New Irish Communities 2024 Session 5 Facilitated by Amy Abdullah Barry
Info
Date: May 25, 2024
Time: 11.00am-1.00pm
Duration: 2 hours
Level: Beginner |
Cost: €5 (€3 IWC members, free for unwaged)
Location: Irish Writers Centre
This session will take place on Saturday 25 May, 2024 at the Irish Writers Centre (one session in total).
Please note you must be 18 years of age or older to attend.
Join facilitator Amy Abdullah Barry for two hours of creative writing exercises in a supportive workshop environment. Share your thoughts and life experiences through new pieces of poetry or prose in a variety of genres.
New Irish Communities was established in 2015 by the Irish Writers Centre and is funded by Dublin City Council. The mission of the group is to create access for non-native English speakers to write creatively in English.
What do we do in these workshop sessions?
Each stand alone session lasts two hours and will consist of the following:
• Creative writing exercises
• Close readings
• Group discussion
• Critique and feedback of work
• Recommended reading
We hope that New Irish Communities will be a valuable space where writers can make connections, learn to write creatively, and perhaps, to work together over time. However, each session functions as a stand-alone workshop, so it is not necessary to have attended any previous New Irish Communities sessions to drop in at any point.
Please note, it is not necessary to have attended any previous New Irish Communities sessions to join in, but it is necessary to sign up.
Amy Abdullah Barry is a short story writer, poet, facilitator, and event coordinator. She is published widely including Cyphers, Southword, London Tribune, Paris Lit Up, The Galway Review, RTE and elsewhere. Her poems have been translated into many languages. Chosen for the Poetry Ireland Introduction Series 2022. A travel lover, she previously worked in the media, hotel, and energy industry. Amy has been awarded literature bursaries from the Arts Council and Words Ireland. She is an Honorary member of the Pablo Neruda Association, Italy. Amy is the founder of Global Writers. She regularly organises poetry & music events in her hometown, Athlone. She has performed her work in Ireland and internationally. Flirting with Tigers is her debut collection of poems published by Dedalus Press. The review in Irish Times praising it as being driven by narrative juxtapositions: stories of home and abroad, Malaysia’s Penang and Roscommon.
