New Irish Communities 2024 Session 1 Facilitated by Mark Granier
Info
Date:
April 20, 2024
Time:
11.00am-1.00pm
Location:
Irish Writers Centre
Price:
€5 (€3 IWC members, free for unwaged)
Location: Irish Writers Centre
This session will take place on Saturday 20 April, 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. These sessions are ideal for beginner and emerging writers.
How does New Irish Communities work?
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.
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, many 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. He is currently completing a sixth collection, Everything You Always Wanted To Know.
Access our Building
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 Strong room which is on the second floor and requires climbing 55 steps in total. Please do inform us of any accessibility requirements you might have before the event so we can make any necessary arrangements.
If you have any questions about the event, please email info@irishwriterscentre.ie.
