So, we’re back. Not exhausted and ready to fall into bed for a week as we thought, but transformed and fulfilled and so ready to write our hearts out. Thank you Listowel Writers’ Week… especially Maria McGrath and Elizabeth Dunn for their invitation to take part as a workshop facilitator. Arriving down here on the Friday … Continue reading
Do you find the process of editing your story easy? No? It exhausts you? You’re tired of reading the same thing over and over until your brain feels like mush? Excellent… You’re obviously doing it right. It is hard work, but an author friend, Catherine Brophy, got it in one when she said to me, … Continue reading
Carousel Writers’ Centre is enjoying a fantastic year to date with so many writers coming to try us out and so many others coming back for more! Whichever category you fall into you are always welcome. So far this year our workshops have explored the worlds of writing location, character and plot. We have discovered … Continue reading
January is a month of mixed feelings. There are those who feel that it is a time to be positive and upbeat, and there are others who become immersed in the misery of cold, dark mornings. However you feel, it is always good to write. One thing I like to do in January is to look … Continue reading
Carousel Writing Competition Win a FREE place on… ‘Write Them For Real’ Writers’ Workshop with Bernadette Kearns. 6th Decmber 2014. Write about a character in whatever style/genre you wish, using no more than 200 words. Email your entry by 16th November 2014 To carolann@copland.org.uk Please include your name and daytime contact number. Carousel … Continue reading
Carousel Writing Competition Carousel Monthly Café-Workshops provide writers with the opportunity to acquire new skills, take the time to write and share their work and ideas in the peaceful and inspirational setting of the Dublin Mountains. The perfect writers’ “Me-Time”. Each monthly workshop commences at 10am on a Saturday: 10am: … Continue reading
She’s back! Louise Phillips, author of Red Ribbons, nominated for Best Irish Crime Novel in 2012 and The Dolls’s House which won the Best Irish Crime novel in 2013, is BACK with a vengeance! Last Kiss was launched this month and it is a scrumptious read! I devoured this book. It helped that having read Louise … Continue reading
…because your writing is worth giving your best. Say to yourself… I am a writer! Then tell everyone else. Read before you write… before you read before you write before you read… you get the picture. Sit and write! If you’re not there you can’t write! Find your own space. That doesn’t mean that … Continue reading
Earlier this month I was invited to speak at the Hay Festival Kells www.hayfestival.com/kells on a subject that caused some interesting discussion. “Can writers be taught or should it come naturally?” On the acknowledgements page of my novel, Summer Triangle which was launched in October, I mention all the people who helped to teach me to … Continue reading
Congratulations to the winner of the Carousel Summer Haiku Poetry Competition 2014… Marion Clarke Marion has won a Two Day Haiku and Mindfulness Workshop at Carousel Writers’ Centre in the Dublin Mountains! Her winning Haiku… lough sunlight this desire to walk on water This is what the judges Maeve O’ Sullivan and Kim Richardson had to say about … Continue reading
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