A More Harmonious Relationship: A Masterclass on the Short Story with Éilís Ní Dhuibhne - SOLD OUT!

MASTERCLASS ON THE SHORT STORY with Eilis ni Dhuibhne

‘A More Harmonious Relationship’:

Monday 5th & Tuesday 6th September,

Class runs from 10.00am-1.00pm each day

Venue: County Hall, Marine Rd, Dun Laoghaire

Tutor Biography

Eilis Ni Dhuibhne is a highly regarded teacher of creative writing, who has taught in Trinity College, University College Dublin, and the Faber Academy of Writing. She has published four collections of short stories and her stories are widely translated and anthologized, most recently in the Granta Book of the Irish Short Story and in Best European Fiction 2011.

“Everyone knows what a short story is anyway _ whether it be a prose narrative glibly described as "shorter than a novel" or as the first commentator on the form, Edgar Allan Poe, specified, "no longer than can be read in a single sitting." … Beyond that, I believe only two things can be said about the nature of the short story, and these statements seem at first so different from each other and so unrelated as to appear random. First, a short story tells of something that happened to someone. Second, the successful contemporary short story will demonstrate a more harmonious relationship of all its aspects than will any other literary art form, excepting perhaps lyric poetry."

Course Theme

In this intensive two day workshop on the short story, you will be given an overview of the history of the modern short story, and introduced to the main ways in which stories have been written by the masters of the genre from Anton Chekhov to Claire Keegan. Key questions regarding the form will be answered. What actually is a short story? What is the difference between a short story and a novel? What makes a really great short story? Students’ own stories will be reviewed in class.

If you are passionate about writing the short story, regarded by many as the most demanding and artistic literary form, this course is for you.

Places are limited to 15 per workshop

Admission will be by selection based on submitted work. Submissions are now being accepted.

You should submit a story of approximately 2000 words by August 5th. Successful candidates will be contacted in advance of the workshop.

In practice, we will have been accepting submissions since the first posting on the website in May. Think that we need to keep the pretence of accepting submissions for at least three weeks after publication of the brochure.

FAO: TIM CAREY, Festival Director, Mountains to Sea dlr Book Festival, County Hall, Marine Rd,

Dun Laoghaire, County Dublin. Please mark the package WORKSHOP SUBMISSION. Include e-mail address and contact numbers. Should we have a downloadable application form to capture all the info?

If your application is successful you will be notified within two weeks. Sorry, we will not be able to return your submissions to you. The workshop Fee of €95 may then be paid;

• by cheque payable to DLRCOCO (?) and sent to to Tim Carey at the address above

• by credit card via The Pavilion Box Office at (01) 231 2929 between ....relevant hours

Workshop refunds will not be permitted after the 19th August 2011

New Creative Writing Workshop Series for 2011

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.

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 Binchy

Jill Dawson has taught creative writing on a freelance basis since 1988, both nationally and internationally. Between 2000 and 20004 she held various appointments at the University of East Anglia in Norwich: as Royal Literary Fund Fellow, Royal Literary Fund Associate Fellow, Creative Writing Fellow, and tutor on the BA and MA in Writing.

She has been a guest tutor on other British MAs in writing at the University of Sussex, Bath Spa University College, and Birkbeck College London; as well as being a speaker at a number of University conferences, for example The RLF Creative Writing Conference at the University of Warwick; the Oxford Conference of Contemporary Writing; the Perm Conference of Contemporary British Writing and others at Sheffield Hallam and Middlesex University

Internationally, Jill has twice taught for the University of Chicago; Amherst College, Massachusetts (British Council Writing Fellowship in l997); Smith College, Amherst; World Fellowship Centre in New Hampshire; Byron Bay festival, Australia; the British council conference, Berne, Switzerland; Ubud writers festival, Bali; and the National University of Singapore.

She is a long-standing tutor for the Arvon foundation where she has taught each year for the last twelve years.

Community projects include tutoring for Centerprise in East London, the City Lit, Mary Ward centre, Old Ford Women Writerís Group, Spread the Word Literature Project, Brixton, Cheltenham Literature festival, the Sunday Times Oxford Literature Festival, Pembroke College Summer Schools, many schools groups, and others.

Currently she is an advisory Fellow for the Royal Literary Fund and director of Gold Dust, a mentoring scheme for new writers, as well as Board member of the Norwich New Writing Partnership in Norwich.

Monday 5th & Tuesday 6th September, 10.00am-1.00pm each day
Venue: County Hall, Marine Rd, Dún Laoghaire, County Dublin
Course Fee: €95.00

Everyone knows what a short story is anyway, whether it be a prose narrative glibly described as "shorter than a novel" or, as the first commentator on the form, Edgar Allan Poe, specified, "no longer than can be read in a single sitting." … Beyond that, I believe only two things can be said about the nature of the short story, and these statements seem at first so different from each other and so unrelated as to appear random. First, a short story tells of something that happened to someone. Second, the successful contemporary short story will demonstrate a more harmonious relationship of all its aspects than will any other literary art form, excepting perhaps lyric poetry.

Éilís Ní Dhuibhne

Tutor Biography

Éilís Ní Dhuibhne is a highly regarded teacher of creative writing, who has taught in Trinity College, University College Dublin, and the Faber Academy of Writing. She has published four collections of short stories, and her stories are widely translated and anthologized, most recently in the Granta Book of the Irish Short Story and in Best European Fiction 2011.

Course Description

Terms and Conditions

Places are limited to 15 per workshop. Admission will be by selection based on submitted work. Submissions are now being accepted, and will be assessed by the course tutor. You should submit a piece – a short story or a chapter of a novel -- of not less than 1000 words by August 12th. Sorry, we will not be able to return your submissions to you.

Complete the downloadable pdf Application Form, attach it to your sample and send it to:

c/o TIM CAREY, Festival Director, Mountains to Sea dlr Book Festival, County Hall, Marine Rd, Dún Laoghaire, County Dublin. Please mark the package WORKSHOP SUBMISSION - SHORT STORY WORKSHOP

If your application is successful you will be notified. Only then will the workshop fee of €95 be accepted; payment by cheque or by credit card via The Pavilion Box Office at (01) 231 2929.

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.