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    Fighting Words is delighted to be a part of Harvest Financial Services' Supporting Communities...
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  • Playwriting Project at the Abbey Theatre 2018

    A Reading of seven short plays, devised and scripted by teenage writers took place on Thursday 29th...
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  • Fighting Words and Children In Hospital...

    Our first workshop with Children in Hospital Ireland was full of creativity and fun! On Friday,...
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  • Fighting Words Goes Nationwide!

    RTE's Nationwide featured Fighting Words on a recent episode! The piece featured the launch of...
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  • 9th Birthday Party

    At our recent 9th birthday party, we celebrated nine years of incredible stories and creativity,...
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  • The Big Story for The Big Picture: The...

    A gripping thriller called The Search, written and illustrated by almost 100 Irish school children...
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  • Dublin In The Coming Times

    Fighting Words launched a new book, Dublin In The Coming Times on Wednesday 29 November 2017 in.....

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  • Children's Rights Childr...

    The supplement Children's Rights, Children's Writing was published in The Irish Times on 20...

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    All Fighting Words programmes are run by teams of volunteer writing tutors – people just like...

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Every morning, brilliant new stories are written by primary...

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Each weekday morning from September to June, 10.00 am to 12.00 noon, a primary school class (1st – 6th class) visits the Fighting Words Centre to write a story. 

Working together, with the help of our volunteer tutors, the children write an original story which they see being typed up onto a big projection screen in the Fighting Words centre as it is being written. 

The children decide on the characters and plot and go through the story together sentence by sentence, editing as they go.

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Weekday afternoons are devoted to workshops for secondary students during the academic year. These workshops take place either as one-off sessions, or as part of longer term projects.  The idea is to introduce creative writing as a skill that anyone can develop and at Fighting Words, students have the opportunity to hone their skills.
 
When a class comes to Fighting Words for a workshop, they spend the first part of the time working together as a group. We start with role play and dialogue, creating a story with ideas generated by the class. In the second half of the workshop, every student writes individually, either working on the group story or creating something completely new. All students work in small groups with our trained and vetted volunteer tutors.

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“The first rule of Write Club is - you do not talk about Write Club. The second rule of Write Club is - you DO talk about Write Club.”

Wednesday and Saturday afternoons at Fighting Words are set aside for Write Club.

Write Club is a time and space for 13-18 year olds to come and work on their own pieces of writing.

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Fighting Words and Children In Hospital Ireland - Launching Our Partnership on World Book Day!
Monday, 12 March, 2018 - 14:47
Fighting Words Goes Nationwide!
Monday, 19 February, 2018 - 10:07
Fighting Words - In The News Around Ireland!
Friday, 9 February, 2018 - 16:12
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