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. 

Lucy Caldwell’s course will help you to find your voice, plan your story, and – most importantly – get you writing it!  We’ll start by asking: why do we write and who do we write for?  We’ll look at inspiration: how to draw on your own experience and how to turn a glimpse or a fragment into a fully-realised tale. We’ll look at different narrative forms and at the choices every writer has to make. You’ll finish the course with all the tips, techniques and tools you need to get you writing the story that only you can write.  It doesn’t matter if you’ve never picked up a pen before – everyone has stories inside them, and the course will be suitable for all levels and ages. 

Lucy Caldwell was born in Belfast in 1981.  Her novels are Where They Were Missed and The Meeting Point, and she has also written a novella, The Furthest Distance.  Her plays include Leaves, Guardians and Notes to Future Self and her radio dramas include Girl From Mars and Avenues of Eternal Peace. She has won the George Devine Award, the Susan Smith Blackburn Prize, the BBC Stewart Parker Award, the Imison Award and the PMA Award for Most Promising Playwright.  She is a Fellow of the Royal Literary Fund and lectures in creative writing at City University in London.