Big Smoke Writing Factory

Yvonne Cullen is an award winning, widely published writer of poetry and screenplays with a first non-fiction book due out in 2010. Her first collection of poems, INVITATION TO THE AIR won the American Ireland Fund Award at Listowel in 1997 and was published in 1998. She won an Irish Film Board award for a feature film script in 2002. Yvonne is also working on a second poetry collection, and on other prose, fiction and drama projects. Praise for Yvonne’s writing has included “A gifted writer,” John Burnside. “A world of atmosphere and filament.” Kerrie Hardie.

Yvonne has taught Creative Writing in Ireland for seventeen years, and has created pioneering practices in teaching writing and creative activity with people of all ages and abilities during that time. Reviews of Yvonne’s teaching include: “Fantastic.” “Incredibly generous!” “Her workshops are like blood transfusions!” (Telling Tales Workshops, Drogheda, Spring ’09). “Best Creative Writing Teacher in Dublin,” DUBLINER MAGAZINE BEST OF DUBLIN 2004. "She’s one of those rare people who can write beautifully, and share the skill with others,” IRISH TIMES. Yvonne’s experience runs from publishing with four year olds, to storytelling with the very elderly, via preparing her students for M.A writing programmes in T.C.D, U.C.D, Queens University and Cambridge University. And from writing in a room to writing on beaches, Yvonne has approaches, both solid and ingenious, to suit any new or developing writer.

Yvonne was for 5 years from 2003 to 2008 a core teacher at the Irish Writers’ Centre. In 2006 she edited the highly praised anthology of her students’ writing: “ALL GOOD THINGS BEGIN.”

Labels: about