The DCU Dungeons & Dragons Society is livestreaming on March 27th for 24 hours in partnership with the DCU Media Production Society in support of the Write to Right. Watch this space for more details!.
'Writing for animation' was a four-month project in collaboration with animation students from Colaiste Dhulaigh. Over the course of three workshops, four young writers from Write Club created scripts for short animated films. These scripts were then taken on by teams of animation students from Colaiste Dhulaigh.
Bhí lá mór againn i Ros Muc Dé hAoine seo caite, 17 Eanáir nuair a sheol Roddy Doyle Fighting Words Chonamara!
B'iad Rang a 6 as Scoil Éinne, An Spidéal a bhí i mbun pinn ar an lá agus bhain siad an-sult as an gceardlann. Buíochas mór le gach duine a tháinig amach.
Fighting Words Connemara was formally launched on Friday, 17 January by Roddy Doyle at Ionad Cultúrtha an Phiarsagh in Ros Muc.
Calling all junior cycle secondary school teachers! Registration is now open for the January workshop at our Dublin centre for teachers who wish to develop a culture of creativity and confidence in writing.
Date: Saturday, 25 January
Time: 10.30am to 3.30pm
Venue: Fighting Words centre in Dublin!
Roddy
Doyle will be talking about volunteering at Fighting Words this January!
Two upcoming events:
Congratulations to all the young playwrights of Changing Tides, a powerful new work produced in collaboration with Fighting Words, World Vision Ireland and the Gate Theatre with support from Irish Aid.
Bravo to Aisling Murphy, Aoibhe Hegarty, Craig Maguire, Éabha Ní Fhearail and Jonathan Breen for this play on ending violence against children.
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 14 to 17 years on Saturday, January 18th!
Character Connections
Where: Fighting Words, Behan Square, 12-16 Russell Street, Dublin 1
When: Saturday, 18 January 2020
Time: 11am to 1.00pm
Age Range: 14 to 17 years
Cost: FREE
Fighting Words will publish a magazine of new writing with the Irish Times next year and invite submissions from Secondary School Students.
Submission Guidelines
We are looking for short pieces of fiction (any theme). One prose submission per author, poets may submit 2 poems.
Thank you to everyone who came to the launch of Dublin Port Diaries last night! It was a great evening of story and song. Thanks to our friends at @DublinPortCo
The members and families of DublinDockersPreservationSociety, The staff at @NatPrintMuseum and
all of the Fighting Words volunteers
Noline Blackwell launched the recent Fighting Words and Front Line Defenders publication Yes, We Still Drink Coffee! at a sold out event at the Dublin Book Festival. The event also included readings by some of the writers involved in the publication.
‘Reading these remarkable essays is a jolt to the conscience. The women interviewed for this collection have chosen activism over apathy. They live with threats and fear, and confront them with courage. They are committed to highlighting injustices, campaigning for changes, often at great personal risk.’ - Monica McInerney, Foreword
