Word Matter... an online magazine

Word Matter is an online weekly magazine I have created that may be of interest to you.. if you like it I can continue to post it here.

8th-14th April ...It's Cuirting time in Galway

Check out what Cuirt 2014 has to offer... see the link below.

http://www.cuirt.ie/en

Irish Writing Centre Events coming up

The Irish Writing Centre in Dublin has a number of events coming up namely:




28.03.14 from 7-9pm Open Mic night taking place on the last Friday of every month. Writers, spoken-word artists, comedians and musicians are all welcome to perform. There's a place for scriveners of every hue.


Admission is free but donations welcome. It's a BYOB

31.03.14 - 03.04.14 Irish Writers' Centre is delighted to partner with this year's festival to present three events of a literary hue:

On the Edge of the Parish: 'Growing Up at the Five Lamps' – a talk by Ann Matthews.

Temper-Mental MissElayneous (Elayne Harrington) and Andre K'Por. Two poets of the concrete will, together, disseminate a duo manifesto spoken word showcase

Dickens in Dublin by Laurence Foster. Written and performed by Laurence Foster, this is a recreation of one of Dickens' visits to Dublin

01.04.14 Launch of Celia de Fréine’s new collection of poetry: cuir amach seo dom: riddle me this.

cuir amach seo dom: riddle me this, is Celia de Fréine's new collection of poetry (Arlen House) which will be launched by Micheál Ó Ruairc. cuir amach seo dom : riddle me this is Celia de Fréine's sixth collection. As its name suggests, the title poem, which she wrote while in Slovenia, takes its cue from the riddle, a traditional Slovenian form. Also included in the collection are the sequences The Lady and the Unicorn: An Bhean Uasal is an tAonadharcach and Monsanto written in Paris and Portugal respectively.

12.04.14 Seminar on Copyright & Authors' Rights by Samantha Holman CEO of the Irish Copyright Licensing Agency. The seminar will look at what is copyright and what does it allow and prevent? Is it a barrier to innovation or does it adequately protect creators' rights. The recent publication of the Copyright Review Committee's recommendations for change in Ireland and Judge Chin's decision favouring Google in the Google Books case make for interesting times in the world of copyright. If you want an understanding of where we are and where things might be heading or even just to ask some basic questions about copyright, this seminar is for you! Cost: €30 non members; €25 members

                                    15.04.14 A reading with Colin Carberry...

Colin was born in Toronto and spent some of his childhood in Lanesboro, Co. Longford. He now lives in Mexico with his wife and daughter. Colin is the author of the poetry collections The Crossing (Bearing Press, 1998), The Green Table (Exile, 2003) and Ceasefire in Purgatory (Luna, 2007). He is also the translator of two collections by one of Mexico's greatest poets, Jaime Sabines, including Love Poems (Biblioasis, 2011). Colin's poems have been translated into many languages. He has read from his work on radio and television, and at book fairs, embassies, literary festivals and universities in Bosnia-Herzegovina, Canada, Ireland, Mexico, Serbia, Slovenia, and the United States. In 2010, he founded the Linares International Literary Festival, of which he is artistic director. Colin's latest book, a co-translation into Spanish of Jack Harte's third novel, Arcana, was published by Scotus Press in 2013. Keep an eye out for the specifics over the coming week and check out the link below for more details... but be sure to save the date.

For more details on these events and more, go to http://writerscentre.ie/html/events/atthecentre.html

Irish Writers Centre Spring courses

You may be interested in courses being run by the Irish Writers Centre...click on link below for more details.

http://www.writerscentre.ie/html/courses/weekendindex.html

Reaching readers...

Here is a suggestion for reaching readers...

Below is a link to a website that promotes reading... but I think we can learn from it and apply similar principles to cultivate an interest in our writing... so that when we do come to publish our Anthology next year... we have generated interest in our writing... This would require setting up a You Tube channel and then posting up videos of us reading snippets of our work to whet people's appetite...

What do you think of the idea?

http://www.storylineonline.net/harry-the-dirty-dog/

Playwriting... interview with adjudicator Christian O'Reilly

Playwriting... an interview that I recorded three years ago with Christian O'Reilly who was an adjudicator for Listowel Writers Week at the time... but what he says is still valid today

Writers workshops next weekend

Doolin Writers Weekend

FEBRUARY
2014

The Doolin Writers Weekend will take place from 28th - 30th March 2014 at Hotel Doolin. The weekend will consist of workshops in short story writing, poetry and novel writing, lectures and readings by some of Ireland’s leading writers, as well as some great traditional music and theatre. In addition to workshops and readings Hotel Doolin in association with The Irish Writers' Centre will announce the winner of the DOOLIN SHORT STORY COMPETITION 2014.

For more information on the festival go to www.doolinwritersweekend.com.

National Emerging Writer Programme

Writing.ie's Vanessa O'Loughlin introduces the National Emerging Writer Programme. It offers a great opportunity to learn the craft of writing from leading Irish authors Declan Hughes, Sinead Morrissey and Carlo Geblar... see trailer below.

Anthology deadline set for International Women's Day 2015

Speaking at the launch of the Kerry Women Writers' Network on Saturday 8th March, at Tralee Bay Wetland's Centre, Minister Jimmy Deenihan set a deadline for the production of the KWWN anthology in time for International Women's Day 2015.

The launch of the Network was a great success with approximately 100 people in attendance. The audience was entertained to a selection of poetry and prose from the network's writers ... each writer was given 3 minutes in which to delivery a sample of their work, making it a fast paced event that was made all the more enjoyable thanks to music and singing by Karrie... http://www.karriesmusic.com, Ruti Lacs, and Ronnie Moore.

Below are some photos from the event...

KWWN member's Book launch...

On  FRI. 21st of March at 7.30 in Dingle Bookshop, Green Street, Dingle 
Margret Shea is launching her book PICK UP THE PHONE .

Margret would love to see you all there. But if you can't make it and would like to purchase a copy... 

Please check out...

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Pick-Up-Phone-Margret-Shea/dp/1480156450/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1393600980&sr=1-1&keywords=Pick+up+the+phone

Go on, take a look at my book. Click on book to buy and remember to leave a super review! Thanks from Margret

Different anthology... but

... is it worth considering submitting your work to.... or does it give away too much of your rights over your work?

http://www.booksbywomen.org/whenwomenwaken/submissions/

Our very own Rebecca Kemp is...

 ...The Kerry author chosen to take part in Twitter’s literary festival. Rebecca's story is called The Incredible Shrinking Woman here is how her own story was covered in Journal.ie


http://businessetc.thejournal.ie/twitter-fiction-writing-1350179-Mar2014/?utm_source=shortlink

Need more readers?

Congratulations to all who participated in the launch of KWWN. What a fantastic bunch of writers we are and some amazing performers too. By our calculations we had about 100 in attendance which is quite amazing for our first event and it was lovely to meet them too. Those of you who are already published authors may find Story Cartel useful to promote your book. Story Cartel .is a way for authors to build up a relationship with readers... in exchange for an honest review on Amazon, Goodreads etc.

Click on the link below to find out more. http://storycartel.com/about/

Happy International Women's Day

Wishing everyone a Happy International Women's Day from Kerry Women Writers' Network. The theme for this year's International Day is Inspiring Change...

  Improving the position of women in Society brings positive change for everyone.

We hope you can all make it to our event tonight at 8pm at The Wetlands Centre, Tralee.
We promise you entertainment in the form of poetry, prose and music. Entry €5. Proceeds go to Tralee Women's Resource Centre and Kerry Rape Crisis.

KWWN to launch on International Women's Day

Inspiring Change is the United Nations' theme for International Women's Day 2014.  Come along to our International Women's Day event at 8pm on Saturday the 8th March at the Wetlands Centre, Tralee and listen to the voices of Kerry Women Writers and be inspired.  Entry fee €5. All are welcome.

Meet the writers

Next Saturday the 8th of March Kerry Women Writers Network host their inaugural event on International Women's Day at the Wetlands Centre in Tralee from 8-10pm. The event will be opened by Minister Jimmy Deenihan and promises to be a wonderful night of entertainment with music, prose and poetry.  All are welcome. Entry fee €5. Proceeds go to Tralee Women's Resource Centre and Kerry Rape Crisis Centre.