Re: [acornlive] Re: trinity's creative writing m.phil
chneena@tin.it (acornlive@dublinwriters.org)
Thu, 2 Nov 2000 08:02:15 +0100
On Trinity's Creative writing: isn't Medgh McGuckian somehow also involved
in the program at Trinity?
> Hi Jessica
>
> I've heard great things about the course, having known quite a few
> people who've done it over the past few years. It's run by two
> excellent poets, Gerald Dawe and Brendan Kenneally, and they
> always have access to excellent prose writers to teach - for
> example, Anne Enright taught last year, and Ian Kilroy and Marina
> Carr have also taught on the course.
>
> From what I can gather, the group of students always form
> amazing bonds - there is such an atmosphere of mutual support
> and constructive criticism throughout the year - and with an
> emphasis on producing a body of work by the end of the period, it
> certainly cuts through any blocks writers might have been having.
>
> The one caution - I gather there is always far more demand than
> places - something like 600 applications and 16 places, I've heard.
>
> Hope this helps
>
> best of luck with it
>
> Nessa O'Mahony
> Dublin Writers Workshop
>
> From: "Jessica Moore" <bettyjessm@hotmail.com>
> To: acornlive@dublinwriters.org
> Date sent: Wed, 01 Nov 2000 17:40:41 GMT
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> > hello all,
> >
> > i've been silently observing for a wee while now, and am finally going
to
> > jump in with a question...
> >
> > i have my heart set on going to Trinity a year from now, and wondered
if
> > anyone had an inside scoop on the master's program in creative writing
> > offered there. have you heard good things? daunting things? if any
of you
>
> > have, please let me know.
> >
> > (as an aside, i wanted to express my excitement, as a canadian, at
> > recognizing - in fact, at situating precisely in my mind - the Winding
Stair
>
> > bookshop. i was in dublin in june and have a black & white photograph
with
>
> > a view of the shop from the bridge. it's a warm, possessive, worldly
> > feeling - like reading a book in which the 3ieme quartier in paris is
> > mentioned and being able to say hey! i've BEEN there - with a mixture
of
> > familiarity and pride clearly intelligible in your voice)
> >
> > yours,
> > jess
> >
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