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

Art Writing Masterclass: Critical Journalism

Art Writing Masterclass: Critical Journalism

CRITICAL JOURNALISM
AN ART-WRITING MASTERCLASS WITH CRISTÍN LEACH HUGHES.
PRESENTED BY VISUAL ARTISTS IRELAND IN ASSOCIATION WITH AICA IRELAND.

E30. VAI members
E60. Non-members.

Includes FREE admission / participation in VAI’s Get Together 2013 Friday 29 June NCAD)

Session 1 – (2pm – 5pm) Wed 26 June
Session 2 – (2pm – 5pm) Wed 24 July

Venue: Visual Artists Ireland’s Offices, Dublin 2.

Spaces: 12

‘Critical Journalism’ is aimed at current and emerging ‘art-writers’ – individuals with an interest in art-writing / journalism for print, online and broadcast media.

Tutor
Cristín Leach Hughes – Art Critic for The Sunday Times Ireland since 2003. Freelance TV and radio contributor, currently a regular reporter for RTÉ Television’s The Works. (http://cristinleach.com/)

Context
‘Critical Journalism’ offers a constructive response to a lack of media coverage of the visual arts sector, which in turn is frustrating the sector’s attempts to reach, develop and maintain audiences.
‘Critical Journalism’ is prompted by a sense of urgency – in the current economic climate, more than ever, the visual arts sector has to address media and publics in new ways; in order to assert its robustness and counter perceptions that it is an un-essential luxury or soft target for funding cuts.

Format / Content
Discussion / ‘Crit’ Format, that takes place over two afternoon sessions.

Cristín Leach Hughes will lead participants through a range of approaches and strategies, sharing more than fifteen years experience of print, online and broadcast journalism and offering practical insights into pitching, researching, writing and editing your work for mainstream media. The course will include practical assignments and feedback.

The two sessions will also serve as forum for considering and devising new forms of arts analysis, reportage and publicity – for print, online and broadcast media – addressing both specialist and non-specialist audiences.

‘Critical Journalism’ is an associated project of this year’s edition of Visual Artists Ireland’s Get Together (Friday 28 June at NCAD, Dublin) – a networking and information event, with participants acting as ‘roving reporters’ for the day.

Wednesday June 26, 2013 – Wednesday July 24, 2013

John Steinbeck

 

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ONE ACT PLAYWRIGHT AWARDS 2013

ONE ACT PLAYWRIGHT AWARDS 2013

Cork Arts Theatre runs an annual playwright’s award hosted, organised and sponsored by the Theatre. To date over 800 new plays have been submitted and judged, over 150 have been performed and 6 have been published. Submissions are now being accepted for our 2013 One Act Playwright Awards.

·         Application form & a copy of the rules can be downloaded HERE (alternatively application forms & rules can also be obtained by calling us on 021 4505624).

·         Deadline for entry is 31st May, 2013 and the cost is €25 per script.

·         All writers will be invited to Writers Day, when they will receive a full adjudication of their work, and, short-listed plays will be announced. This will take place in early Autumn.

·         Full technical support will be provided by our staff and we will engage production companies and directors to work on scripts for staging. Directors have the choice of consulting with the author or not during the rehearsal period.

·         We have two different categories of Award: Established Writers (category A) and New Writers (category B). Both recicients of category A and category B Awards will receive a trophy and have their play produced.

·         Six plays will be shortlisted for production at the Cork Arts Theatre during Writer's Week 2013 with each play getting a minimum of two airings.

Capturing the spirit.Pauline Sharp artist.

Pauline SharpNew Irish Art

Nearly finished bar some tweaking-Chocolate roan at Limerick Agri. Show 2012

submissions invited for an anthology inspired by/in tribute to Anais Nin,The deadline is Sunday, May 5, 2013.

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Sybaritic Press (www.sybpress.com) is going to publish an ebook anthology of writing and artwork inspired by/in tribute to Anais Nin, one of the 20th century's greatest writers/diarists/literary icons. It can be a poem, a short story, a photograph, am illustration; something that speaks to the kind of writer she was, what she stood for, or, how she inspired you. *Previously published works will be considered, provided that you include the name/date of the previous publication where the work appeared. Poems: 3 poems max (no more than 50 lines) Prose: 2 pieces max (no more than 1,000 words) Artwork/photos/illustrations: 3 piece max, please send in jpeg format. The deadline is Sunday, May 5, 2013. A $3 honorarium, and a pdf of the anthology. will be provided to those whose work is accepted for publication. Authors/Artists will be provided a contract to sign, and return, no later than June 1, 2013. Send your work, or, queries, in the body of an email to: marie.lecrivain.pd@gmail.com