Creative Writing Workshops

A sense of place’ Creative Writing Workshops in Woodstock Gardens

Creative Writing Workshops

Venue:                 Conservatory, Woodstock Gardens,  Inistioge

Dates                    Wed 15^th and 29^th May

Time                      10-00 - 12.30 both days     

Outline: Two workshops with the same group, held two weeks apart on the theme of Place/Home Place.

Wednesday 15^th May - Workshop 1: will be used to introduce the theme of writing on Place/Home Place, to explore what participants understand by effective work on this theme,  provide examples of 'best practice',  and participants will use the gardens as a 'laboratory' to explore writing on the theme.  

Wednesday 29^th May - Workshop 2: will provide an opportunity for more in-depth exploration of the skills involved.  Each participant will be invited to present a prose piece or poem on a place that has particular significance for them. These pieces will be workshopped in the group.

Number in group, not more than ten, places given on a first-come-first-served basis.

Fee  €10 per workshop

Carmel Cummins is from Co Kilkenny and lives in Inistioge. Her poetry has been most recently published in Woodstock Promenade ,2009, Kilkenny Broadsheet, 2009, 2010 and 2012,  I live in Michael Hartnett, 2013. Prose pieces on her home place have been published in Townlands: a habitation, 2012.

All queries to Carmel Cummins                                

  Email: rathfrask@gmail.com