West Cork Literary Festival has announced this year’s creative writing workshops, which will take place during the event from July 15th to 17th, 2024.
The workshops, which are on sale now, will each have a maximum of 15 participants.
Broadcaster and author Aoife Barry’s non-fiction workshop Finding Writing Inspiration in the Everyday is for beginner and emerging writers who want to write nonfiction pieces, whether for submission (radio essays and personal essays) or self-publishing online (blogs and newsletters).
The Short Story Writer’s Starter Kit with Jan Carson will equip you with everything you need to begin or continue your journey with the short story, while John Connell’s workshop on Nature and Place Writing will start at the work of Henry David Thoreau and his seminal book Walden and will investigate how nature and place writing has been with us in its modern form for over a century.
If poetry is your bag, then Mícheál McCann’s generative, discussion-led workshop will explore a wealth of poems, to expand and deepen the writing of your own poems. Through well-known and lesser-known examples, and a variety of thematic and geographical focuses, the attendee to this workshop will leave with both new work, and existing work having received extensive feedback from the course tutor as well as peers. Participants are recommended to be seriously approaching publishing to take this workshop, but all are welcome.
Later you can join award-winning novelist Priscilla Morris for a deep dive into Novel Writing. Whether you’ve written the first 5,000 words of your work-in-progress or have completed a draft, this workshop will have something for you.
Four of the workshops take place in Bantry and participants for John Connell’s workshop will be boarding the ferry to Whiddy Island each morning.
For full details or to book a spot, check out the website for updates.
