How to Find Your Voice in Fiction with Lisa Harding (Evening Course)
Info
Date: September 30, 2025
Time: 6.30 pm - 8.30 pm
Duration: 8 weeks
Level: Intermediate | Beginner |
Cost: €275 (€247 Members)
This course will take place in-person on Tuesdays (eight sessions in total).
Course Summary
What makes a writer’s voice unique, compelling and memorable? Over the course of eight weeks, we will undertake a high energy, experiential creative practice workshop exploring essential elements of fiction writing, through writing prompts and short readings of selected stylists, with a particular emphasis on what generates voice and character on the page. As a novelist, playwright and short story writer I’ll introduce elements of each of these creative forms to help spark that place of inspiration and impulse.
Course Outline
Participants will focus on all the major components of fiction writing as outlined below:
Inspiration and impulse
Voice
Introduction to character
Dramatic momentum/story/plot
Setting and place
Dialogue
Style and poetic language
The short story
Editing
This is mostly an interactive workshop where work will be produced in the sessions and there will be homework assignments. By the end of the eight weeks, participants will have a completed chapter/short story to share with the group.
Course Outcomes
An understanding of what makes each writer’s voice distinctive, a completed chapter or short story, as well as an invigorated approach to the craft of writing and a love of the process that will live long after the course ends.
Lisa Harding is an experienced teacher having facilitated creative writing workshops at master’s level. Her first novel Harvesting won the Kate O’Brien Award, was shortlisted for an Irish Book Award and the Kerry Group Prize. Her second novel Bright Burning Things was a Today Show Book Club Pick, a New York Times Editors’ Choice, a People Magazine Pick and an Observer, Grazia, Irish Times and Irish Independent highlight for 2021. It was shortlisted for the Kerry Group Irish Novel of the Year and a Dalkey Literary Award. Her new novel The Wildelings was an Observer, Harper’s Bazaar, The Economist and Irish Times choice for 2025.
Booked out? To be added to the waiting list for this course, please email info@irishwriterscentre.ie.
