Mary Johnson

I am a Galwegian, am married/have lived in Tralee since 1980.

Members only editing workshop

The Writer-in-Residence for Kerry, Noel O'Regan, will give a FREE workshop on editing to KWWN members only on Thursday 20 Nov in Tralee Library 6-7:30pm.  It is open to writers of all genres.

The workshop is limited to 15-20 participants and there is no need to send work in advance.

Noel has worked with world-renowned publishers in the UK, as well as being an award-winning short story writer in his own right.  This is a wonderful opportunity to benefit from his expertise.

Victoria

Roisin returns

It was wonderful to meet Roisin Meaney at Kerry Women Writers Network recently. She gave a very informative talk on how to begin a story that grabs the reader's attention from the off. She also spoke about the writing process, employing agents and the whole publishing scene. To top it all she came with a copy of her latest novel to raffle amongst the group... and yours truly was the lucky winner... Claire!

Sharon Fitzpatrick

Sharon Fitzpatrick. A creative writer and business person.  Writes Pose, Short stories, Fiction Novels for Children and Adults, Articals for Magazines.  Started 'Purple Pumpkin Publishing' in 2014.  www.purplepumpkinpublishing.com Based in Killarney, Co. Kerry. Ireland.

Victoria Kennefick...A rising star of the poetry scene

Victoria Kennefick’s chapbook, White Whale, won the Munster Literature Fool for Poetry Competition 2014. It will be launched as part of the Cork Spring Poetry Festival 2015. A collection of her poems was shortlisted for the prestigiousMelita Hume Poetry Prize 2014 judged by Forward Prize winner, Emily Berry. She has also been shortlisted for 2014 Over The Edge New Writer of the Year Award. In 2013 she won the Red Line Book Festival Poetry Prize and was shortlisted for the Bridport and Gregory O’Donoghue Prizes. She was selected to read as part of the Poetry Ireland Introductions Series 2013 and at the Cork Spring Poetry Festival Emerging Writers Reading in February 2014. Her work has been published in The Stinging Fly, Southword, Abridged,The Weary Blues, Malpais Review, The Irish Examinerand Wordlegs. She was a recipient of a Fulbright Scholarship in 2007 and completed her PhD in Literature at University College Cork in 2009. Originally from Shanagarry, Co. Cork, she now lives and works in Kerry. A member of the Listowel Writers’ Week committee and co-coordinator of its New Writers’ Salon, she also chairs the recently established Kerry Women Writers’ Network . She is the recipient of both a Cill Rialaig /Listowel Writers’ Week Residency Award and a Bursary from Kerry County Council this year. Here is a selection of her poems as published in Poethead. https://poethead.wordpress.com/2014/10/11/the-corner-house-and-other-poems-by-victoria-kennefick/

Roisin Meeney to talk to KWWN

The next meeting of the KWWN takes place on
Saturday 25 October in
O'DONNELL'S BAR in Tralee (Mounthawk
roundabout).  The members' meeting takes
place from approximately 11:30-1pm in a room UPSTAIRS.  

Irish novelist Roisin Meaney will give a 45 minute talk on writing and publishing after the meeting from 2:30pm (so there will be time for lunch in the bar between meeting and talk).  She will also  speak with members individually about how to get work published etc. over tea!  It is a wonderful opportunity for KWWN members to make contact with a very successful author.  This is a MEMBERS ONLY event and costs €10.  We look forward to seeing you there.

More updates soon!

Watch this space...it's going to be a great few months.

Victoria

Claire O'Mahony

Claire O’Mahony is from Tralee, Co. Kerry. For a time she worked as a journalist in London and later in the construction industry there before returning home in 2005 and working in construction in her native Kerry. When the crash hit in 2008 she reverted to journalism and now teaches media skills to adults in Abbeyfeale, Co. Limerick. She has two blogs JournoJots http://journojots.blogspot.ie/ and another on SoundCloud which can be accessed via https://soundcloud.com/claireomahony/tracks  She writes poetry, prose and plays and looks after the blog for the Kerry Women's Writers Network.

Purple Pumpkin Publishing...official launch day

The heart of literacy is Co. Kerry and where better to establish a Publishing Company. Sharon Fitzpatrick a writer herself, meets so many talented writers within the Kingdom. Kerry is oozing Literary Geniuses.

Sharon with extensive business knowledge and her creativity combined make the expert combination to establish her Publishing Company.

The Official Launch is on Friday 10^th October 2014. Held at The Gleneagle Hotel in the Green Room. At the time of 3.30pm until 5pm. Refreshments will be provided along with spectacular entertainment. Looking forward to the future ahead. Thank you for everyone’s support.

Monthly meet-up on Saturday

Just to let you know that the KWWN will be meeting in Tralee Library on this Saturday from 11:30-1pm.  

We've had a wonderful summer touring the great county of Kerry sharing our work in The Carnegie Kenmare, The Seanchaí Centre Listowel, Dingle Bookshop and Tralee and Killarney Libraries.  We also performed on Culture Night in the Carnegie Arts Centre in Kenmare.  We've had new members join us at each event, so if you missed the opportunity to do so, come along to the meeting and get involved.  We'd love to meet you and hear about your work.

We're planning an Anthology, workshops and more readings so watch this space!

All the best and see you on Saturday,

KWWN

Marian Pender

Originally from County Galway, Marian Pender now resides in County Kerry and is a founder member of Scríobhnóirí Sliabh Luachra.  Marian writes short stories, flash fiction and the occasional poem, regularly enters competitions and recently won the Purple Pumpkin Publishing short story prize.

Her extensive land and sea travels greatly influence her work which can be seen in her upcoming book and anthologies.  A trans-ocean sailor, curious cook and gardener, Marian delights in the inspirational settings where she spends much time writing.

Culture Night... join us in Kenmare

Join us on Culture Night (Friday 19 Sept) at the Carnegie Arts Centre, Kenmare for an evening of poetry and prose from 8:15pm! The evening will feature an Open Mic session, so bring along some of your own work too and share it with an appreciative audience. For more information see: http://www.carnegieartskenmare.ie/index.php/details-events/upcoming-events/52-upcoming-other-events/329-culture-night-2014

Congrats to Victoria and Anne...

Congratulations to Victoria Kennefick and Anne O'Neill who succeeded in getting onto the longlist of the prestigious Over the Edge 2014 Poetry Competition.

See link below for details http://www.overtheedgeliteraryevents.blogspot.ie/2014/08/2014-over-theedge-new-writer-of-year.html

Margret Shea

Margret Shea is an intrepid traveller and can’t resist a new challenge. She has worked as an artist and was a member of a craft co-operative, and worked with St John of Gods in Dingle for seven years. In 2010 she retired early and set off to Australia where she drove 20,000kms with a friend. Walked the Santiago Camino for 500 kms and then settled in the sunny Costa Blanca for seven months and wrote her first novel ‘PICK UP THE PHONE’

and is working on her second novel.

She is Scottish, and after having raised her family and moved location many times in the UK, she has now been settled for seventeen years on the Dingle Peninsula, County Kerry, Ireland.

Dingle is your last chance to hear the writers on tour...

...Make your way to the Dingle Bookshop, 2 Green Street, Dingle, to hear new work by Kerry Women writers... the event kicks off at 6pm on Thurs 21 August

Tour hits Listowel tonight

The Kerry Women Writers' Network Tour continues apace! A group of five talented readers will be appearing in the Seanchaí Centre, Listowel on this Thursday, 14 August @ 7:30pm. The readings will be followed by an Open-Mic session - your chance to share your work with an appreciative and supportive audience. The Open-Mic is open to all! The readings in Tralee, Killarney and Kenmare have been great successes, so the KWWN are looking forward to performing their work in Listowel. See you there!

Tonight... we hit Kenmare

The third date on our Reading Tour takes place in the wonderful Carnegie Arts Centre, Kenmare tonight (Sat 9 Aug) at 8pm.

The event comprises a short reading from KWWN members and an open mic section for any writers who would like to share their work!  There will also be opportunities to meet KWWN members, join the Network and learn about our activities.  

We look forward to seeing you there!

The KWWN Reading Tour gets underway

The KWWN Reading Tour is underway... so far we have had a fantastic response to the readings in Tralee and Killarney... and the audiences have been hearing some great new work. We would like to thank the Arts Office at Kerry County Council for their support, we could not have put this tour on without you.

A wonderful selection of KWWN members will be reading from their poetry, memoir and prose at the upcoming tour venues in Kenmare, Listowel and Dingle... see the dates below. There will also be an OPEN MIC session so we encourage ALL poets, prose writers and talkers to come along and share their work with an attentive audience.

v Sat 9 Aug CARNEGIE ARTS CENTRE KENMARE Performance 8pm

v Thurs 14 Aug SEANCHAÍ LISTOWEL Performance 7:30pm

v Thurs 21 Aug DINGLE BOOKSHOP Performance 6pm

All are welcome to the readings which are open to all members of the public and admission is free. Following the readings audience members will be invited to take part in an open mic session where they can also read from their original work.

Further details: Tel: 087 2342005 Web:http://kerrywomenwriters.blogspot.ie/

Email: kerrywomenwriters@gmail.com

Facebook: www.facebook.com/kerrywomenwriters

Twitter: @kerrywomenwrite

Rebecca Kemp

Rebecca Kemp was born in London and now lives in Co Kerry, Ireland. She has freelanced for magazines and websites before concentrating on creative writing. The outcome is a published novel In Pursuit (available on Amazon), longlisted for the 2013 MsLexia Novel of the Year, and she is currently working on another. She regularly enters short story competitions and recently won the 2013 Kerry’s Eye Short Story Competition and was a finalist in the 2014 Twitter Fiction Festival. She is co-founder and vice chair of the Kerry Women Writers Network. Rebecca has spent time in many different countries which influences her writing, as does living in the wild west of Ireland.

You can follow Rebecca on Twitter @REKemp1 and read more about her on her website: www.rebeccakemp.com

Writers on Tour

Hear the latest work from Kerry Women Writers as they perform at various venues around Kerry during July and August. The writers will be reading prose, poetry and memoir. Each writer will read for 5mins before it will be open to the floor when writers in the audience will be given 3mins to read from their work. For anyone wishing to hear new contemporary writing in a local setting, the tour promises to be an exciting introduction to new work.   

*KERRY WOMEN WRITERS’ NETWORK READING TOUR AND OPEN MIC*

THURS 24 JULY Tralee Library @ 6:45pm

1.       Rebecca Kemp

2.       Priscilla Donovan

3.       Martine Brennan

4.       Audrey Reidy

5.       Claire O’Mahony

 (Subs:  Anna O’Leary, Lily Tangney, Sonia Elston, Sharon Fitzpatrick)

THURS 31 JULY Killarney Library @ 6:45pm

1.      Sharon Fitzpatrick

2.      Jane Ovbude

3.      Lily Tangney

4.      Liz Ryan

5.      Lesley Collins

(Subs: Margaret Sheehan, Rebecca Kemp)

SATURDAY 9 AUGUST Carnegie Arts Centre, Kenmare @ 8pm

1.      Sonia Elston

2.      Anna O’Leary

3.      Collette Nunan-Kenny

4.      Martine Brennan

5.      Faye Boland

(Subs: Jane Ovbude, Margret Shea, Mary Johnson, Liz Ryan, Lily Tangney, Sharon)

THURS 14 AUGUST Seanchaí Museum, Listowel @ 7:30pm

1.      Margaret Sheehan

2.      Lesley Collins

3.      Claire O’Mahony

4.      Collette Nunan Kenny

5.      Priscilla Donovan

(Subs: Sonia Elston, Lily Tagney, Liz Ryan)

THURS 21 AUGUST Dingle Bookshop @ 6pm

1.      Mary Johnson

2.      Margret Shea

3.      Breda Joy

4.      Victoria Kennefick

5.      Margaret Sheehan

(Subs: Lily Tangney, Sonia Elston, Jane Ovbude)

Priscilla O'Donovan

Priscilla Donovan is a multi faceted artist living in Tarbert, Co. Kerry. She is an actress, singer, writer and visual artist. She has performed in plays, operas, musicals and was a part of Play It By Ear, an opera improvisation group in New York City. She is currently working on a play, Women Waiting and a memoir, Going Home.

Victoria is a Fool for Poetry... Winner!

Victoria Kennefick is one of two winners of the the Munster Literature Centre's Fool for Poetry Chapbook Competition 2014. " I'm really delighted as this means my first pamphlet, 'White Whale' will be launched at the Cork Spring Poetry Festival 2015." Here is some further information:  http://www.munsterlit.ie/Fool%20for%20Poetry.html

One of the poems from the chapbook  also featured as the Tuesday Poem in The Irish Examiner (de paper like!) this week too.   http://www.irishexaminer.com/lifestyle/artsfilmtv/artsvibe/the-tuesday-poem-271490.html 

Next KWWN meeting is this Saturday

A reminder that the next KWWN meeting is this Saturday 7th June at 11am in Kerry Library.

Pick Up the Phone FREE for a limited period on Amazon

Hi everyone - a reminder that Margret Shea's book Pick up the Phone is now available for FREE for a limited period on Amazon - all Margret asks in return is that you post a review of the book when you've finished reading.

The link to Margret's book is here: 
http://www.amazon.com/Pick-up-Phone-Margret-Shea-ebook/dp/B00GW2L18U/ref=sr_1_2?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1401908916&sr=1-2&keywords=pick+up+the+phone

Marian Relihan

I have been a member of the Listowel Writers group since 2006. I am a Creative Writing tutor with KETB.

I am launching a book of poetry at Writers Week. I also run Creative Writing courses  for under twelves in the Seanchaí Centre in Listowel.  Write On Holidays is a writing center run by me , my website writeonholidays.com.

I'd like to thank everyone at Galway Rape Crisis Centre (GRCC), Aoife and judge Mike McCormack for organising the recent Flash Fiction competition, readings from which were held at Charles Byrne Bookshop in Galway last week. 

I had two stories shortlisted and got to read them out on the night. They intend to repeat the competition next year I think, and it's well worth keeping an eye out for. This was the first one, but hopefully it will grow.

Unfortunately I can't find details of the winner anywhere, but it was a brilliant story about a Traveller woman and a worthy winner.

Fiona wins the Stephen Joseph Award for Theatre Research

Congrats are in order yet again for a KWWN member...this time its for Dr Fiona Brennan. Theatre Historian and Practitioner, Dr. Fiona Brennan has just been awarded the Stephen Joseph Award for Theatre Research by the Society for British Theatre Research. 

Fiona is author of George Fitzmaurice "Wild in His Own Way": Biography of an Abbey Playwright (Carysfort Press 2005) and a PhD graduate of Drama and Theatre Studies, UCC. 

This award is in recognition of her current research on the amateur dramatic movement in Ireland and, specifically, for her research on private amateur theatricals in the gentry houses of Co. Kerry. This research will be included in a proposed monograph on the History of Theatre in Co. Kerry: 18th -20th centuries. 

Victoria gets on the shortlist

Congratulations to Victoria Kennefick who has reached the shortlist for the Melita Hume Poetry Prize 2014. Way to go Victoria... you do us all proud!

See link below

http://toddswift.blogspot.com/2014/05/the-melita-hume-shortlist-2014-victoria.html

Book Launch...

 Tralee Women's Independent Writing Group have a book launch on Thursday 8th May at 8pm. The collection marks the group's debut book of poems, prose and stories Proceeds from the book's sale will go to Tralee Women's Resource Centre... Donations welcome.

The event takes place at Turner's Bar, Castle Street Tralee and promises to be a very entertaining night of music,  readings and laughter... "free finger food" will be served on the night.

What the papers said...

"A newly formed group of women writers in Kerry - the Kerry Women Writers' Network - was launched ...by Minister Jimmy Deenhihan...A general meeting to elect officers will be called shortly, but a Facebook page, an email address... kerrywomenwriters@gmail.com and a blog - kerrywomenwriters.blogspot.com are already up and running... "Minister Deenihan put the idea around that there was a need for women writing in Kerry to associate and to become visible, to share resources and information..."

Red Hen Publishing founder Bridget McAuliffe is quoted as saying "It is not another writers' group, it is a network and the aim is to get every woman that is writing in Kerry to be on the database. The objective is to bring women's writing to the public in different ways and at different venues, such as pop-up poetry events, for example. We also plan to host workshopts for writers."

The Network meets on the last Saturday of every month in the County Library in Tralee from 11am - 1pm.

One of the main projects the network will undertake is the compilation of an anthology of Kerry Women's writing and the initial projection is that this will be completed by the spring of 2015.

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.

International Women's Day event...

... the theme for the night is...

Official opening on...

Sharpen your pencils...

.. Listowel Writers Week competition deadlines are approaching. Here's a link to their page.
http://writersweek.ie/competitions

Writing.ie gives us a mention

If you didn't already know that we existed then it's officially, see the article from From the Front Row Guest blog on Writing.ie

http://www.writing.ie/guest-blogs/kerry-women-writers-gather-speak-out/

KWWN Facebook page

 Rebecca has set up a Network Facebook page.  Here's the link: https://www.facebook.com/kerrywomenwriters  Join it!

Copywright in Ireland

Anyone interested in knowing about Copywright in Ireland will find the link to the Irish Visual Artists Organisation's webpage on copywright a very useful guide. It explains a complex area of law in simple terms. It even mentions poetry...Feel free to explore...

http://www.ivaro.ie/copyright/links

Welcome

Kerry Women Writers' Network is born. The inaugural meeting took place at Kerry County Library on 25th January 2014. Following introductions, a lively discussion was had between writers about workshops they had attended both the good and the bad and the possibility of organising workshops in future as a Network. In addition the pros and cons of self-publishing were discussed. A vote was taken about whether or not the Network should meet at different locations around the county to enable women from different areas to attend the meetings and it was decided that meetings should take place in the same venue each month to avoid confusion. It was decided by majority vote that the Network should meet on the 1st Saturday of every month at Kerry County Library.

Claire O'Mahony agreed to create the blog and to provide a presentation on blogging at the next meeting.

Victoria Kennefick advised the group about the new Kerry Arts Database and advised all to register both as an individual and as a group via the Kerry County Council website http://www.kerrycoco.ie/en/allservices/arts/artsdatabase/

She went on to inform us that Kerry Cultural Officer Kate Kennelly was very supportive of the group.

Following a suggestion by Bridget McAuliffe, it was decided that we should launch both KWWN and this Blog on the 8th of March on International Women's Day, which falls on a Saturday this year. The celebration is to include readings by some Network members, music, wine and nibbles at a venue yet to be announced... but watch this space. Margret Shea will be producing the poster and agreed to contact a quartet for the event.