Discover your creativity and imagination in a creative writing workshop in Ireland. Or join The Creative Writer’s Workshop via an Online Fiction Writing or Memoir Writing Course – a LIVE, interactive creative writing workshop and writing course with Irene Graham - founder of The Creative Writer’s Workshop (1991) - and discover your creativity and imagination from home! Enhance your unique writing voice, explore your creative writing abilities and allow your writing to be inspired by The Creative Writer’s Workshop – an internationally renowned writing method and retreat for writers – now available interactively online with Irene Graham, as you write fiction and personal memoir.
Enjoy our creative writing workshops and writing retreats at one of our magnificent locations:
- the Aran Island of Inis Mór off the west coast of County Galway, Ireland
- a 14th Century Castle set in the heart of W.B.Yeats countryside in County Sligo, Ireland
- a Georgian Villa on the Flaggy Shore in the Burren County Clare, Ireland - Historical home of Lady Gregory
- the stunning landscape of the Glendalough Valley in County Wicklow, Ireland
Whether you enjoy The Creative Writer’s Workshop at one of the above locations or via an interactive Writing Class with Irene Graham, you will be encouraged to explore your imagination and understand the art of story creation through fiction writing, personal memoir writing and creative writing as you learn to think like a writer. Using right-brain/left-brain learning techniques and exercises you will discover and strengthen your unique writing voice, understand how to tap into your creativity and draw from the well of life experience as you learn how to imaginatively translate those experiences into words for potential story development.
Through the medium of writing you will invigorate your senses and stimulate your thoughts as you enhance your abilities to create and write. The Creative Writer’s Workshop is an internationally proven success with both new and established writers.
In October 2010, the LIVE interactive Online Writing Courses offer emerging writers the opportunity to engage in the development and the writing of a novel over a ten week period, which includes private story consultations. Participant numbers are limited.
Our Residential Writing Retreats encourage you to engage with the landscape, the stories of our ancestors and draw upon the resources of the collective universe and our individual selves to unblock the path to creativity and self-expression through writing. You will learn the art of story creation and how to write creative stories, you will experience an unforgettable holiday, but most of all be inspired by your own creativity.
For advanced writers, Private Story Consultations with Irene are available to support the development of full length manuscripts in both fiction writing and memoir writing.
Whether your passion is to use your imagination to translate life experiences into fiction, or recall your life story and write creative non-fiction, you will lean how to do so in The Creative Writer’s Workshop.
Let the door of your imagination be opened.
Be inspired…write your story!
For Workshop Details:
Online Writing Courses and Classes - Click here
Writing Retreats in Ireland 2010 - Click here
Writing Retreats in Ireland 2011 - Click here
Memoir Writing - Click here
Story Consultant - Click here
Memoir Writing Workbook - Click here
The Creative Writer’s Workshop is available as a commissioned workshop.
The Creative Writer’s Workshop is also held in conjunction with Arts Organisations and Festivals for adults and young people. In 2005 workshops were held in The National Library of Ireland with the James Joyce Ulysses Exhibition and at the Irish Writers’ Centre in Dublin to celebrate the bi-centenary of Hans Christian Andersen. In 2007 The Creative Writer’s Workshop was included in the birthday celebration of William Butler Yeats at The National Library of Ireland.
For further details of The Creative Writer’s Workshop at Festivals and Events in 2010, please click here.
Founded in 1991 by Irene Graham, The Creative Writer’s Workshop is an internationally renowned writing method and retreat for new and established writers. The development of The Creative Writer’s Workshop International Online Writing Courses provide writers with the opportunity to explore their writing abilities interactively with Irene LIVE via the Internet. The Creative Writer’s Workshop is approved by The Department of Education & Science in Ireland.
The Memoir Writing Workbook, created by Irene, further assists the writer to explore their inner world of intuition, feeling and imagination – which results in greater access to inherent creativity and the ability to write from the heart.