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Adults Creative Writing classes (16 plus) with Afric Hamilton and Tina Pisco
These workshops will introduce students to the process and techniques of creative writing. Students will experiment with various types of writing, including short stories, fiction and poetry. They will also be encouraged to read their work aloud. This will give them the opportunity to appreciate the individuality of writing styles, and inspire them to experiment further with their own work. Evaluative feed back will also be given if requested. During each workshop, students will be assigned writing exercises to develop the craft of dialogue and scene building. They will also be encouraged to access their memory as a source of inspiration for character creation and fiction.
Classes run on Thursday evenings 7-9.30pm 2009 dates: Term 1 - 11 weeks: Jan 20 - Mar 12 and Mar 24-April 9 €220
Term 2 - 9 weeks: April 21-June 19 €180
"Exploring Creativity through Writing." with Tina Pisco
Term 3 - 10 weeks: Sept 14-Oct 15 and Oct 26-Nov 26 €200 Do you want to write? Would you like to explore your creativity, but don't know where to start? "Creative Exploration through Writing", a new course taught by Tina Pisco, will lead participants through the world around them to unlock the story within. Great for beginners, or those who want to kickstart their writing.
Sit still.
Wait.
Listen to your heart beating.
Feel the breeze.
Smell the message it carries.
Forget everyone else.
Forget yourself.
Write.
Childrens Creative Writing classes (7-12s) with Adam Wyeth Classes run on Thursday afternoons, 3.30-4.30pm 7-10 year olds, 4.45-5.45pm 10-12 year olds
2009 dates: Term 1 - 11 weeks: Jan 20 - Mar 12 and Mar 24-April 9 €140 Term 2 - 9 weeks: April 21-June 19 €120 Term 3 - 10 weeks: Sept 14-Oct 15 and Oct 26-Nov 26 €130
Teenage Creative Writing classes (12-16s) with Niamh Prior
In a relaxed atmosphere, young people are given the opportunity to explore new ways to express themselves through the written word. The course will introduce the students to different forms of prose and poetry, and if interested, drama, film and radio scripts. They will learn how to plot stories, create characters and settings. Through sometimes strange and but always enjoyable exercises they will learn original and imaginative ways of putting words together. Classes run on Wednesday afternoons, 4-5.30pm
2009 dates: Term 1 - 11 weeks: Jan 20 - Mar 12 and Mar 24-April 9 €165 Term 2 - 9 weeks: April 21-June 19 €135 Term 3 - 10 weeks: Sept 14-Oct 15 and Oct 26-Nov 26 €150
Afric Hamilton
Afric Hamilton has been facilitating creative writing workshops all over West Cork for eight years. She works for the Writer's Consultancy as an editor, and is the author of two works of non-fiction. She is a freelance journalist with several newspapers and magazines, including the Irish Independent and Munster Interiors, and is a regular book and theatre reviewer for the Irish Examiner. She has produced three collections of poetry, and has also been published in Poetry Ireland, Southword, Women's Works, Kinsale Anthology and the SHOp. She is currently working on a novel.
Adam wyeth
Adam Wyeth runs various Creative Writing and Poetry Appreciation classes in Cork and the county. Currently, Adam teaches private workshops weekly in Cork, and is running a ten-week workshop working with young people at Turners Cross Community Centre, supported by Cork City Council. Earlier in the year Adam was invited into six primary schools in Kinsale, to teach poetry and creative writing. An anthology was published of the children’s achievements and was launched in July during Kinsale Arts Week. The project was supported by Kinsale Arts Week and Cork County Library. Prior to that, Adam was a workshop facilitator with the Unfinished Book Project under the auspices of the Cork Library Service. The project involves the selection of five Cork writers, each year, to work with students of five secondary schools. Each writer undertakes a weekly workshop with transition year students in a city library. The outcome of which is the publication of the students work in a book, launched on World Book Day.
Adam has been published in numerous magazines, including Poetry London, Magma, The Shop, Southword and The Stinging Fly. He has been anthologized in the Bisto award winning Something Beginning with P, (O’Brien Press) and was a runner-up in the 2006 Arvon International Poetry Competition; the poem was published in their 25th anniversary anthology. He was a featured poet in Agenda magazine (UK) and selected for the Poetry Ireland Introductions Series, 2007. He was also selected by The Munster Literature Centre to be mentored by Matthew Sweeney. He has made two films on poetry, A Life in the Day of Desmond O’Grady, first screened at The Cork Film Festival, 2004; and a full length feature, Soundeye: Cork International Poetry Festival, 2005. He is host of Kinsale’s WORD UP! Poetry Nights, supported by Kinsale Arts Week and Poetryireland.
Niamh Prior Niamh is a Kinsale based writer, who studied English with Film &TV Studies, and Journalism, and has spent three years reporting for the Kinsale and District Newsletter. She has had short stories, reviews and articles published in Irish magazines and national newspapers, and her poems have been performed during the Kinsale Arts Festival. She has been teaching teenage creative writing workshops for two years and facilitated the Teenage Writing project for KAW '08.
Excerpts from the Kinsale Arts Festival Teenage Writing project 2008:
It was up to us to decide whether we would risk making a dash for the next pillar or if we would wait longer by the one we were already hidden behind. They were fast on our track, they’d be down on top of us once they had scanned the whole pillar. We chose to run. We ran and ran until we were about halfway there but then our legs were moving but we were going nowhere fast. We had been picked up by the biggest one any of us had ever seen.
Padraig Pollock
Cake sale
Every year around Easter Ms. Lucey would hold a cake sale, for charity in her classroom. Every member of the class had to go home and bake the night before. There were always hundreds of Rice Krispie cakes but not much else. Old books and toys were also for sale. When I look back on it now it seems odd that we were selling cakes, books and toys for never more than 20 or 30 cent yet now in Mini Company we justify selling brownies for €2. I remember when I was in first class it was so scary going into the ‘biggy's’ classroom. Soon enough I became a ‘biggy’ myself and assisted the ‘smallies’ with their purchases. The 5th and 6th class were always the ones that strolled casually in, looking too cool to buy anything. There were broken toys and scattered bits of stale cake all over the classroom for weeks afterwards.
Hannah McGovern
It was now really frantic. Five troubled teenage girls packed into the unorganised bedroom. Serena picked up the valuable possession which meant so much to her. She smiled with joy as it reached temperature. It was evident form her face she was content. She began gliding the hot, ceramic tongs through her shiny hair making sure she did not miss any of it. Meanwhile the others began applying eye-liner with speed and jumping into ra-ra skirts. Serena, however was as calm as a summer day with her favourite appliance in her hand.
Roisin Daly
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