Summer Camps 2024 at Fighting Words
🌞 A Brilliant Summer of Camps and Workshops Across Ireland! 🌞
We were excited to see all the stories, songs, plays and comics these young writers created during the summer season from locations around the country
Throughout the summer these young authors have the opportunity to develop their creative writing skills across a variety of writing styles.
- Fiction Writing
- Playwriting
- Songwriting
- Comic Book Writing
- Film Making
Welcome to a summer of fun, creativity and imagination here at Fighting Words!
Creative Writing Camp at the Ukrainian Community Centre
Over the course four days, young authors completed workshops in comic writing, poetry, fiction writing and playwrighting and were then given the opportunity to perform their plays in small groups and read out their individual work in a final showcase!
The stories the group created were very fun and imaginative and it was clear to see that they were a talented bunch of writers!
Young writers at a Fiction Writing session.
Creative Writing Through Irish
We had an Irish creative writing camp for 11-13 year old's at our Fighting Words center on Russell Street, Dublin 1. The children had a great sense of talent and had a lot of fun writing on this camp!
Songwriting
Throughout the week, these teen writers worked on composing original songs for a musical with the assistance from our volunteer mentors and professional musicians. It was a lovely group of talented writers, musicians and performers who worked in small groups to create lyrics, melodies and musical stories.
The centre was vibrant with music creating a lovely atmosphere that fostered the creativity amongst the participants!
Playwriting Summer Camp for 11-13
Fighting Words staff and volunteer mentors were privileged this year to work with a disciplined, enthusiastic and creative group of writers aged 11-13 year olds.
For four days, we explored the craft of playwriting. The camp included exercises on how to create a character, how to use setting as a source of inspiration, and the importance of collaboration in theatre. Our incredible mentors helped these fantastic individuals craft their own group scenes and individual short plays from scratch. The work each author selected for inclusion is collected here. To all the young playwrights - it has been a joy working with you all. Please keep writing and we hope to see you all again very soon.
Campa Comics agus Spraoi i gConamara!
Bhí an chéad champa samhraidh Gaeltachta ag Fighting Words an tseachtain seo i gCarna i bpáirt le @ConamaraLair.
Bhí cúig dhuine dhéag páirteach sa gcampa Comics agus Spraoi seo agus rinne gach duine obair den scoth!
Is féidir blaiseadh den gcruthaitheacht iontach a fheiceáil anseo.
Playwriting Summer Camp 14-17:
Fighting Words staff and volunteer mentors were privileged this year to work with a disciplined, enthusiastic, and creative group of writers aged 14-17 years olds.
For four days, we explored the craft of playwriting. The camp included exercises on how to create a character, how to use the setting as a source of inspiration, and the importance of collaboration in theatre. Our incredible mentors helped these fantastic individuals craft their own group scenes and individual short plays from scratch.
Fiction Writing
A group of writers aged between 8-10 attended our Fiction Writing Camp this week. We had cats, Olympic horses, unrest between fairies and elves, snails facing their fears, and so much more, visiting our imaginations this week. With the help of our volunteer mentors, the writers spent time brainstorming, rewriting fairy tales, and creating new worlds!
Enjoy all the different stories as you digitally flick through the pages!
Comic Book Writing in Ennis
A group of young illustrators aged 8-10 attended our Comic Book writing camp at the Glór Arts Centre in Ennis. Over the course of the two-day camp, young creatives were invited to create a story and transform it into a comic book with the guidance from our wonderful team of writing mentors and illustrators.
It was a lovely group of kids who loved drawing and bringing their stories to life.
Comic Book Writing in Greystones
We were back in Greystones Library for two more rounds of our ever-popular comic camp! A group of young illustrators were invited to create a story and transform it into a comic book with the guidance from our wonderful team of writing mentors and illustrators. They created such imaginative stories with tennis-playing pigeons, triplet princesses separated at birth, chocolate-milkshake dragons, and much more!
Comic Book Writing in Dublin
We had a brilliant time at our Comic Creating Camp at our Dublin centre with an insanely talented group of artists aged between 8-10! The artists spent a few days drawing some cool, yet whacky, illustrations before they created their very own comics! It was such a fantastic group of young illustrators who had such great imaginations that left everyone with huge smiles everyday.
Creative Writing at Fighting Words Monaghan
A group of young writers aged 8-12 attended our Creative Writing camp at the Iontas Theatre, Monaghan. Over the course of the two-day camp, young creatives were invited to create a story and transform it into a comic book with the guidance from our wonderful team of writing mentors and illustrators. Over the course of the three-day camp, young storytellers created characters, explored scenes, crafted comic books and even made their own mini magazines that they filled with image collages, colored drawings and imaginative stories.
Zine Camp for LGBTQIA+ Youth
We had our first ever zine camp for LGBTQIA+ teenagers in Pearse Street Library. Over the course of the camp they created their own zines on a wonderfully wide array of topics, using many different types of materials. This group really enjoyed exploring the format of zines, through which we got to hear the participants' creative, thoughtful concepts and stories.
Filmmaking Camp
We had our much anticipated Filmmaking camp for 11-13 yr olds in Dublin. Throughout the week an enthusiastic group of young brought their stories to life from page to screen as they wrote their own imaginative film scrips, filmed and edited their ideas together to create their very own short films. The films created were truly top class and really showcased the star talent present amongst this group of young storytellers!
We had an amazing time working with these young authors and artists at Limerick City Gallery of Art, w in both Ukrainian and English!
We were super inspired by all of the artworks in the permanent collection, as well as the People's Park which surrounds the gallery.
Comic Workshops at Libraries in Kildare and Dublin
We ran some fantastic workshops across libraries in Kildare and Fingal over the past few weeks. we look forward to the new school year, we look back on some great summer memories with young authors and illustrators!
We got creative in Athy, Kildare Town, Blanchardstown, Tallaght, and North Clondalkin.
Thanks a million to all the library staff and our amazing team of volunteer mentors for making these sessions so special!
To all the amazing writers we had the pleasure of working with this summer - Please keep writing and we hope to see you all again very soon!
Related Links
- Check out our Writing Resources for Kids
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