Friday, March 30, 2012

DLRCOCO Arts Bulletin 30 March

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Artist Network - Collaborating With Children

Date: 31st March 2012
Time: 10.00am to 12.00pm
Location: The Grainstore Youth Arts Facility, Cabinteely Park, Cabinteely, Co Dublin

Would you like to meet other artists?
Would you like to share ideas, advice and information with other artists working in the area?
Would you like to meet your local Arts Office staff and chat to them informally?
Would you like free advice from professionals on how to develop your artistic career?

Then this is for you.

The dlr Artists Network meets regularly to allow artists working in any discipline a chance to get together. Each session opens with a presentation on an interesting topic designed to help you further your career. Then there is time for questions, to share experiences and offer suggestions for future presentations.

After that there will be a chance to have a cuppa and chat informally to each other.

This month's presentation will be about Collaborating with Children and will be by Orla Kenny and Maree Hensey.

Orla Kenny, Creative Director of Kids' Own Publishing Partnership. Orla will talk about Practice.ie a website for artists working with children and young people, managed and developed by Kids' Own.

Maree Hensey, Artist. Maree's practice encompasses drawing, sculpture, textiles and participatory art. At the heart of her artistic practice is the engagement and participation of community. Maree was recently selected to create and deliver a public art piece for Sticky Fingers Early Years Arts in collaboration with school children in Newry.

The event is free and there’s no need to book. For more information contact Carolyn Brown cbrown@dlrcoco.ie or (01) 2719532


Peter Sirr to adjudicate the Strong Award in partnership with Shine at Poetry Now

Poetry Now at Mountains to Sea dlr Book Festival 4th to 9th of September 2012

Peter Sirr has been announced as the judge of the dlr Strong Award in partnership with Shine at Poetry Now / Mountains to Sea.

The dlr Strong Award in partnership with Shine is presented annually to the author of the best first collection of poems published by an Irish poet in the previous year. The Strong Award as part of Poetry Now at Mountains to Sea dlr Book Festival serves to recognise the promise and achievement of both English and Irish language poets. Previous winners of the Award include Dave Lordan, Peadar Ó hUallaigh and Grace Wells. The short-listed nominees will read at the Strong Reading during the Mountains to Sea dlr Book Festival 2012 and the prize-winner will receive €1,000.

Peter Sirr lives in Dublin where he works as a freelance writer and translator. He has published several collections of poems with Gallery Press, the most recent of which is The Thing Is, published by Gallery Press in 2009, which won the 2011 Michael Hartnett Award. He is a member of Aosdána.

For more information please contact:
Maeve Buckley at maeve@lineupsme.com or 086 1582725



Floating Ape Shortlisted At Fresh Film Festival 2012

We are delighted to announce that 3 films by the Floating Ape group, based at the Grainstore, dlr's Youth Arts Facility have been selected for the all Ireland finals of the Fresh Film Festival 2012.
Floating Ape collaborated with artist Michael Fortune, and their work can be viewed at www.floatingape.com. The chosen short films are "Bad Disco", "The Text Message" and UFO Activity", we wish them the best of look in the finals on March 28th.

For further information please contact Michael McLoughlin at yaw@dlrcoco.ie or (01) 2047979
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Youth Arts Incubation Awards 2012

Dún Laoghaire-Rathdown County Council are delighted to announce the selected Youth Arts Incubation Awards 2012.

Cathal McGuire and Sinéad Hunter (Performing Arts) are in receipt of one award, and the collective of Joe Coveney, Edel Campbell and Ashleigh Downey (Visual Arts) the second.

Awardees will be based in the Grainstore, dlr's Youth Arts Facility in the coming months. The Youth Arts Incubation Award is aimed at offering individual practitioners and/or collectives the time and space to research and develop new ideas/work for youth arts related engagements.

For further information contact Máire Davey at mdavey@dlrcoco.ie or (01) 2719529.

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Thursday, March 29, 2012

Irish roots, Emily Dickinson, and being poet laureate

Irish roots, Emily Dickinson, and being poet laureate

Irish Times Loose Leaves Saturday March 24

Loose Leaves

Powers Gold Label Short Story Competition 2012

Celebrate what truly matters

This Week on Writing.ie




The Home of Irish Writing Online!
 
Y Books are looking for three new authors, fiction, non fiction and poetry for the New Big Book of Hope eBook. Find out how your work can be published with a host of
international bestsellers!
 
The Irish are renowned for being a nation of story tellers. 
Find out what the story is, starting right here..... 
 


This week on writing.ie
markheffernanMany of you may have seen Mark Heffernan on RTE 1's Late Late Show. Last week Sam Blake met with Mark to find out exactly what it's like living with a death threat, why he hasn't gone into witness protection and how his book Dead Man Talking came to be. Win your copy of this landmark memoir, currently No.1 in the iBook chart, over at our competitions page.

Harrys_Mgic_Tables
There's magic, there's Harry aged 10 and there's a book that could come in very useful at Hogwarts - Harry's Magic Tables is the one book all our children need. The best ideas are the simplest and when Harry needed help to learn his times tables, his Mum, Stephanie stepped in. Then Harry stepped in to help her get it published...Stephanie told writing.ie exactly how it all happened.
Win your copy of Harry's Magic Tables over at our competitions page!
  • Thinking about getting your book published?  Find out what the Alliance of the Indepdendent Authors can do for you. Launching at The London Book Fair, bestselling author turned Indie Orna Ross reveals what this non-profit organisation aims to do.
  • What do Stephen King and Sophie Kinsella have in common? They use pen names. Sarah Downey spoke to three Irish writers to find out their reasons for using use pen names, and how it all works. In The Name Game, Pen Names Exposed she reveals just what changing your name can do for your career.
  • Sheila Keily juggles six children, a career and has recently released a fabulous book of recipes Gimme The Recipe. How did she do it? Sheila explains all in Setting Goals and Making Time. You can win your copy at our competitions page!

It's competition time!
Enter our draw for your copy Mark Heffernan's Dead Man Talking and Sheila Keily's Gimme The Recipe - find out more at our competitions page
ybooksdynamicAs covered in The Sunday Times, The New Big Book of Hope is about to be launched as an eBook and Y Books are looking for three new authors to join celebrity authors including Dragons Den's Nora Casey, Bill Cullen and economist Jim Power plus international best sellers Monica McInerney, Claudia Carroll and Sinead Moriarty to name just a few. If you write fiction, non-fiction or poetry, this competition is for you! All royalties from the book and forty per cent of the entry fee go directly to The HOPE Foundation to assist in their vital work with the street childen of Kolcata, India. If you watched Slumdog Millionaire, you'll agree with Vikas Swarup that "this inspiring collection is a song of hope for the street children supported by the HOPE Foundation. It deserves every success." Visit our Competitions page for details.


Joe_PalmerTell Us Your Story

Waterford local, Joe Palmer, read his fabulous memory story Bon Voyage as part of the Tell Your Own Story event. For RTE Radio 1 John Murray listeners who heard Paddy Reid discussing his father and grandfather's wartime experiences, read his story Deserted here. Paddy read too at Tell Your Own Story, leaving few dry eyes in the house.
If you have a story to share with us and the National Folklore Archive, helping to build a first hand picture of Ireland's history, please send it in! Check out our Tell Your Own Story for how.

 And in our Guest Blogs...
Alison_Wells_2In Random Acts of Optimism Dr. Ailsa Cox, founder of the Edge Hill Prize guest posts on the origins and selection process of this prestigious prize for short story collections.



barry houlahan 2Barry Houlihan looks at Tiny Plays for Ireland, currently on at the Project Arts Centre, is staged by Fishamble in association with the Irish Times and puts recession Ireland firmly under the spotlight in a series of 25 new three-minute plays. Barry Houlihan looks at how these micro-plays really puts Ireland to task in Centre Stage.

CarenKennedy_Inkwell_2Caren Kennedy wonders, do you want to write for television? Get the inside track at Word Play




derek-flynnIn SongBook, Derek Flynn launches his debut CD at Waterford Writers' Weekend, but this week he looks at plot vs charactisation - it's a must read.




Hazel_Gaynor_blogHazel Gaynor is also speaking at Waterford Writers Weekend about The Girl Who Came Home, A Titanic Story on Sunday this week - she joins international bestselling author and journalist Martina Devlin Taling Titanic. Find out more on Carry on Writing!
 On From the Front Row, ER_Murray_233x350Editor Declan Flynn reports from The History Press launch of A Parachute In The Lime Tree




lou_ptwitterLouise Phillips talks to Amazon best seller Mel Sherratt in Crime Scene and finds out how she is Tauting the Dead

  





Tell Us Your Story
We looking for your submissions of personal essays in the Monday Miscellany, Mining Memories and Writing & Me sections! See what we have there now and check here for full submission guidelines:

 
We are working with the National Folklore Collection in UCD to preserve selected submissions to these sections to add to their rich archive.


  About
 
Writing.ie has been developed by Vanessa O'Loughlin with vital support from the Arts Council.
 
 
 
 
 
Vanessa is a publishing consultant and runs Inkwell Writers Workshops, one of Ireland's leading publishing consultancies. She is PRO for Irish PEN and a member of Publishing Ireland.
 
         
 
 
 


  Contact us at contact@writing.ie
We welcome your thoughts and ideas!



Writing.ie, The Old Post Office, Kilmacanogue, Co. Wicklow, IRELAND

Friday, March 23, 2012

This week on writing.ie




The Home of Irish Writing Online!
 
Writing short stories? Win a place at Anam Cara Writer and Artist's Retreat on their fabulous short story workshop in June. See below for details!
 
Y Books are looking for three new authors, fiction, non fiction and poetry for the New Big Book of Hope eBook. Find out how your work can be published with a host of international bestsellers!
 
The Irish are renowned for being a nation of story tellers. 
Find out what the story is, starting right here..... 
 


This week on writing.ie
Joe_PalmerWith Waterford Writers Weekend starting on Friday, we bring you another story for Mining Memories from  Waterford local, Joe Palmer, a fabulous memory of his boyhood in Sligo. For RTE Radio 1 John Murray listeners who heard Paddy Reid discussing his father and grandfather's wartime experiences, read his story Deserted here.
Come and hear our storytellers 'Tell Your Own Story' at the Central Library in Waterford at 11am and 2pm and hear more memory stories.
If you have a story to share with us and the National Folklore Archive, helping to build a first hand picture of Ireland's history, please send it in! Check out our Tell Your Own Story for how.

walk-across-the-sun-cover-204x300US author Corban Addison's story of Tsunami and human trafficking explores the dark side of humanity in a gripping drama that brings his own experience of the legal world to readers worldwide. Eleanor Fitzsimmons met Corban for writing.ie when he visited Dublin and got to the heart ofWalk Across The Sun.
 
 
 
 
One_foot
98fm's Head of News Teena Gates reveals her ultimate challenge in One Foot In Front of The Other - climbing Mount Everest and her battle to lose weight - and writing about it afterwards. You might expect a journalist to find a publisher easily, but Teena's approach was just the same as every other writer...

 
 
  • This week Children's Books Ireland announced the shortlist for the CBI Book of the Year Awards. Now in their 22nd year, the award identifies, honours and promotes excellence in books for young people by Irish authors and illustrators. The most prestigious in Ireland they give one of the few opportunities for national and international recognition of Irish authors and illustrators. Are your favourite authors on the shortlist? Take a look!

It's competition time!
anam caraYou've only a week left to check out our fantastic 250 word short story competition run in association with Anam Cara Writer's and Artist's Retreat. Award winning author and guest facilitator at Anam Cara Vanessa Gebbie reveals how to bring your fiction to life using the five senses.
If you'd like to win a place on Vanessa's 9-15 June workshop "Short Fiction:  So Much More Than It Seems..." find out more at our competitions page.


ybooksdynamicAs covered in The Sunday Times, The New Big Book of Hope is about to be launched as an eBook and Y Books are looking for three new authors to join celebrity authors including Dragons Den's Nora Casey, Bill Cullen and economist Jim Power plus international best sellers Monica McInerney, Claudia Carroll and Sinead Moriarty to name just a few. If you write fiction, non-fiction or poetry, this competition is for you! All royalties from the book and forty per cent of the entry fee go directly to The HOPE Foundation to assist in their vital work with the street childen of Kolcata, India. If you watched Slumdog Millionaire, you'll agree with Vikas Swarup that "this inspiring collection is a song of hope for the street children supported by the HOPE Foundation. It deserves every success."

And in our Guest Blogs...

lou_ptwitter Louise Phillips talks to Amazon best seller Mel Sherratt in Crime Scene and finds out how she is Tauting the Dead.
 
 
 
 
 
 

barry houlahan 2Tony Devlin is writer and performer of the new play '1981' looking at the deaths of those on Hunger Strike at the Maze Prison. He talks to Barry Houlihan about his new play, growing up in West Belfast and his award-winning company, Brassneck Theatre in Centre Stage.

Alison_WellsIn Random Acts of Optimism Alison Wells talks to author A.J. Ashworth about her short story collection Somewhere Else, or Even Here and winning the Scott Prize.
 
 
 
derek-flynnIn SongBook, Derek Flynn launches his debut CD at Waterford Writers' Weekend, but this week he looks at plot vs charactisation - it's a must read.




Hazel_Gaynor_blogHazel Gaynor is also speaking at Waterford Writers Weekend about The Girl Who Came Home, A Titanic Story on Sunday this week - she joins international bestselling author and journalist Martina Devlin Taling Titanic. Find out more on Carry on Writing!
 On From the Front Row, ER_Murray_233x350Editor Declan Flynn reports from The History Press launch of A Parachute In The Lime Tree






Tell Us Your Story
We looking for your submissions of personal essays in the Monday Miscellany, Mining Memories and Writing & Me sections! See what we have there now and check here for full submission guidelines:

 
We are working with the National Folklore Collection in UCD to preserve selected submissions to these sections to add to their rich archive.


  About
 
Writing.ie has been developed by Vanessa O'Loughlin with vital support from the Arts Council.
 
 
 
 
 
Vanessa is a publishing consultant and runs Inkwell Writers Workshops, one of Ireland's leading publishing consultancies. She is PRO for Irish PEN and a member of Publishing Ireland.
 
         
 
 
 


  Contact us at contact@writing.ie
We welcome your thoughts and ideas!

Wednesday, March 21, 2012

Waterford Writers Weekend

Waterford Writers Weekend

Wednesday, 21st March 2012

Brisk booking for events at Waterford Writers' Weekend
Well priced events with a variety of well-known authors are selling well for the annual Waterford Writers' Weekend. Sarah Webb, Monica McInerney, Niamh Green and Sinead Moriarty, hugely successful Irish authors, will discuss "What Makes A Bestseller" in Greyfriars Gallery on March 24th at 7.30 p.m.
"Talking Titanic", a timely and popular discussion about the ill-fated liner and its personal impact will take place with best selling journalist Martina Devlin and Titanic author Hazel Gaynor in Greyfriars on March 25th at 2 p.m.

Information about these and all other festival events are available at http://www.waterfordwritersweekend.ie. Bookings can be made at Garter Lane Arts Centre at http://www.garterlane.ie or by phoning 051 855038.

"Our workshop programme has been expanded to offer a range of assistance to aspiring authors. In the past we have found that workshops are in huge demand, and we have offered them at a competitive price so they are available to anyone who wishes to begin writing, to find their niche area or assistance with the tricky world of publishing" according to festival organizer Katherine Collins. "Successfully published writers including crime fiction author Arlene Hunt and creative writing facilitator Claire Hennessy will provide expert help for those whom wish to learn more about writing for particular audiences in a relaxed and intimate environment."

Headlining events at the Writers' Weekend include discussions with investigative journalist Donal McIntyre of "Dancing on Ice" fame, former Beruit hostage Brian Keenan and world explorer Tim Severin. Workshops for children have proven extremely popular and are sold out, but young people will have an opportunity to meet their favourite authors Judi Curtin, Sarah Webb and Oisin McGann at "The Ideas Workshop" in Garter Lane Theatre on March 24th at 2 p.m. Local writing will also be well represented by historian Jack O'Neill whose latest book "A Concise History of Waterford" will be launched by editor of Waterford Today Paddy Gallagher in Central Library on Friday March 23rd at 2 p.m.. "Come the Sails" choral performance will be the finale of the festival in Christchurch Cathedral on March 25th at 5 p.m. Tickets for "Come the Sails" €5 from Christchurch Cathedral.

Tickets are still available for many events from Garter Lane Arts Centre http://www.garterlane.ie Event and programme information is available from libraries and from the festival website http://www.waterfordwritersweeekend.ie

Thursday, March 15, 2012

Arena Flash Fiction Competition


ARENA FLASH COMP

Writer Dave Lordan is judging this brand new flash competition from RTÉ radio's arts programme, Arena:
The Arena Flash Challenge 2012

Rules: A story told in 500 words or less.(Unpublished).
Open to anyone between the ages of 18 and 125.

Quirky, daring, challenging and provocative writing encouraged.

Deadline: April 30th.
Winners announced: May 15th

Winner crowned Arena Flash Champion 2012

and four runners up broadcast during Arena Flash Fiction week

Judge Dave Lordan. Entries headed ARENA FLASH CHALLENGE to arena@rte.ie

Tuesday, March 13, 2012

Three Irish writers in line for €30,000 prize - Books, Entertainment - Independent.ie

Three Irish writers in line for €30,000 prize - Books, Entertainment - Independent.ie

The DIY Novel - a writer's tale (from manchesterconfidential.co.uk)

The DIY Novel: Straight To Kindle.

Manchester based columnist Flic Everett decided Kindle was the only friend she needed for the 'Only Friends You Need'.  Published yesterday afternoon at 1:19 PM.

"All writers fantasise about writing their novel. It’s the holy grail for most journalists - a painful quest, endlessly planned, and discussed. There are a million writers’ groups, supportive videos, and ego-boosting memoir-writing websites.  But for all the encouragement, discussion, wine and residential courses in Skyros, actually writing the thing is as hard as it was back when novelists were obliged by law to die of TB by their 35th birthdays, and forced to use ink made from whatever black substance they’d coughed up. What has changed, however, is how easy it is to actually get it published.

Ten years ago, if you wanted to get your glorious completed work into the public arena, you’d either embark on the traditional route of two year’s worth of begging letters, followed by bitter rejection- or you’d go the ‘vanity’ way, which meant forking out thousands of pounds to produce a pamphlet entitled ‘Arthur’s Memories Of World War II’ and hope the local bookshop might show pity.  Now, though, we have the mighty Amazon and its Kindle. This is set to do for books what Myspace did for music.

No wonder the print publishing industry is on its knees. Paperback sales of bestselling authors are down 40% on last year. Meanwhile, e-book sales are up by over 110%. The public has taken to the Kindle in a big way -  and that means anyone who can spell, design a cover and summon up around 100 000 words from the depths of their soul can now self-publish on Amazon, and wait for the five-star reviews to roll in. I had no intention of doing that two years ago, when I first began my novel, The Only Friends You Need. It was reasonably intelligent, saleable chick-lit, and my agent was very encouraging. “I love it,” she said, “Just write the whole book, then we’ll approach publishers.” Between paying the mortgage and occasionally breathing, it took me another year. She suggested a few tweaks, to make it more saleable. She didn’t like one of the characters. I was quite fond of her, seeing as I’d made her up, but I did as she asked. But so far, it’s going pretty well - and more importantly, my slaved-over first novel is being read, and enjoyed. “Great,” she said.

Then she went quiet, like a ticking bomb, for two months. Finally, I phoned her. “Ah,” she said. “Yeah. Print sales are in freefall, and no one’s taking a chance on a new author. So.” I sank my head on the keyboard, and cried for about four minutes, (time is money) then I sent the whole thing off to another literary agent with a good reputation. She loved it.  “There’s just a few tweaks,” she said. So I tweaked back all the things I’d originally tweaked forwards. Then I waited till after Christmas. “I’m really sorry,” she said. “I’m just not taking on any new authors right now, because print sales are in freefa.....” That was when I decided to do it myself.

A writer friend, Lucy, had just put her first novel on Kindle, and it was going brilliantly. This way, there was no advance or promotion- but there was also no agent taking 20%, no publisher taking another chunk, and no chance of having my precious work pulped when sales didn’t reach their 10,000 target. I wanted people to read it, not to spend another six months trying to persuade an agent or publisher to take a chance. So, we spent an entire day photographing the cover (embarrassingly, it involved a teacup - I don’t know what I was thinking). Then I sat up at 2am and realised it was rubbish, found an old snap of my best friend and her sister, and used that instead. And three days later, it was out there.

I used to think if a book was good enough, it would find a real publisher - but now, I’m not so sure. It’s hard enough for big-brand authors to shift copies, let alone first timers. Of course, it’s still early days for self-publishing. Bookshops and publishers will have to find a way to accommodate the tide of new authors. I expect to encounter mild sneering, and I suspect I won’t be paying off the mortgage with the profits. But so far, it’s going pretty well - and more importantly, my slaved-over first novel is being read, and enjoyed. It may not be the five-figure publishing auction we all dream of- but it’s a whole lot better than shoving it into a forgotten drawer, and taking to drink".

You can examine, muse over or buy Flic Everett's book here. You can follow the author on @fliceverettWriting In The Olden Days - About Three Years Ago

The busiest book club in Ireland

The busiest book club in Ireland

Women Writers Sarah Webb and Marita Conlon-McKenna

First encounters

Loose Leaves

Loose Leaves

Thursday, March 8, 2012

This week on writing.ie




The Home of Irish Writing Online!
 
Thinking of self publishing? Catherine Ryan Howard is bringing her Faber Academy workshop to Dublin for Inkwell on 3rd March. Find out everything you need to know to self publish successfully at Inkwell Self Printed
 
Writing short stories? Win a place at Anam Cara Writer and Artist's Retreat on their fabulous short story workshop in June. See below for details!
 
The Irish are renowned for being a nation of story tellers. 
Find out what the story is, starting right here..... 
 


This week on writing.ie
summer_tom_darlingTom Darling's Summer was published earlier this year to great critical acclaim, Marese O'Sullivan caught up with him to find out more about Summer, and his screenwriting career.
ThreatentowinThey say write what you know, and Ireland's Dick Francis, Brian O'Connor, racing journalist for the Irish Times, knows horse racing. Threaten to Win is out this week, but O'Connor isn't a man who's afraid to speak his mind...
sarah webb2With Waterford readying itself for a fabulous programme of events for Waterford Writers Weekend, Sarah Webb tells us just what the family showThe Ideas Shop is all about. March 23rd-25th, Waterford Writers Weekend, have an incredible line up - meet explorer extroadinaire Tim Serverin, investigative crime journalist Donal McIntyre together with Beiruit hostage Brian Keenan and Mountjoy's ex-Governor John Lonergan plus a host of international best selling writers from Monica McInerney to Sinead Moriarty!

  • Ellora's Cave author Caroline McCall reveals just how she found a US publisher and gives you her tips to follow in her footsteps.
  • Y Books are launching The New Big Book of HOPE eBook in April. In an exciting new competition run in conjunction with The Inkwell Group, they are looking for 3 new writers - fiction, non fiction (including memoir) and poetry - to join over 40 of Ireland's leading writers and personalities to raise much needed funds for The HOPE Foundation. Find out more at our competitions page!

anamcarablue_doorCheck out our fantastic 250 word short story competition run in association with Anam Cara Writer's and Artist's Retreat. Award winning author and guest facilitator at Anam Cara Vanessa Gebbie reveals how to bring your fiction to life using the five senses.
If you'd like to win a place on Vanessa's 9-15 June workshop "Short Fiction:  So Much More Than It Seems..." find out more at our competitions page.

buttons2-yourstory
In Mining Memories, Mattie Lennon reveals how having Time On My Hands landed him in hot water in 1972
If you have a memory story to share with us and the National Folklore Archive, helping to build a first hand picture of Ireland's history, please send it in! Check out our Tell Your Own Story for how..

And in our Guest Blogs...
lou_ptwitter Louise Phillips welcomes guest posts at Crime Scene, and this week Frances de Plino reveals who she really is and more about Bad Moon Rising, in Getting Inside the Killer's Head
 
 
 
 
 
 
Alison_Wells_2Alison Wells wonders if writing can ruin your love of reading in Random Acts of Optimism
 
 
 
 
 
barry-houlahan
Barry Houlihan is Calling All New Playwrights at Centre Stage

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sarahmariagriffin
Sarah Maria Griffin is guest posting at Poetic License at the launch of Roger Greg's The Muse Unbidden
 
 
 
 
 
 
ER_Murray_233x350
Elizabeth Rose Murray looks at Social Media Training - from the other side...in From the Front Row


Tell Us Your Story
We looking for your submissions of personal essays in the Monday Miscellany, Mining Memories and Writing & Me sections! See what we have there now and check here for full submission guidelines:

 
We are working with the National Folklore Collection in UCD to preserve selected submissions to these sections to add to their rich archive.


  About
 
Writing.ie has been developed by Vanessa O'Loughlin with vital support from the Arts Council.
 
 
 
 
 
Vanessa is a publishing consultant and runs Inkwell Writers Workshops, one of Ireland's leading publishing consultancies. She is PRO for Irish PEN and a member of Publishing Ireland.
 
         
 
 
 


  Contact us at contact@writing.ie
We welcome your thoughts and ideas!



Writing.ie, The Old Post Office, Kilmacanogue, Co. Wicklow, IRELAND

Monday, March 5, 2012

Trinity Writer Fellow Free workshop

PRESS RELEASE

Free Writing Workshop

Each year the School of English at Trinity College Dublin and the Arts Council of Ireland offer a free writing workshop with the current TCD Writer Fellow. This year's Fellow is novelist and playwright, Philip Davison, author of among other works, McKenzie's Friend and The Long Suit . His most recent play for radio is Love and Animals . He will be leading a workshop from 6.00pm to 9.00pm on Friday 23rd March, and Saturday 24th 10.00am to 1.00pm. The workshop continues on Friday 30th March and concludes on Saturday 31st. Applicants should submit a single piece of prose not exceeding 1,000 words by post to the Oscar Wilde Centre no later than Friday, 9th March.
 
Irish Writer Fellow Workshop
Oscar Wilde Centre
School of English
Trinity College Dublin
21 Westland Row, Dublin 2
For further information contact lifoley@tcd.ie . Please note that we cannot accept submission by e-mail. Applicants will be notified by e-mail as to whether or not they have been selected.

Friday, March 2, 2012

Tea Chests and Dreams writing competition

Angela mentioned this competition at our last meeting, so I'm posting a few links with description and more information on how to apply.


Tea Chests and Dreams - A Night of First Nights

Dermot BolgerA chance is offered to seven new writers to hear their words on stage as part of a new production by Dermot Bolger, in Dublin.

Staged by Axis in Ballymun the production will run for just seven nights in Ballymun and the Civic Theatre, Tallaght from Wednesday April 11, 2012.

Bolger's new play, Tea Chests and Dreams, is about what we do when the final box is unloaded from the removal van or taxi; about where our minds go as we unwrap cups, clocks and family heirlooms.

It is about how we begin again.

Dermot Bolger will capture the voices and experiences of thirteen women spanning three generations and five decades.

Between now and March 23 women of all ages are invited to submit to Axis Ballymun a six hundred word account of their recollections of their first night in a new home.

Each performance of Bolger's play will commence with a once-off public reading of one such text, either by the woman who wrote it, or, by an actress.

This means that each night of this play about first nights will truly be a first night, with a new voice heard on the Irish stage, a new story added to the celebratory mosaic that is Tea Chests and Dreams.

The best monologue will be published in a special new writing supplement in a leading national newspaper.

Scripts can be sent by e-mail

Or by post to Tea Chests and Dreams competition, Axis Art Centre, Main Street, Ballymun, Dublin 9 .


About the competition on the Axis Ballymun Theatre website -----> http://www.axis-ballymun.ie/artsDevelopment/Default.1298.html

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Call for applications for the dlr Strong Award in partnership with Shine

Deadline: 29th of March at 12 noon
Poetry Now at Mountains to Sea dlr Book Festival
4th – 9th of September 2012

Poetry Now at Mountains to Sea dlr Book Festival calls for applications for the dlr Strong Award in partnership with Shine.

The dlr Strong Award in partnership with Shine is presented annually to the author of the best first collection of poems published by an Irish poet in the previous year. The Award serves to recognise the promise and achievement of both English and Irish language poets. Previous winners of the Award include Dave Lordan, Peadar Ó hUallaigh and Grace Wells. The short-listed nominees will read at the Strong Reading during the Mountains to Sea dlr Book Festival 2012 and the prize-winner will receive €1,000.

The dlr Strong Award in partnership with Shine is awarded in memory of Rupert and Eithne Strong and is made possible by the generous support of Shine. This is the first year that Shine have partnered with the dlr Strong Award and the festival is delighted to be associated with them. Shine is the national organisation dedicated to upholding the rights and addressing the needs of all those affected by mental ill health.

For more information and details on eligibility and entries please email Maeve Buckley at maeve@lineupsme.com




Monster March Book Day

Location: County Hall, Dún Laoghaire

Date: Saturday 10th March

Time: 10.00 am to 1.00pm

Dún Laoghaire-Rathdown Libraries are celebrating World Book Day with a Monster March Book Bash. This promises to be a fun, book-filled day for all the family featuring some of Ireland's top children’s authors and illustrators.

Learn to draw with Don Conroy, find out about the real monsters of the deep with Garrett Carr, and discover where Oisín McGann, Judi Curtin and Sarah Webb get their ideas and inspiration.

This event is a must for all young readers and writers, and every child will go home with a goody bag too. The event has been programmed by Tom Donegan and Sarah Webb.

Tickets available from Pavilion Theatre Booking Office (01) 231 2929 or www.paviliontheatre.ie. Tickets cost €5 for children, €7 for adults - family ticket of 2 adults and 2 children €20. Suitable for age 8+. All young readers must be accompanied by an adult.

For full details see www.dlrcoco.ie/library
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