On Writing - Workshop on Memoir
with Brian Leyden
Brian Leyden is a highly experienced writer and teacher much sought after for his extremely popular creative writing workshops in fiction and non-fiction. He succeeds every time in being practical, informed and inspirational. In this adult workshop he will look at how good writing makes every word tell. And how the writer needs time like a painter needs light. Suitable for anyone interested in writing.
Brian is a novelist, short story writer, memoirist, screenwriter and editor. He has written extensively about his home area for RTÉ's Sunday Miscellany. His radio documentary work includes No Meadows in Manhattan, Even the Walls Were Sweatin’, The Closing of the Gaiety Cinema in Carrick-on-Shannon and An Irish Station Mass. He is also co-writer of the feature film, Black Ice, about young racers which received an IFTA Best Actress nomination for its lead actor Jane McGrath. He was Ireland’s Age & Opportunity Bealtaine Festival National Writer in Residence (2016) and toured Ireland with his show Old Flames. Awards include the Francis McManus Short Story Award and The Arts Council / An Chomhairle Ealaíon Travel and Education Award. He is a recipient of a Norman Mailer Writers Colony Scholarship (USA), Broadcasting Authority of Ireland, (BAI) Sound and Vision Award (2014). And an Arts Council / An Chomhairle Ealaíon “Literary Bursary” 2014. His work has appeared most recently in Winter Papers Vol II, and Reading the Future: New Writing from Ireland, celebrating 250 years of Hodges Figgis book shop, Dublin (Arlen House, 2018). Most recently he completed The Famine Attic audio for the Carrick-on-Shannon Workhouse (2019). His current publications are Sweet Old World: New & Selected Stories, his memoir The Home Place and the novel Summer of ’63.
EVENT SPONSOR
Deputy Anne Rabbitte, T.D.
Deputy Anne Rabbitte, T.D.