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Writer’s Workbench Course starts soon

Enhance your creative/critiquing skillset and knock your writing into shape.

I’m running this writing course via Zoom this time, so anyone can tune in from the USA, Australia, the Continent, and Belmullet.

The course takes a hands-on approach. The focus is on writing as a craft with a toolbox of techniques at your disposal. We will try a few and participants can see what works best for their purposes. Two pillars of the course are: Reading as a Writer, and Editing.

Practicing editing techniques will be a crucial component and some of the mechanics of dialogue, description, plotting, and POV will be covered.  The course is suitable for those who have attempted some writing and for those who want to kickstart their writing in a new direction. Participants will be expected to complete two pieces of fiction or creative non-fiction.

It’s been a while since I ran an online course. They have some advantages – participants are always able find a moment to join the class, even via smartphone and on holidays.

Book on the Irish Writers Centre website

Crucial

  • Buy the book at Kennys
  • Gorse magazine
  • Karl Parkinson's The Blocks
  • Parkinson The Grind review
  • Slava Nesterov Artist
  • The road to publication
  • Unthology
  • Valancourt The Viaduct reissue Valancourt The Viaduct reissue

Other links

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  • Asylum books
  • David Mohan
  • Djelloul Marbrook
  • The Penny Dreadful
  • 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

  • Writers’ Workbench at IWC
  • David Wheldon’s The Course of Instruction
  • John Gray’s Straw Dogs
  • AI Mark O’Connell article
  • Mike Fox – Things Grown Distant
  • The Viaduct reissue

Quotation

The Tygers of wrath are wiser than the horses of instruction