Showing posts with label Hugo Hamilton. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Hugo Hamilton. Show all posts

Friday, 25 February 2011

FREE HUGO HAMILTON WORKSHOP, TCD


Hugo Hamilton is an excellent writer and he also seems like a really nice man. This workshop with him sounds good and I'd apply myself only I'm teaching one of the week-ends so it doesn't suit. Good luck to all who apply!

Each year the School of English at Trinity College Dublin and the Arts Council of Ireland offer a free writing workshop with the current TCD Writer Fellow. This year’s Writer Fellow is the novelist and author of best-selling German-Irish memoir The Speckled People. He will be leading a workshop from 6pm–9pm and 10am–1pm on Friday and Saturday of the 25th and 26th March and Friday and Saturday of the 1st and 2nd April 2011.  Applicants should submit a single piece of prose not exceeding 1,000 words by post to the Oscar Wilde Centre no later than Friday, 18 March 2011.

Creative Writing Workshop
Oscar Wilde Centre
School of English
Trinity College Dublin
21 Westland Row, Dublin 2

For further information contact Lilian Foley lifoley@tcd.ie, but note that no submissions by email will be accepted. All applicants will be notified by email as to whether or not they have been selected.

Wednesday, 29 April 2009

Overall Hennesy Award Winner Announced

According to my sources, David Mohan has been announced as the overall Hennessy New Writer of the Year, as well as the category winner in poetry. I haven't heard yet who scooped the fiction prizes. Update anon!

I met David a couple of years ago at a workshop I gave in Dublin and I am delighted with his good news. Congrats!

UPDATE

And here are the rest of yesterday's winners. Congrats to all, but most especially to fellow blogger Eimear. Good on you, girl!:

Eimear Ryan was awarded with Best First Fiction Writer for her short story 'Caterpillar', with Kevin Power receiving the Best Emerging Fiction Writer award for his short story, 'The American Girl'.

Dublin-born writer Hugo Hamilton, perhaps best known for his 2003 memoir of his childhood, The Speckled People, was also honoured at the awards with an induction into the Hennessy Literary Awards Hall of Fame.

He follows on from Booker Prize winner Anne Enright, on whom the honour was bestowed last year.