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New writing course at Crumlin College

Starting next Monday Jan 30th at Crumlin College Dublin 8.
I am running two courses in creative writing at Crumlin College.
Beginners course 6:00 – 7:30 pm
Improvers course 7:30 – 9:00 pm

Anyone out there in the Southside / Dublin 8 area come along. Crumlin College courses are gov-supported and have relatively low fees. Please share and spread the word.Their website is being updated so there’s no online description.

Best contact the office by email to enquire and book a place. adulted@ccfe.cdetb.ie or phone Kathy O’Neill on 01 454 0662 ext 122Or just turn up on the night with fingers crossed.

Beginners course 6:00 – 7:30 pm
This course is suitable for those interested in creative writing. We read extracts and practice writing flash fiction, short stories, and memoir. Participants will be given writing prompts to put into practice what they have learned. Participants will be encouraged to revise and rewrite class exercises at home and present them at the next meeting. We aim to have a supportive and creative environment.

Improvers course 7:30 – 9:00 pm
The course plan is based on the idea of a “Writer’s toolbox”: some tools are essential, some you need to try, see if it works for you. We cover techniques for handling dialogue, description, voice, minimalist style, plotting, stream-of-consciousness, and even humble punctuation. Editing skills forms a crucial element of the course.

Selected Posts

  • Backstory of a book
    2019-02-22
  • Stinging Fly Wheldon essay
    2017-07-24
  • The Blocks by Karl Parkinson
    2016-10-02
  • London Trip
    2016-09-05
  • Honest Ulsterman interview
    2016-02-29
  • Greetings, Hero launch Hodges Figgis
    2014-11-21

Selected pages

  • Debut Book
  • Publications
  • Writers' Workbench at Block T

Crucial

  • . .
  • Asylum books
  • Buy the book at Kennys
  • Daniel Seery
  • David Mohan
  • Djelloul Marbrook
  • Gorse magazine
  • Slava Nesterov Artist
  • The Penny Dreadful
  • The road to publication
  • The Short Review
  • The Short Review
  • Unthology

Other links

  • . .
  • Karl Parkinson's The Blocks
  • Unthology 4 review
  • Wandering minstrel Larry Beau

What I'm up to

  • Buy the book at Kennys
  • Examiner review
  • Irish Times / Ashley Stokes
  • Irish Times Q+A Irish Times Q+A
  • The road to publication

Recent posts

  • New writing course at Crumlin College
  • Human Wishes / Enemy Combatant Human Wishes / Enemy Combatant
  • The Guiltless Bystander – short story collection from the late David Wheldon
  • GIGANTIC by Ashley Stokes GIGANTIC by Ashley Stokes
  • Writers’ Workbench, Block T
  • Line by Neil Bourke

Quotation

The Tygers of wrath are wiser than the horses of instruction