The 2018 summer camp schedule will be announced at the end of this month on our website, social media and via our parent mailing list.
Camps are aimed at one of three age groups: 8-10 years, 11-13 years and 14-17 years. Due to the popularity of our camps and to ensure fairness, participants are limited to one camp only, we are very strict with regard to age ranges and places are allocated by lottery.
Once again, Fighting Words is working with the Silver Thread team to bring older people and younger people together to tell their stories in two workshops as part of the Bealtaine Festival.
We worked with residents at CareChoice Nursing Home in Clare Hall and fourth class students from St Francis of Assisi Primary School, Belmayne.
Writer and academic Melatu Uche Okorie - and long-term Fighting Words volunteer - with author Marita Conlon McKenna on Ha'penny Bridge launching the 2018 International Literature Festival Dublin! The festival runs from May 19-27th at venues around the city.
Fighting Words is delighted to be a part of Harvest Financial Services' Supporting Communities programme!
Fighting Words Executive Director Seán Love pictured in Dublin with Terry Devitt and Aoife Lovett from Harvest.
We are grateful for Harvest's ongoing support of our programmes to support young people and their imaginations.
A Reading of seven short plays, devised and scripted by teenage writers took place on Thursday 29th March on the Abbey stage.The Reading was the culmination of a long-term project, in collaboration with the Abbey Theatre, and the sixth year Fighting Words volunteers have mentored a group of young playwrights.
Our first workshop with Children in Hospital Ireland was full of creativity and fun!
On Friday, March 9th author Sarah Webb and illustrator Philip Kennedy and the Children in Hospital Ireland team came together for a magical morning, helping young authors at Our Lady's Children's Hospital Crumlin create a brand new story for World Book Day.
RTE's Nationwide featured Fighting Words on a recent episode! The piece featured the launch of The Search at our Dublin centre and with staff and volunteers visiting from Fighting Words Belfast & Fighting Words Wicklow (with contributions from Fighting Words Cork). The Search is a book written by four primary school classes from around Ireland as part of The Big Picture initiative with the Laureate na nOg.
The Nationwide piece also featured our new workshops in Baltinglass, Co. Wicklow as well as interviews with Fighting Words co-founder Roddy Doyle and Laureate na nOg PJ Lynch!
Both Fighting Words North West and Fighting Words Wicklow have been featured in the local press recently - in the Wicklow People and the Donegal Post.
Fighting Words has expanded to different locations around the country in the last three years, offering free creative writing workshops to children and young people in Belfast, Cork, Galway, Mayo, the Northwest (Donegal/Sligo/Leitrim) and Wicklow - with more locations on the way!
At our recent 9th birthday party, we celebrated nine years of incredible stories and creativity, all made possible by our amazing volunteer writing tutors and story illustrators.
Our longest-serving volunteers were presented with beautiful commemorative medals made by silversmith Séamus Gill and based on Jim Fitzpatrick's specially desgined Fighting Words logo.
For more information about Séamus Gill's work, visit http://www.seamusgill.com/index.html
A gripping thriller called The Search, written and illustrated by almost 100 Irish school children at Fighting Words workshops across the island of Ireland, was launched at Fighting Words in Dublin on Friday, 26 January 2018.
The Search was created as part of The Big Picture project, an initiative of Laureate na nÓg PJ Lynch in collaboration with Fighting Words and Fighting Words Belfast.
