Events Schedule

Writing Workshop

Colm Keegan

Colm Keegan will provide an introduction to writing workshop for Transition Year students at Blessington Community College. Colm has developed numerous creative writing projects for schools and colleges across the country.

Whizdom Workshop

Helena Duggan

Get your pencils and paper ready as Helena Duggan takes you to the land of Whizdom. In this workshop, you will discover a mysterious land, meet a peculiar guide and be given a magical key before you are whisked off to the place of your dreams without ever leaving your seat.

Wonders and Realities Workshop

Jane Clarke

“The more clearly we can focus our attention on the wonders and realities of the universe about us, the less taste we shall have for destruction.”
‍Rachel Carson, Silent Spring

Wicklow poet Jane Clarke will lead a workshop exploring how poetry helps us fine-tune our senses and pay attention to the wonders and realities of our threatened world. She will offer prompts to generate new writing that celebrates nature and addresses the environmental emergency.

The Glint of Light on Broken Glass

Eithne Hand, David Butler & Jane Clarke

Join us for an entertaining evening of poetry and short stories with three acclaimed Wicklow writers, Eithne Hand, David Butler and Jane Clarke. There’ll be time for questions and discussion about all aspects of writing, including inspiration, craft, support and publication.

My delicious Hat

Paul Timoney

My delicious Hat is an interactive performance with poems, stories and drama games. It is suitable for children and families and it is filled with fun and play and silliness. Suitable for 0-4 and their adults.

How to find your voice and stand out

Aoife Dooley

A fun talk about the inspiration behind Frankie’s World and Finding My Voice and top tips on how Aoife Dooley creates graphic novels. Suitable for 8+ and their adults.

How to plan a murder - structuring a crime novel from killing to ending

William Ryan

This is an interactive workshop which starts with a blank piece of paper and ends, hopefully, with the outline of the perfect crime. Bring your ideas and enthusiastic participation for three  hours of criminal creativity.

The Who and the How of Writing Fiction

Tanya Farrelly

From Miss Havisham to Scarlet O' Hara, from Sherlock Holmes to Tom Ripley... in this interactive workshop we will brainstorm what it is that makes a fictional character memorable and how to go about creating intriguing characters. Writer Tanya Farrelly will demonstrate how character is the most important element of any piece of fiction, regardless of genre, and how it is our protagonists' decisions and actions that generate plot.

In conversation with Edel Coffey
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Edel Coffey with Olivia Fitzsimons

Join Irish journalist, broadcaster and award winning writer Edel Coffey for a reading from her debut novel Breaking Point followed by conversation moderated by local writer Olivia Fitzsimons.