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National - Event Notice Thursday January 01 1970 Cúirt Founder Delivers Creative Writing Course
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Thursday September 03, 2009 15:24 by Western Writers' Centre - Western Writers' Centre, Galway - Ionad Scríbhneoiri Chaitlín Maude westernwriters at eircom dot net Canavan House, Nuns Island, Galway. 0872178138
NUIGalway Course by Fred Johnston Writer, founder of the annual Cúirt literature festival and Director of The Western Writers' Centre (Ionad Scríbhneoirí Chaitlín Maude) Fred Johnston will commence with his Creative Writing Classes at NUIGalway on Thursday, October 1st. This course is aimed at beginners with some experience of writing prose or poetry, for more mature participants who are interested in Creative Writing (prose and poetry) and for those who are interested in the processes involved in researching, writing and publishing their work in the future. This course creates an awareness of creative writing in everyday life and encourages more active reading of contemporary prose and poetry while also using elements of reading of contemporary and other such writings. Questions such as; How can we translate experience into prose or poetry? Why should we? What "use" is a poem? How do prose and poetry differ?, will be covered throughout the 8-week series. The basics of short story and poetry composition will also be explored and outlined, as well as the creative use of language. The course will focus on open discussion and free criticism of work presented and developed each week. |
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Jump To Comment: 3 2 1This photograph was taken in the stateroom of the ferry, 'Naomh Eanna,' docked in Claddagh, Galway, on the occasion of the launching of the very first Cúirt festival in 1986. It shows (left to right): poets Eva Bourke, Gerald Dawe, Rita Ann Higgins, Mayor O' hUigínn, the late Iain Crichton-Smith, and myself, tucked in to the extreme right and looking rather thin. The most recent attempt to re-invent the founding of the festival came with the wording of the then Mayor of Galway's opening speech to a Cúirt festival a couple of years ago; dreadfully embarrassed, he was at pains to point out that he didn't write the speech. He told me, however, who did. This was less of a surprise.
In the 'Neamh Eanna,' Cúirt, 1986
Thanks for that. It has been suggested that something be done regarding my founding of the Cúirt, but I wouldn't hold my breath, sadly. Resentment of all sorts will probably prevent it. It would take a stong hand at the tiller to push it through. There have been several attempts to re-write the history of Cúirt, not least one from the Arts Office at Galway City Council through the mouth of the then Mayor of Galway at an opening of the festival one year. Everyone was embarrassed but nothing was done. Happy days!
Fair play, you've been at it for many years and probably reared most of the new bunch into being writers! The Arts Council should hang their collective bronze heads in shame. As should the tribe behind Cúirt. Without yerself they wouldn't have a festival and some of them wouldn't have a job. Slán . . . .