Writing a book is top of many people's wish list. But it doesn't just happen - we need to create the time and space to do it. Getting away from the demands of everyday life can help us to focus, which is where An Creagán comes in. It offers a peaceful retreat which can bring about the right climate for inspiration to flow.
Best Selling Author Martina Devlin is taking up residence at An Creagán this June to offer a series of workshops in Creative Writing. Funded by the National Lottery through the Arts Council of Northern Ireland, these workshops will help aspiring writers work towards achieving their goal. Participants won't go home with a novel at the end of a workshop - but they should have a better idea about how to reach that magical moment when they type ‘The End’.
Martina will be offering a number of one-to-one mentoring sessions for those already confident in creative writing, and will deliver a unique creative writing workshop for young writers age 12-16.
About the artist:
Omagh-born Martina Devlin is a number one best-selling author and award winning journalist. Her books include Ship of Dreams, a novel about the Titanic, and The Hollow Heart. She started writing books after winning a Hennessy Literary Award for her first short story in the 1996, and has been shortlisted twice for the Irish Book of the Year Award.
A former Fleet Street journalist, she writes weekly columns for the Irish Independent and the Sunday World Magazine, and contributes essays to RTE Radio 1’s Sunday Miscellany. In 2009 she was writer in residence at the Princess Grace Irish Library in Monaco.
Dates announced soon.