November Workshop - Kildare Writing Centre

 

I'm looking forward to delivering a new workshop in Kildare Writing Centre,  Ireland.  Based in Athgarvan, Co Kildare,and run by award winning writer Pauline Clooney - the centre's in a great location, not far from Dublin, Newbridge, Naas etc... The workshop is suitable for writers wishing to begin work inspired by a subject or event that has long fascinated them, or maybe just grabbed their attention! Here's a little bit about the day, with a booking link at the end. Numbers are limited to eight. 

From Fact to Fiction - A Focus On Beginnings

 Nov 30th 

Participants are invited to bring an object or piece of text (newspaper article, document, photo...etc) and explore various approaches to weaving stories or poetry or creative non fiction from, or around, these seeds of inspiration.  

The day would be suitable for writers (new, emerging or well practised) who have the spark of an idea (related to the item brought to the workshop) It's a day for beginning new work, inspired by a subject or event that has long fascinated you or maybe just grabbed your attention.  

It's important to bring something tangible to this workshop, something related to the subject, person, event or time etc that you wish to explore in words. A pebble, a letter, a piece of clothing... nothing is too tiny or insignificant and nothing is too big.  A tiny perfume bottle inspired Niamh's award winning poem Kitty, an old newspaper article inspired her novel The Herbalist. 

Bio

Niamh Boyce writes poetry, novels and short fiction. She was awarded The Hennessy Award for New Irish Writer of The Year in 2012. In her bestselling novels, she has fictionalized real-life criminal trials. Her bestselling debut THE HERBALIST won Debut of the Year at The Irish Book Awards and was long listed for an IMPAC. It was also an inaugural Irish Writers Center Novel Fair winner. Her novel HER KIND, was based on the Kilkenny Witchcraft Trial and nominated for the EU Prize for Literature.

An award-winning poet, Niamh Boyce was Hennessy XO New Irish Writer Of The Year in 2012. Her unpublished poetry collection was highly commended in The Patrick Kavanagh Award 2013. She was 2024 Writer in Residence in the Centre Cultural in Paris. She lives in the Irish midlands where she is working on a new novel, and a short story collection. 

Book here