Posts Tagged ‘writing’

Spring has Sprung

Spring has sprung. I saw the first daffodils peeping up their regal yellow crowns the other day, and the days are feeling lighter and brighter.
It was a long winter, and for those of you who follow my blog you may have thought I had gone into hibernation. To an extent I had, with duvet nights [...]

A recent Fighting Words encounter…


One Wild Life meets Fighting Words

( Photo taken with my phone cam)
I got to give a talk last night, and display some photos at Fighting Words, a wonderful creative writing centre in Dublin. This was the calm before the little lovely storm!
I’ll also be running a week long photography workshop for kids there this summer… I’ll blog more [...]

** Coming Soon**

I am so delighted to announce that ‘One Wild Life’ will be coming to a shelf near you soon. 
It is already available for pre-order from the publishers, The Collins Press, here
More details soon!

Fighting Words… & images

I’ve been greatly enjoying my time voluteering over in Fighting Words. Today some third class students wrote a oddly quirky little story about Mr. and Mrs Coleslaw who lived in a dark fridge. Their arch ememy: The Bum Man. Their savoir: Sammy Sour Milk.  That is what happens when young minds are allowed to have [...]

Bald Cats, Classrooms and Fighting Words- the common link?

The answer lies in a great little article in the Irish Times which you can read here
 
 

Fighting Words

Sticking with the theme of volunteering, a new creative writing centre, FightingWords, is opening in January 2009 in Dublin, and are looking to expand their volunteering network.
Brainchild of writer Roddy Doyle, and former Amnesty Ireland director Sean Love, the centre will open it’s very magical doors to primary and secondary students. Participants will be taken [...]