January/February 2010 courses

New version of this website coming in 2010, including more details about mentoring-for-novelists, but in the meantime:

Big Smoke courses which start after Christmas are open for booking now, including my Novel in Progress (Monday evenings), Starting A Novel (Friday afternoons), and Angst & Adventure: workshop in children's and young adult fiction (Wednesday evenings).

Halloween workshops!

Information about the Song and Writing workshops for the October mid-term break is up now! We're running two workshops - one for kids (8-12) and one for teens (13-17) - at Ballinteer Community School, Tues Oct 27 - Fri Oct 30. The kids workshop runs from 9am-2.30pm, the teen workshop 10am-3.30pm, and in both, all levels of musical and writing experience are catered for. Registration forms are available from the site - workshop fee is €125 per student, with a family discount available (even if family members are taking different workshops).

Meanwhile, over at the Big Smoke Writing Factory, there are two open registration evenings coming up before term starts: one on Friday 11 Sept, 6-9pm and another on Saturday 19 Sept, 2-6pm. We're accepting bookings right up until course start dates providing places are still available. Had lovely chats with people at last open evening about YA fiction, novel writing, and writing in general, so should be fun!

(Using more exclamation points than usual these days - sometimes the sign of a deranged mind, they say, but mostly, I think, a sign of really looking forward to various upcoming workshops... oh, and a ! for good measure!)

Autumn/winter 2009

As the academic year rolls around... here are some of the things I will be doing in the autumn/winter which are sign-uppable for. (So not a word. Indeed. Forgive me.)

Creative writing classes for adults at Big Smoke Writing Factory (online registration available at the site)
-- Novel In Progress workshop (Monday evenings)
-- Starting A Novel (Tuesday mornings or evenings)

Creative arts workshops for kids and teens with Song and Writing (registration will be available online soon)
-- October midterm break workshop for 8-12-year-olds
-- October midterm break workshop for teens
-- Teachers, find out about getting a workshop into your school

School and library visits
-- Find out more here.