Big Smoke Writing Factory
There's no fire without smoke...... Big Smoke Writing Factory offers creative writing classes, workshops and resources at 7 Lower Hatch Street, Dublin 2, Ireland.
Course list spring 2010
Next open day: February 16th, 5.30-8pm.
-- Courses starting soon: Beginning To Write; Line Production; Stand-up Comedy.
Looking for a gift for the writer in your life? Gift certificates are now available!
Wednesday, 25 November 2009
New-fangled technologies!
The wonderful Children's Books Ireland are hosting a seminar this Saturday (November 28th) on Digital Developments and the Possibilities they Offer.
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Monday, 23 November 2009
Heads-up...
The deadline for the Fish Short Story contest is November 30th.
Meanwhile, unfriend is the Oxford Word of the Year 2009. (Take a look through the other possible words, too, and see if you can work one of them into a short story.)
Meanwhile, unfriend is the Oxford Word of the Year 2009. (Take a look through the other possible words, too, and see if you can work one of them into a short story.)
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Friday, 20 November 2009
This week's Friday Factory...
We like record factories and also, it follows, Factory Records (check out the link for an interesting archive).
BIG SMOKE wishes you all a good weekend!
BIG SMOKE wishes you all a good weekend!
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Thursday, 19 November 2009
Some places still available...
Missed the start of term at Big Smoke? Never fear - the following courses have yet to start and still have places available, but do book soon!
One-day workshop on SATURDAY (5TH DECEMBER)
The Drama of Writing (full day)
This one-day workshop in drama and creative writing aims to develop your writing skills through a variety of exercises and games. (Facilitator: Nicole Rourke)
One-day workshop SATURDAY (JANUARY 16TH, 2010)
Writing A Bestseller: How to Successfully Write and Publish Chick Lit (with Marisa Mackle) (full day)
Guest teacher Marisa Mackle will offer insights into both writing and publishing commercial fiction in this one-day workshop.
Take a look at our course list for Jan/Feb 2010.
One-day workshop on SATURDAY (5TH DECEMBER)
The Drama of Writing (full day)
This one-day workshop in drama and creative writing aims to develop your writing skills through a variety of exercises and games. (Facilitator: Nicole Rourke)
One-day workshop SATURDAY (JANUARY 16TH, 2010)
Writing A Bestseller: How to Successfully Write and Publish Chick Lit (with Marisa Mackle) (full day)
Guest teacher Marisa Mackle will offer insights into both writing and publishing commercial fiction in this one-day workshop.
Take a look at our course list for Jan/Feb 2010.
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Wednesday, 18 November 2009
Partly amusing, partly educational...
Monday, 16 November 2009
Looking for inspiration?
Check out the What If... exhibition at Trinity's Science Gallery. (Running 'til 13th December.)
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Friday, 13 November 2009
Friday 13th...
Tuesday, 10 November 2009
For the fiction writers...
How to write a great novel: a number of different authors offer up their novel-writing methods.
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Tuesday, 3 November 2009
Congratulations are in order....
Alongside the great writing going on in and out of all of our Big Smoke Writing Factory classes and courses this term, graduates of Yvonne’s Advanced courses are doing really great things right now. The very fine new novelist Yvonne Cassidy is working towards the Summer 2010 publication date of “The Other Boy”, her first of two novels with UK publisher Hodder. And Cliona O’Connell, a member of the Writing Train workshops, had three of her lovely poems in the Tribune’s New Irish Writing pages last Sunday. In case you missed them, here is one of them again, in all its beauty. If you ever ask yourself why you want to go on working with words, read something as good as this. (Or rifle through the Big Smoke archives and re-read this : )
Dinner with Old Friends on the Summer Solstice
Cliona O'Connell
At the last reading with the Russian gypsy cards
they predicted my heart would be ignited by love.
Now, as the host clears the dinner things,
I lay down the cards again,
anchors and knotted ropes.
I could tell them that when I woke this morning
I couldn’t remember what year it was.
I could tell them that our grief is our own.
I could tell them, but it’s late
and they’d only tell me
to get over myself;
so slowly I turn away from these things
and tilt my head toward the light
like the earth on the longest day,
love on the shortest night
Labels: factory
Monday, 2 November 2009
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