Culture Night 2024: Creative Writing Seminar for Beginners with David Butler

Thinking of taking up creative writing? This one hour seminar will introduce you to different creative writing forms including the novel, short fiction, theatre and film to help you get a taste for the prose writing form of your choice.

Throughout the year, the Irish Writers Centre offers a range of courses, both in-person and online, for writers at every stage of their career. Our courses range from Beginners Fiction to Finishing your Novel, Poetry in Modern Life to Novels in Verse, the Backbone of the Short Story to the Fundamentals of Fiction. This year for Culture Night, we invite you to come along to a taster!

Please note this event is a seminar and not an interactive workshop.

Headshot: David Butler

David Butler’s novels include The Judas Kiss and City of Dis, both from New Island, and the story collection No Greater Love, from Ward Wood. City of Dis was shortlisted for the Kerry Group Irish Novel of the Year, 2015. His second short story collection, Fugitive, is forthcoming from Arlen House.

Access our Building

Tá Áras Scríbhneoirí na hÉireann i 19 Cearnóg Pharnell, Baile Átha Cliath 1. Is teach Seoirseach é agus, ar an drochuair, níl ardaitheoir ann. Tá cúig chéim isteach ón tsráid. Bíonn bunús na n-imeachtaí i Seomra Kiely ar an chéad úrlár agus is gá tríocha céim a dhreapadh chuige sin.

The Irish Writers Centre is currently housed in 19 Parnell Square, Dublin 1. This is a Georgian building which unfortunately does not have a lift. There are 5 steps into the entrance level. The majority of the event’s activities will take place in the Kiely room which is on the first floor and requires climbing 30 steps in total. Please do inform us of any accessibility requirements you might have before the night so we can make any necessary arrangements.

If you have any questions about the event, please email info@irishwriterscentre.ie.