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  • The 5x5 Project - Five Is No Limit

    What is inside the 5km boundary where you are? Engage your five senses and discover the stories...
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  • An Togra 5x5 Níl Aon Teorainn le Cúig

    Céard atá laistigh den teorainn 5km san áit ina bhfuil tusa? Cuir do chúig chéadfa ag obair agus...
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  • Fighting Words NI is Hiring!

    Fighting Words NI seeks a Cross-Community Officer to manage Write the Future: an exciting creative-...
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  • First Fortnight 2021 at Fighting Words

    As part of First Fortnight, the annual festival that raises awareness about mental health,...
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  • Young Storykeeper - Volume Five Is Here!

    Fighting Words and Great Lighthouses of Ireland are excited to launch the fifth and final volume of...
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  • Fighting Words/Irish Times Supplement - Call...

    Submissions are now being invited for The Irish Times Fighting Words Supplement 2021! Every year,...
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  • "Be The Change You Want To Be" - A...

    In October 2020, Fighting Words delivered three online songwriting workshops for teenagers as part...
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  • Lighthouse Storybook: Purchase Your Copy...

    Support children's charities and children's writing, put our Lighthouse Storybook on your...
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  • Poetry in Bloom

    Fighting Words & Powerscourt Estate Poetry In Bloom - The Poetry Wall!

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  • That One Time

    Fighting Words and Fighting Words NI are honoured to share the stories, poems and illustrations...
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  • Write Club is Going Virtual!

    ​We may not be able to meet up in the real world at the moment... so Write Club is going online....
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  • Fighting Words Chonamara!

    Cuireann Fighting Words Chonamara ceardlanna scríbhneoireachta as Gaeilge ar fáil do dhaoine óga!...
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  • Near and Far Are All the Same These Days

    Earlier this year, Fighting Words and Fighting Words NI were invited by Ordskælv, our friends and...
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  • Visions & Revisions: An Anthology of New...

    Visions & Revisions is a collection of writing by twenty junior cycle teachers. A partner...
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  • Fighting Words - New Irish Writing!

    Now in its 10th year, this year's supplement in The Irish Times features stories from all over...
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  • Volunteering at Fighting Words: A Snapshot

    The Fighting Words volunteers scurry to set up the screen and the data projector in the Bundoran...
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  • The Fighting Words Un-School Club!

    Welcome To The Fighting Words Un-School Club! All the work included here has been produced by...
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  • We Want Your Stories! Send Your Creative...

    During this time when we might find ourselves with more time, it's time for more stories!...
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  • Listen to the stories

    We have invited our fantastic team of volunteer tutors to read some of the primary school...

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  • Analecta - Online Anthology for Young Writers

    Fighting Words is excited to announce the launch of Analecta, a dedicated digital anthology of...
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Autism Friendly

We look forward to welcoming you! Click here for more...

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Un-School Club!

Welcome To The Fighting Words Un-School Club!

All the...

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Our Videos

Learn more about writing stories and songs with our videos...

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Analecta

Fighting Words is excited to announce the launch of Analecta...

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Publications

At Fighting Words, we regularly produce anthologies of...

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Young Storykeeper

1,256 Super Submissions! Fighting Words and Great Lighthouses...

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  • Latest Stories
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The Missing Puppy
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Each weekday morning from September to June, 10.00 am to 12.00 noon, a primary school class (1st – 6th class) visits the Fighting Words Centre to write a story. 

Working together, with the help of our volunteer tutors, the children write an original story which they see being typed up onto a big projection screen in the Fighting Words centre as it is being written. 

The children decide on the characters and plot and go through the story together sentence by sentence, editing as they go.

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  • Read more about Primary School Workshops

Weekday afternoons are devoted to workshops for secondary students during the academic year. These workshops take place either as one-off sessions, or as part of longer term projects.  The idea is to introduce creative writing as a skill that anyone can develop and at Fighting Words, students have the opportunity to hone their skills.
 
When a class comes to Fighting Words for a workshop, they spend the first part of the time working together as a group. We start with role play and dialogue, creating a story with ideas generated by the class. In the second half of the workshop, every student writes individually, either working on the group story or creating something completely new. All students work in small groups with our trained and vetted volunteer tutors.

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  • Read more about Secondary School Workshops

  • “The first rule of Write Club is - you do not talk about Write Club. The second rule of Write Club is - you DO talk about Write Club.”

Write Club is a community of like-minded young people, between 13 and 18 years of age who want to CREATE. To find out ways to join and engage in Write Club keep reading...

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The 5x5 Project - Five Is No Limit
Tuesday, 19 January, 2021 - 10:54
An Togra 5x5 Níl Aon Teorainn le Cúig
Tuesday, 19 January, 2021 - 10:28
Fighting Words NI is Hiring!
Wednesday, 13 January, 2021 - 13:21
First Fortnight 2021 at Fighting Words
Monday, 28 December, 2020 - 11:25
Young Storykeeper - Volume Five Is Here!
Tuesday, 15 December, 2020 - 20:58
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To The Future And Back Again
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Fighting Words Annual 2011
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DCU Report on the Fighting Words Model
Fighting Words limited edition book
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