Presents
Strandhill
Summerfest
A Weekend Feast
of
Creative
Writing
3rd
July—5th July 2009
With
Órfhlaith
Ní 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
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 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 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
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 Ní Chonaill
‘Aherlow’
Strandhill
Co Sligo
Any enquiries re bookings
to:
087 2799108
or
Email:
info@writersinksligo.com
Web:
www.writersinksligo.com
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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
