Killarney beckons...KWWN Meeting and Poetry Workshop

Find out what is happening at Kerry Women Writers Network at the next meeting on Saturday 28th March at Killarney Library from  2:15 - 3:15pm. There will be a 15 mins coffee break before the Poetry workshop with award-winning poet Eileen Sheehan from 3:30 to 5pm. All members and would-be members welcome. Don't worry if you haven't written a poem before, Eileen is happy to see women who are new to writing at her workshop.  

Masterclass in Short Story writing with Claire Keegan

Lightning Bug Press are organising a masterclass in short story writing with award winning writer Claire Keegan. The class will cover:

Narrative Structure
Beginnings & Endings
Tension: rise & fall
Character
Dialogue
Sense of Place
What make prose fine or weak?
and much more...

The masterclass is suitable for all levels - experienced or aspiring writers.

Claire Keegan has written ANTARCTICA, WALK THE BLUE FIELDS and FOSTER (Faber & Faber). These stories, internationally acclaimed, are translated into 16 languages and have won numerous awards. WALK THE BLUE FIELDS was Richard Ford’s Book of the Year in The Guardian, 2010. FOSTER won the Davy Byrne's Award, then the world’s richest prize for a single story. Of ANTARCTICA, The Observer said, “these stories are among the finest stories recently written in English.” WALK THE BLUE FIELDS won the Edge Hill Prize, awarded to the strongest collection published in the British Isles. FOSTER was elected by readers as the best story published in that year in The New Yorker. She also has earned an international reputation as a teacher of fiction, having taught workshops in four continents. She holds an MA and an M.Phil in Creative Writing.

“Every line seems to be a lesson in the perfect deployment of both style and emotion.” –Hilary Mantel

“The best stories are so textured and so moving, so universal but utterly distinctive, that it’s easy to imagine readers savouring them many years from now and to imagine critics, far in the future, deploying new lofty terms to explain what it is that makes Keegan’s fiction work.” -The New York Times

“Every single word in the right place and pregnant with double meaning.” - Jeffrey Eugenides, The New York Times

"Keegan is a rarity, someone I will always want to read.”
– Richard Ford

The event will run on Saturday 25th April 10am-4pm in a central Killarney venue (next to paid for parking or a 5 minute walk from free parking) the cost of the workshop includes a sandwich lunch and teas and coffees. Places are limited to 20 attendees only [note 10 places have already been taken] and there will be some reading homework ahead of the masterclass. This is a non profit making event so apart from a cover for catering all fees go direct to the author. Please email lightningbugpress@gmail.com regarding any questions or to book a place.

KWWN Poetry workshop with Eileen Sheehan

Award winning poet Eileen Sheehan will be running a Poetry Workshop for KWWN members and those who would like to become members on Saturday March 28th from 3.30pm to 5pm in Killarney Library.

Eileen has very kindly agreed to provide feedback on the work of the women attending the workshop. Anyone who would like their poetry assessed should, in the first instance, send two of their poems to the Network email address kerrywomenwriters@gmail.com by Saturday 21st March at the latest. Your poems will be forwarded to Eileen prior to the workshop to enable her to give feedback on the day.