December 2009
(On the third Saturday of Each Month)
9.30 a.m. to 1.30 p.m.
Mentoring Service available on the afternoon of each workshop.
Next Workshop: June 20th

Remaining workshops: June 20th, July 18th, August 15th, September 19th, October 17th, November 21st, December 19th  
Contact info@writersinksligo.com or phone Órfhlaith (Orla) at 0872799108

 
You can combine one or more of the monthly workshops (above)
with a residency in a hermitage at Holy Hill. Check out the website
www.spirituallifeinstitute.org/Holy%20Hill.html
 
 

Presents

 

Strandhill Summerfest

 

A Weekend Feast

of

Creative Writing

3rd July—5th July 2009
                

With

 

Órfhlaith Chonaill

 

Ted & Annie Deppe

&

Joe Kearney

 

 

Strandhill Summerfest 2009

 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 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 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 ofwriting 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 wrote and presented the acclaimed documentary The Last Cattle Drive and, recently, Finding Henry. His work has been included in many anthologies. 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. Joe is an arts graduate and majored in English Literature at UCD.

 Annie Deppe is the author of Sitting in the Sky (Summer Palace Press, Ireland, 2003). Her work has been anthologized in the Forward Book of Poetry 2004 (England).  She has received a title-by-title individual grant from the Irish 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 Books, 1990), The Wanderer King (Alice James, 1996), and Cape Clear: New and Selected Poems (Salmon Poetry, Ireland, 2002).  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.  Ted and Annie Deppe currently live in Falmore, County Donegal.

 

Órfhlaith 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 3rd  July 2009

6 p.m.—7 p.m.

7 p.m.—9 p.m. Workshops

 Saturday 4th July 2009

9.30 a.m.—1.30 p.m. Workshops

2 p.m. Lunch

3 p.m. Open Forum

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

 Sunday 5th July 2009

10 a.m.—12.30 p.m. Workshops

 

Cost: €125 includes snacks, light lunch on Saturday and BBQ

 

Venue:

Aherlow’, Strandhill, Co. Sligo.

(between Kellys and Strandhill Church)

 

Accommodation: B&B list available.

 

BOOKING FORM

 

Name:_______________________

Address______________________

_____________________________

Telephone:___________________

Email:_______________________

 
I wish to enrol for Strandhill Summerfest and enclose deposit of €50.

 
Please make cheques payable to

Writers’ Ink, and send to:

 
Órfhlaith Chonaill

Aherlow

Strandhill

Co Sligo

 

Any enquiries re bookings to:

087 2799108 or

Email: info@writersinksligo.com

Web: www.writersinksligo.com

(This form may be photocopied)

 

Writers’ Ink is an

 

 Writers' Ink is affiliated to the newly formed Amherst Writers Ireland (AWIreland).  For details of AWIreland events check out  www.awireland.wordpress.com  

 

5-day Residential Workshop

Holy Hill Hermitage, Skreen, Co. Sligo
November 16th - 21st 2009
Details: info@writersinksligo.com
 
  Órfhlaith Ní Chonaill M.Phil.(Creative Writing) is a writer and facilitator of creative writing workshops using the Amherst Writers' & Artists method, as developed by Pat Schneider.
For Further Details: info@writersinksligo.com  Tel: 0872799108
 



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