President Michael D. Higgins visited Fighting Words today. He was here for the launch of a new stamp from An Post to celebrate Dublin Unesco City of
Literature, and for the launch of our 3rd annual Fighting Words/Irish Times special supplement of new writing by young writers.
The stamp, as you can see, is comprised of a story.
We are delighted to offer a workshop as part of the Dublin Writers Festival!
Come to Fighting Words to develop your skills and learn how to plan, storyboard, write and illustrate your Graphic Fiction stories with the help and advice of our experienced tutors.
Registrations now closed.
Another team of tutors is hitting the road during the week of April 22nd. This time we will be on board the Cinemobile at the Louth County Library in Dundalk!
In Dundalk we will deliver writing workshops for primary and secondary schools as well as a workshop on Saturday, April 27th as part of the Dundalk Book Festival .
Once again on board the Cinemobile, a Fighting Words team worked classes from local primary schools in Armagh. The students produced some fantastic work and had a ball!
Replicating the primary school workshops held daily at the centre in Dublin, the Fighting Words team worked with the following schools:
Fighting Words will publish our third annual magazine of new writing with The Irish Times in May 2013.
Replicating the primary and secondary school workshops held daily at the centre in Dublin, the Fighting Words team worked with the following schools:
We are excited to announce a creative writing collaborative project with the Science Gallery at Trinity College Dublin! Starting in January, we will be working with a group of 10-13 year olds, kicking things off with the children working with pinhole photography and camera obscura, creating cameras and images.
A Reading of eight short plays, devised and scripted by teenage writers took place on Thursday 1st November at the Peacock Theatre.
The premiere screening of The Weirdest Thing in All of Toast and Mankind took place on Saturday 21st April at Brown Bag Films.
The short animated movie was scripted by a group of 9-11 year olds at Fighting Words.
They created all the artwork for the film and went to Brown Bag studios to record the voiceovers and find out more about the animation process.
Date: 21 September 2012
Venue: Fighting Words Centre
Time: 6:00pm and 8:00pm.
Come Write A Story’ at Fighting Words! Story-Writing Workshop for Families, 6pm and 8pm.
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