January 3–5, 2020
Teach Bhride Holistic Centre, Tullow, Co. Carlow, Ireland
The residential writing weekend with Claire Keegan will see all participants arriving at Teach Bhride on Friday afternoon before dinner. The next two mornings will be spent writing in any genre in well lighted, quiet spaces without mobile phones.
Lectures
and discussions will be held in the afternoons and evenings on the
following:
-
Letters
by Anton Chekhov & others
-
Paris
Review/Writers at Work Interviews
-
Essays
by Eudora Welty, Frank O’Connor and Flannery O’Connor
-
Hemingway’s
advice on writing
-
Some
poems on writing and creativity
-
Viewing
of A Private World, a documentary on John McGahern
Tuition
includes all meals and two nights’ accommodation, with everyone
arriving before dinner on Friday, helping themselves to breakfast
both mornings, and leaving before dinner on Sunday evening. This
course will suit anyone interested in a quiet weekend of writing.
None of what is written will be read aloud. It’s a chance to engage
with the intricacies of the creative process and use your
imagination.
To book your place, contact ckfictionclinic@yahoo.com Tuition is 400 Euro. A 50% deposit secures.
Read reviews of previous courses and workshops on g.page/ckfictionclinic/review
Claire
Keegan’s story collections include Antarctica,
Walk
the Blue Fields and
Foster
(Faber
& Faber). These stories, translated into 17 languages, have won
numerous awards. Her debut, Antarctica,
was a Los Angeles Times Book of the Year. “These stories are among
the finest stories recently written in English,” wrote the
Observer.
Walk
the Blue Fields, her
second collection,
was
Richard Ford’s Book of the Year in 2010, and won the Edge Hill
Prize, awarded to the strongest collection published in the British
Isles. Foster
won
the Davy Byrne’s Award, the then world’s richest prize for a
single story. New
Yorker
readers chose Foster as their story of the year. It was
also published in Best
American Stories
and is now on the school syllabus in Ireland. Keegan has earned an
international reputation as a teacher of fiction, having taught
workshops on four continents.
“Every
line seems to be a lesson in the perfect deployment of both style and
emotion.” –
Hilary
Mantel
“The
best stories are so textured and so moving, so universal but utterly
distinctive, that it’s easy to imagine readers savoring them many
years from now and to imagine critics, far in the future, deploying
new lofty terms to explain what it is that makes Keegan’s fiction
work.” –
The
New York Times
“Every
single word in the right place and pregnant with double meaning.” –
Jeffrey Eugenides, The
New York Times
“Keegan
is a rarity, someone I will always want to read.” –
Richard
Ford