Course Description
Creative Writing with Liz McSkeane
Finding your voice with Liz McSkeane.
This course is suited both to beginners and more experienced writers. The course comprises a sequence of workshop-led two hour sessions.
Classes will focus on developing the individual writer’s greatest strengths, their style, story and emotional resonance. At the end of the course participants should have a short story, opening chapter of a novel, a scene for a play or screenplay or a poem.
Liz McSkeane is a poet, short story writer and novelist. She won the Hennessy New Irish Writer of the Year Award for her poetry and her début novel, ‘Canticle’, was a winner in the Irish Writers Centre Novel Fair. Her collection of short stories, ‘What to Put in a Suitcase’ was published in October, 2022. She is the founder and Director of Turas Press, an independent publishing house based in Dublin.
| Starts | 27th January 2026 |
| Days | Tuesdays |
| Time | 6:30 – 8:30pm |
| Duration | 10 Weeks |
| Cost | €120 |
| Registration opens | 1st December at 9am |
| Training Provider | Blackrock Further Education Institute |
| Course Location | Blackrock, Dublin |
| Location Postcode | Co. Dublin |
| Course Type | Classroom Based |
| Course Start Date | 27th January 2026 |
| Course End Date | 7th April 2026 |
| Course Duration | 10 Weeks |
| Course Time | 18.30 -20.30 |
| Course Fee | €120.00 |
| Career Path | Progression Graduates who complete this course may apply to the following course in BFEI: Creative Writing and Digital Publishing You may be interested in finding out more about the Full Time Creative Writing and Digital Publishing Course. |
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Blackrock Further Education Institute
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