Exciting new writing class at Galway Arts Centre ‘The War against Cliché’ with Dara O'Foghlu. Starting 6th May 2013.

12 Weeks

2 Hours Monday 7-9pm

Starting 6th May 2013

Venue Galway Arts Centre

Cost €120

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Date: 29 April 2013 14:41

‘The War against Cliché’ with Dara O'Foghlu.   Starting 6th May 2013. 

Full details on:
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Galway Arts Centre

47 Dominick Street

Galway

info@galwayartscentre.ie

091 565886

www.galwayartscentre.ie

Class Overview

In the first hour of each class students will discuss the topics introduced through the course content:

 - The Aims of Writing

 - The War against Cliché

 - Criticism and Cynicism

 - Blocked Writers

 - Looking at Comedy Seriously

 - Editing, Re-Drafting

 - Constructive Feedback

The course content will examine literature by authors including: Flann O Brien, Voltaire, Edward Burke, Sean O Faoláin, Arthur Schopenhauer, Richard Ford, W.G. Sebald, Tobias Wolfe, Roland Barthes, Martin Amis, Clive James, Anthony Lane, George Saunders, Jonathan Lethem, Greg Baxter, Philip Lopate, William Hazlitt, David Means, Geoff Dyer, George Steiner, Joshua Ferris, John Updike, Donald Barthelme, Woody Allen, James Thurber, and more.

In the second hour  of each class, students will give feedback to one another’s writing. The purpose of this creative component is to develop editing skills and a constructively critical eye for improving initial drafts.

By the end of the course, students will have produced two pieces of writing, which will have been edited by a dozen other writers. Also they will have examined the act of writing, the reasons we stop, and some reasons to start again.