Courses

The Irish Writers Centre offers a range of writing courses for writers at every stage of their career.

OUR COURSES

 

The Irish Writers Centre offers a range of courses for writers at every stage of their career.

 

We offer in-person and online writing courses, along with our new self-paced writing courses, allowing you to access course content at your own time and pace. We have capped our course participants to 12 places per course, except in seminar-style courses, to ensure a high-quality and personalised experience for all

Beginner / Tosnaitheoir

FOR THE NOVICE WRITER to help you find your way into your own writing through practical, creative and supportive means with an experienced professional facilitator. 

Emerging / Ag borradh

FOR WRITERS who have attended courses in the past, the emerging series will allow you to perfect your skills and develop your creative abilities. 

Professional Development / Forbairt Ghairimiúil

LED BY INDUSTRY PROFESSIONALS, these workshops are designed to help you work on essential skills that are part and parcel of being a professional writer in the public eye. The Meridian series is our latest programme of development supports.

Course Type:
All MERIDIAN ONLINE MERIDIAN IN-PERSON Meridian Online In-Person Online Self-Paced Courses
Course Level:
All BEYOND Beginner Emerging Professional Development
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In-Person |

Autofiction with Mary O’Donnell

Level: Beginner | Emerging |

Date: October 31, 2023

Time: 2.00 pm – 4.00 pm

Duration: 6 weeks
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Online |

Everybody’s Talkin’: A Short Story Workshop with Madeline Beach Carey

Level: Beginner | Emerging |

Date: November 1, 2023

Time: 6.30pm – 8.30pm

Duration: 6 weeks
MERIDIAN IN-PERSON |

Meridian: Writing Warhol with Jennie Taylor in association with Hugh Lane Gallery

Level: Professional Development |

Date: November 4, 2023

Time: 11.00am – 1.00pm (except where stated)

Duration: 6 Weeks
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Online |

Playing the Pauses in Flash Fiction – Employing the Unsaid with Marie Gethins

Level: Beginner | Emerging |

Date: November 6, 2023

Time: 6.30 pm – 8.30 pm

Duration: 6 weeks
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In-Person |

From Spark to Execution: A Novel Plan with Tanya Farrelly

Level: Beginner | Emerging |

Date: December 2, 2023

Time: 10.30 am – 4.30 pm

Duration: 5 hours (one hour lunch break)
Online |

Digging Up The Bones: Research for Non-Fiction and Memoir and an Introduction to Genealogy with Kevin Connolly

Level: Professional Development |

Date: January 8, 2024

Time: 6.30 pm – 8.30 pm

Duration: 4 weeks
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In-Person |

Write a Short Story in Six Weeks with June Caldwell

Level: Beginner | Emerging |

Date: January 9, 2024

Time: 6.30 pm – 8.30 pm

Duration: 6 weeks
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Online |

Telling Your Own Story: The Art of Memoir with Kathy Donaghy

Level: Beginner | Emerging |

Date: January 9, 2024

Time: 6.30 pm – 8.30 pm

Duration: 6 weeks
In-Person |

Eight-Week Starter Kit with Jean O’Brien

Level: Beginner |

Date: January 10, 2024

Time: 2.00 pm – 4.00 pm

Duration: 8 weeks
Online |

Creating Factual and Documentary Programme Ideas with Hilary Fennell

Level: Emerging |

Date: January 10, 2024

Time: 6.30 pm – 8.30 pm

Duration: 6 weeks
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In-Person |

How to Find Your Voice in Fiction with Lisa Harding

Level: Beginner | Emerging |

Date: January 10, 2024

Time: 6.30 pm – 8.30 pm

Duration: 8 weeks
Online |

The Art of Poetry with Moyra Donaldson

Level: Emerging |

Date: January 10, 2024

Time: 6.30 pm – 8.30 pm

Duration: 8 weeks
Online |

Fact or Fiction: Using Personal Experiences to Tell Stories with Tanya Farrelly

Level: Beginner | Emerging |

Date: January 15, 2024

Time: 2.00pm – 4.00pm

Duration: 8 weeks
Online |

How to Haiku – the Next Level with Maeve O’Sullivan

Level: Emerging |

Date: January 15, 2024

Time: 6.30 pm – 8.30 pm

Duration: 6 weeks
In-Person |

The Writer’s Workbench with Aiden O’Reilly

Level: Emerging |

Date: January 16, 2024

Time: 6.30 pm – 8.30 pm

Duration: 8 weeks
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Online |

Bruised, Burning, Beautiful: Writing through Emergency with Kerri ní Dochartaigh

Level: Beginner | Emerging |

Date: January 16, 2024

Time: 6.30pm – 8.30pm

Duration: 6 weeks
MERIDIAN ONLINE | Online |

Meridian: The Art of the Pitch with Geraldine Walsh

Level: Professional Development |

Date: January 16, 2024

Time: 6.30pm – 8.30pm

Duration: 6 Weeks
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Online |

Mark-Making, Care-Taking: On Ritual, Reconnection and the Recording of Motherhood with Kerri ní Dochartaigh

Level: Beginner | Emerging |

Date: January 16, 2024

Time: 10 am – 12 pm

Duration: 6 weeks
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In-Person |

The Art of the Short Story with Cathy Sweeney

Level: Emerging |

Date: January 16, 2024

Time: 6.30 pm – 8.30 pm

Duration: 6 weeks
Online |

Fragmenting Experiences, Fragmented Structures with Roe McDermott

Level: Beginner | Emerging |

Date: January 17, 2024

Time: 6.30 pm – 8.30 pm

Duration: 6 weeks
Online |

Writing the Non-Human with Doreen Cunningham

Level: Beginner | Emerging |

Date: January 18, 2024

Time: 7.00 pm – 9.00 pm

Duration: 6 weeks
In-Person |

Writing Science Fiction and Fantasy with John Kenny

Level: Beginner | Emerging |

Date: January 23, 2024

Time: 6.30 pm – 8.30 pm

Duration: 6 weeks
Online |

A Novel Approach with David Butler

Level: Beginner | Emerging |

Date: January 23, 2024

Time: 6.30pm – 8.30pm

Duration: 10 weeks
In-Person |

The Poetry Writing Kit with Adam Wyeth

Level: Beginner | Emerging |

Date: January 24, 2024

Time: 6.30 pm – 8.30 pm

Duration: 8 weeks
Online |

Backbone and Heart: Writing a Short Story with Órfhlaith Foyle

Level: Beginner | Emerging |

Date: February 6, 2024

Time: 6.30 pm – 8.30 pm

Duration: 6 weeks
Meridian Online |

Meridian: Ebb and Flow: Awaken your Creative Process with Easkey Britton

Date: February 10, 2024

Time: 10.00 am – 12.00 pm

Duration: 4 Weeks
Online |

Build a Strong Writing Foundation with E.R. Murray

Level: Beginner | Emerging |

Date: February 13, 2024

Time: 6.30 pm – 8.30 pm

Duration: 6 weeks
Online |

Kickstarting Your Nonfiction Book – Creating an Author Roadmap with Geraldine Walsh

Level: Beginner | Emerging |

Date: February 27, 2024

Time: 6.30pm – 8.30pm

Duration: 6 Weeks

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