Writers in the Regions: Masterclass with Mike McCormack (Galway)
Info
Date:
June 7, 2025
Time:
11.00am - 3.00pm
Location:
Galway City Museum, Spanish Parade, Co. Galway, H91 CX5P
Price:
€35 (€30 Members/Concession)
This session will take place on Saturday 7 June, 2025 at Galway City Museum, Co. Galway (one session in total).
The Galway City Museum is a fully accessible premises. See the Museum’s accessibility statement for more information.
The Irish Writers Centre presents a Masterclass with Mike McCormack at the Galway City Museum, Co. Galway. This masterclass is part of a new initiative, Writers in the Regions, an in-person masterclass series which is aimed at broadening our reach into the vibrant writing communities around the country and bringing expertise and experience to writers at different stages of their writing journey.
About the Masterclass:
This workshop will focus on the generation of narrative content through character, dialogue and dramatic circumstance.
Mike McCormack comes from the west of Ireland and is the author of two collections of short stories, Getting it in the Head and Forensic Songs, and four novels: Crowe’s Requiem, Notes from a Coma, Solar Bones and This Plague of Souls.
In 1996, he was awarded the Rooney Prize for Literature and Getting it in the Head was chosen as a New York Times Notable Book of the Year. In 2006, Notes from a Coma was shortlisted for the Irish Book of the Year Award. In 2016, Solar Bones was awarded the Goldsmiths Prize and the Bord Gais Energy Irish Novel of the Year and Book of the Year; it was also long-listed for the 2017 Man Booker Prize. In 2018 it was awarded the International Dublin Literary Award. He is a member of Aosdána.
