5 Day Workshop €160

Max 15 participants per workshop
Dates: 9:30 - 12:30, Monday 4th - Friday 8th July
Venue: Ard Scoil Phobal, Bantry, Co. Cork
Please note that all participants are asked to bring their own materials for workshops eg. pens, paper etc.  

In this workshop, we’ll be looking at how you can present your writing to an agent, or publisher, to give it its best chance of finding space in a bookshop. There’ll be discussions – I’m not a talking head! – on how to edit your work: we’ll identify structural deficiencies, stylistic tics or infelicities and inconsistency in its myriad forms. Perhaps most important of all, we’ll spend a morning considering how to make every word count, honing and fine-tuning: here, I’ll be asking you to flex your creative muscles. We’ll talk about character development, dialogue and perspective, and in one session, we’ll focus on how to find an agent, and the shape your submission should take when it lands on that agent’s desk. A complete typescript tied with A red ribbon? A synopsis with a few chapters? Electronic or paper? My workshop is designed to offer and spark ideas that may help you get into print. 

Hazel Orme is a freelance editor, working with several publishing houses in the UK and Ireland. During the 1990s she was editorial services director at Pan Macmillan, with responsibility for copyediting, proofreading and indexing across all of its imprints. Hazel has worked with many internationally-known authors, some of whom she has been with since the start of their careers. She is married, with two adult sons, who currently live abroad (Skype is a lifeline!), and an elderly Patterdale.