Calling All Aspiring Writers

For the first time, Mountains to Sea will this year host an exciting new series of creative writing workshops tutored by some of the leading teachers in the field. Aspiring writers will be offered a wonderful opportunity to learn from acknowledged masters in the key literary genres. The list of courses on offer will be as follows:

POETRY MASTERCLASS with Director of M. Phil. in Creative Writing and Director of Oscar Wilde Centre for Irish Writing at Trinity College Dublin, poet Gerald Dawe.
SHORT STORY MASTERCLASS with novelist and Writer Fellow on the UCD MA in Creative Writing, Éilís Ní Dhuibhne.
CHARACTER BUILDING with novelist, script-writer, director and actor Gerard Stembridge.
BEING A WRITER: PUBLISHING MASTERCLASS with leading UK literary agent, Simon Trewin and Bill Swainson, Senior Commissioning Editor at Bloomsbury Publishing.
WRITING NON-FICTION AND MEMOIR with journalist, short story writer, novelist and memoirist Molly McCloskey.
WRITING FICTION: A DOUBLE ESPRESSO SHOT with Jill Dawson, bestselling novelist and teaching fellow at many distinguished universities including the University of East Anglia.
SONGWRITING WORKSHOP with Corkonian singer, songwriter and recording artist, John Spillane.
GETTING THE JOB DONE: A NOVEL SEMINAR with three of Ireland’s most successful and critically-acclaimed young novelists, John Boyne, Claire Kilroy and Chris Binchy.

Click here for the Writing Workshop Application Form

POETRY MASTERCLASS with Director of M Phil in Creative Writing and Director of Oscar Wilde Centre for Irish Writing at Trinity College Dublin, Gerald Dawe

SHORT STORY MASTERCLASS with novelist and Writer Fellow on the UCD MA in Creative Writing, Éilís Ní Dhuibhne

CHARACTER BUILDING with novelist, script-writer, director and actor Gerald Stembridge

BEING A WRITER: PUBLISHING MASTERCLASS: with leading UK literary agent, Simon Trewin and Bill Swainson, Senior Commissioning Editor at Bloomsbury Publishing

WRITING MEMOIR with Hugo Hamilton, novelist and author of The Speckled People one of the finest and most successful Irish memoirs of recent times.

THE ART OF THE NOVEL with Jill Dawson, bestselling novelist and teaching fellow at many distinguished universities including the University of East Anglia.

SONGWRITING WORKSHOP with Corkonian singer, songwriter and recording artist, John Spillane

GETTING THE JOB DONE: A NOVEL SEMINAR with three of Ireland’s most successful and critically-acclaimed young novelists, John Boyne, Claire Kilroy and Chris BinchyFor the first time, Mountains to Sea will this year host an exciting new series of creative writing workshops tutored by some of the leading teachers in the field. Aspiring writers will be offered a wonderful opportunity to learn from acknowledged masters in the key literary genres.

Paul Perry announced as new Curator of Poetry Now

Poetry Now at Mountains to Sea, dlr Book Festival

Dún Laoghaire-Rathdown County Council Arts Office are delighted to announce that poet Paul Perry has been appointed as the curator of Poetry Now at Mountains to Sea, dlr Book Festival.

The dlr Poetry Now International Poetry Festival has been a core strand of the Dún-Laoghaire Rathdown County Council Arts Office programme for the last sixteen years. It is highly regarded for its artistic excellence and has become the most anticipated event on the annual poetry calendar in Ireland. Previous curators have included Patrick Galvin, Conor O’Callaghan and John McAuliffe. The outgoing curator is Belinda McKeon, who curated the festival from 2008 to 2011.