BY KIMBERLY CAMPANELLO I’ve been thinking a lot lately about the impact of creative writing courses at universities or venues like the Irish Writers’ Centre on the writing process. I’m not really interested in the old debate about whether writing can be taught. Instead, I think the vital question is what possibilities a writing course
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Denise Blake will read this Friday at the Irish Writers’ Centre (1pm) as part of the Lunctime Readings. She was born in Lakewood Ohio in 1958 and returned to Ireland with her parents and family to live in Letterkenny, Co. Donegal in 1969. Her first collection of poetry, Take a Deep Breath, was published by Summer Palace
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Jill Battson is an internationally published poet and poetry activist who is Poet Laureate Emeritus of Cobourg, Ontario. She is a guest at this Friday’s Spoke open mic night at the Irish Writers’ Centre. The event is free (including wine!), and all are welcome along to perform work. To sign up to the event: arrive punctually
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How did you become interested in poetry? Betty McMahon. She was my primal Jean Brodie, my crème de la crème, my Sweet Afton twenty a day tab merchant, for five out of seven years at St Mirren’s Primary School. We had a text-book way back when, something like ‘Mainlining English’, so I was clearly a
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Last week, I was lucky enough to be able to attend the Cork Spring Literary Festival in the capacity of official festival blogger. Highly impressed by the list of world-class writers, as well as the programme variety, I set off to Cork city expecting a fantastic festival. What I didn’t realise was that my expectations
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In solidarity with all the other arts organisations concerned that funding for the arts might be regarded as less important than other demands on the public purse, the Writers’ Centre is participating wholeheartedly in this Day of Action. We hold that writers and writing are highly effective contributors to our society and our economy, and
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People write. If they’re good enough, they get published. Then they write more and get more things published. Then they earn lots of money. All this happens smoothly and words flow in a constant stream of inspiration. Pah! If only the business of writing were that simple! Human beings are a complicated lot and writers
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