Hosted by
Rathmines Writers’ Workshop
On Saturdays from 10:30am-12:30pm & 2-3:30pm
in
Christchurch, Rathgar (New Building behind church)
3 Oct ‘09 Writing In Retirement
Richard Reid will help you do what you always wanted to do but never found the time. The time is now so bring paper & pen.
10 Oct ‘09 Voices
Dominic O’Neill will take you on a dramatic and magical journey developing dialogue and exploring a world of ideas.
17 Oct ‘09 Images & Words
Eithne Cavanagh & Christine Broe will help you explore images with art material - using paint and clay in search of words. No experience necessary - but don’t wear your Sunday best.
7 Nov ‘09 Writing and the Internet - a beginner’s guide
Neil Kenealy will give you the skills necessary to send your words winging around the world.
14 Nov ‘09 Telling a Story
James Conway will lead you into a short fiction creative mood. Expect to finish the day with words on a page and a story to ponder on!
Places limited to 12 per workshop. Booking essential
Email: rathmines.ww@gmail.com or phone 6607254 - 4126052
The Facilitators
Richard Reid was born in 1927 in Bombay, India and married in Chile, South America. He was educated in England, during which time he spent holidays in Ireland and eventually settled here with his family and is an Irish citizen. He says ‘writing is a therapy in retirement from a variety of employments and a mastery of none!’
Dominic O’Neill writes, performs magic and is an artist with a particular skill for portraits. His writing has a dramatic and a zany twist. His most recent performances were at the Ilac Library as part of the Brams Stoker Festival and he also featured on radio in Barryscourt Castle during the 2009 Carrigtwohill Medieval Festival, Co Cork.
Eithne Cavanagh one of the founding members of the group is an experienced creative writing teacher. Eithne has won many awards for her poetry. Her first poetry collection Bone and Petals published by Swan Press is to be followed in October ’09 by a beautifully illustrated collection of poems on the theme of islands.
Christine Broe is an artist and art therapist as well as a writer. She has run many workshops combining these different skills. She has received awards for her poetry both nationally and internationally. Solas Sólás, her first poetry collection, was published in 2001 and Christine edited Extended Wings 5 by RWW.
James Conway is chairman of Rathmines Writers which he founded in 1990. He has also served on the Dublin City Community Forum Arts Focus Group which he chaired in ‘04/5. His literary output consists of both prose and poetry and he has been widely published in Ireland and UK. James was short-listed in various competitions notably the 2006 William Trevor award. His first, and long awaited, poetry collection is at the printers!
Neil Kenealy joined the workshop in 2003. His speciality is fiction, the short story; check it out in Encounters, Swan Press ’08. At present he is working on a novel when he can steal time from his newly established Web Design business. He has brought the group into the 21st century designing our website.