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Introduction
The Dublin Writers Workshop online community grew out of
the activities of what was the city's oldest active writers
group. Founded in 1982, the Dublin Writers Workshop met first
in the Oak Public House on Dame Street, hence the title of
its anthology - Acorn
and the online Review, Electric
Acorn.
 During
the 1980s and 1990s, it was housed in a number of pubs, finishing
up its regular meetings in the upstairs room of Bowes Pub
on Fleet Street.
Unfortunately, declining membership meant that the Dublin
Writers Workshop stopped meeting in 2002.
Over the years, its members have achieved much success. Many
have published novels and collections and have won prizes
like the Hennessy
Award and the Kavanagh
Prize.
The
workshop online.
The workshop went live in November '97 as a sideline to the
launch of "Acorn 5"
in hard copy. However, the Internet literary community proved
such a responsive audience for the workshop that it acquired
its own domain name and launched "Electric
Acorn", Irelands' first online literary quarterly.
This site was chosen for Yahoo's!
Top Irish Picks for January '98, has featured in The International
Herald Tribune, The Irish Independent and The
Irish Times. It was placed in PC
Live's "Top 10 Irish Websites" for June/July
and awarded 
from Eircom's Doras
Directory. Most recently, DWW was selected in September's
"Top ten Irish Sites" by IOL
and included in IOL's "best of Irish" Directory.
In maintaining this web presence the workshop hopes to provide
an online forum for the work of its members and guests as
well as hosting other Irish arts organisations who would benefit
from an Internet site, the first being "Haiku
Spirit". We are grateful to be sponsored by the Alliance
Francais Ireland who are generous in their support of
this and many other cultural activities in the capital. Other
partnerships are currently being discussed.
This site is a dynamic and evolves as time goes on. Visitors
are encouraged to join the
mailing list to keep updated and involved.
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