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Poetry month?!

farfalla — Tue, 01 Apr 2008 17:01:13 +0000

April is poetry month, at least in the US, and so there’s also National Poetry Writing Month (NaPoWriMo) – OhNo!

Since I’m not doing Script Frenzy and I’ve been on a poetry-writing kick lately, I’m just going to have to join in with this. Dammit! Anyone else care to join me?

Script Frenzy

farfalla — Sat, 08 Mar 2008 13:03:31 +0000

Script Frenzy, the sister to National Novel Writing Month, starts on April 1st (I think it was June last year) and sign-ups are now open. If you’re a NaNoWriMo participant, you can log in with that username and password.

The challenge is to write 100 pages of script in 30 days – you can do this alone, or with one other person. You can write screenplays, stage plays, TV shows, short films, comic book and graphic novel scripts, adaptations of novels, or any other type of script you want – which gives plenty of scope (and presumably includes radio scripts as well, although it’s not in that list I swiped from the official site).

Bad Municipal Liaison that I am, I won’t be participating as it’s not something I’m interested in doing (at the moment – I’ll never rule it out completely), and they have other MLs to cover it anyway. Any of you going to take part though?

Forthcoming events

farfalla — Sun, 27 Jan 2008 13:26:02 +0000

Saturday, 9th February – Write! Down’s second Wild Geese festival in Strangford (Co. Down); includes free writing workshops with renowned writers Ted Deppe, Kate Newmann and Damian Smyth, readings with featured and local writers; and an evening event of poetry and music at the church in Old Court, Strangford.

Comment if there’s anything you want added to this (short) list.

Writers Week

gerry — Wed, 09 Jan 2008 17:49:28 +0000

I got a pamphlet for Listowel Writers Week in the post this morning. I went to this last year and I have to say it was one of the best things I did. There are a number of workshops on with different writers from Popular Fiction (Denise Deegan) to Song Writing (Glen Hansard from The Frames / Commitments / Once).

Apart from the workshops (and it’s well worthwhile doing one) just the buzz around Listowel is amazing and the chance to meet so many other writers.

I’d love to go this year but will be abroad, so I’ll just have to recommend it to you. You can get more information at http://www.writersweek.ie/