Facing The Blank Page

with Afric Hamilton   Feb 21-22 2009

€225 per person including lunches (bring a friend for €200)

This workshop will focus on the core elements of creative writing for students who wish to gain experience in writing skills. The workshop will offer a wide variety of exercises to help students discover their written voices. Form, plot, character, dialogue, aspects of style and other elements of the craft are examined, enabling students to incorporate basic storytelling principles into their own writing. The major goals of the class are to help students to discover the power of their individual voices, heighten their imaginative seeing, and develop their overall sense of story structure and movement. Students will also criticise and edit their own work. By the end of the workshop, they should have a clearer idea of what they want to write and how to do it. Suitable for beginners

 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

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