What is inside the 5km boundary where you are?
Engage your five senses and discover the stories within your 5km! What is special about the area where you live that you would like the world to know?
Fighting Words invites you to explore the world around you and share your creativity with us!
Take a photograph of something within your 5km limit and write its story in five...five what? It’s up to you!
Céard atá laistigh den teorainn 5km san áit ina bhfuil tusa?
Cuir do chúig chéadfa ag obair agus faigh amach céard iad na scéalta laistigh de do 5km! Céard atá speisialta faoi do cheantarsa gur fiú a roinnt leis an domhan mór?
Seo cuireadh duit ó Fighting Words fáil amach faoin domhan mórthimpeall ort agus do chuid cruthaitheachta a roinnt linn!
Tóg grianghraf de rud éigin taobh istigh de do theorainn 5km agus inis an scéal a bhaineann leis ag úsáid cúig…cén saghas cúig? Is fútsa atá sé!
Fighting Words NI seeks a Cross-Community Officer to manage Write the Future: an exciting creative-engagement project addressing reconciliation & disadvantage. Full-time, 18-month contract. Closing date is 22 January 2021.
Write the Future is an exciting new creative engagement project with young people across the region. We are recruiting a Cross-Community Officer to project manage this initiative, and leading this work as Fighting Words NI is extending our reach across Northern Ireland and the border counties, enhancing our work in the areas of reconciliation and disadvantage.
As part of First Fortnight, the annual festival that raises awareness about mental health, challenges prejudice and works to end stigma, Fighting Words is hosting a workshop for young writers aged 10 to 12 years on Saturday, January 16th!
Who Am I? Who Are We? Poetry at Fighting Words
Where: Online via Zoom, hosted by Fighting Words
When: Saturday, 16 January 2021
Time: 11am to 1.00pm
Age Range: 10 to 12 years
Cost: FREE
We wish all the young writers, all the volunteer tutors, all the teachers and all the parents who have shared their creativity with us from over the island of Ireland in 2020 the very best for the Christmas season.
We look forward to even more great stories in 2021! #writetoright
Fighting Words and Great Lighthouses of Ireland are excited to launch the fifth and final volume of the Young Storykeeper digital magazine! We are delighted to now share every lighthouse-inspired story, poem, comic, animation and song with you.
We received over 1,300 submissions and are grateful to each and every young author for sharing their creativity with us!
In May 2020, Fighting Words and Great Lighthouses of Ireland invited submissions of original writing inspired by lighthouses from young writers aged 7-12.
Kildare Students Use “The Write to Right” to Create New Stories for Christmas 2020!
Sixth class students from St Brigid’s Primary School in Kildare Town fired up their imaginations to create new Christmas stories for this holiday season like no other.
Inspired by the stories in the Fighting Words “New Irish Writing” supplement with The Irish Times and other resources available on the Fighting Words website, Linda Pearson and her class worked on their stories for several weeks during the autumn 2020 term, with a focus on Christmas stories during the time of Covid-19.
Submissions are now being invited for The Irish Times Fighting Words Supplement 2021!
Táimid ag glacadh le hiarratais as Béarla agus as Gaeilge.
Every year, Fighting Words publishes a magazine of exciting new writing by young people from all over Ireland with The Irish Times.
We are delighted to announce that we are now inviting submissions from secondary school students to be included in The Irish Times supplement in 2021.
In October 2020, we worked with a group of teens to deliver part of the Dublin Arts & Human Rights Festival 2020.
Over three weeks, the young songwriters wrote a hopeful song called "Be The Change You Want To Be."
It looks to a future that they believe in. Listen and enjoy!
An Nollaig seo, ba mhaith le Fighting Words agus le Graffiti Theatre Company cuireadh a thabhairt do scríbhneoirí óga idir 6 agus 12 bliain d’aois a scéal Nollag féin a scríobh! Tá sé níos tábhachtaí i mbliana ná bhí sé riamh spiorad na féile a chothú, mar sin cuir do shamhlaíocht ag obair agus cum scéal nua.
Cum Scéal Nollag le Cabhair ónar gCairde
D’iarr muid ar ár gcairde tús a chur leis na scéalta ionas go mbeadh cabhair agaibhse agus sibh ag tosú - cliceáil ar na naisc thíos le breathnú ar thús na scéalta agus beidh tú féin in ann críoch a chur leo.
Tá dhá scéal déag ann ar fad- cliceáil ar na naisc le héisteacht leis na húdair agus na haisteoirí as chuile chearn den tír as Béarla agus as Gaeilge!
