The John Hewitt Society and Irish PEN/PEN na hÉireann received a second grant from the Irish Government’s Shared Island Civic Society Fund, administered by the Department of Foreign Affairs, to deliver ‘Freedom To Write 2,’ a joint creative writing project that will support twenty up and coming writers resident on the island of Ireland to work with experienced writers and other professionals to build on their achievements.

As an emerging writer, this course offers mentoring, networking, new challenges and experiences to build your skills and confidence and enable you to take your literary career to the next level. This year we have a focus on ecology / nature writing, and theories, which you will explore too!

This weekend the group have doing workshops with poet Stephen Sexton and novelist Louise Nealon. I arrive tomorrow, Monday 28th, to spend three days with them sharing my advice and knowledge.

Looking forward to working with exciting new talents.