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. 

Halfway through your novel and needing encouragement to make it to the end? Worried that the start is leading you in a direction you never expected? Think that you might be stuck writing this one forever? Or, lucky you, finished and trying to find the energy to re-write? This course will teach you  to subject  your work  to the kind of scrutiny that will help  you identify and solve the problems you may have encountered. Through a series of exercises on plot, character, point of view and structure, and through the all-important group discussions, when you will have the chance to pass some of your work by your fellow writers, the  workshop will help re-fuel your creative juices and, hopefully, give you  the  burst of energy you need  to carry you through to  the end.

South African-born, Gillian Slovo is President of English PEN and the author of twelve novels and  a family memoir Every Secret Thing, which  was an international bestseller. Her novel, Red Dust, won the prix RFI Temoin du Monde and became a feature film, starring Hilary Swank and Chiwetel Ejiofor. Ice Road, set in Leningrad of the 1930s, was shortlisted for the Orange Prize. Her co-authored play, Guantanamo – Honor Bound to Defend Freedom played world-wide. Her verbatim interviews with women politicians was part of the 2010 Tricycle Theatre’s Women, Power and Politics season.