Master of None, an Un-Masterclass with Joanna Walsh
Info
Date: May 30, 2026
Time: 2.00pm - 4.00pm
Duration: 2 hours
Level: Advanced | Intermediate | Beginner |
Cost: €50 (€45 Members)
This session will take place online on Saturday 30 May, 2026 (one session in total).
Course Summary
Joanna Walsh (joannawalsh.ie) is an award-winning multidisciplinary writer. Working with words across print (both professionally-published books and self-published zines), digital narrative, performance and installation, she is particularly concerned with what happens to words when they cross genre and/or media.
Are you unsure where your writing fits? Is it essay, fiction, performance, art, diary, video game? This masterclass is for anyone who wants to discover the boundaries of form, genre and media, and to work in–and with–the gaps in between.
Course Overview
We will consider writing not only at the point of creation but circulation. In an era that (in the UK and the US at least) is increasingly hostile to independent publishing, how can we rethink the roles of writer and publisher and develop strategies for self- and mutual publishing, online and off, as well a personal and financial strategies for creative survival.
We will work with the renewing aspects of doubt, risk and un-mastery.
Working against the masterclass form, this event will be a conversation. Please come with a question or a thought about your own practice. Please feel free to bring samples of your work to discuss.
Joanna Walsh is a multidisciplinary writer for print, digital and performance. Her publishers include Semiotext(e), Bloomsbury and Verso. She is the creator of online narratives seed-story.com and miss-communication.ie (site currently down for repair). She has performed her work at venues including IMMA, Smock Alley Dublin and the ICA London, and created installations for Sample Studios Cork, Betafest Dublin, and a citywide installation for the Hull Maritime Festival UK. Her awards include a 2017 UK Arts Foundation fellowship, an Anthony Burgess Centenary Writer Fellowship at the University of Manchester, a 2020 Markievicz Award, and a 2024 DAAD Artists in Berlin fellowship (refused in solidarity with Palestine). She is currently the Samuel Beckett Creative Fellow at the University of Reading.
