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Dublin
Writers Workshop
Events &
Announcements: Archive
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Poetry
reading, Wexford Arts Centre,
Friday
28th May, 8.30p.m., Wexford Arts Centre, Wexford Town
Nessa O'Mahony reads from her first collection, Bar
Talk.
WERRC
Conference "Celebrating Irish Women's Writing"
Friday
28th May, 12.15-1.30p.m. Irish
Film Centre - Meeting Room
Maria Behan,
Anna Boner,
Tara Lovett
(fiction) Eabhan
Ni Shuilleabhain and Maeve
O'Sullivan (poetry) take part in a reading as part
of the Woman's Education Research and Resource Centre's
7th Annual Conference.
You're advised to check out the WERRC
website for futher details of this extensive Women's
literary event
DWW
members take part in Bowes Pub reading
DWW members Philip Brown, Seamus Ua Trodd and Sean Carey
are taking part in the first of a new series of readings
at Bowes Pub, Fleet Street, on Sunday 21st February,
at 8pm. The series, entitled Poetry at Bowes,
is organised by StatoBlast. The first reading will also
feature Michael O'Flanagan and Liam O'Meara of the Syllables
Writers Group.
DWW
member Nessa O'Mahony launches first poetry collection
DWW member Nessa O'Mahony sees the publication of her
first poetry collection, "Bar Talk" at the National
Museum, Kildare Street, Friday 12th February at 6pm. The
book will be launched by novelist Anne Enright. Details
about the collection can be found at http://www.dublinwriters.org/bartalk.html
Haiku
Spirit on Japanese TV
The Irish haiku journal, Haiku Spirit, the online version
of which is featured on the Dublin Writers Workshop
website at http://www.dublinwriters.org/haiku/index.html,
was the only English language haiku journal featured
on a recent TV programme on haiku which was broadcast
by Kyoto TV on January 5th, 1999.
Writers
Inc. / Bookstop Poetry and Short Story Competition
Writers Inc., Anna Livia FM's creative writing programme,
is running a literary competition in conjunction with
Bookstop. There are prizes in both poetry and short
story categories. Entrants can submit up to 3 poems,
maximum 40 lines, or 3 stories, maximum 1600 words.
There is an entrance fee of £2 per item, or
£5 for three. The closing date is 28th January,
1999, and entries should be sent to:
Writers Inc. / Bookstop Poetry and Short Story Competition,
Anna Livia FM,
3 Grafton Street,
Dublin 2.
DWW
resumes meetings on 11th January
The Dublin Writers Workshop resumes meeting on the
first three Mondays of each month from Monday 11th January,
at the upstairs lounge of Bowes Public House, Fleet
Street, Dublin 2. .
Christmas
Poetry Reading
DWW member Nessa O'Mahony will be reading poetry, along
with Tony Kelly and Yvonne Cullen, at the Dublin Meditation
Centre, Temple Bar, Dublin, on Thursday 17th December,
1998, at 7.30pm.
DWW
Gets Great Review.
This site was awarded four stars out of a possible
five by leading internet magazine Web Ireland in its
December issue. The site was commended for its stylish
design and its wide range of activities.
IOL
Award.
This site has been chosen in Ireland Online's "Top
ten Irish sites" for September!
Thursday,
July 2nd 1998
This site is listed in the "Top
Ten Irish Websites" selected by Infolive/PC
Live!'s Gordon Smith. (Thanks, Gordon!)
Saturday,
27th June, 8pm,
Irish Writers
Centre
Members of the Dublin Writers Workshop will be taking part
in a reading with the Crescent Writers Group, from Belfast,
as part of a North-South literary exchange. The DWW
hopes to travel back up to Belfast later in the year.
Admission free, refreshments will be served.
Monday 15th
to Friday 19th June
at 1pm and 6pm.
International Bar, Wicklow Street, Dublin 2.
D.W.W. member Michael
Wynne is one of three writers having one-act plays performed
as part of the Profilers series which includes three
plays based on original short stories. Profilers is being
organised by InCognito, the literary
journal.
Saturday
18th June
The DWW site is featured in John Boland's "Bookworm"
column in the Irish Times
Saturday supplement. Since it was not reproduced in their web
edition you can read the article here
Wednesday
17 June: 6.30pm
Blue Room, Irish
Writers Centre, Admission £2
Dublin Writers Workshop alumni Ted
McNulty, Sheila O'Hagan
and Jean O'Brien
along with Gwyn Parry
(DWW Facilitator) will all read at the
Salmon in Midsummer Poetry Reading.
Other Salmon Published Poets Áine Miller and Patrick Chapman
will also be reading.
13th - 16th
June '98
Saturday,
13th June,8pm
the River Club in Dublin's Temple Bar
Dublin Writers Workshop member Nessa O'Mahony hosted Dublin's
first major Poetry Slam which happened as part of the
new Dublin Writers Festival. .
15 poets competed with each other for a cash prize and a keg
of beer - the winner was the poet who managed to wow the enthusiastically
participating audience [hecklers and poetry lovers
alike] during his or her 5 minute spot.
Update: Maighread
Medbh , Poet and Publisher of the newsletter "Local
Litir" Thundered into first place (£100
+ Keg of beer + title "Bard of Temple Bar") at
the Inagural Poetry Slam with DWW member Christine
Broe coming a very close second. Nessa
played a blinder as M.C. and a great night was had by all!
Thursday,
4th June '98 at 6pm .
Irish Writers
Centre
The Launch of "Crossings", the new collection by Dublin Writers'
Workshop member Gwyn
Parry, is being launched at the Irish Writers' Centre.
"Crossings", which is being published by Salmon Publishing Ltd,
is Gwyn's first Irish collection, although he has had two collections
published in his native Wales.
A number of the poems contained in "Crossing" are featured in
the first issue of "Electric
Acorn"
- Order details for Gwyn's new volume will appear here shortly.
4th - 6th
May '98
DWW moves to http://www.dublinwriters.org
Electric Acorn is launched
DWW is mentioned in The
Irish Times and
The Irish Independent
27th April
'98
The DWW website features prominantly in an article which appears
in the International Herald Tribune
May '98
Spring arts festival
in Tuscany, Italy
We received the following from Michael
Mele:
"Dear Dublin Writing
Group,
I am the director
of Il Chiostro di Toscana, a spring arts program in
Tuscany, Italy.
Each year in May we offer a 2-week fiction writing
workshop.
At this moment we still have 2-3 slots available for
non-American
participants which we will offer to qualified candidates
for a minimum
fee (approximately $200/week) which covers room, 2 meals
per day and the
workshop fee.
Since the time
is short, we will offer these spots on a first-come,
first-served
basis to qualified fiction writers.
Those interested
should contact me by e-mail at mmele@msn.com
The details about
Il Chiostro, the writing workshop and a biography of
the teacher can
be found on our web site at: www.costar.net/tuscany
Thanks for publishing
this.
Michael Mele,
Director - Il
Chiostro di Toscana"
Febuary '98
DWW member Anna Boner
has just won the prestigious Sean Dunne Literary
Award 1998 for her short story, "Indian
Giver".
Febuary to March 1998
'Eye Catching' a collaborative public art installation by
DWW member
Nessa O'Mahony and visual
artist Sandra Meehan has just been
installed in Dundalk Train Station as part of the Connect Public
Art in
Transit programme. It will remain in place until the end of March,
1998.
Saturday 31st January
'98
Bowes Pub, Fleet St. 8pm
DWW members hold a collaborative reading
with an Antrim based Writers Group
January 1998.
This DWW website was chosen for
 "Top
Irish Picks" For January.
Sunday 14th December
'97
DWW Member Maria Behan has
just won second prize of £1,000
in the prestigious RTE Francis
MacManus Awards.
she won the prize for a short story, "After
Life"
which will be broadcast by RTE in
January.
Thursday 11th December
'97. 6.30pm
Dublin Writers Workshop Member Nessa
O'Mahony will be reading at
the Launch of "InCognito v.2" at the Irish
Writers' Centre.
Christine Broe's work
(DWW Member) also appears in "InCognito"
Other poets include Pat Boran, Yvonne Cullen, Deirdre Carr and J.B.
Polk.
"InCognito"
is available in most Bookshops in Dublin.
Mail
order details.
Ongoing: Thursdays
6.30 - 7.00pm.
DWW Members Nessa O'Mahony
and Maeve O'Sullivan
host "Writers Inc.". A weekly broadcast
on the Irish Literary scene on Anna
Livia 103.8 FM
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