Alice Doyard

Masterclass: How to Tell Your Story with Alice Doyard

In this course, Alice takes you behind the camera and into the heart of her storytelling process. Drawing on more than a decade of experience—including her award-winning work on Colette, I Call Him By His Name, and documentaries on the war in Ukraine and the conflict in Gaza—Alice shares how she finds the emotional truth in a story, builds trust with vulnerable subjects, and navigates the ethical and creative challenges of documentary filmmaking.

Cormac Mac Gearailt

Suited to those at a beginner and intermediate level (as well as anyone at any level who wants to get more comfortable reading and performing their work), this three-hour workshop will be focussed on all aspects of the spoken word poem: how to come up with an idea, how to write, edit and perform your own work and find your own unique “voice”. 

Mark Granier

Poetry for the Curious with Mark Granier

This course will encourage questions and ideas, and invite you to immerse yourselves in a three-day conversation about poetry. If you’re a curious beginner who has begun to write poetry, or simply someone who enjoys reading and talking about poetry, and wishes to broaden the conversation, this course is for you.

John Mackenna

Essay Writing in the 21st Century with John MacKenna

Memory, gender, politics, religion, sexuality, sensuality, life, death, the hereafter, the here and now, childhood, growing older, lost love, found love, landscape – all of these offer possibilities in the essay form. And all of these will be part of the three-day workshop series with John.

Marianne Power

Memories and Memoir with Marianne Power

In this three-day workshop, Marianne Power will help you to explore your memories and play with different ways to write them in a vivid and engaging way.

Andrew Meehan

Fiction in The Shape of Love with Andrew Meehan

This three-day workshop will look at the difficult decisions you make at the start of a project. The visible and the invisible writing. And the questions you ask at the beginning of any love story.

Aingeala Flannery

Short Story Creative Kickstart with Aingeala Flannery

Do you have a short story in your head that you’re struggling to put into words? If so, the three-day Creative Kickstart Workshop with award-winning novelist and short story writer Aingeala Flannery is for you.