Limericks Summer Literary Festival Writing Workshops Plassey House, University of Limerick Saturday 19th July 10.00am – 4.00pm As part of Limericks Summer Literary Festival incorporating Bring Your Limericks to Limerick International Poetry Competition2014, which takes place Saturday 19th july, a series of creative writing workshops will be hosted by The Limerick Writers’ Centre The workshops start from 10.00am and run until 4.00pm and take place in Plassey House. Booking is advisable as places will be limited. Please contact Dominic Taylor at limerickwriterscentre@gmail to book. POETRY/CREATIVE WRITING – 10.00am – 12.00 noon ‘Exploring the Secret Heart of Things’. John Liddy will lay bare what lies inside and behind the poems that make up the collection The Secret Heart of Things. Workshop participants will be given a rare and very personal look at what this book is about and hopefully come away with their own sense of what needs to be explored and brought to light. The fee for this workshop is €25.00 FICTION WRITING WORKSHOP 12.00 noon – 2.00pm Limerick born author Paul Lynch (Red Sky In Morning and Black Snow) will help budding authors to find the one key question in their head , hopefully answered, or at least feeling inspired about how to solve it…. The fee for this workshop is €25.00 LIMERICK VERSE WRITING WORKSHOP 2.00pm – 4.00pm How to Write a Limerick. This workshop, facilitated by Richard English, will give practical advice on how to write a good limerick. The fee for this workshop is €10.00 The Facilitators John Liddy is writer in residence for Limerick City of Culture in July. His poetry collections include Boundaries (1974); The Angling Cot (1991); Song of the Empty Cage (1997); Wine and Hope (1999); Cast-A-Net (2003); The Well: New and Selected Poems (2007); Gleanings from the Margins (2010): The Secret Heart of Things (2014). He is the founding editor along with Jim Burke of The Stony Thursday Book, one of Ireland’s longest running literary reviews (1975- ) along with Cyphers and organizes The Well/El Manantial, a weekend festival of poetry in Madrid with Matthew Loughney of The James Joyce Pub and The Embassy of Ireland. Paul Lynch is the author of the critically acclaimed Irish novel RED SKY IN MORNING and has been hailed as a major new talent by authors such as Sebastian Barry, Colum McCann and Daniel Woodrell. After a six-publisher bidding war, his debut novel RED SKY IN MORNING was published to critical acclaim on both sides of the Atlantic in 2013. It was an Amazon Book of the Month, a Barnes & Noble Discover Great New Writers pick, a Huffington Post book of the week and The Daily Beast’s Hot Read. It was featured on NPR’s All Things Considered, where Lynch was hailed as “a lapidary young master”. It was also a book of the year in The Irish Times and The Irish Independent. His second novel THE BLACK SNOW was published on 6 March by Quercus in the UK and Ireland, and by Little, Brown in America in the winter of 2014. RED SKY IN MORNING was published in the French in March 2014 by Albin Michel to massive critical acclaim. Paul was born in Limerick in 1977, grew up in Donegal, and is now living in Dublin. He was the chief film critic of Ireland’s Sunday Tribune newspaper from 2007 to 2011, when the newspaper folded. He has written regularly for many Irish newspapers and has written regularly for The Sunday Times on film. Colum McCann says Paul Lynch has “a sensational gift for a sentence”, while Red Sky in Morning has been hailed as a “masterpiece” by Sebastian Barry, “classic storytelling” by legendary US writer Daniel Woodrell, and a “wonderful achievement” by The Sunday Times. Richard English worked for the ABTA National Training Board, where he designed many of their courses and training materials, before starting his firm RETRAINING. During his term there he built up their direct training department to a unit of some eleven skills trainers providing training for several thousand travel and tourism personnel each year. When ABTA decided to close its direct training department, Richard set up RETRAINING to provide skills training for the travel and tourism industries and he now works with several major travel industry organisations including the Guild of Travel Management Companies (GTMC) and, of course, the ITT for whom he wrote the popular careers guide. He has written several training manuals and books, including the ABTA publication “Be sure about Insurance” and the Columbus publications “World Travel Dictionary” and “World of Travel Sales” (a distance-learning manual). Richard also writes regularly for various trade publications including Travel Bulletin. He is an examiner and consultant to the City and Guilds of London, for whom he has been working since 1978 when he took the part-time post of examiner in travel subjects. Richard is also a facilitator and public speaker and was a founder member of the Professional Speakers Association.
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