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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Writers’ Ink is an
Programme
Friday 25th July 2008
7 p.m.—9.30 p.m. Workshops
Saturday 26th July 2008
9.30 a.m.—5 p.m. Workshops
7. p.m. BBQ followed by Social Evening
(may include attendance at Yeats Summer School reading) and an open mic. for
participating writers
Sunday 27th July 2008
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.
Presents
Strandhill
Summerfest
A Weekend Feast
of
Creative Writing
25th July—27th
July 2008
With
Órfhlaith Ní Chonaill
Ted & Annie
Deppe
&
Joe Kearney
Strandhill
Summerfest 2008
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.
