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Writing Course at Crumlin College 2024

Starts Monday Jan 22nd 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 the word.

Creative Writing Beginners (on-site) (courses.ie)

To book a place contact the office directly by email or phone

Director of Evening School: Kathy O’Neill
Assistant Director of Evening School: Cathy Daly
Tel: 01 454 0662 ext 122
Email:adulted@ccfe.cdetb.ie

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
    2023-03-05
  • 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

  • Writing Course at Crumlin College 2024
  • Interpolated Stories, by David Rose
  • Renaud Contini’s The Infinite Castle
  • Hangdog Souls by Marc Joan
  • London Trip London Trip
  • Writers’ Workbench, Block T Dublin 8

Quotation

The Tygers of wrath are wiser than the horses of instruction