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Date: November 23, 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 23 November, 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 Mark Granier 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.


Mark Granier has an MA in Poetry from Lancaster University, and has been teaching poetry and creative writing for The Irish Writers’ Centre’s New Irish Communities project and University College Dublin’s Lifelong Learning Department for many years. His awards include the 1997 New Writer Prize, several Arts Council Bursaries, The Vincent Buckley Poetry Prize and two Patrick and Katherine Kavanagh Fellowships.  His fifth collection, Ghostlight: New & Selected Poems, was published by Salmon Poetry in 2017.