Writers in the Regions: Masterclass with Sean O’Reilly (Derry)

The Irish Writers Centre presents a Masterclass with Sean O’Reilly at Derry Central Library, Derry. 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:

Stories don’t happen unless they are told. A fiction writer may be someone who makes up stories but they also have to make up who is telling the story. The choice of narrator, the point of view, is the most important decision to be made during a story’s composition. Sean will address some of the reasons behind choosing one angle of perspective over another, and the possible effects on how the story gets told, and indeed, the question of why it is really being told in the first place. The day’s discussion should be of interest to anyone who wants to take their writing more seriously.

Born in Derry, Northern Ireland, Sean O’ Reilly is the author of the novels Love and Sleep and The Swing of Things, a novella, Watermark, and the short story collections Curfew and Levitation. He works also as a teacher, primarily on the Stinging Fly Writing Workshop. He is a member of Aosdána.