Dalkey Writers Workshop

15/10/2024

Written by Marwah Makhoul - Palestinian poet.

02/10/2024

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Folks
 
NIGHTHAWKS returns to the UNITED ARTS CLUB (just off Baggot Street Lower) at 8pm on Saturday, October 5th.  It is a great line-up (see below) and tickets have just gone on sale at link in bio/comments
 
(PLEASE NOTE – This venue has very limited capacity.  Please buy your tickets early to avoid disappointment.)   
 
The top quality line-up on the night includes:
 
Music
EMILIE CONWAY (Jazz)
BIRD ALONE & BLUE LILAC (Folk)
 
Stand-Up Comedy
COLM O’REGAN
 
Spoken Word Poetry
PHIL LYNCH
 
This show will be fully seated.
Doors open at 8pm. 
Show starts at 8.15pm sharp.  Please do not arrive late.   
There is an interval at 9.15pm.
The show will end at 10.20pm.
(Yes – there is a bar at the venue.)
Tickets €17.50.  at link in bio/comments
 
Dublin is alive and kickin’.  Go out and see it.
 
The Nighthawks People

20/09/2024

Kevin Burns’ play, Raglan Rogues, on the Behan/Kavanagh saga is scheduled to be read at the Kavanagh weekend. Details below.

The Patrick Kavanagh Centre in association with the Patrick Kavanagh Society and SoFFt Productions are delighted to announce Kavanagh Weekend 2024 will take place over three days between Friday Sept 27th and Sunday Sept 29th. Events and activities will take place throughout the village in a variety....

20/09/2024

We are looking for new members! If you are interested in joining our writing group and can attend fortnightly meetings on a Thursday evening, upstairs in the Graduate pub, do contact us via our website:

Dalkey Writers Workshop are a group of writers based in Dublin. We welcome new people to join. The group is a supportive, constructive and encouraging place to improve your writing skill.

12/04/2024

With spring about to finally arrive (crossing fingers🤞) now might just be the time to put your work out there and enter one of the many writing competitions that are currently running.

We have curated a selection of these competitions over on our website at: https://www.writing.ie/category/writing-comps/ so do have a look today (and share this post with someone you think might be interested) Also please do note the all important deadlines.

10/02/2024

Some writerly competitions!

OPPORTUNITIES FOR WRITERS ✏️

Each month we update our Competitions, Submissions and Opportunities webpage, along with our Bursaries and Funding, to ensure that we are connecting our writers with the best upcoming opportunities.

Here are a few deadlines we want to highlight this February! (Read blog by clicking link in )

📚Submissions📚

Winter Papers
Deadline: 15th Febuary 2024

Lilliput at 40 Anthology
Lilliput Press
Deadline: 29th February 2024

🖋Competitions🖋

Maria Edgeworth Festival Poetry and Short Story Comps
Deadline: 23 February 2024

2024 Papatango New Writing Prize
Deadline: 11 March 2024

Mairtín Crawford Poetry and Short Story Awards
Belfast Book Festival
Deadline: 10th April 2024

📕Bursaries📗

Literature Bursary
The Arts Council / An Chomhairle Ealaíon
Deadline: 15 February 2024

Fingal Artists' Support Scheme
Deadline: 1 March 2024

🖋️Irish Writers Centre Opportunities 🖋️

IWC National Mentoring Programme
Irish Writers Centre
Deadline: 2nd March 2024

📷Little Acorns Bookstore (Derry)

In honour of St. Valentine, this month we are celebrating the most romantic bookstore in Ireland (ooooh) and after a long and arduous selection process 😉 (we did an Instagram poll) we decided that title belongs to Little Acorns Bookstore (Little Acorns Bookstore (Derry) in Derry. ❤️

You can find further information on each of these opportunities, and many more in our latest blog post:

03/05/2023

04/04/2023

Should we pay attention to our gut feelings? Is someone trying to warn us? Gina and her husband Alan agree that cousin Clive may come after his wife throws him out. The gorgeous, charming Clive soon expects the household to change to suit him, and Gina can't work out why she doesn't just ask him ...

04/04/2023

Revisited Sins update: here is UK link for Madeline Stringer's new book:

Should we pay attention to our gut feelings? Is someone trying to warn us? Gina and her husband Alan agree that cousin Clive may come after his wife throws him out. The gorgeous, charming Clive soon expects the household to change to suit him, and Gina can't work out why she doesn't just ask him ...

03/04/2023