A Poetry Masterclass with Seán Hewitt
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Date: April 28, 2026
Time: 6.30pm - 8.30pm
Duration: 2 hours
Cost: €50 (€45 Members)
This session will take place in-person at the Irish Writers Centre on Tuesday 28 April, 2026 (one session in total).
We are delighted to offer a masterclass with Rooney Prize-winning poet, novelist, and memoirist Seán Hewitt, taking place in-person at the Irish Writers Centre on Tuesday, 28 April from 6:30 to 8:30pm.
In this masterclass, Seán will trace the evolution of a collection of poems, from first drafts and notes through to finished poems and onwards to arranging and ordering into a book for publication.
Along the way, he will discuss drafting, editing and shifts in sensibility, tone and form. This masterclass would be perfect for writers looking for inspiration into how to transform notes, fragments and drafts into new poems, and those looking ahead to finalising manuscripts for publication.
Seán Hewitt is the author of two poetry collections, Tongues of Fire and Rapture’s Road, and a memoir, All Down Darkness Wide. He collaborated with the artist Luke Edward Hall on 300,000 Kisses: Tales of Queer Love from the Ancient World. Hewitt has received the Laurel Prize and the Rooney Prize for Irish Literature and been shortlisted for the Sunday Times Young Writer of the Year Award and the Dylan Thomas Prize. His debut novel, Open, Heaven, was published in 2024. He lectures at Trinity College Dublin and is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature.
