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  • A workshop for Chinese Lunar New Year

    We were delighted to host a workshop for Chinese Lunar New Year with the Ireland China Culture...
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  • Introducing Analecta

    Fighting Words is excited to announce the launch of Analecta, a dedicated digital anthology of...
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  • We believe that young writers can and WILL...

    Read the belief statement of more than 50 youth writing organizations that collectively support...
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  • First Fortnight 2019 - Create A Character...

    As part of First Fortnight, the annual festival that raises awareness about mental health...
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  • Musician Memoir Series

    Preserving the History of Irish Musicians Did you spend your life working as a musician in the era...
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  • DID YOU OR YOUR FAMILY WORK IN DUBLIN DOCKS...

    With the help of writers and artists we are holding five sessions in the Ringsend Irishtown...
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  • Fighting Words Wexford

    Wexford County Council Public Library Service through the Reader in Residence programme are...
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  • Fighting Words and DCU Partnership Launched!

    Fighting Words launched our partnership with the DCU Institute of Education at the Seamus Heaney...
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  • Dublin Dockers at Fighting Words

    Over five evenings in June, a group of retired Dublin Dockers came into Fighting Words to work on...
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  • Volunteer at Fighting Words!

    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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A workshop for Chinese Lunar New Year
Tuesday, 12 February, 2019 - 16:38
Introducing Analecta
Wednesday, 30 January, 2019 - 12:10
We believe that young writers can and WILL change the world
Monday, 28 January, 2019 - 10:50
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First Fortnight 2019 - Create A Character Workshop for Kids!
Monday, 7 January, 2019 - 16:00
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Musician Memoir Series
Thursday, 20 December, 2018 - 11:02
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